From J. T. Austen 3 June 1863
Summary
Does not think Dennen’s transaction was dishonest, but can see no satisfactory explanation for it; feels they must inform their fellow trustees.
| Author: | John Thomas Austen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 June 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 131, 151 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4201 |
To John Lubbock, P. L. Sclater, Charles Lyell, W. B. Carpenter, and Michael Foster [7 April 1874]
Summary
Circular requesting recipients to sign an enclosed [missing] statement [relating to appeal for Naples Zoological Station] if they approve of it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury; Philip Lutley Sclater; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet; William Benjamin Carpenter; Michael Foster |
| Date: | [7 Apr 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 97: C52–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9384 |
From the principal inhabitants of Down to the secretary of the Post Office [1845–51?]
Summary
Complain about the postal service to Down and urgently request improvement.
| Author: | Principal inhabitants of Down |
| Addressee: | Secretary of the Post Office |
| Date: | [1845–51?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3359 |
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- … Secretary of the Post-office. We the undersigned the principal inhabitants of the village of Down in Kent & its neighbourhood, respectfully request your attention to the arrangement for the delivery our letters. …
- … secretary to the Post Office from 1836 to 1854 ( DNB ). The beginning of the date range is suggested by known changes to the postal arrangements for Down and Farnborough in 1845 (see nn. 5 and 6, below). The end of the date range is suggested by the fact that, at the time of writing, letters …
- … Post Office directory of the six home counties 1845, 1851. ) A foot-messenger was appointed in March 1845 to take letters to and from Bromley to Farnborough and Down ( Postmaster general’s minutes , vol. 81, minute 3376). CD is first known to have used Farnborough in his letterhead in 1846 (see Correspondence vol. 3, letter to J. D. Hooker, [May 1846] ). Rowland Hill , as secretary …
From T. H. Farrer 1 March 1871
Summary
Parallel between CD’s account of morality [in Descent], of social instinct preceding selfishness, and Henry Maine’s account of notions of property of a community preceding individual property [in Ancient law (1861)].
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Mar 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 68 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7528 |
From T. H. Huxley 2 November 1875
Summary
Arrangements for CD’s appearance before Vivisection Commission.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Nov 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 344 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10236 |
To Charles Lyell [14] September [1838]
Summary
Comments on an article in Edinburgh Review [by David Brewster, 67 (1838): 271–308] on Comte’s Philosophie positive.
Discusses falsity of Élie de Beaumont’s views of contemporaneous parallel lines of elevation and subsidence.
Owen’s views of relationship of reptiles to birds.
On "question of species" CD has filled notebook after notebook with facts, "which begin to group themselves clearly under sub-laws".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [14] Sept [1838] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.11) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-428 |
To Catherine Darwin 22 May – 14 July 1833
Summary
Longs to be on the other side of the Horn; tired of these countries. Natural history makes him continue. He now knows it will remain his favourite pursuit for the rest of his life.
Comments on slavery.
Will have additional space on board and a servant [Syms Covington] who will help him with the collection of birds and quadrupeds.
Asks for books, a lens, and four pairs of shoes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
| Date: | 22 May – 14 July 1833 |
| Classmark: | DAR 223 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-206 |
To Richard Kippist 13 May [1863 or 1868]
Summary
Asks to borrow J. J. Audubon [Ornithological biography (1831–9)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Kippist |
| Date: | 13 May [1863 or 1868] |
| Classmark: | Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University (Vault MSS 2, Box 12, Darwin) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4159 |
From Thomas Allen 14 April 1875
Summary
Encloses draft bill about vivisection; CD and friends may have influence enough to get it introduced in Commons or Lords; TA and the Cruelty Society do not. The Society, however, can pay for preparation of bill.
| Author: | Thomas Allen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Apr 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 51 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9926 |
From John Lubbock to W. E. Gladstone 20 June 1872
Summary
Encloses a memorial concerning the Botanical Gardens at Kew signed by ‘some of our most eminent scientific men’ (including CD).
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | William Ewart Gladstone |
| Date: | 20 June 1872 |
| Classmark: | Parliamentary Papers 1872 (335) XLVII.527, pp. 41–9. |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8403F |
To W. E. Darwin [10? September 1862]
Summary
Gives advice as to whether certain meteorological observations would be worth making.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [10? Sept 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 104 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3704 |
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From J. D. Hooker 7 January 1873
Summary
Fascinated by Greg’s Enigmas, though its matter is weak.
Is vexed at being drawn into hostility toward British Museum through William Carruthers’ insolence and presumption.
Recounts visit with Edward Cardwell [Secretary for War].
Has sent Candolle’s book to Gladstone.
JDH indignant at Gladstone’s speech putting English science below French and German.
Thinks it is an accepted dogma that glandular hairs are excreting only. Will ask others to confirm.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Jan 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 140–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8727 |
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- … secretary of state for war, and had been a member of the committee set up by Gladstone to investigate the dispute over the governance of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew ( Post Office directory of the six home counties 1870; L. Huxley ed. 1918, 2: 169; ODNB ). For an example of Thomas Henry Huxley’s outbursts, see Correspondence vol. 16, letter …
From Emma Darwin to J. B. Innes 24 June [1874]
Summary
Kind to send seeds of Aquilegia Brodii. Gives news on her sons. Glad of recent rain to help the hay.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
| Date: | 24 June [1874] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6405F |
From J. D. Hooker 17 March 1875
Summary
No action on assistance yet, but has had a private note from Disraeli asking whether Thiselton-Dyer is his recommendation.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Mar 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 20–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9891 |
From John Thomas Austen 27 May 1863
Summary
Has written to G. Dennen to ask him for an explanation regarding his behaviour in a financial transaction involving the savings bank of which JTA and CD are trustees.
| Author: | John Thomas Austen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 May 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 149 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4188 |
From George Bentham [after 29 September 1868]
Summary
Asks CD to sign enclosed certificate first, as he does not know T. H. Farrer personally. [On top part of first two pages of a letter to Hooker from H. C. Rothery about Farrer’s nomination for Linnean Society]
| Author: | George Bentham |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 29 Sept 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 237 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6405 |
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- … letter was sent to Joseph Dalton Hooker by Henry Cadogan Rothery , who resided at Oak Leigh, Sunninghill, Berkshire ( Post Office directory of Northamptonshire, etc. 1864). Rothery was a friend of Farrer’s (see letter from T. H. Farrer, 17 September 1868 ), and a fellow of the Linnean Society ( List of the Linnean Society of London , 1867). Farrer was elected to the Linnean Society at the meeting of 21 January 1869; he was nominated by CD, Hooker, Rothery, Bentham, and Thomas Henry Huxley (Library of the Linnean Society ). Frederick Currey was the botanical secretary of …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Austen, J. T. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Allen, Thomas | (1) |
| Bentham, George | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Lyell, Charles | (2) |
| Carpenter, W. B. | (1) |
| Darwin, Catherine | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (13) |
| Austen, J. T. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Lubbock, John | (2) |
| Lyell, Charles | (2) |
Voyage of HMS Beagle in Commentary
Robert FitzRoy
Summary
Robert FitzRoy was captain of HMS Beagle when Darwin was aboard. From 1831 to 1836 the two men lived in the closest proximity, their relationship revealed by the letters they exchanged while Darwin left the ship to explore the countries visited during the…
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- … Robert FitzRoy was captain of HMS Beagle when Darwin was aboard. From 1831 to 1836 the two men …
