To Edward Forbes [1 May – 5 June 1851]
Summary
Comments on MS by C. S. Bate. Bate not aware of other work on Cirripedia; cites Bate’s errors. Would Bate allow CD to use his drawings in Living Cirripedia? [See Living Cirripedia 1: 9–16.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Forbes |
| Date: | [1 May – 5 June 1851] |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 131 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1214 |
To J. S. Dismorr 6 May [1851]
Summary
Congratulates JD on discovery of fossil footsteps near Port Philip, Australia. Richard Owen would be glad to examine them. J. B. Jukes most likely to know geology of Port Philip.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Stewart Dismorr |
| Date: | 6 May [1851] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 385 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1427 |
To J. S. Dismorr 15 May [1851]
Summary
Comments on concretionary bodies found by JD. Encourages him to continue geological study.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Stewart Dismorr |
| Date: | 15 May [1851] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 386 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1428 |
To Robert Ball 26 May [1851]
Summary
Obliged for letter about cirripedes attached to turtles’ backs. Genus is Chelonobia, Leach. Cirripedes do not penetrate skin, but surrounding tissue grows up around them.
Asks RB to send S. American Balanus. Already has specimens from Irish coast.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Ball |
| Date: | 26 May [1851] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (Fellows’ Papers 54.ii) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1429 |
To Edward Adolphus Seymour Seymour May 1851
Summary
Testimonial on behalf of J. D. Hooker, addressed to Lord Seymour as Chief Commissioner of Her Majesty’s Woods and Forests, signed by CD and many other scientists.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Adolphus Seymour Seymour, 12th duke of Somerset |
| Date: | May 1851 |
| Classmark: | Julian Browning (dealer) (Catalogue 10, ‘Historical Manuscripts and Documents’) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1425F |
To A. S. Horner 25 May [1851]
Summary
Thanks for her sympathy on the death of Annie Darwin, and sends news of Emma Darwin and the baby Horace.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Anne Susanna Lloyd; Anne Susanna Horner |
| Date: | 25 May [1851] |
| Classmark: | Cheffins (dealers) (10 January 2019, lot 209) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1428F |
To Hensleigh and Fanny Mackintosh Wedgwood 1 May [1851]
Summary
Thanks HW for the trouble he has taken; sends a cheque [to cover expenses of Anne’s funeral?]. Emma Darwin adds a note to FMW.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hensleigh Wedgwood; Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Mackintosh; Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood |
| Date: | 1 May [1851] |
| Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 310) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1426 |
| letter | (7) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Ball, Robert | (1) |
| Dismorr, J. S. | (2) |
| Forbes, Edward | (1) |
| Horner, A. S. | (1) |
| Lloyd, A. S. | (1) |
| Mackintosh, F. E. E. | (1) |
| Seymour, E. A. S. | (1) |
| Wedgwood, F. E. E. | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Hensleigh | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Dismorr, J. S. | (2) |
| Ball, Robert | (1) |
| Forbes, Edward | (1) |
| Horner, A. S. | (1) |
