From J. S. Henslow [5 November 1837 – March 1838]
Summary
Fragment glued to CD’s notes on rock specimens. The recto refers to one of CD’s specimens, the verso mentions his Keeling Island plants.
Author: | John Stevens Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [5 Nov 1837 – Mar 1838] |
Classmark: | DAR 39: 88a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-338 |
From Charles Lyell 13 February 1837
Summary
"I could think of nothing for days after your lesson on coral reefs, but of the top of submerged continents. It is all true, but do not flatter youself that you will be believed, till you are growing bald, like me, with hard work & vexation at the incredulity in the world."
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Feb 1837 |
Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell Collection Coll-203/B9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-343 |
From Charles Cardale Babington 1 July 1837
Summary
Reports on the insect specimens [collected by CD] from Australia, New Zealand, and Tierra del Fuego. Has not completed descriptions.
Author: | Charles Cardale Babington |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 July 1837 |
Classmark: | DAR 29.1: C3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-363 |
From Richard Owen [7 August 1837]
Summary
Dissected beak of Rhynchops shows no extensive innervation. But beak may nevertheless be a sensitive organ of touch as CD suggests.
Author: | Richard Owen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [7 Aug 1837] |
Classmark: | Birds 144 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-371 |
Minutes of the Board of the Treasury 25 August 1837
Summary
The Chancellor of the Exchequer and their Lordships after receiving numerous representations in support of Mr Darwin’s proposal concur in the opinion that Public Funds in aid of the Expenses should be granted as soon as he is ready to proceed in conformity with the enumerated conditions.
Author: | Secretary of the Post Office |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Aug 1837 |
Classmark: | The National Archives (TNA) (T1/4524 paper 25824) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-373A |
From Charles Lyell 29 August and 5 September 1837
Summary
Syenitic granite from Norway carried as far as Osnabruck.
Has met warm reception in Germany.
Leopold von Buch mistaken in believing that granite overlies transition rock in Norway. Granite sends veins into transition and gneiss.
Has been examining fossil shells of Crag with Heinrich Beck. Beck admits some shells are of species still living.
CL still believes Eocene, Miocene, and Pliocene are satisfactory divisions of Tertiary epoch.
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Aug and 5 Sept 1837 |
Classmark: | K. M. Lyell ed. 1881 2: 20–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-376 |
From the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury 31 August 1837
Summary
The Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury approve CD’s request for £1000 in aid of publication [of Zoology].
Author: | Secretary of the Post Office |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Aug 1837 |
Classmark: | Fossil Mammalia, pp. ii–iii |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-377 |
From Smith, Elder & Co. 12 September 1837
Summary
Suggestions are presented respecting CD’s proposed publication of his zoological work in accordance with the Government requirement.
Author: | Smith, Elder & Co |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Sept 1837 |
Classmark: | The National Archives (TNA) (T1/4524 paper 25824) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-377A |
[Francis Thornhill Baring] 11 October 1837
Summary
Their Lordships communicate their entire approval of the proposal in CD’s letter of 20 September 1837. [See 378a.]
Author: | Francis Thornhill Baring, Lord Northbrook |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Oct 1837 |
Classmark: | The National Archives (TNA) (Treasury out–letter book T 27/137 p. 322) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-381A |
From Robert FitzRoy 15 November 1837
Summary
RF declines to give an opinion on the wording of the preface to CD’s volume [Journal and remarks, vol. 3 of Narrative, published separately as Journal of researches] and refers him to a disinterested third party.
Author: | Robert FitzRoy |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Nov 1837 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 132 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-386 |
From Robert FitzRoy 16 November 1837
Summary
CD’s response [missing] comes from the heart. RF explains that CD’s preface [to Journal and remarks, vol. 3 of Narrative] offended him in not acknowledging the part RF and the other officers had in helping CD. Beagle voyage was the first on which officers could have kept any specimens they collected, but they gave preference to CD.
Author: | Robert FitzRoy |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Nov 1837 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 133 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-387 |
From Susan Elizabeth Darwin [early December 1837?]
Summary
Father says he sowed broom plants soon after house was built in 1798; these never came up. In 1835 the terrace was made; thereafter the broom sprang up.
Advice on a medicine CD is taking.
Author: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [early Dec 1837?] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.2: 226 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-390 |
From Fanny Myddelton Biddulph 14 January 1837
Summary
Apologises for delay in thanking him for the flowers. Has been too unwell to write.
Author: | Frances (Fanny) Mostyn Owen; Frances (Fanny) Myddelton Biddulph |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Jan 1837 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 57 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-340 |
From Emily Catherine Darwin 15 [January 1837]
Summary
Morning Herald had an account of CD’s 80 specimens of Mammalia and 450 birds at the Zoological Society.
John Gould has described new species in CD’s Galapagos birds.
Much interest in CD’s "Laurels".
Family news.
Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 [Jan 1837] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 142 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-341 |
From Caroline Darwin [21 February 1837]
Summary
Interested in Lyell’s address [Proc. Geol. Soc. Lond. 2 (1833–8): 479–523]. Asks what the points are on which CD and Lyell are fully agreed.
Inquires about the paper FitzRoy and CD wrote on missionaries ["Moral state of Tahiti" (1836), Collected papers 1: 19–38].
News of family.
Author: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [21 Feb 1837] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 141 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-345 |
From Elizabeth Wedgwood 10 November [1837]
Summary
Sends information about, and dates of treatment of peaty fields. Marl seems to have sunk to the natural stratum of hard white sand which lies below the peat.
Thanks for "Maer Hypothesis" ["Formation of mould" (1840), Collected papers 1: 49–53].
Author: | Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood; Josiah Wedgwood, II |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Nov [1837] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 189 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-385 |
From Catherine and Caroline Sarah Darwin [16 February 1837]
Summary
News of family and friends.
Caroline repeats story told to R. W. Darwin of FitzRoy’s feeling of obligation to Captain John White, from whom he gained release to marry Miss O’Brien.
Fanny Biddulph has had a son.
Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [16 Feb 1837] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 143 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-344 |
From the Misses Horner [17 March 1837 – 28 December 1838]
Summary
“The Botanists” and “The learned Linguists” give thanks for book and assistance.
Author: | Anne Susanna (Susan) Horner; Leonora Horner; Leonora Pertz; Joanna Baillie Horner; Frances Joanna Horner; Frances Joanna Bunbury; Katharine Murray Horner; Katharine Murray Lyell |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [17 Mar 1837 – 28 Dec 1838] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 1a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-350 |
letter | (18) |
Darwin, Caroline | (2) |
Darwin, Catherine | (2) |
FitzRoy, Robert | (2) |
Langton, Catherine | (2) |
Lyell, Charles | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (18) |
Darwin, Caroline | (2) |
Darwin, Catherine | (2) |
FitzRoy, Robert | (2) |
Langton, Catherine | (2) |