To Edward Cresy [before May 1848?]
Summary
Obliged for account of change in quality of wool. "Some authors will not admit that climate has any perceptible action."
Hopes his health is re-established.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
| Date: | [before May 1848?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 303 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1545 |
To Edward Cresy [before May 1848?]
Summary
Agrees that naval expeditions to the Arctic are a waste of money. Believes Sir J. Barrow responsible. "Dr [Richard?] King is quite right in the advantage of Land Expeditions".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
| Date: | [before May 1848?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 304 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-805 |
To Daniel Sharpe 23 August [1848?]
Summary
Thanks for note.
Glad DS sticks to cleavage and foliation question. Bernhard Studer one of few to take correct view on subject.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Sharpe |
| Date: | 23 Aug [1848?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 147: 47 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-991 |
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 |
To Harriet Lubbock [December 1848–9]
Summary
Belittles the loss of a book borrowed from CD.
Acknowledges cheque in payment for purchase of microscope for John Lubbock.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Harriet Hotham; Harriet Lubbock |
| Date: | [Dec 1848–9] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.70) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1041 |
To John Thomas Quekett 7 September [1848]
Summary
Asks about collection of mollusc specimens he had lent to Richard Owen.
Asks about seeing cirripede collection of the College.
Comments on larva of Scalpellum.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Thomas Quekett; Royal College of Surgeons of England |
| Date: | 7 Sept [1848] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.62) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1114 |
To Emma Darwin [20–1 May 1848]
Summary
Reports on his father’s health, and Catherine’s. CD, himself, has been a little sick.
Hensleigh [Wedgwood] thinks he has settled the free-will question – "we have none whatsoever".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [20–1 May 1848] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 27 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1176 |
To Emma Darwin [22 May 1848]
Summary
His health not good.
Has been reading John Evelyn’s Life of Mrs Godolphin, and Mme Sévigné.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [22 May 1848] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 28 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1177 |
To Emma Darwin [23 May 1848]
Summary
Family news. Finds Shrewsbury too noisy.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [23 May 1848] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 29 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1178 |
To Emma Darwin [25 May 1848]
Summary
Anxiety about R. W. Darwin’s health.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [25 May 1848] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 30 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1179 |
To Emma Darwin [27–8 May 1848]
Summary
Has been unwell but is improving. His father also very ill.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [27–8 May 1848] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 31 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1180 |
To Emma Darwin [17 November 1848]
Summary
CD fears he must wear Emma with his unwellness and complaints.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [17 Nov 1848] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 32 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1208 |
To Maria Hooker [17 December 1848]
Summary
Returns letters [from her son, J. D. Hooker, in India].
Asks that B. H. Hodgson’s zoological pamphlets be sent to him at Athenaeum.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Maria Sarah (Maria) Turner; Maria Sarah (Maria) Hooker |
| Date: | [17 Dec 1848] |
| Classmark: | McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1209 |
To John Russell [10 July 1848]
Summary
Ask JR to advise the Queen to issue Her Royal Commission of Inquiry into the best methods of securing the improvement of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; Nassau William Senior; John Stevens Henslow; Baden Powell; Bonamy Price; Thomas Jodrell Phillips; Thomas Jodrell Phillips-Jodrell; James Heywood; Edmund Walker Head, 8th baronet; Thomas James Agar Robartes; Philip le Breton; George Nugent Grenville, 2d Baron Nugent of Carlanstown; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet; Harry Calvert, 2d baronet; Harry Verney, 2d baronet; Peter John Locke King; Henry Galgacus Redhead Yorke; Joseph Kay; Edward France Percival; Edward Horsman; Erasmus Alvey Darwin; Hensleigh Wedgwood; Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | John Russell, 1st Earl Russell |
| Date: | [10 July 1848] |
| Classmark: | Cambridge Pamphlets, Folio Series, vol. 4: CUL Cam.a.500.5/124 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1188F |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Breton, Philip le | (1) |
| Calvert, Harry | (1) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
| Grenville, G. N. | (1) |
| Head, E. W. | (1) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
| Heywood, James | (1) |
| Horsman, Edward | (1) |
| Kay, Joseph | (1) |
| King, P. J. L. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Percival, E. F. | (1) |
| Phillips, T. J. | (1) |
| Phillips-Jodrell, T. J. | (1) |
| Powell, Baden | (1) |
| Price, Bonamy | (1) |
| Robartes, T. J. A. | (1) |
| Senior, N. W. | (1) |
| Verney, Harry | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Hensleigh | (1) |
| Yorke, H. G. R. | (1) |
| Cresy, Edward, Jr | (6) |
| Darwin, Emma | (6) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (6) |
| Herschel, J. F. W. | (5) |
| Gray, J. E. | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (74) |
| Cresy, Edward, Jr | (6) |
| Darwin, Emma | (6) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (6) |
| Herschel, J. F. W. | (5) |
