To Josiah Wedgwood III 14 August [1847]
Summary
Sends a letter for JW to forward to Charles Stokes concerning the purchase of Leeds and Bradford railway shares for Emma Darwin’s trust fund.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III |
| Date: | 14 Aug [1847] |
| Classmark: | Alan Wedgwood (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1108F |
To Peter Martin Duncan? 18 July [1861]
Summary
He is no longer able to answer any of the correspondent’s questions concerning corals.
Places "much trust" in J. D. Dana.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Peter Martin Duncan |
| Date: | 18 July [1861] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.257) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3212 |
To Josiah Wedgwood III [22 June – 10 August 1847]
Summary
Wants JW’s permission to carry out certain investments.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III |
| Date: | [22 June – 10 Aug 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.10: 13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1043 |
To E. A. Darwin 26 [April 1853]
Summary
Writes concerning marriage trust.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Date: | 26 [Apr 1853] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.10: 19, 22 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1380 |
To Josiah Wedgwood III [22 August? 1847]
Summary
Writes concerning Charles Stokes’s purchase of stock in the Leeds and Bradford Guaranteed Railway.
Is glad that JW III is settled for life at Leith Hill Place.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III |
| Date: | [22 Aug? 1847] |
| Classmark: | Alan Wedgwood (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1111F |
To Josiah Wedgwood III [after 12 July 1851]
Summary
Inquires about the nature of some money recently paid to him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III |
| Date: | [after 12 July 1851] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.10: 16 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1213 |
To James David Forbes 11 October [1844]
Summary
Discusses a specimen of Mexican obsidian with an unusual laminated structure.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James David Forbes |
| Date: | 11 Oct [1844] |
| Classmark: | University of St Andrews Special Collections (Papers of J. D. Forbes: msdep7 – Incoming letters 1844, no.57) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-781 |
To Charles Stokes [January–March 1842]
Summary
Returns snuff box.
Sends a microscope for repair.
Makes appointment to discuss some corals that he is sending.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Stokes |
| Date: | [Jan–Mar 1842] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 91 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-613A |
To Josiah Wedgwood III [20? August 1847]
Summary
Discusses the buying and selling of certain railway shares.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III |
| Date: | [20? Aug 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.10: 14 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1042 |
From B. J. Sulivan 13 October 1879
Summary
The "Beagles" are, after all, to provide for Jemmy Button’s grandson [see 11501].
| Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Oct 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 310 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12255 |
From G. H. Darwin 17 November 1881
Summary
Sends an agreement for his signature and forwarding to Patterson & Bloxham.
Hears that James Challis [Plumian Professor of Astronomy, Cambridge] is on the point of death. Believes he has a good chance to succeed him; sends a list of the electors.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Nov 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 98 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13488 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter from G. H. Darwin, [29 August 1881] ). James Challis was Plumian Professor of astronomy and experimental philosophy at the University of Cambridge. George Gabriel Stokes , John Couch Adams , Arthur Cayley , William Hepworth Thompson (master of Trinity College), Norman Macleod Ferrers (master of Gonville and Caius College ), Charles …
To J. L. Stokes 2 January [1847]
Summary
Thanks for sending his "magnificent book" [Discoveries in Australia (1846)].
Asks JLS to visit Down on "Saturday the 16th" and Sunday. He has also invited Forbes, Falconer, Hooker and Waterhouse. [See 1036.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lort Stokes |
| Date: | 2 Jan [1847] |
| Classmark: | University of Akron (Herman Muehlstein Rare Book Collection: tipped into a copy of Origin 1st ed. (QH365 .O2 1859)) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1050A |
From Edward Sabine to John Phillips 12 November 1863
Summary
Preparation for his address with particular concern that JP approve the part relating to [Adam] Sedgwick. Urges JP to sit at dinner with him as a sign of approval of the award [of the Copley Medal].
Admits his own dismay regarding the efforts of the younger geologists and zoologists to obtain the Copley Medal for CD on the grounds of the Origin and his anxiety about the next year’s award.
| Author: | Edward Sabine |
| Addressee: | John Phillips |
| Date: | 12 Nov 1863 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Misc. MS collection: Mss.Ms.Coll.200) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4340F |
From Charles Lyell 4 November 1864
Summary
Delighted to hear that CD was awarded Copley Medal. Important because award by chartered institution acts on outsiders and helps increase stock of moral courage.
| Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Nov 1864 |
| Classmark: | K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 383–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4658 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter from Hugh Falconer, 3 November 186[4] and n. 3. The ages of the members of the Council of the Royal Society of London were: James Alderson , 70; George Busk , 57; George Everest , 74; Hugh Falconer , 56; John Hall Gladstone , 37; Joseph Dalton Hooker , 47; William Allen Miller , 47; William Hallowes Miller , 63; Henry Bence Jones , 50; James Clerk Maxwell , 33; William Pole , 50; Edward Sabine , 76; William Sharpey , 62; Archibald Smith , 51; Henry John Stephen Smith , 38; Philip Henry Stanhope , 59; George Gabriel Stokes , 45; James Joseph Sylvester , 50; Thomas Watson , 72; Charles …
From J. D. Hooker 2 December 1864
Summary
Recounts row at the Royal Society over exclusion of mention of Origin from Sabine’s address awarding Copley Medal to CD.
Encloses two letters to JDH from James Hector in New Zealand.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Dec 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 260–1; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ correspondence 174: 429–31 & 433–4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4692 |
Matches: 1 hit
To W. E. Darwin 15 November [1861]
Summary
Discusses stock-brokers; hopes to be able to see WED at Christmas.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Nov [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 89 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3319 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Charles Stokes of Stokes & Hughes, London, had been CD’s broker. CD banked with the Union Bank of London, with premises in Princes Street. A serious fraud on the Union Bank of London, committed by the chief cashier William George Pullinger , was discovered in April 1860. Through dealings with several Stock Exchange operators, Pullinger defrauded the bank out of £263,000 ( Banking almanac 1861, p. 25; The Times , 21 April 1860). William wished to resign his commission with the Farnborough Rifle Volunteer Corps (see letters …
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 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter to Richardson, which Lyell had enclosed for CD to read and forward. C. Lyell 1840 , 1: 241–2. CD discussed the fauna of the region in Journal and remarks, pp. 300–2. The Lyells remained at Kinnordy until 14 November, when they departed for London ( Wilson 1972 , p. 483). Probably Charles Stokes . …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (12) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Sabine, Edward | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Josiah, III | (5) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Duncan, P. M. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (16) |
| Wedgwood, Josiah, III | (5) |
| Lyell, Charles | (2) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
