To ? [1842–82]
Summary
Will be glad to see recipient and Mr Morris at Down the following day.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [1842–82] |
Classmark: | eBay (April 2001) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13867G |
To John Price 29 November [1842–55]
Summary
Not able to assist JP as he knows no schoolmaster in the area.
Cannot answer zoological question but thinks the two Serpulae are distinct.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Price |
Date: | 29 Nov [1842-55] |
Classmark: | University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library (BANC MSS 74/78 z) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1786 |
To Charles Lyell [September–December 1842]
Summary
Discusses relationship of subsidence to the formation of coral reefs.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [Sept–Dec 1842] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.30) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-605 |
To William Yarrell [5 or 12 September 1842]
Summary
CD is too dull and languid to see Mr Bicheno but will be glad to answer his questions if he writes.
Asks WY to ask J. Sebright "whether the cross with white bantam brought back any of the ""secondary male characters"" to the hen–cock breed".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Yarrell |
Date: | [5 or 12] Sept 1842 |
Classmark: | Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Letters to Dr William Kitchen Parker and his sons, MS-Papers-1256-2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-613 |
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 J. S. Henslow [26 January 1842]
Summary
CD relates that Robert Brown is anxious to have [C. M.] Leman[n] elected librarian of the Linnean Society and urges JSH to come to vote for him. CD joins in the request.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | [26 Jan 1842] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-615 |
To the Geological Society of London 31 January [1842]
Summary
Hopes to meet with museum committee after 11 o’clock next day.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Geological Society of London |
Date: | 31 Jan [1842] |
Classmark: | Geological Society of London (GSL/L/R/7/25) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-616 |
To J. F. Royle [2 February 1842]
Summary
Asks JFR to support E. A. Darwin’s election to the Athenaeum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Forbes Royle |
Date: | [2 Feb 1842] |
Classmark: | University of Rochester Libraries, Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-617 |
To Francis Boott [3 February 1842]
Summary
"My Dear Sir, I have called on you, to solicit your vote & interest at the Athenaeum Club […] in favour of my brother, Erasmus Darwin".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Boott |
Date: | [3 Feb 1842] |
Classmark: | Christie’s (dealers) (13 December 2006, lot 34) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-617F |
To Richard Owen [4 February 1842]
Summary
Informs Owen of the fossil finds of F. J. Muñiz in south America.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Owen |
Date: | [4 Feb 1842] |
Classmark: | Enns Entomology Museum, University of Missouri |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-617G |
To H. T. De la Beche 7 February 1842
Summary
Asks De la Beche about variation among domesticated animals in Jamaica.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Thomas De la Beche |
Date: | 7 Feb 1842 |
Classmark: | National Museum of Wales, Department of Natural Sciences (De la Beche) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-618 |
To Hugh Edwin Strickland 17 February [1842]
Summary
CD approves of HES’s "laws" [of nomenclature]. Regrets that [J. E.?] Gray does not approve of the scheme. CD has sent the paper to William Ogilby and suggests that HES send it to G. R. Waterhouse, of whom he has a high opinion.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugh Edwin Strickland |
Date: | 17 Feb [1842] |
Classmark: | Museum of Zoology Archives, University of Cambridge (Strickland Papers) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-619 |
To H. E. Strickland [19 February 1842]
Summary
CD saw Andrew Smith, who is interested in the subject [of zoological nomenclature], but CD thinks he differs from HES on some points. Sends Smith’s address.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugh Edwin Strickland |
Date: | [19 Feb 1842] |
Classmark: | Museum of Zoology Archives, University of Cambridge (Strickland Papers) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-620 |
To Susan Darwin [22 February 1842]
Summary
Comments on birth [of Catherine Elizabeth Sophia Wedgwood].
Plans to visit Shrewsbury.
Describes behaviour of William Darwin.
Discusses speculation losses of acquaintances, including T. Carlyle’s. Mentions his own loss on Journal of researches.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
Date: | [22 Feb 1842] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-621 |
To W. D. Fox 23 March [1842]
Summary
Letter of condolence on the death of WDF’s wife [Harriet Fletcher Fox].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 23 Mar [1842] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 57) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-624 |
To W. D. Fox [31 March 1842]
Summary
Second letter of condolence, following burial of Mrs Fox.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | [31 Mar 1842] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 56) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-625 |
To A. Y. Spearman 29 April 1842
Summary
The fourth number of part four is now published; the Smith, Elder & Co. account is presented.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Young Spearman, 1st baronet |
Date: | 29 Apr 1842 |
Classmark: | The National Archives (TNA) (T1/4723 paper 15949) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-625A |
To Smith, Elder & Co. [17 May 1842]
Summary
Gives instructions for sending out copies of Coral reefs to various journals. Discusses the complimentary copies which have already been sent out.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Smith, Elder & Co |
Date: | [17 May 1842] |
Classmark: | Christie’s (dealers) (7 December 1988); Gerard A. J. Stodolski (dealer) (April 2014) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-629A |
To H. E. Strickland 31 May [1842]
Summary
Comments on HES’s Report ["Report of a committee … (on) nomenclature of zoology", Rep. BAAS 12 (1842): 105–21]. Suggests limit be put to changing names that are only partially erroneous to prevent those who detect the error from coining new names and attaching their own. HES’s rule for "authority for a species" is difficult, though on the whole best. Suggests stating it boldly to prevent appropriation of species names by "tacker[s] of two old names together".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugh Edwin Strickland |
Date: | 31 May [1842] |
Classmark: | Museum of Zoology Archives, University of Cambridge (Strickland Papers) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-630 |
To W. H. Fitton 23 June 1842
Summary
[Excerpt copied from a letter CD wrote to WHF.]
CD’s gratefulness to William Buckland for his guidance on the glaciated terrain of N. Wales. "I am also convinced that the valleys of Glen Roy … have been occupied by arms of the Sea, & very likely, (for on that point I cannot of course doubt Agassiz & Buckland) by glaciers also."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Henry Fitton |
Date: | 23 June 1842 |
Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Louis Agassiz correspondence and other papers, MS Am 1419: 239) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-632 |
Baxter, W. W. | (5) |
Baxter, William | (5) |
Lyell, Charles | (4) |
Strickland, H. E. | (4) |
Blomefield, Leonard | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | (50) |
Baxter, W. W. | (5) |
Baxter, William | (5) |
Lyell, Charles | (4) |
Strickland, H. E. | (4) |