Notes on marriage [July 1838]
Summary
Published as an appendix to vol. 2 of the Correspondence; see https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/tags/about-darwin/family-life/darwin-marriage. Debates with himself the pros and cons of marriage. Considers plans for future.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [July 1838] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-420 |
From Francis Walker 6 July [1838]
Summary
Thanks CD for suggestions for improving his descriptions of species by indicating localities. With few exceptions the Chalcidites of South America and Australia are remarkably like European species.
Author: | Francis Walker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 July [1838] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 293 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-421 |
From J. P. S. de Grateloup 18 July 1838
Summary
Sends to CD, as Secretary of the Geological Society, his work on fossil shells ["Mémoire sur les coquilles fossiles", Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux 10 (1838): 92–152].
Author: | Jean Pierre Sylvestre de Grateloup |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 July 1838 |
Classmark: | Geological Society of London (GSL/L/R/4/5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-421A |
To Thomas Spring Rice [before 7 July 1838]
Summary
Express their concern that the offer for sale to the British Museum, by G. A. Mantell and Thomas Hawkins, of two valuable collections, has been declined.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; William Buckland; Adam Sedgwick; John Phillips; William Whewell; Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st baronet; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet; Charles Stokes; William John Hamilton; Edward Stanley; Richard Owen; William Clift; Charles Babbage; John Bostock; Peter Mark Roget; John Taylor; Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, 2d Marquess of Northampton; William John Broderip |
Addressee: | Thomas Spring Rice |
Date: | [before 7 July 1838] |
Classmark: | House of Commons papers; accounts and papers, 1837/38, XXXVI, 307 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-421F |
letter | (4) |
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Babbage, Charles | (1) |
Bostock, John | (1) |
Broderip, W. J. | (1) |
Buckland, William | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Spring Rice, Thomas | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Babbage, Charles | (1) |
Bostock, John | (1) |
Broderip, W. J. | (1) |
Buckland, William | (1) |
Clift, William | (1) |
Compton, S. J. A. | (1) |
Grateloup, J. P. S. de | (1) |
Hamilton, W. J. | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Murchison, R. I. | (1) |
Owen, Richard | (1) |
Phillips, John | (1) |
Roget, P. M. | (1) |
Sedgwick, Adam | (1) |
Spring Rice, Thomas | (1) |
Stanley, Edward | (1) |
Stokes, Charles | (1) |
Taylor, John | (1) |
Walker, Francis | (1) |
Whewell, William | (1) |