From Fanny Myddelton Biddulph 14 January 1837
Summary
Apologises for delay in thanking him for the flowers. Has been too unwell to write.
| Author: | Frances (Fanny) Mostyn Owen; Frances (Fanny) Myddelton Biddulph |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Jan 1837 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 57 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-340 |
To the Geological Society of London 20 October 1837
Summary
Report on J. G. Forchhammer’s communications on changes of levels of land in Denmark [Proc. Geol. Soc. Lond. 2 (1838): 554–6].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Geological Society of London |
| Date: | 20 Oct 1837 |
| Classmark: | Geological Society of London (GSL/COM/P/4/2/65) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-383 |
To Leonard Jenyns 10 April [1837]
Summary
Discusses possibility of publishing the zoology of the voyage of the Beagle. Will need help from more able naturalists. Would LJ object to describing the fishes for such a work rather than for scientific journals? Is working on his Beagle journal.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
| Date: | 10 Apr [1837] |
| Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-354 |
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- … Darwin, C. R. Jenyns, Leonard Blomefield, Leonard …
- … r Brown’s heart, for he was very gracious to me, and talked about the Galapagos plants; but before he never would say a word. It is just striking twelve oclock, so I will wish you a very good night. — My dear Jenyns, Yours most truly, C. Darwin. — …
To Leonard Jenyns 3 December [1837]
Summary
CD is glad LJ is describing the fishes [for Zoology]; would not have permitted J. E. Gray to describe them. New species will be lithographed.
Suggests books; offers coloured drawings made by artist on Beagle voyage.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
| Date: | 3 Dec [1837] |
| Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-391 |
To W. D. Fox [12 March 1837]
Summary
Finished going over his geological specimens at Cambridge, and is now in London.
Describes his plans for writing the journal, and later the geology and zoology of the Beagle voyage.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [12 Mar 1837] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 51) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-348 |
Minutes of the Board of the Treasury 25 August 1837
Summary
The Chancellor of the Exchequer and their Lordships after receiving numerous representations in support of Mr Darwin’s proposal concur in the opinion that Public Funds in aid of the Expenses should be granted as soon as he is ready to proceed in conformity with the enumerated conditions.
| Author: | Secretary of the Post Office |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Aug 1837 |
| Classmark: | The National Archives (TNA) (T1/4524 paper 25824) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-373A |
From Elizabeth Wedgwood 10 November [1837]
Summary
Sends information about, and dates of treatment of peaty fields. Marl seems to have sunk to the natural stratum of hard white sand which lies below the peat.
Thanks for "Maer Hypothesis" ["Formation of mould" (1840), Collected papers 1: 49–53].
| Author: | Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood; Josiah Wedgwood, II |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Nov [1837] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 189 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-385 |
From the Misses Horner [17 March 1837 – 28 December 1838]
Summary
“The Botanists” and “The learned Linguists” give thanks for book and assistance.
| Author: | Anne Susanna (Susan) Horner; Leonora Horner; Leonora Pertz; Joanna Baillie Horner; Frances Joanna Horner; Frances Joanna Bunbury; Katharine Murray Horner; Katharine Murray Lyell |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [17 Mar 1837 – 28 Dec 1838] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 1a |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-350 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (50) |
| Darwin, Caroline | (2) |
| Darwin, Catherine | (2) |
| FitzRoy, Robert | (2) |
| Langton, Catherine | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (18) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (12) |
| Fox, W. D. | (4) |
| Owen, Richard | (4) |
| Blomefield, Leonard | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (68) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (13) |
| Owen, Richard | (5) |
| Darwin, Caroline | (4) |
| Fox, W. D. | (4) |
