From Emma Wedgwood [9 January 1839]
Summary
Glad to have his letter; supposes she will receive only two or three more from him in her life.
Thinks he should leave the curtains for her.
Discusses Mungo Park and Sir Walter Scott’s Life.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [9 Jan 1839] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 160 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-486 |
From Emma Wedgwood [23 January 1839]
Summary
Responds warmly to his very nice letter. CD need have no fear that she will not be as happy as he.
Again expresses uneasiness that their opinions on religion do not agree on all points. Hopes they will sympathise in their feelings on the subject.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [23 Jan 1839] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 162 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-492 |
From G. R. Waterhouse [1839 – 10 February 1840]
Summary
Sends John Blackwall’s book [Researches in zoology (1834)]. Discusses his reasons for doubting that there are any marsupials in Java or Sumatra.
| Author: | George Robert Waterhouse |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1839 – 10 Feb 1840] |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 295 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-475 |
From Emma Wedgwood [3 January 1839]
Summary
Emma is surprised how quickly CD has moved into the new house and understands his feeling of triumph. Wants him and Fanny [Mrs Hensleigh] Wedgwood to settle on hiring a cook.
Is reading Mansfield Park [Jane Austen (1814)], which she finds "very suitable".
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [3 Jan 1839] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 158 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-482 |
From Emma Wedgwood [7 January 1839]
Summary
Still rejoices in having found the house they like.
Thinks he might enjoy Jenny [Jane Welsh] Carlyle’s company more away from Carlyle "as she must have her full swing in talking".
Says the wedding must be fixed for the 29th instead of the 24th.
Hopes he will look better than on his last visit.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [7 Jan 1839] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 159 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-485 |
From Emma Wedgwood [20–1 January 1839]
Summary
Preparations for the wedding, various callers, and other bits of news.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [20–1 Jan 1839] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 161 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-490 |
To ? [1839–82]
Summary
Is glad addressee’s lectures are going well.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [1839–82] |
| Classmark: | Raptis Rare Books (dealers) (June 2018 item 69022) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13925F |
To Charles Babbage [1839 – August 1842]
Summary
Is so unwell today that he is unable to come [to CB’s party].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Babbage |
| Date: | [1839 – Aug 1842] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add 37191: 297) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-476 |
To Emma Wedgwood [26 January 1839]
Summary
He has the wedding ring. Agrees to coming straight home after the wedding, if that is what she prefers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [26 Jan 1839] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-493 |
To Richard Owen [1839 – April 1840]
Summary
Delighted by RO’s discussion in this sheet. RO should return revises to printer and get remaining ones.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | [1839 – Apr 1840] |
| Classmark: | Charles Hamilton (dealer) (13 June 1974) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-397 |
To Woodbine Parish [January 1839?]
Summary
Likes WP’s book [Buenos Ayres and the province of La Plata (1838)]. Thinks it will interest all "who care for graver things than what the traveller eats and says to the Señoritas".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Woodbine Parish |
| Date: | [Jan 1839?] |
| Classmark: | Shuttleworth 1910, p. 412 n. |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-398 |
To Charles Stokes [1839 – September 1842]
Summary
Sends observations he made on Fungia during Beagle voyage. Asks CS to make corrections in style or names of parts as he sees fit.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Stokes |
| Date: | [1839 – Sept 1842] |
| Classmark: | Wellcome Collection |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-478 |
To Emma Wedgwood [20 January 1839]
Summary
Comments on recent visit to Maer. Explains that his notion of happiness as quietness and solitude derives from Beagle experience. Hopes Emma will humanise him. Comments on marriage planned for Tuesday.
Describes recent visit by Lyell and his wife. Talked geology for half an hour "with poor Mrs Lyell sitting by". "I want practice in ill-treating the female sex."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [20 Jan 1839] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 12 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-489 |
To William Whewell 4 [January 1839]
Summary
Informs him of J. B. Jukes’s plans concerning the Newfoundland survey post.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Whewell |
| Date: | 4 [Jan 1839] |
| Classmark: | Trinity College Library, Cambridge (Add c 88: 5) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-483 |
From Thomas Evans Blackwell 26 January 1839
Summary
A newly-elected Fellow returns the obligation to be signed upon entering the Geological Society.
| Author: | Thomas Evans Blackwell |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Jan 1839 |
| Classmark: | Geological Society of London (GSL/L/R/4/121) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-494 |
To Emma Wedgwood 2 [–3 January 1839]
Summary
His dinner with the Carlyles. "He is the best worth listening to of any man" – but CD cannot get up much admiration for Mrs C, partly because of her Scots accent, which makes her difficult to understand.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 2 [–3 Jan 1839] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-481 |
To Emma Wedgwood [6–7 January 1839]
Summary
Has been with the Lyells doing geology.
Is reading a biography of Sir W. Scott [J. G. Lockhart, Memoirs of the life of Sir Walter Scott (1837–8)]; also Mungo Park’s book [Travels (1799)].
Has hired a cook at fourteen guineas a year with tea and sugar.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [6–7 Jan 1839] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-484 |
To Charles Lyell [c. 9 January 1839]
Summary
Discusses his Glen Roy paper [(1839), Collected papers 1: 87–137], which he is sending to CL.
Remarks on Charles MacLaren’s treatment of alluvium. Comments on alluvial action in Lochaber.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [c. 9 Jan 1839] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.15) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-480 |
From J. M. Herbert 13 January [1839]
Summary
Sends congratulations on CD’s engagement, with a gift.
| Author: | John Maurice Herbert |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Jan [1839] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 168 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-487 |
To Edwin C. Prince 21 January [1839]
Summary
Asks what generic and subgeneric name John Gould has given to the goatsuckers of the U. S. [for Birds].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edwin Charles Prince |
| Date: | 21 Jan [1839] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-491 |
| letter | (23) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (15) |
| Darwin, Emma | (5) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (5) |
| Blackwell, T. E. | (1) |
| Herbert, J. M. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Darwin, Emma | (4) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (4) |
| Babbage, Charles | (1) |
| Broderip, W. J. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (23) |
| Darwin, Emma | (9) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (9) |
| Herbert, J. M. | (2) |
| Babbage, Charles | (1) |
