To Emma Darwin [1 July 1841]
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 |
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- … 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 |
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. | (6) |
Darwin, Emma | (2) |
Lyell, Charles | (2) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (2) |
Fox, W. D. | (1) |