To A. Y. Spearman 4 February 1839
Summary
Submits the account of Smith, Elder & Co. for the third number of part two and second number of part three of the Zoology.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Young Spearman, 1st baronet |
Date: | 4 Feb 1839 |
Classmark: | The National Archives (TNA) (T1/4524 paper 25824) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-494A |
From J. S. Henslow 7 February 1839
Summary
Writes to CD as "Brother Benedick" and sends hearty good wishes for health and happiness in marriage. They are sending a little silver candlestick for a wax taper.
Author: | John Stevens Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Feb 1839 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 167 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-495 |
To William Whewell 16 February [1839]
Summary
Asks WW to alter, before printing, the passages in WW’s Presidential Address to the Geological Society [Proc. Geol. Soc. Lond. 3 (1839): 93] which pointedly allude to the delay in publication of CD’s Beagle journal; they might annoy FitzRoy, who, as Captain, has a right to first use of the papers of all officers on board.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Whewell |
Date: | 16 Feb [1839] |
Classmark: | Trinity College Library, Cambridge (Add c 88: 4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-496 |
From Andrew Irvine 7 March 1839
Summary
Supports John Lawrance’s application to become a fellow of the Geological Society.
Author: | Andrew Irvine |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Mar 1839 |
Classmark: | Geological Society of London (GSL/L/R/4/165) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-496A |
To William Lonsdale [27 April 1839 or earlier]
Summary
Returns Whewell’s presidential address to the Geological Society of London (Whewell 1839), and suggests that ‘rules’ be changed to ‘customs’.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Lonsdale |
Date: | [27 Apr 1839 or earlier] |
Classmark: | University Archives (dealers) (3 March 2021, lot 73) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-496F |
To William Lonsdale [8 March 1839]
Summary
Has finished earthquake paper ["Volcanic phenomena in South America" (1840), Collected papers 1: 53–86]. Gives instructions about a woodcut. There should be an outline map.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Lonsdale |
Date: | [8 Mar 1839] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-497 |
From Andrew Smith 16 March 1839
Summary
Sends his congratulations and best wishes on CD’s marriage.
Author: | Andrew Smith |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Mar 1839 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 172 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-498 |
To the Librarian of the Royal Geographical Society [19 March 1839]
Summary
Formal request for F. Lutké’s charts of the Caroline Islands and any charts by Beechey of the Lagoon Islands [Ellice Islands] that the Society might possess.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Royal Geographical Society |
Date: | [19 Mar 1839] |
Classmark: | Royal Geographical Society |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-499 |
From Robert FitzRoy [20 March 1839]
Summary
Has objected to loading Narrative with advertisements, but thinks CD’s Zoology and Geology might be advertised. Mentions other details of the final stages of publication.
Author: | Robert FitzRoy |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [20 Mar 1839] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 146 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-500 |
To William Herbert [c. 1 April 1839]
Summary
Questions on breeding of plants: variation in established versus new varieties; predominance of wild species and old varieties when crossed with newer forms; predominance of males versus females; correlations between ease of hybridisation and tendency to vary and undergo cultivation; reversion; correlations between hybridisation and geographic distribution.
In WH’s Amaryllidaceae [1837], does he intend to say crossing is inimical to fertility?
[Sent via J. S. Henslow; note to amanuensis Syms Covington.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Herbert, dean of Manchester |
Date: | [c. 1 Apr 1839] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 62 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-502 |
From William Whewell 11 April 1839
Summary
Sends a book [his translation of Goethe’s Hermann u. Dorothea] as a wedding gift.
Author: | William Whewell |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Apr 1839 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 175 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-504 |
From J. S. Henslow [c. 14 April 1839]
Author: | John Stevens Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. 14 Apr 1839] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 63v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-505 |
To William Whewell 16 April [1839]
Summary
Thanks WW for wedding gift.
Expresses admiration for his History of the inductive sciences [1837].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Whewell |
Date: | 16 Apr [1839] |
Classmark: | Trinity College Library, Cambridge (Add c 88: 6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-506 |
To the Secretary of the Geological Society of France 25 April 1839
Summary
Acknowledges, on behalf of the Geological Society, receipt of the Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, vol. 9, feuilles 29, 34.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Société géologique de France |
Date: | 25 Apr 1839 |
Classmark: | Bibliothèque municipale de Versailles (Autographe Darwin) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-507 |
From Caleb Burrell Rose 30 April 1839
Summary
Sends fee for admission to the Geological Society and a signed obligation.
Author: | Caleb Burrell Rose |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Apr 1839 |
Classmark: | Geological Society of London (GSL/L/R/4/216) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-507A |
To G. R. Gray [June–October 1839]
Summary
Asks for some Anthus skins to examine [for Birds]. Fears they may turn out to be all one species. Sends details from his notes on Falkland Island specimens.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Robert Gray |
Date: | [June–Oct 1839] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Egerton MS 2348: 235–6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-508 |
From Richard Sutton Ford 6 May 1839
Author: | Richard Sutton Ford |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 May 1839 |
Classmark: | DAR 186: 44 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-509 |
To the Secretary of the American Philosophical Society 23 May 1839
Summary
As Secretary of the Geological Society of London, CD formally expresses thanks for the American Philosophical Society’s Proceedings, vol. 1, no. 6.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | American Philosophical Society. |
Date: | 23 May 1839 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.16) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-511 |
To Gideon Algernon Mantell 23 May 1839
Summary
Writes, as Secretary of the Geological Society, to thank GAM for his presents, a slab of anthracite with plant impressions (from Philadelphia) and some fossils from Cornwall.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gideon Algernon Mantell |
Date: | 23 May 1839 |
Classmark: | Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Mantell papers, fMS-Papers-0083-465) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-511A |
To A. Y. Spearman 27 May 1839
Summary
Presents the account of Smith, Elder & Co. for the now published second and third numbers of the first part of the Zoology.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Young Spearman, 1st baronet |
Date: | 27 May 1839 |
Classmark: | The National Archives (TNA) (T1/4524 paper 25824) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-512A |
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