To Josiah Wedgwood III [May 1844]
Summary
Family financial matters.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Josiah Wedgwood, III |
| Date: | [May 1844] |
| Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 1028) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13855 |
From Erasmus Alvey Darwin [May 1844 – 1 October 1846]
Summary
Sends calculations of angles of elevation [of sea-bottom, for South America?].
Swale has sent Lady Willoughby’s diary, which EAD will forward to CD.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [May 1844 – 1 Oct 1846] |
| Classmark: | DAR 39: 28–30 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-727 |
From Philip de Malpas Grey-Egerton 5 May [1844]
Summary
Sends Lord Enniskillen’s account of origin of the Irish yew: transplanted from the wild; propagated by cuttings thereafter. Offspring recently raised from seed are intermediate between common and Irish [weeping] yew.
| Author: | Philip de Malpas Grey- Egerton, 10th baronet Egerton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 May [1844] |
| Classmark: | DAR 163: 6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-750 |
To Julian Jackson 23 May [1844]
Summary
Discusses a paper on the Rio Negro.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Julian Jackson; Royal Geographical Society |
| Date: | 23 May [1844] |
| Classmark: | Royal Geographical Society |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-751 |
From George Brettingham Sowerby and Edward Forbes 28 May 1844
Summary
[Recto is a list of Galapagos shells, by island, signed GBS. Verso is another list of shells in EF’s hand.]
| Author: | George Brettingham Sowerby; Edward Forbes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 May 1844 |
| Classmark: | DAR 46.2: B1–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-752 |
Document type
| letter | (5) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Egerton, P. de M. G.- | (1) |
| Forbes, Edward | (1) |
| Sowerby, G. B. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Jackson, Julian | (1) |
| Royal Geographical Society | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Josiah, III | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Egerton, P. de M. G.- | (1) |
| Forbes, Edward | (1) |
| Jackson, Julian | (1) |
