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 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 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 10 s . 6 d . This probably refers to the lithograph portrait by Thomas Herbert Maguire for the Ipswich Museum portraits commissioned by George Ransome . The Darwin family Bible at Down House, which lists many of the illnesses in the family, records that Anne, Henrietta, and Elizabeth had scarlet fever in 1849. Emma Darwin noted in her diary that on 12 …
To Peter Lund Simmonds 25 February [1849]
Summary
Sends detailed report on the prospects for a settlement on the coast of Patagonia, pointing out many problems, and recommending instead the Falkland Islands.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Peter Lund Simmonds |
| Date: | 25 Feb [1849] |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (Quentin Keynes collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1229A |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 10 and 11, where he commented that the ‘curse of sterility’ was on the land ( ibid. , p. 215). CD visited the Falkland Islands twice during his voyage on board the Beagle . He first arrived in March 1833 after a succession of gales (see Correspondence vol. 1, letter to Caroline Darwin, 30 March – 12 …
From J. D. Hooker 24 June 1849
Summary
Pleasure at receiving CD’s scientific letters to JDH and Hodgson.
The H. Wedgwoods’ pecuniary loss.
Condolences at CD’s father’s death.
Rajah harasses JDH’s work. Lack of supplies, rain, malarial valleys, and landslips make going difficult. Cannot get into Tibet.
"Twenty species [of plants] here [Camp Sikkim] to one there [Tierra del Fuego?] always are asking me the vexed question, ""where do we come from?""."
From observation of terraces descending to steppes and plains of India, he thinks that the Himalayas were once a grand fiord coast.
Has information CD requested on Yangsma valley. JDH’s detailed hypothesis of origin of dam there. Does not agree with CD’s interpretation.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 June 1849 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (India letters 1847–51: 187–8 JDH/1/10) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1247 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 10 miles south of the border with Tibet. See J. D. Hooker 1854 , 2: 54–63. Perpetual Snow. CD had requested more details about the Yangma terraces in his letter to J. D. Hooker, 9 April 1849 . For his comments on Hooker’s explanation of the Yangma valley formation, see letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, S. E. | (1) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
| Simmonds, P. L. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Darwin, S. E. | (1) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Simmonds, P. L. | (1) |
