From Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox [6 March 1849]
Summary
The entire family will set out for Malvern for six to eight weeks’ trial of J. M. Gully’s water-cure.
Family news.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [6 Mar 1849] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 72) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1233 |
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 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 |
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 [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 |
To W. D. Fox 7 [July 1849]
Summary
Continues water-cure treatment at home and must do so for a year. Considers himself absolutely cured.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 7 [July 1849] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 74) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1249 |
To J. D. Hooker 28 March 1849
Summary
CD’s health and his father’s death have delayed his answer. Describes J. M. Gully’s water-cure.
JDH’s Galapagos papers [Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 20 (1851): 163–233] have excellent discussion of geographical distribution, but why no general treatment of affinities?
CD’s views on clay-slate laminae.
Turmoil in Royal Society between naturalists and physicists.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 28 Mar 1849 |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 113 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1236 |
To Charles Lyell [2 September 1849]
Summary
Discusses effect of subsidence and elevation on deposits. Cites examples along coasts of South America and Wales. Proposes theory to explain thickness of deposits in south Wales.
Asks CL’s opinion of his theory of "craters of elevation" described in Volcanic islands.
Mentions CL’s comparison of Mississippi beds to the Pampas.
Comments on Poulett Scrope’s views on the separation of basalt and trachyte.
Describes his cirripede work.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [2 Sept 1849] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.80) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1252 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Birmingham on 12 September. According to Emma Darwin’s diary, Henrietta Darwin developed a …
- … Darwin Library–Down. The British Association was due to meet in Birmingham, 12–19 September 1849. Lyell was president of section C (geology and physical geography); CD was a vice-president of the association. According to her diary, Emma …
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 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (2) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Lyell, Charles | (2) |
| Darwin, S. E. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Fox, W. D. | (2) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Lyell, Charles | (2) |
