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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]

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Summary

Thanks for his letter; hopes he is managing all right [at Rugby?].

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]

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Summary

Informs JW of his intention to sell his N. W. Railway shares.

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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