To Josiah Wedgwood III [20? August 1847]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Josiah Wedgwood, III |
Date: | [20? Aug 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.10: 14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1042 |
To J. D. Hooker [4 August 1847]
Summary
Wants to go over remainder of species sketch when he sees JDH.
Urges JDH to go to Scotland.
Pleased JDH works on geographical distribution of Van Diemen’s Land flora.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [4 Aug 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 100 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1105 |
To J. D. Hooker [12 August 1847]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [12 Aug 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 104 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1106 |
To Bernhard Studer 13 August [1847]
Summary
Invites BS to visit Down. Advises him to call on Daniel Sharpe. Suggests he see the work of the Ordnance Survey in Wales.
Offers to lend him Murchison’s The Silurian system [3 vols. (1839)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Bernhard Studer |
Date: | 13 Aug [1847] |
Classmark: | Burgerbibliothek Bern, Bern, Switzerland |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1107 |
To J. F. Royle 14 August [1847]
Summary
CD thanks JFR for remembering about the work he wanted to borrow [Trans. Agric. & Hortic. Soc. India].
Does JFR have Ambrose Blacklock, Treatise on sheep [1838]?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Forbes Royle |
Date: | 14 Aug [1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 401 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1108 |
To Josiah Wedgwood III 14 August [1847]
Summary
Sends a letter for JW to forward to Charles Stokes concerning the purchase of Leeds and Bradford railway shares for Emma Darwin’s trust fund.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Josiah Wedgwood, III |
Date: | 14 Aug [1847] |
Classmark: | Alan Wedgwood (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1108F |
To J. D. Hooker [18 August 1847]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [18 Aug 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 102 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1110 |
To H. T. De la Beche 19 August [1847]
Summary
Bernhard Studer has been at Down. Studer will not be able to join HDelaB’s Ordnance Survey working party.
CD is glad to hear about very old rocks under Silurians. "There is something grand and mysterious at these depths."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Thomas De la Beche |
Date: | 19 Aug [1847] |
Classmark: | National Museum of Wales, Department of Natural Sciences (De la Beche) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1111 |
To Josiah Wedgwood III [22 August? 1847]
Summary
Writes concerning Charles Stokes’s purchase of stock in the Leeds and Bradford Guaranteed Railway.
Is glad that JW III is settled for life at Leith Hill Place.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Josiah Wedgwood, III |
Date: | [22 Aug? 1847] |
Classmark: | Alan Wedgwood (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1111F |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Wedgwood, Josiah, III | (3) |
De la Beche, H. T. | (1) |
Royle, J. F. | (1) |
Studer, Bernhard | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Wedgwood, Josiah, III | (3) |
De la Beche, H. T. | (1) |
Royle, J. F. | (1) |