To William Kemp 24 [April 1843]
Summary
Has not yet heard from R. Brown, but John Lindley thinks species will probably turn out to be common ones.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Kemp |
Date: | 24 [Apr 1843] |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/15) (gift of Ruth Cramond and David Cramond) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-672F |
To Susan Darwin 27[–8] April [1843]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
Date: | 27[–8] Apr [1843] |
Classmark: | DAR 92: A11–13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-673 |
To Susan Darwin [8 December 1843]
Summary
Thanks father for loan. Explains difficulty of acquiring the land through which the approach to Down House now runs.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
Date: | [8 Dec 1843] |
Classmark: | DAR 92: A14–15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-674 |
To G. A. Mantell 13 May [1843]
Summary
Capt. FitzRoy has read GAM’s letter to CD regarding an appointment for GAM’s son and is disposed to help, but has resolved to make no appointments until he arrives in New Zealand [as Governor].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gideon Algernon Mantell |
Date: | 13 May [1843] |
Classmark: | Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Mantell papers, MS-Papers-0083-487 p.41) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-676 |
To [Leonard Horner?] 25 June 1843
Summary
Sends notes on volcanic islands for LH to read and return.
[Letter could be an inaccurate contemporary copy to which the copyist interpolated details, or a forgery. The address "Down House Orpington Kent" occurs nowhere else.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Leonard Horner |
Date: | 25 June 1843 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.31) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-677 |
To Smith, Elder, and Company 29 June [1843]
Summary
Requests information as to means of sending two pamphlets to a professor in the United States.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Smith, Elder & Co |
Date: | 29 June [1843] |
Classmark: | Kenneth W. Rendell (dealer) (1990) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-677A |
To B. W. Hawkins [c. 1 October 1843]
Summary
Discusses poor impression of plates [for Reptiles by Thomas Bell].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins |
Date: | [c. 1 Oct 1843] |
Classmark: | Dartmouth College Library (MSS 843900.3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-679 |
To Henry Colburn 4 July [1843]
Summary
Offers to pay for use of plate of map of S. America and for three woodcuts, for German edition of Journal of researches [1844].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Colburn |
Date: | 4 July [1843] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-680 |
To Ernst Dieffenbach 4 July [1843]
Summary
CD gratified that ED wants to translate his Journal. Will send a copy of Coral reefs, which contains a fuller treatment of topic. Perhaps ED would insert a note to this effect. Can lend woodcuts from Coral reefs if ED wants. CD will send a few corrections; he wants to amend way he criticised Agassiz’s glacier theory.
He is also enclosing a questionnaire concerning differences between races or varieties and species, about which he intends to publish sometime.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Dieffenbach |
Date: | 4 July [1843] |
Classmark: | Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt (Nachlass Künzel Br./3/VII/1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-680A |
To G. R. Waterhouse 8 July 1843
Summary
Testimonial letter for GRW for position at British Museum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Robert Waterhouse |
Date: | 8 July 1843 |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Library MSS WAT) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-681 |
To Ernst Dieffenbach 19 July [1843]
Summary
Says Colburn will allow German publisher to use copperplate and woodcuts [for Journal of researches]. Has been delayed in corrections owing to death of a relative [Josiah Wedgwood II].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Dieffenbach |
Date: | 19 July [1843] |
Classmark: | Historical Society of Pennsylvania (Gratz collection, case 12, box 7) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-682 |
To G. R. Waterhouse [26 July 1843]
Summary
Classification consists of grouping beings according to descent from common stocks. Analogies are resemblances between forms not inherited from common stocks. Neither number of species nor grade of organisation should be considered in classification. Admits that caution is necessary in admitting a few species to form a group of rank equal to one containing many species.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Robert Waterhouse |
Date: | [26 July 1843] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 68 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-684 |
To G. R. Waterhouse [31 July 1843]
Summary
Has no objection to uniting Monotremata and other marsupials but would object to doing so solely on ground that Monotremata consists of only two species. Members of a natural group need not share common character so long as they are linked with those which do. Believes that if every organism that ever lived were collected, a perfect series would be presented. What are reasons that unite Aptera and Diptera?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Robert Waterhouse |
Date: | [31 July 1843] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 69 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-685 |
To Ernst Dieffenbach 15 August [1843]
Summary
CD sends off his notes [corrections and additions to his Journal of researches] which he hopes ED will introduce [in German translation].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Dieffenbach |
Date: | 15 Aug [1843] |
Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 574 11–13 November 1965) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-689 |
To J. S. Henslow [2 September 1843]
Summary
Tells how W. Kemp found the seeds of Atriplex, which Lindley sent to JSH for identification.
