To Susan Darwin 2 December 1843
Summary
Thanks SD for some furniture. Describes arrangement of furnishing at Down and work carried out on the grounds. Children are "very full of their approaching lessons".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Dec 1843 |
| Classmark: | DAR 154: 87 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-719 |
To William Kemp 7 December [1843]
Summary
Has sent WK’s paper to the Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Kemp 1844).
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Kemp |
| Date: | 7 Dec [1843] |
| Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/25) (gift of Ruth Cramond and David Cramond) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-720F |
To J. D. Hooker [12 December 1843]
Summary
Thanks JDH for short sketch of botanical geography of Southern Hemisphere. Comments on his own S. American collections and observations; notes other Galapagos collections.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [12 Dec 1843] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-722 |
To Charles Lyell [16 December 1843]
Summary
Description and defence of his view of the tosca in Banda Oriental, along the Rio Uruguay and at the Rio Negro, taking issue with A. D. d’Orbigny. Refers to the pumice in the Patagonian Territory. Two tables show the layered tosca formation along the Uruguay.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [16 Dec 1843] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.33) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-724 |
To Ernst Dieffenbach 16 December 1843
Summary
"You will have been sorry to have seen in the newspapers, the disturbances & fightings with the New Zealanders. – I have lately been much interested in reading your chapters on the slow decrease in numbers … of these poor people. The case appears to me very curious, especially as the decrease has commenced or continued since the introduction of the potato – the relation between the amount of population & of food is hence inverted. It would have been a case for the great Malthus to have reflected on".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Dieffenbach |
| Date: | 16 Dec 1843 |
| Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 574 11–13 November 1965) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-725 |
To Edward Holland [after 12 July 1843]
Summary
Discusses fossil bones found in Australia by Mr Isaac. Suggests they be sent to Richard Owen.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Holland |
| Date: | [after 12 July 1843] |
| Classmark: | John L. McDonald (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-970 |
To William Baxter or W. W. Baxter 21 March [1843–82]
Summary
Requests a mixture of verdigris, sal ammoniac, and lamp-black.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter; William Baxter |
| Date: | 21 Mar [1843-82] |
| Classmark: | Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (Baxter Collection, 1136/1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13772 |
To William Baxter or W. W. Baxter 16 March [1843–82]
Summary
Asks for a bottle to be filled with spirits of wine.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter; William Baxter |
| Date: | 16 Mar [1843-82] |
| Classmark: | Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (144/1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13772F |
To S. P. Woodward [14 January 1843]
Summary
Asks SPW to have obsidian specimens and book [Dieudonné de Gratet de Dolomieu, Voyage aux îles de Lipari (1783)] ready when he comes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward; Geological Society of London |
| Date: | [14 Jan 1843] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-652 |
To Emma Darwin [12–24 October 1843]
Summary
News of the Shrewsbury family. He cannot get his father to sympathise with the numbness in his finger ends or his fears of "ruin and extravagance".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [12–24 Oct 1843] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 21 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-704 |
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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) |
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| 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) |
