To Emma Darwin [1 July 1841]
Summary
Family news. Mainly concerned about Doddy’s [W. E. Darwin’s] health.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [1 July 1841] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 16 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-600 |
To Emma Darwin [3 July 1841]
Summary
The happy family life at Shrewsbury. CD is looking so well his father would not have known there was anything the matter with him. The year’s accounts come to £1380.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [3 July 1841] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-601 |
To W. D. Fox [25 January 1841]
Summary
Birds has gone to the printer.
Continues "to collect all kinds of facts about ""varieties and species"" " for his "some-day work".
Would be grateful for descriptions of offspring of crossbred domestic animals.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [25 Jan 1841] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 59) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-586 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … W. D. Fox, [ 11 December 1837] , and Emma Darwin (1915) 1: 257–8, 285–6). Fox then lived …
- … et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Emma Darwin ( …
- … 1915): Emma Darwin: a century of family letters, 1792–1896. Edited by Henrietta …
- … Darwin is something wonderful. —but I will say nothing more about health, & as a consequence I must say nothing more about any of my Family— I will just add that Emma …
From Richard Owen [17 September 1841?]
Summary
CD and [Emma Darwin] are invited to "a holiday musical evening".
| Author: | Richard Owen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [17 Sept 1841?] |
| Classmark: | The Royal College of Surgeons of England (MS0456/1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-608F |
From Charles Lyell [c. 16 July 1841]
Summary
Regrets not seeing CD before leaving on trip [to the U. S.]. CD’s move from London will be a privation for CL.
Returns charts on coral reefs.
| Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [c. 16 July 1841] |
| Classmark: | DAR 98: A1–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-604 |
To Charles Lyell [12 March 1841]
Summary
Discusses at length Louis Agassiz’s book [Études sur les glaciers (1840)] and Agassiz’s explanation of moraines. Defends his own theory of the importance of floating ice. Relates glacier theory to his own interpretation of Glen Roy.
Mentions a paper he is writing on South American boulders and till [Collected papers 1: 145–63].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [12 Mar 1841] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.25) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-595 |
| letter | (6) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Owen, Richard | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, Emma | (2) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (2) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Darwin, Emma | (2) |
| Lyell, Charles | (2) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (2) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Owen, Richard | (1) |
