To Richard Owen 19 December [1836]
Summary
Has written to Royal College of Surgeons, exactly as RO recommended, concerning disposition of his South American fossil bones. He fixed on the British Museum, rather than Paris, to receive plaster casts, because he was on board a King’s ship. Suggests RO propose another set for Paris, where they would be more useful than at BM. Has scarcely begun unpacking his cases.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | 19 Dec [1836] |
| Classmark: | Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (GEN/D/DARWIN (C)/11) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-329 |
To Richard Owen [c. December 1837]
Summary
Sends remaining proofs of RO’s description of Toxodon [Fossil Mammalia] and a revise of first part. Will Owen want a second revise? CD has made "plenty of remarks".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | [c. Dec 1837] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.14) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-389 |
To Richard Owen 28 [December 1837]
Summary
Sends perfect revise of "Toxodon" [Fossil Mammalia] which he has read and marked.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | 28 [Dec 1837] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/209) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-395 |
To Richard Owen [28 December 1837]
Summary
CD sorry RO is not well and fears work on Macrauchenia may have contributed. Thinks new name very good. Other details concerning publication [of Zoology, pt 1, no. 1].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | [28 Dec 1837] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-396 |
To Richard Owen [1839 – April 1840]
Summary
Delighted by RO’s discussion in this sheet. RO should return revises to printer and get remaining ones.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | [1839 – Apr 1840] |
| Classmark: | Charles Hamilton (dealer) (13 June 1974) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-397 |
To Richard Owen [January 1838]
Summary
Would like to call upon RO to discuss the last engravings sent by George Scharf. CD assumes that the revise of Toxodon [see 395] was received.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | [Jan 1838] |
| Classmark: | Kenneth W. Rendell (dealer) (1990) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-399A |
To Richard Owen [15 December 1837 – 9 June 1838]
Summary
Sends RO a box of fossils from William Darwin Fox, from the Isle of Wight.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | [15 Dec 1837 – 9 June 1838] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 115 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-418F |
To Richard Owen 24 [February 1840]
Summary
Asks RO whether he has any MS [of Fossil Mammalia, no. 4] ready and to see that the plates are finished.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | 24 [Feb 1840] |
| Classmark: | The Royal College of Surgeons of England (MS0025/1/5/11) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-557 |
To Richard Owen [March? 1840]
Summary
Sends a proof title page and asks RO to send a list of plates and contents [of Fossil mammalia] to the printer, Mr Stewart.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | [Mar? 1840] |
| Classmark: | Christie’s, New York (dealers) (29 October 1993) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-559F |
To Richard Owen 25 August [1841–2]
Summary
Sends elephant tooth from Africa. Suggests it may be interesting in light of his [mistaken] memory of Cuvier’s opinion about tusk brought from Peru by Humboldt.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | 25 Aug [1841-2] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/207) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-608 |
To Richard Owen [4 February 1842]
Summary
Informs Owen of the fossil finds of F. J. Muñiz in south America.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | [4 Feb 1842] |
| Classmark: | Enns Entomology Museum, University of Missouri |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-617G |
To Richard Owen [March 1843 – 15 May 1846]
Summary
Invites the Owens to stay at Down, joining Falconer and a few others.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | [Mar 1843 – 15 May 1846] |
| Classmark: | Michael H. McHugh (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-657 |
To Richard Owen [6 March 1847]
Summary
A specimen of Machairodus offered for sale by F. J. Muñiz.
Discusses possible publication in England of paper by Muñiz describing the skeleton.
Sends pamphlet on scarlatina in the Pampas.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | [6 Mar 1847] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/192) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-938 |
To Richard Owen [21 April 1846]
Summary
Asks to visit RO to talk about mammifers of the [Rio] Plata.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | [21 Apr 1846] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.48) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-959 |
To Richard Owen 21 [June 1846]
Summary
B. J. Sulivan has just arrived with fossil bones from Patagonia. Wants to arrange meeting.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | 21 [June 1846] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/204) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-984 |
To Richard Owen [April? 1848]
Summary
Pleased at RO’s praise of Coral reefs.
Has read with very great interest RO’s "Report on the archetype" [Rep. BAAS 16 (1846): 169–340]. RO should give name to every letter or number in his woodcuts.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | [Apr? 1848] |
| Classmark: | R. S. Owen 1894, 1: 209 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-997 |
