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Clive, Rebecca (1730–1825)

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  • … 2019) Hereford Journal , 2 February 1825 letter from C. H. Tindal, 1 January 1880 London, …

To Dear Friend   2 January 1822

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Erasmus Alvey Darwin is good tempered and their sisters have "not abused at all". Hopes the recipient will help "in looking out and washing the fossils out of the plate closet".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Friend
Date:  2 Jan 1822
Classmark:  DAR 271/1/1
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1G

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  • … 25 [October 1822] and [10 January 1825] , and letter from E.  C.  Darwin, [ c. June  …
  • … March 1825] ). An abbreviation of ‘affectionate pug’; see this volume, Supplement, letter

To Robert FitzRoy   [20 February 1840]

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Poor health has made him give up all geological work.

Profits on their volumes [of Narrative] seem absurdly small.

Looks back on Beagle voyage as the most fortunate circumstance in his life.

Finds marriage a great happiness.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Robert FitzRoy
Date:  [20 Feb 1840]
Classmark:  DAR 144: 117
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-555

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  • … from E.  A. Darwin, [24 February 1825] , and letter from Catherine and Susan Darwin, 4  …

From Arthur Mostyn-Owen   21 May 1873

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Offers to exchange a water-colour portrait of CD, done, he believes, by Fanny Biddulph, for a copy of Descent.

There has been a decrease of game-birds in the area.

Author:  Arthur Mostyn Owen
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  21 May 1873
Classmark:  DAR 173: 42
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8917

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  • … and S.  E.  Darwin, 4 December [1825], and letter from Fanny Owen, [26 October 1828] ). …

To Robert Waring Darwin   [23 October 1825]

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First days in Edinburgh.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Robert Waring Darwin
Date:  [23 Oct 1825]
Classmark:  DAR 154: 68
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-16

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  • … has been located. In her letter of [26 October 1825] , Catherine Darwin clearly wrote ‘ …
  • … alltogether’ (see letter from Catherine Darwin, [26 October 1825] ). In ML 1: 7 ‘his [ …

From E. A. Darwin   [24 January 1825]

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Asks CD to do an experiment for him.

Has found a curious stone in his fire.

Price’s iron in tea measured 13 per cent.

Author:  Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [24 Jan 1825]
Classmark:  DAR 204: 9
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11

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  • … mentioned in the letter from E.  A.  Darwin, [17 January 1825] , and from the reference to …
  • … should leave school (see letter from E.  A.  Darwin, [24 February 1825] ). Bewick 1790 . …

To Catherine Darwin   May–June [1832]

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Lists letters received and those sent; comments on family happenings.

The Beagle is back [from Bahia]; two sailors and "little [Charles] Musters" died of fever. In 14 days they sail for Montevideo, then to Rio Negro, then on to where no man is known to have been before.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton
Date:  May–June [1832]
Classmark:  DAR 223
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-169

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  • … See letter from Catherine & Susan Darwin, 4 December [1825] . See Keynes 1979 , pp.  55– …

Allen, Thomas (1813–92)

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  • … vol. 1, letter from Catherine and Susan Darwin, 4 December [1825] Healey 2001 (Allen …

From John Lubbock   20 February 1868

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Found [Variation] full of interest. Has not yet made up his mind about Pangenesis; wants to hear what can be said against it.

Author:  John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  20 Feb 1868
Classmark:  DAR 170: 63
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5901

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  • … Desmarest 1825  and a volume of Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie (see letter to …

Coldstream, John (1806–63)

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  • … CD at Edinburgh University, 1825–7. Correspondence vol. 1, letter from John Coldstream, 28 …

From V. O. Kovalevsky   12 December [1870]

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Progress on his Russian translation of Descent.

Alexander Kovalevsky is at Tor in Sinai, where C. G. Ehrenberg was in 1827.

Has CD seen Ernst Haeckel’s new book [Biologische Studien (1870–7)]?

