To C. S. Bate 7 July [1853]
Summary
Will quote CSB on discovery of Alcippe lampas.
Hopes CSB continues to look for Verruca on limestone.
Discusses use of CSB’s larvae illustrations [for Living Cirripedia].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Spence Bate |
| Date: | 7 July [1853] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1521 |
To W. D. Fox 17 July [1853]
Summary
Discusses Rugby and education in general. The enormous proportion of time spent on classics checks interest "in anything in which reasoning & observation comes into play".
Expresses shock and sympathy on learning of the deaths in WDF’s house.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 17 July [1853] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 84) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1522 |
To J. A. H. de Bosquet 17 July 1853
Summary
Discusses valves in Scalpellum. Comments on JAHdeB’s research on cirripedes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet |
| Date: | 17 July 1853 |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 127 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1523 |
To John Murray 24 July [1853]
Summary
Asks JM to forward letter [1525] to Francis Galton "the author of the very interesting volume" Murray recently published.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 24 July [1853] |
| Classmark: | DAR 249: 31 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1524 |
To Francis Galton 24 July [1853]
Summary
FG’s volume on his African expedition [Narrative of an explorer in tropical South Africa (1853)] stimulates CD to express his admiration and to hope their acquaintance can be renewed.
Describes his health and life at Down.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Galton |
| Date: | 24 July [1853] |
| Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1525 |
To W. D. Fox 29 [July 1853]
Summary
Sympathises with WDF’s tribulations.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 29 [July 1853] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 83) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1526 |
To Richard Owen 30 July [1853]
Summary
Bartholomew James Sulivan’s address is Guildford. Please to have CD’s copy [of Owen 1853] left at the Athenaeum Club or the Geological Society of London.
He and his family are in Eastbourne but the weather has been poor.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | 30 July [1853] |
| Classmark: | Onondaga County Public Library (Autograph Manuscripts collection Box 1 Folder 44) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1526F |
| letter | (7) |
| Fox, W. D. | (2) |
| Bate, C. S. | (1) |
| Bosquet, J. A. H. de | (1) |
| Galton, Francis | (1) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Fox, W. D. | (2) |
| Bate, C. S. | (1) |
| Bosquet, J. A. H. de | (1) |
| Galton, Francis | (1) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
| Owen, Richard | (1) |
