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 |
To W. D. Fox 10 August [1853]
Summary
Thanks WDF for writing so soon after his misfortunes, and again expresses sympathy.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 10 Aug [1853] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 85) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1527 |
To C. S. Bate 30 August [1853]
Summary
Sends thanks for recent specimen, which gave him conclusive evidence that Verruca acts only on calcareous rocks.
Asks for a reference on carbonic acid.
Is glad CSB progresses in research on spider-like Crustacea.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Spence Bate |
Date: | 30 Aug [1853] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1528 |
To J. D. Hooker [9 October 1853]
Summary
Detailed response to MS of introductory essay to [The botany of the Antarctic voyage, pt II] Flora Novae-Zelandiae [1853–5]. CD will curse JDH when, in a year or two, he is at his species book, for "having put so many hostile facts so confoundedly well".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [9 Oct 1853] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 149 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1529 |
To John William Lubbock 6 September [1853]
Summary
Will give his support to a school for the poor to be a memorial to the late Sir John Lubbock.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John William Lubbock, 3d baronet |
Date: | 6 Sept [1853] |
Classmark: | The Royal Society (LUB: D18) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1530 |
To George Johnston 6 September 1853
Summary
Thanks for rare Balanus specimens. Asks about their source.
Comments on GJ’s book [Terra Lindisfarnensis (1853)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Johnston |
Date: | 6 Sept 1853 |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1531 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 September [1853]
Summary
Further response to MS of introductory essay to Flora Novae-Zelandiae.
Disbelieving in permanence of species has made little difference to CD in his barnacle work.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 25 Sept [1853] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 150 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1532 |
To J. D. Dana 27 September [1853]
Summary
Admires JDD’s work on Crustacea, corals, and geology.
Commends young John Lubbock to his attention. Hopes JDD can give him encouragement; if he can resist his "great wealth, business, and rank, he may do good work in Natural History".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Dwight Dana |
Date: | 27 Sept [1853] |
Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 43) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1533 |
To J. D. Dana 10 October [1853]
Summary
Thanks JDD for copy of his Crustacea [1852–5]
and D. D. Owen’s Report [of a geological survey of Wisconsin, etc. (1852)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Dwight Dana |
Date: | 10 Oct [1853] |
Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 43) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1534 |
To J. D. Hooker 10 [October 1853]
Summary
Returning JDH’s MS and books.
Reading Mrs Gaskell’s Ruth [1853].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 10 [Oct 1853] |
Classmark: | Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (1984) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1535 |
To J. W. Lubbock 11 October [1853]
Summary
Gives his opinion on some difficulties that have arisen in connection with the establishment of the school for the poor at Down.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John William Lubbock, 3d baronet |
Date: | 11 Oct [1853] |
Classmark: | The Royal Society (LUB: D19) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1536 |
To J. A. H. de Bosquet 13 October [1853]
Summary
Discusses publication of Fossil Cirripedia.
Comments on paper by JAHdeB ["Les crustacés fossiles du terrain Crétacé du Limbourg", Verh. Uitg. Comm. Geol. Beschrijving & Kaart Ned. 2 (1854): 11–137].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet |
Date: | 13 Oct [1853] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 128 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1537 |
To Syms Covington 21 October 1853
Summary
Comments on SC’s trip to the gold diggings. CD is most interested in Australia and reads every book about it that he can find. Sends news of former Beagle shipmates FitzRoy, Sulivan, Mellersh, and of Fuegia [Basket].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Syms Covington |
Date: | 21 Oct 1853 |
Classmark: | Sydney Mail, 9 August 1884, p. 254 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1538 |
From J. D. Hooker [4 November 1853]
Summary
Royal Society votes its Royal Medal for 1853 to CD. JDH reports the debate and vote at the Royal Society Council.
Honoured for Coral reefs
and Cirripedia.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [4 Nov 1853] |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 186–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1539 |
To J. D. Hooker 5 November [1853]
Summary
Edward Sabine’s official letter announcing CD’s receipt of Royal Society Medal left him cold. JDH’s informal one moved him.
Applauds JDH for supporting John Lindley.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 5 Nov [1853] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 125 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1540 |
To John Higgins 2–3 December [1853]
Summary
Arranges meeting. Discusses his account.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Higgins |
Date: | 2–3 Dec [1853] |
Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/66) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1541 |
To J. D. Dana 6 December [1853]
Summary
Responds to JDD’s objections to his views on the three pairs of appendages in larvae of cirripedes. Reports observations which confirm his views.
Gives his confidential opinion of A. White, C. S. Bate, T. Bell, and W. Baird.
Interested in JDD’s observation that Crustacea are not most developed in the tropics. If JDD ever works it out either in number of species or rank, CD would be glad to have result.
Comments on article by Henri Milne-Edwards ["Crustacés", Ann. Sci. Nat. (Zool.) 18 (1852): 109–66].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Dwight Dana |
Date: | 6 Dec [1853] |
Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 43) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1542 |
To J. A. H. de Bosquet 24 December 1853
Summary
Comments on MS of JAHdeB’s work ["Crustacés fossiles du Limbourg" (1854)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet |
Date: | 24 Dec 1853 |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 129 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1543 |
To W. E. Darwin 1 March [1853]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 1 Mar [1853] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1639 |
To Edward Cresy 29 April [1853]
Summary
Discusses installation of watering system. Sent question to Gardeners’ Chronicle but, through EC’s kindness, superfluously.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
Date: | 29 Apr [1853] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 310 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1677 |
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