Author:  Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  12 Dec [1870]
Classmark:  DAR 169: 68
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7389

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  • … expedition to Egypt between 1820 and 1825 ( DSB ). See letter from V.  O.  Kovalevsky, 15  …

From G. H. K. Thwaites   24 September 1863

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Sends information on the flowers of Cassia roxburghii; will send flowers of all the species of Cassia for CD to study with a view to discovering the law which operates to bring about the differences.

Author:  George Henry Kendrick Thwaites
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  24 Sept 1863
Classmark:  DAR 48: 74
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4303

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  • … roxburghii in 1825 (Candolle and Candolle 1824–73 , 2: 489). See the letter to G.  H.   …

To John Maurice Herbert    [13 September 1828]

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Asks JMH to collect some insects at Barmouth.

Reports on his shooting luck.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Maurice Herbert
Date:  [13 Sept 1828]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.1)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-47

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  • … Thomas Butler (see letter from E.  A.  Darwin, [24 February 1825] , n.  2) had entered St …

To John Phillips   31 March [1874]

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Regrets he cannot visit Oxford.

Comments on sketches in letter from JP [9360].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Phillips
Date:  31 Mar [1874]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.439)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9379

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  • letter from John Phillips, 14 March 1874 . Phillips was keeper of the Yorkshire Museum from 1825  …

To Catherine Darwin   22 May – 14 July 1833

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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

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  • … destroy the letter and pocket the fee. Burchell 1822–4 , Caldcleugh 1825 , Dalyell 1814 , …
  • 1825 . No eighth volume of Humboldt’s Personal narrative was ever published (see letter

From E. A. Darwin   [June 1825]

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Asks CD whether he is making any plans for Edinburgh.

Will be home in three weeks.

Author:  Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [June 1825]
Classmark:  DAR 204: 13
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-15

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  • letter is dated from the reference to Erasmus’s coming down in about three weeks. The 1825  …

From E. A. Darwin   18 August [1832]

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Reports on the commissions CD requested of him [in a missing letter]; comments on English political issues.

Author:  Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  18 Aug [1832]
Classmark:  DAR 204: 93
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-182

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  • … 1977 , pp.  144–6, and letter from E.  A.  Darwin, [8 March 1825] ). The Darwin Library– …
  • … Christ Coll 1825’. This may be the volume mentioned by Erasmus later in the letter. There …

From Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker   [7 December 1863]

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CD too ill to write.

Has evidence of long life of seed transported on a partridge’s foot.

Sends a squib by Samuel Butler on the Origin.

Author:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  [7 Dec 1863]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 215
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4351

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  • … Shrewsbury between 1818 and 1825 ( Freeman 1978 ). The letter from Julius von Haast that …

From Henry Denny   30 October 1844

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Has never heard of species of same genus [of parasites] being found on both birds and mammals, or different genera and species being found on animals in the domestic and wild states. Implications of this for relationship of aperea and guinea-pig.

Author:  Henry Denny
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  30 Oct 1844
Classmark:  DAR 205.3: 273
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-785

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  • … p.  392. See letter to Henry Denny, 12 August [1844] . William Kirby (1825) described …

From Anthony Rich   29 December 1878

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He would be happy to receive a visit from one of CD’s sons at any time.

Author:  Anthony Rich
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  29 Dec 1878
Classmark:  DAR 210.12: 9
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11810

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  • letter from G. H. Darwin to W. E. Darwin, 10 January 1879 (DAR 210.14: 14)). Rich received his BA from Cambridge in 1825; …
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Edward Lumb

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Edward Lumb was born in Yorkshire. According to the memoirs of his daughter Anne, Lady Macdonell, he travelled to Buenos Aires aged sixteen with his merchant uncle, Charles Poynton, and after some fortunate enterprises set up in business there. In 1833…

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  • … Edward Lumb was born in Yorkshire. According to the memoirs of his daughter Anne, Lady Macdonell, …

John Lort Stokes

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John Lort Stokes, naval officer, was Charles Darwin’s cabinmate on the Beagle voyage – not always an enviable position.  After Darwin’s death, Stokes penned a description of their evenings spent working at the large table at the centre, Stokes at his…

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  • … John Lort Stokes, naval officer, was Charles Darwin’s cabinmate on the Beagle voyage – not …