To John Russell [10 July 1848]
Summary
Ask JR to advise the Queen to issue Her Royal Commission of Inquiry into the best methods of securing the improvement of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; Nassau William Senior; John Stevens Henslow; Baden Powell; Bonamy Price; Thomas Jodrell Phillips; Thomas Jodrell Phillips-Jodrell; James Heywood; Edmund Walker Head, 8th baronet; Thomas James Agar Robartes; Philip le Breton; George Nugent Grenville, 2d Baron Nugent of Carlanstown; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet; Harry Calvert, 2d baronet; Harry Verney, 2d baronet; Peter John Locke King; Henry Galgacus Redhead Yorke; Joseph Kay; Edward France Percival; Edward Horsman; Erasmus Alvey Darwin; Hensleigh Wedgwood; Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | John Russell, 1st Earl Russell |
| Date: | [10 July 1848] |
| Classmark: | Cambridge Pamphlets, Folio Series, vol. 4: CUL Cam.a.500.5/124 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1188F |
To Thomas Spring Rice [before 7 July 1838]
Summary
Express their concern that the offer for sale to the British Museum, by G. A. Mantell and Thomas Hawkins, of two valuable collections, has been declined.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; William Buckland; Adam Sedgwick; John Phillips; William Whewell; Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st baronet; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet; Charles Stokes; William John Hamilton; Edward Stanley; Richard Owen; William Clift; Charles Babbage; John Bostock; Peter Mark Roget; John Taylor; Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, 2d Marquess of Northampton; William John Broderip |
| Addressee: | Thomas Spring Rice |
| Date: | [before 7 July 1838] |
| Classmark: | House of Commons papers; accounts and papers, 1837/38, XXXVI, 307 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-421F |
To John Lubbock 17 December [1859]
Summary
Local affairs and finances.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 17 Dec [1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 31 (EH 88206480) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2586 |
To R. F. Cooke 18 November [1879]
Summary
Thinks W. P. Garrison’s book [extracts from Journal of researches for juvenile readers] would serve as an advertisement for the Journal.
Disappointed at sale of Erasmus Darwin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Date: | 18 Nov [1879] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 364–5) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12327 |
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- … Darwin saw in his voyage round the world ; C. R. Darwin 1880 ), abridged and rearranged for children by Wendell Phillips Garrison , son of the anti-slavery campaigner William Lloyd Garrison (see letter from W. P. Garrison, 9 November 1879 ). C. R. Darwin 1880 was published in the US by Harper & Brothers . CD’s publisher was John Murray . Murray held a sale dinner each November for the book trade ( J. …
Document type
| letter | (4) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Lyell, Charles | (2) |
| Babbage, Charles | (1) |
| Bostock, John | (1) |
| Breton, Philip le | (1) |
Addressee
| Cooke, R. F. | (1) |
| John Murray | (1) |
| Lubbock, John | (1) |
| Russell, John | (1) |
| Spring Rice, Thomas | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Lyell, Charles | (2) |
| Babbage, Charles | (1) |
| Bostock, John | (1) |
| Breton, Philip le | (1) |