Asks about monstrous plant mentioned by Lindley [see 690].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | [2 Sept 1843] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: A8–10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-691 |
To William Kemp [8 September 1843]
Summary
Seeds sent by Kemp have germinated and been identified by Lindley as Rumex acetosella and an Atriplex which has been sent on to J. S. Henslow.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Kemp |
Date: | [8 Sept 1843] |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/23) (gift of Ruth Cramond and David Cramond) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-691F |
To W. D. Fox [4 September 1843]
Summary
Comments on his visit to N. Wales and the evidence of glaciation, of which he feels certain.
His marine theory [of the parallel roads of Glen Roy] has revived after Louis Agassiz’s "ice work" knocked it on the head.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | [4 Sept 1843] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 67) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-692 |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle [late August 1843]
Summary
Sends some examples of Gentiana that he thinks may shed light on the origin of double flowers. Since specimens grew in sterile soil their double flowering cannot be attributed to excess food. CD advances the hypothesis that some change in natural conditions causes sterility, which then causes compensatory development of petals, the organs closest in morphology to those whose functions have been checked.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
Date: | [late Aug 1843] |
Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, no. 36, 9 September 1843, p. 628 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-693 |
To John Edward Davis 15 September [1843]
Summary
Thanks him for specimens collected.
Comments on JED’s voyage [on H.M.S. Terror, 1839–43].
Mentions activities of old Beagle crew.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Edward Davis |
Date: | 15 Sept [1843] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 374 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-695 |
To Charles Lyell [15 or 22 September 1843]
Summary
Mentions expected birth of child [Henrietta Emma].
BAAS meeting.
Comments on letters from G. R. Waterhouse and William Lonsdale.
Describes survival of apparently "fossil" seeds sent by W. Kemp.
Is at work on MS [of Volcanic islands].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [15 or 22] Sept 1843 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.32) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-696 |
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Kemp, William | (10) |
Dieffenbach, Ernst | (5) |
Henslow, J. S. | (5) |
Smith, Elder & Co | (5) |
Waterhouse, G. R. | (5) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Kemp, William | (10) |
Dieffenbach, Ernst | (5) |
Henslow, J. S. | (5) |
Smith, Elder & Co | (5) |
Waterhouse, G. R. | (5) |
Darwin, S. E. | (4) |
Fox, W. D. | (3) |
Unidentified | (3) |
Baxter, W. W. | (2) |
Baxter, William | (2) |
Geological Society of London | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Lyell, Charles | (2) |
Mantell, G. A. | (2) |
Woodward, S. P. | (2) |
Colburn, Henry | (1) |
Covington, Syms | (1) |
Cresy, Edward, Jr | (1) |
Darwin, Emma | (1) |
Davis, J. E. | (1) |
FitzRoy, Robert | (1) |
Gardeners’ Chronicle | (1) |
Gray, J. E. | (1) |
Hawkins, B. W. | (1) |
Holland, Edward | (1) |
Hooker, W. J. | (1) |
Horner, Leonard | (1) |
Jackson, Julian | (1) |
Lindley, John | (1) |
Maclaren, Charles | (1) |
Owen, Richard | (1) |
Royal Geographical Society | (1) |
Spearman, A. Y. | (1) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
Wedgwood, Josiah, III | (1) |