To C. T. Whitley 23 November [1838]
Summary
Announces his engagement.
Glad CW wondered at Glen Roy. "I saw nothing in my peregrinations to the Antipodes nearly so curious in physical geography."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Thomas Whitley |
| Date: | 23 Nov [1838] |
| Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-443 |
To Charles Lyell 9 August [1838]
Summary
Comments on receiving copy of Lyell’s Elements [of geology]. Much is new to CD, and he is copying out notes and references.
Criticises geological work of John Phillips.
Describes expedition to Glen Roy, about which he is writing a paper ["Parallel roads of Glen Roy" (1839), Collected papers 1: 87–137].
Enjoys the Athenaeum Club.
Criticises entomological work of F. W. Hope.
Asks Lyell to obtain for him a copy of barometric readings made at Leith.
Asks him to ascertain altitude of several Scottish lochs.
Comments on FitzRoy’s character.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 9 Aug [1838] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.10) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-424 |
To J. B. Jukes 25 December [1838]
Summary
Advises JBJ on preparing himself for geological work in Newfoundland.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Beete Jukes |
| Date: | 25 Dec [1838] |
| Classmark: | University of Oklahoma Libraries History of Science Collections |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-461 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Athenæum Dear Sir. I am glad to be able to inform you, that no application, besides yours, has been received by the Geological Soc. nor do I think it very likely that there will be, as, at my request M r Lyell mentioned the subject at the Newcastle meeting of the British Association, where volunteers were most likely to have been heard of. — I have received a letter …
To Charles Lyell [14] September [1838]
Summary
Comments on an article in Edinburgh Review [by David Brewster, 67 (1838): 271–308] on Comte’s Philosophie positive.
Discusses falsity of Élie de Beaumont’s views of contemporaneous parallel lines of elevation and subsidence.
Owen’s views of relationship of reptiles to birds.
On "question of species" CD has filled notebook after notebook with facts, "which begin to group themselves clearly under sub-laws".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [14] Sept [1838] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.11) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-428 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Athenæum, that it must have been an excellent meeting. — I have been much amused with an account I have received of the wars of Don Roderick & Babbage— what a grievous pity it is that the latter should be so implacable, & if one might so call the calculating machine, so very silly. — One regrets such a contest so much the more, from knowing the incomparable superiority, (except in finesse) of the one over the other. — This is a most rigmarole letter, …
To William John Broderip [August–December 1838]
Summary
Would like to arrange a meeting about CD’s collection of shells [from the Beagle voyage].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William John Broderip |
| Date: | [Aug–Dec 1838] |
| Classmark: | Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (GEN/D/DARWIN (C)/3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-422 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Athenæum on 21 June 1838, under a special ruling by which forty new members were added to the Club. The elections were left to a committee ‘with the instructions that the persons chosen should … [be] men distinguished in literature, art or science, or well known as patrons of one or other of them. The election was to be exercised with due formalities, and must be unanimous. ’ Charles Dickens was among those elected with CD ( T. H. Ward 1926 , p. 53). CD first dined at the Club early in August (see letter …
To Emma Wedgwood [27 November 1838]
Summary
CD and Erasmus continue to search for a house in central London. They have tea with the Carlyles.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [27 Nov 1838] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-445 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter: pray do not talk of my waiting till I have time for writing or inclination to do so. — it is a very high enjoyment to me, as I cannot talk to you, & feel your presence, by having your own dear hand within mine. — I will now narrate my annals: on Saturday I dined with the Lyells, & spent one of the pleasantest evenings I ever did in my life. Lyell grew quite audacious, at the thoughts of having a married geological companion, & proposed going to dine at the Athenæum …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Lyell, Charles | (2) |
| Broderip, W. J. | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Jukes, J. B. | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Lyell, Charles | (2) |
| Broderip, W. J. | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Jukes, J. B. | (1) |
