To Charles Maclaren [15 November – December 1842]
Summary
Responds to CM’s review of Coral reefs [Edinburgh New Philos. J. 34 (1843): 33–47].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Maclaren |
| Date: | [15 Nov – Dec 1842] |
| Classmark: | Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal 34 1843: 47 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-662 |
To [William Baxter or W. W. Baxter?] 8 December [1842–81]
Summary
Orders large pot of spermaceti ointment.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter; William Baxter |
| Date: | 8 Dec [1842-81] |
| Classmark: | University of Otago, Special Collections (MS 49) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11271F |
To [William Baxter or W. W. Baxter?] [1842–82?]
Summary
Orders pot of soft spermaceti ointment.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter; William Baxter |
| Date: | [1842–82?] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.536) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11313 |
To [William Baxter or W. W. Baxter?] 10 [October 1842 – April 1882]
Summary
Orders distilled water, 2 oz of camphorated spirits, and perfume.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Baxter; William Walmisley Baxter |
| Date: | 10 [Oct 1842 – Apr 1882] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13776 |
To [William Baxter or W. W. Baxter?] 24 October [1842–5 or 1853 or 1855–68?]
Summary
Sends enclosed order for two bottles [of unspecified chemical].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter; William Baxter |
| Date: | 24 Oct [1842-5, 1853 or 1855-68] |
| Classmark: | University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library (BANC MSS 74/78 z) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1768 |
To Leonard Jenyns [13? January 1842]
Summary
CD is pleased with LJ’s introduction [to Fish]. He rejoices that he persuaded LJ to undertake this work.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
| Date: | [13? Jan 1842] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-614 |
To Emma Darwin [8 March 1842]
Summary
Family news from Shrewsbury.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [8 Mar 1842] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 18 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-622 |
To Emma Darwin [13 March 1842]
Summary
News of family and of his stay at Shrewsbury.
Calculates the newly instituted income tax will mean £30 per annum.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [13 Mar 1842] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-623 |
To Emma Darwin [9 May 1842]
Summary
Is "stomachy and be-blue-devilled" because of costs of publishing [Zoology and Coral reefs]. Wonders how the remainder [of the Zoology and Geology of "Beagle"] can be published without taking £200 or £300 out of their personal funds.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [9 May 1842] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-626 |
To Leonard Jenyns [May–September 1842]
Summary
Glad to hear that LJ will repeat his notes to Gilbert White’s [Natural history of] Selborne [1843] in a separate work.
Critical of G. R. Gray’s attaching his own name to Furnarius cunicularius [in Birds, pp. 65–6]. Strickland’s nomenclature laws are needed to check egoism.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
| Date: | [May–Sept 1842] |
| Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-627 |
To Mary-Anne Herbert [5 May 1842]
Summary
Acknowledges Mrs H’s disappointing answer to his quest for a house in the country. Five miles from a railway station is "the length of my tether".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Mary Anne Johnes; Mary Anne Herbert |
| Date: | [5 May 1842] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-628 |
To Leonard Jenyns [9 May 1842]
Summary
Is sending fish skins and bottles off to Cambridge Philosophical Society.
Fish numbers [of Zoology], now finished, give CD satisfaction when he doubts whether he ought to have applied for Government money.
Wishes Thomas Bell would finish his part [Reptiles].
CD has just corrected last page of index of Coral reefs.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
| Date: | [9 May 1842] |
| Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-629 |
To Catherine Darwin [16 September 1842]
Summary
Emma and Doddy [W. E. Darwin] like Down. CD has met, and plans to employ, the local surgeon. "I feel sure I shall become deeply attached to Down, with a few improvements".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
| Date: | [16 Sept 1842] |
| Classmark: | DAR 153: 6 (EH 88202298) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-633 |
To Catherine Darwin [24 July 1842]
Summary
Describes the village of Down and the house they are thinking of buying.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
| Date: | [24 July 1842] |
| Classmark: | DAR 153: 7 (EH 88202299) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-637 |
To A. S. Horner [4 October 1842]
Summary
Emma recovering well from birth of third child, Mary Eleanor.
Sorry to hear Leonard Horner has been ill.
Has received high praise of Coral reefs from Lyell.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Anne Susanna Lloyd; Anne Susanna Horner |
| Date: | [4 Oct 1842] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.11: 1 (EH 88206053) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-648 |
To [William Baxter or W. W. Baxter?] 2 [October 1842 – April 1882]
Summary
Requests some carbonate of ammonia.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter; William Baxter |
| Date: | 2 [Oct 1842 - Mar 1882] |
| Classmark: | University of Rochester Libraries, Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation (tipped into a copy of Insectivorous plants (QH 9.9 I59m)) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8132 |
To Charles Edward and Mary Kingford Mudie 10 December [1842–5 or 1855–68]
Summary
Declines invitation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Edward Mudie; Mary Kingsford Pawling; Mary Kingsford Mudie |
| Date: | 10 Dec [1842-5 or 1855-68] |
| Classmark: | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Charles E. Mudie Collection, 1816–1897: Correspondence, B29) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13828 |
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