From [Mr Edwards?] [before end of 1839?]
Summary
Reports on a setter puppy born of apparently pure pointer parents. Any cross must have been far back.
| Author: | [–] Edwards |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before end of 1839?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 163: 4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13803 |
From Susan Darwin [c. 24 October 1839]
Summary
Gives some information on Darwin family history.
| Author: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [c. 24 Oct 1839] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.11: 25 (on display at Down House in 1991) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-472 |
From G. R. Waterhouse [1839 – 10 February 1840]
Summary
Sends John Blackwall’s book [Researches in zoology (1834)]. Discusses his reasons for doubting that there are any marsupials in Java or Sumatra.
| Author: | George Robert Waterhouse |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1839 – 10 Feb 1840] |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 295 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-475 |
From J. M. Herbert 13 January [1839]
Summary
Sends congratulations on CD’s engagement, with a gift.
| Author: | John Maurice Herbert |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Jan [1839] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 168 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-487 |
From Thomas Evans Blackwell 26 January 1839
Summary
A newly-elected Fellow returns the obligation to be signed upon entering the Geological Society.
| Author: | Thomas Evans Blackwell |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Jan 1839 |
| Classmark: | Geological Society of London (GSL/L/R/4/121) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-494 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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]
Summary
[Note forwarding 503.]
Lord Fitzwilliam’s gardener does not believe in hybrid ferns.
| Author: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [c. 14 Apr 1839] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 63v |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-505 |
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 |
From Richard Sutton Ford 6 May 1839
Summary
Answers to [Questions about breeding].
| Author: | Richard Sutton Ford |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 May 1839 |
| Classmark: | DAR 186: 44 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-509 |
From Robert FitzRoy [2 or 16 June 1839]
Summary
Has not yet had time to read CD’s Journal of researches attentively. He is sure there is no expression referring to himself personally that he could wish were not in it.
| Author: | Robert FitzRoy |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [2 or 16] June 1839 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 144 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-516 |
From William Buckland 7 June 1839
Summary
Acknowledges receipt of Journal of researches.
| Author: | William Buckland |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 June 1839 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 176 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-518 |
From Richard Owen 11 June 1839
Summary
Thanks CD effusively [for Journal of researches] – "the most delightful book in my collection".
| Author: | Richard Owen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 June 1839 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 183 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-519 |
From William Henry Fitton 13 June 1839
Summary
Thanks CD for Journal of researches. Praises its "want of pretension"; "the Geology seems … to be excellent – and a good part of it new".
| Author: | William Henry Fitton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 June 1839 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 178 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-520 |
From William Lonsdale 15 June 1839
Summary
Acknowledges Journal of researches.
| Author: | William Lonsdale |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 June 1839 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 182 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-521 |
From Robert FitzRoy 20 June [1839]
Summary
Robert Brown has mistreated Capt. P. P. King by holding back for nine years the plants collected on King’s voyage of the Adventure and Beagle.
| Author: | Robert FitzRoy |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 June [1839] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 147 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-522 |
From William Herbert [c. 27 June 1839]
Summary
Rejects necessity of outbreeding and any general law of reversion.
Describes further experiments with Hippeastrum showing greater fertility with foreign pollen than with individual’s own pollen or with pollen from another individual of same species.
Does not believe CD’s questions about reversion can be answered in present state of knowledge.
| Author: | William Herbert, dean of Manchester |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [c. 27 June 1839] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 67 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-524 |
| Blackwell, T. E. | (1) |
| Buckland, William | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (6) |
| Darwin, S. E. | (1) |
| De Salis, W. A. F. | (1) |
| Edwards, [–] | (1) |
| Elie de Beaumont, Léonce | (1) |
| Embury, George | (1) |
| Fitton, W. H. | (1) |
| FitzRoy, Robert | (3) |
| Ford, R. S. | (1) |
| Hartmann, C. F. A. | (1) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (2) |
| Herbert, J. M. | (1) |
| Herbert, William | (1) |
| Humboldt, Alexander von | (1) |
| Irvine, Andrew | (1) |
| Lonsdale, William | (1) |
| Malcolmson, J. G. | (5) |
| Owen, Richard | (1) |
| Rose, C. B. | (1) |
| Silliman, Benjamin, Jr | (1) |
| Silliman, Benjamin, Sr | (1) |
| Smith, Andrew | (1) |
| Tollet, George | (1) |
| Waterhouse, G. R. | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (6) |
| Whewell, William | (1) |
| Yarrell, William | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Hamilton, W. J. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (38) |
| Darwin, Emma | (6) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (6) |
| Malcolmson, J. G. | (5) |
| FitzRoy, Robert | (3) |
