From John Higgins 27 July 1852
Summary
Explains the effects of the falling prices of wheat and cattle on the rents from CD’s and his sister Susan Elizabeth Darwin’s farms.
Author: | John Higgins |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 July 1852 |
Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/2/2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1484F |
To John Higgins 29 July [1852]
Summary
Thanks JH for his exposition of the effects of falling grain and lifestock prices on farm income.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Higgins |
Date: | 29 July [1852] |
Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/2/3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1484G |
From John Higgins 31 July 1852
Summary
Asks for more information about CD’s idea of a ‘more permanent arrangement’ with his tenant.
Explains the drawback of a lease or a corn rent.
Author: | John Higgins |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 July 1852 |
Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/2/5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1484H |
To John Higgins 2 August [1852]
Summary
Discusses rent reduction and possibility of a lease.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Higgins |
Date: | 2 Aug [1852] |
Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/2/6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1485 |
To George Ransome 5 August [1852]
Summary
Forwards an order for £1 1s in response to a circular from Ipswich Museum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Ransome |
Date: | 5 Aug [1852] |
Classmark: | Yale University Medical Historical Library, Harvey Cushing / John Hay Whitney Medical Library (William Finkelstein autograph collection 1747–1979 (MS 19th cent+) vol. 2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1485F |
To W. E. Darwin 27 August [1852]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 27 Aug [1852] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1486 |
To George Robert Waterhouse 8 September [1852]
Summary
Knows no one in Buenos Aires. Suggests sites in South America where Auguste Bravard can find fossils.
Ray Society has delayed distribution [of Living Cirripedia (1851)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Robert Waterhouse |
Date: | 8 Sept [1852] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1487 |
To Josiah Wedgwood III 21 October [1852]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Josiah Wedgwood, III |
Date: | 21 Oct [1852] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.10: 17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1488 |
To W. D. Fox 24 [October 1852]
Summary
News of his health; has been well of late, but cannot stand excitement. Hereditary weakness is another of his bugbears.
At work on cirripedes – "I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 24 [Oct 1852] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 81) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1489 |
To Josiah Wedgwood III 20 November 1852
Summary
A statement of payments made by trustees to CD and by CD to trustees for the years 1851 and 1852.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Josiah Wedgwood, III |
Date: | 20 Nov 1852 |
Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 1019) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1490 |
To George Johnston 23 November 1852
Summary
Recommends GJ for Government pension.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Johnston |
Date: | 23 Nov 1852 |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1491 |
To J. D. Dana 25 November [1852]
Summary
Thanks JDD for information.
Discusses Acasta sporillus.
Comments on review of first volume of Living Cirripedia [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 14 (1852): 125–7].
Asks JDD to examine Lerneidae.
Will read with interest the geographical discussion of Crustacea when JDD’s volume [Crustacea (1852–5)] appears. John Lubbock will purchase a copy.
Discusses error in Living Cirripedia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Dwight Dana |
Date: | 25 Nov [1852] |
Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 43) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1492 |
To Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet 17 December [1852]
Summary
At request of Edward Forbes sends vol. 1 of Living Cirripedia and vol. 1 of Fossil Cirripedia.
Calls attention to sexual relations of Ibla and Scalpellum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet |
Date: | 17 Dec [1852] |
Classmark: | Ripon College, Lane Library |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1493 |
To John Higgins 18 December [1852]
Summary
Discusses his account. Mentions the rent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Higgins |
Date: | 18 Dec [1852] |
Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/58) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1494 |
To Albany Hancock 25 December [1852]
Summary
Discusses capacity of some cirripedes to bore into rock.
Mentions Alcippe specimens borrowed from AH.
Relation of sexes in Ibla and Scalpellum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albany Hancock |
Date: | 25 Dec [1852] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1495 |
To J. D. Hooker [April 1852]
Summary
Questions on variation in nature: taxa varying in one region but not another. Variation between vs within species. Rarity of variation in important organs within a species. G. R. Waterhouse’s views on variation in highly developed organs, which CD relates to variation in rudimentary organs.
Asks for cases of obligate self-fertilising plants.
[CD annotation proposes using the Steudel Nomenclator botanicus (1821–4) to determine if variable species occur in genera with many species.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [Apr 1852] |
Classmark: | DAR 107: 66–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1496 |
To Henry Norton Shaw, Secretary, Royal Geographical Society 17 May [1852]
Summary
Asks for catalogue and latest number of the Journal [of the Royal Geographical Society].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Norton Shaw; Royal Geographical Society |
Date: | 17 May [1852] |
Classmark: | Royal Geographical Society |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1482 |
To William Parsons, earl of Rosse, Chairman of the Committee of Papers, Royal Society 16 March [1852]
Summary
Referee’s report on paper by Daniel Sharpe ["On foliation and cleavage", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 142 (1852): 445–62].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Parsons, 3d earl of Rosse, Lord Rosse, Lord Oxmantown; Royal Society of London |
Date: | 16 Mar [1852] |
Classmark: | The Royal Society (RR2: 226) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-840 |
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Dana, J. D. | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
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Hyndman, G. C. | (1) |
Johnston, George | (1) |
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