To A. Y. Spearman 27 March 1841
Summary
The Smith, Elder & Co. account for the now published fifth number of the third part of the Zoology is presented.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alexander Young Spearman, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 27 Mar 1841 |
| Classmark: | The National Archives (TNA) (T1/4585 paper 10688) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-595A |
To A. Y. Spearman 27 May 1839
Summary
Presents the account of Smith, Elder & Co. for the now published second and third numbers of the first part of the Zoology.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alexander Young Spearman, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 27 May 1839 |
| Classmark: | The National Archives (TNA) (T1/4524 paper 25824) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-512A |
To A. Y. Spearman 27 November 1839
Summary
Encloses the Smith, Elder & Co. account for the fourth number now published of the third part of the Zoology.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alexander Young Spearman, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 27 Nov 1839 |
| Classmark: | The National Archives (TNA) (T1/4524 paper 25824) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-546A |
To Leonard Jenyns [27 February 1840]
Summary
Has been unwell. Publication of two numbers [of Zoology] has been delayed. Thought first Fish number good.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
| Date: | [27 Feb 1840] |
| Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-558 |
To Caroline Wedgwood [27 October 1839]
Summary
Describes his routine for a typical day – writing Coral reefs, studying German.
FitzRoy’s "Deluge Chapter" [Narrative 2, ch. 28] will amuse her.
His opinion of Carlyle’s Critical and miscellaneous essays [1839].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
| Date: | [27 Oct 1839] |
| Classmark: | DAR 154: 54 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-542 |
To John Warburton Robinson 1 February 1869
Summary
Statement of sum due from Rev. Robinson "On account of School".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Warburton Robinson |
| Date: | 1 Feb 1869 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6587 |
Hildebrand, Friedrich Hermann Gustav. 1869. Weitere Beobachtungen über die Bestäubungsverhältnisse an Blüthen. Botanische Zeitung 27: 473–81, 489–95, 505–12.
From George Maw 27 August [1861]
Summary
Thanks CD for his letter about GM’s review of the Origin.
Sends instances of correlative organisation and functions which he finds difficult to believe could have accumulated by gradual modifications.
[Letter erroneously dated 1862 by GM.]
| Author: | George Maw |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Aug [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 11–12 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3236 |
To Leonard Jenyns [20 or 27 October 1839]
Summary
Details regarding Fish. CD is astonished how many new things LJ has found: "four new genera is something".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
| Date: | [20 or 27] Oct 1839 |
| Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-540 |
From J. D. Hooker [27 February 1865?]
Summary
Will arrive Saturday [4 Mar] on afternoon train.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [27 Feb 1865?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 12 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4777 |
To J. D. Dana 25 November [1852]
Summary
Thanks JDD for information.
Discusses Acasta sporillus.
Comments on review of first volume of Living Cirripedia [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 14 (1852): 125–7].
Asks JDD to examine Lerneidae.
Will read with interest the geographical discussion of Crustacea when JDD’s volume [Crustacea (1852–5)] appears. John Lubbock will purchase a copy.
Discusses error in Living Cirripedia.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Dwight Dana |
| Date: | 25 Nov [1852] |
| Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 43) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1492 |
Greene, John C. 1977. Darwin as a social evolutionist. Journal of the History of Biology 10: 1–27.
[Lindley, John]. 1837. Dionæ. In Penny Encyclopedia 8: 508. 27 vols. in 12. Supplement 3 vols. London. 1833–43.
From Charles Lyell 27 September 1860
Summary
Fears that multiple origin of the domestic dog will be extended to mammals or man. Believes, with Hooker, that whatever occurs in domestication is possible in nature.
| Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Sept 1860 |
| Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/A3/7: 12) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2930A |
McLachlan, Robert. 1873. A catalogue of the neuropterous insects of New Zealand; with notes, and descriptions of new forms. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4th ser. 12: 30–42
From W. E. Darwin [before 29 January 1876?]
Summary
Purchases cigarettes for CD.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 29 Jan 1876?] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 58) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10366F |
To Samuel Wilks 27 July 1879
Summary
Thanks SW for text of his oration
and an [unspecified] article on parrots.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Samuel Wilks, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 27 July 1879 |
| Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (12 December 1967: 489) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12176 |
Secord, Anne. 1994. Corresponding interests: artisans and gentlemen in nineteenth-century natural history. British Journal for the History of Science 27: 383–408.
To J. S. Henslow 12 [August] 1835
Summary
Looks forward to seeing volcanoes in Galapagos Islands.
Has altered his views on Cordillera formations as a result of another trip. Discusses his theory of their origin and history.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | 12 [Aug] 1835 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 27 DAR/1/1/27) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-283 |
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