To Mr Folthorp of Smith, Elder & Co. [6 February 1840]
Summary
Sends MS [of Coral reefs?] to be copied.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Smith, Elder & Co |
Date: | [6 Feb 1840] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-553 |
To Charles Lyell [19 February 1840]
Summary
Remarks on his illness and treatment.
Discusses MS [of Coral reefs] and changes in his view of coral reefs since Journal of researches. Mentions C. G. Ehrenberg’s observations on coral reefs.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [19 Feb 1840] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.21) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-554 |
To Robert FitzRoy [20 February 1840]
Summary
Poor health has made him give up all geological work.
Profits on their volumes [of Narrative] seem absurdly small.
Looks back on Beagle voyage as the most fortunate circumstance in his life.
Finds marriage a great happiness.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert FitzRoy |
Date: | [20 Feb 1840] |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 117 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-555 |
To W. C. Redfield 24 February [1840]
Summary
Much interested in WCR’s paper on "Whirlwinds excited by fire" [Am. J. Sci. 36 (1839): 50–9; Edinburgh New Philos. J. 27 (1839): 369–79].
Sends a summary account of circular clouds and waterspouts formed during volcanic eruption in the Azores [S. Tillard, "Eruption of a volcano in sea off St Michael", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. (1812): 152–8].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William C. Redfield |
Date: | 24 Feb [1840] |
Classmark: | Yale University: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Letters to William C. Redfield vol. 2 Scientific 1831-41 (z117 00151 2) pp. 335–8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-556 |
To Richard Owen 24 [February 1840]
Summary
Asks RO whether he has any MS [of Fossil Mammalia, no. 4] ready and to see that the plates are finished.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Owen |
Date: | 24 [Feb 1840] |
Classmark: | The Royal College of Surgeons of England (MS0025/1/5/11) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-557 |
To Benjamin Silliman 26 February 1840
Summary
Asks that a letter on tornados be forwarded to W. C. Redfield. Hopes Silliman received a copy of Journal of Researches.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Benjamin Silliman, Sr |
Date: | 26 Feb 1840 |
Classmark: | Gallery of History (dealers) (4 December 1996) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-557F |
To David Milne 20 [February 1840]
Summary
About earthquakes: the shock of February 1835 in Chile; possible connection between shocks occurring coincidentally in different parts of the world, and between earthquakes and the weather; DM’s collection of accounts of earthquakes in Scotland.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | David Milne Home |
Date: | 20 [Feb 1840] |
Classmark: | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Charles E. Mudie Collection, 1816–1897: Correspondence Post-1650 MS 0112) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-560 |
To Robert Fitzroy [20 February 1840]
Summary
Cancelled. Same as To Robert FitzRoy [20 February 1840]. Dated 21 [May 1840], in first edition of the printed Calendar, but cancelled before the second edition.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert FitzRoy |
Date: | [20 Feb 1840] |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 117 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-569 |
To Leonard Jenyns [27 February 1840]
Summary
Has been unwell. Publication of two numbers [of Zoology] has been delayed. Thought first Fish number good.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
Date: | [27 Feb 1840] |
Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-558 |
Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
Blomefield, Leonard | (1) |
FitzRoy, Robert | (2) |
Jenyns, Leonard | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Milne Home, David | (1) |
Owen, Richard | (1) |
Redfield, W. C. | (1) |
Silliman, Benjamin, Sr | (1) |
Smith, Elder & Co | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
FitzRoy, Robert | (2) |
Blomefield, Leonard | (1) |
Jenyns, Leonard | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |