From the principal inhabitants of Down to the secretary of the Post Office [1845–51?]
Author: | Principal inhabitants of Down |
Addressee: | Secretary of the Post Office |
Date: | [1845–51?] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3359 |
To Susan Darwin 3[–4] September 1845
Summary
"All about household and money matters." The family is now living on about £1000 per annum. Plans a new walk and additions to the house.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
Date: | 3[–4] Sept 1845 |
Classmark: | DAR 153: 109 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-913 |
To J. S. Henslow 28 October [1845]
Summary
Comments on potato disease and its effects on the poor.
Describes visit to his Lincolnshire farm,
to York where he discussed hybrids with the Dean of Manchester [William Herbert],
his meeting with Charles Waterton, and his delight with Chatsworth.
Disappointed at Hooker’s failure to receive the Edinburgh chair; believes JDH will make a great botanist.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 28 Oct [1845] |
Classmark: | Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-921 |
Document type
letter | (3) |
Author
Addressee
Darwin, S. E. | (1) |
Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
Secretary of the Post Office | (1) |
Correspondent