To J. S. Henslow [before 12 October 1849]
Summary
J. B. Innes is greatly obliged for JSH’s letter. JSH’s observation of chalk flints strikes CD as "very curious".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | [before 12 Oct 1849] |
| Classmark: | DAR 93: A91 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1284 |
To J. S. Henslow 20 November [1849]
Summary
Has had his portrait taken;
is anxious about scarlet fever among his children.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | 20 Nov [1849] |
| Classmark: | Princeton University Library (General MSS) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1272 |
To J. S. Henslow [7 October 1849]
Summary
Thanks JSH for information and suggestions on benefit clubs,
and for a shipment of fossil cirripedes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | [7 Oct 1849] |
| Classmark: | DAR 93: A89–A90 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1283 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Henslow, J. S. …
- … To J. S. Henslow [7 October 1849] …
- … Henslow’s, was announced in the Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , no. 42, 20 October 1849, pp. 662–3. Letter from J. …
- … J. D. Hooker, 12 October 1849 . The conjectured date is the Monday following 4 October. CD was treasurer of the Down Coal Club and may have been investigating ways in which he and John Innes , the vicar of Down, could establish a local club that would enable villagers who were members to save and accumulate insurance benefits. After March 1850, CD’s Account Book (Down House MS) shows entries for subscriptions to the Down Friendly Club, which was apparently established in that year and of which CD also became treasurer. Henslow …
To J. S. Henslow 6 May 1849
Summary
Describes cold water cure he has been taking for two months at J. M. Gully’s establishment.
Plans to go to BAAS meeting at Birmingham if health improves.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | 6 May 1849 |
| Classmark: | DAR 145: 63 and Bernard Quaritch (dealers) (2023) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1241 |
To J. S. Henslow [26 September 1849]
Summary
Describes the Birmingham meeting [1849] of BAAS.
His health is poor. Continues with water-cure with considerable benefit.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | [26 Sept 1849] |
| Classmark: | DAR 93: A92–A95 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1254 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Henslow, J. S. …
- … To J. S. Henslow [26 September 1849] …
- … Henslow 1845 ). Despite opposition from local landlords, he was able in 1849 to secure sixteen acres to be apportioned in quarter-acre allotments. See Russell-Gebbett 1977 , p. 76, and Jenyns 1862 , p. 74. Edward Sabine , secretary of the British Association, 1839–59; Elizabeth Juliana Sabine , who translated Alexander von Humboldt’s Kosmos and Ansichten der Natur into English (A. von Humboldt 1846–8 and 1849); and Mrs Leeves, Elizabeth Juliana Sabine’s mother. Extracts from J. …
To George Ransome 27 [August 1849]
Summary
Regrets that state of his health prevents acceptance of invitation [to be present at inauguration of J. S. Henslow as President of Ipswich Museum in Dec 1850].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Ransome |
| Date: | 27 [Aug 1849] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1335 |
To George Ransome 25 October [1849]
Summary
Agrees to subscribe £1 toward the portrait of a bishop of Norwich.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Ransome |
| Date: | 25 Oct [1849] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.81) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1261 |
To Susan Darwin [19 March 1849]
Summary
Writes a detailed account of his treatment at J. M. Gully’s hydropathy establishment at Malvern.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
| Date: | [19 Mar 1849] |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: A7–A8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1234 |
To Albany Hancock [29 or 30 October 1849]
Summary
Thanks him for specimens of Alcippe.
Comments on sketches by AH and on cirripede paper by Lovén.
Discusses Lithotrya and its burrowing habits.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Albany Hancock |
| Date: | [29 or 30] Oct 1849 |
| Classmark: | Maine Historical Society |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1262 |
To J. D. Hooker 12 October 1849
Summary
CD thinks great dam across Yangma valley is a lateral glacial moraine.
Reports on Birmingham BAAS meeting.
Details of water-cure.
Barnacles becoming tedious; careful description shows slight differences constitute varieties, not species.
Lamination of gneiss.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 12 Oct 1849 |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 116 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1260 |
To Charles Lyell [14–28 June 1849]
Summary
Mentions illness of Emma Darwin.
Comments on CL’s Second visit to the United States [1849].
His water treatment by J. M. Gully.
CD’s contribution ["Geology"] to J. W. Herschel’s Manual of scientific enquiry [(1849), Collected papers 1: 227–50].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [14–28 June 1849] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.78) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1242 |
From J. D. Hooker 3 February 1849
Summary
Physical description of Sikkim mountains.
Travelling through Kinchin snows.
Transported boulders.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Feb 1849 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (India letters 1847–51: 131–5 JDH/1/10) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1219 |
| letter | (12) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (5) |
| Ransome, George | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, S. E. | (1) |
| Hancock, Albany | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (12) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (5) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Ransome, George | (2) |
| Darwin, S. E. | (1) |
