To the Admiralty 9 [May 1846]
Summary
Encloses letter and paper to be forwarded to B. J. Sulivan.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Admiralty |
Date: | 9 [May 1846] |
Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-694 |
To W. B. Carpenter [October–December 1846]
Summary
Asks for address of the artist who drew the sections exhibited by WBC at BAAS meeting in September. CD needs drawings of minute corallines, Articulata, and Mollusca.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Benjamin Carpenter |
Date: | [Oct–Dec 1846] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1001 |
To Robert FitzRoy 1 October 1846
Summary
Has just heard of RF’s return [from New Zealand]. Hopes to see him.
CD and family are well, but he is a different man in strength and energy from when he was "Flycatcher" in the Beagle.
Has just finished his book [South America].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert FitzRoy |
Date: | 1 Oct 1846 |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 119 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1002 |
To J. D. Hooker [2 October 1846]
Summary
Hopes to start looking over his species notes in about a year.
Very much enjoyed Southampton [meeting of BAAS, 9–12 Sept].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [2 Oct 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 65 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1003 |
To Charles Lyell [3 October 1846]
Summary
Discusses A. C. Ramsay’s article ["On the denudation of South Wales", Mem. Geol. Surv. G. B. 1 (1846)]. Mentions his own paper ["Volcanic phenomena in South America", Collected papers 1: 53–86]. Emphasises that sedimentary deposits are not ordinarily preserved.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [3 Oct 1846] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.50) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1004 |
To J. S. Henslow [5 October 1846]
Summary
The third and last part of the Geology [South America] will be published in a few days. Apologises for not sending JSH the other volumes.
Has attended Southampton [BAAS] meeting.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | [5 Oct 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: A15–A16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1005 |
To J. D. Hooker [6 October 1846]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [6 Oct 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 66 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1006 |
To J. D. Hooker [8 October 1846]
Summary
Can JDH bring a good book on Corallina or Nullipora of Lamarck?
CD intends writing paper on their propagation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [8 Oct 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 67 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1007 |
To A. C. Ramsay 10 October [1846]
Summary
Thanks ACR for paper and comments on it ["On the denudation of South Wales", Mem. Geol. Surv. G. B. 1 (1846): 297–335].
Sends copy of South America.
Discusses action of the sea.
Criticises ACR’s views on sudden elevation of mountain chains.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
Date: | 10 Oct [1846] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1008 |
To Joseph Beete Jukes [18 October 1846]
Summary
Knows nothing about missing fossils collected by J. L. Stokes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Beete Jukes |
Date: | [18 Oct 1846] |
Classmark: | University of Oklahoma Libraries History of Science Collections |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1010 |
To Smith, Elder & Co. [19 October 1846]
Summary
Objects to the stupid way a plate is bound into South America.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Smith, Elder & Co |
Date: | [19 Oct 1846] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.51) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1011 |
To J. D. Hooker [26 October 1846]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [26 Oct 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 68 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1012 |
To Robert FitzRoy 28 October [1846]
Summary
Has read RF’s pamphlet on New Zealand [Remarks on New Zealand (1846)]. Sympathises with his difficulties as Governor.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert FitzRoy |
Date: | 28 Oct [1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 120 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1014 |
To J. D. Hooker [18 October 1846]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [18 Oct 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 69 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1015 |
To Daniel Sharpe [1 November 1846]
Summary
Discusses foliation and cleavage. Comments on dip of cleavage laminae in mountains. Mentions views of Sedgwick and Studer. Suggests reading C. L. von Buch [Travels through Norway and Lapland (1813)] "as an amusement". Praises views of William Hopkins. Suggests reading paper by H. D. Rogers ["On cleavage of slate-strata", Edinburgh New Philos. J. 41 (1846): 422–3)]. Comments on the paper.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Sharpe |
Date: | [1 Nov 1846] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 37725: ff. 4–5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1016 |
To J. L. Stokes 3 November 1846
Summary
CD’s note to Stokes [see 940] has been forwarded to George Grey; CD fears he may be offended. Asks how it could have happened.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lort Stokes |
Date: | 3 Nov 1846 |
Classmark: | Auckland Public Library (Grey collection GL D8 (1)) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1017 |
To Daniel Sharpe [4 November 1846]
Summary
Supposes Sharpe does not want Von Buch’s tract, so sent Hopkins. Asks it be returned to CD at the Athenaeum Club.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Sharpe |
Date: | [4 Nov 1846] |
Classmark: | James Cummins, Bookseller (dealer) (December 2010) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1017F |
To J. D. Hooker [6 November 1846]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [6 Nov 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1018 |
From J. L. Stokes 6 November 1846
Summary
Is upset by what has happened [see 1017], but does not know how CD’s note reached Grey.
Author: | John Lort Stokes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Nov 1846 |
Classmark: | Auckland Public Library (Grey collection GL D8 (1)) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1019 |
To J. L. Stokes [c. 26 November 1846]
Summary
Discusses CD’s unintended insult to George Grey.
Compliments JLS on his book [Discoveries in Australia (1846)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lort Stokes |
Date: | [c. 26 Nov 1846] |
Classmark: | Sir Tom Ramsay (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1020 |
Darwin, C. R. | (81) |
Hooker, J. D. | (8) |
Forbes, Edward | (3) |
Sowerby, G. B. | (3) |
Hopkins, William | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (29) |
Darwin, C. R. | (27) |
FitzRoy, Robert | (4) |
Owen, Richard | (3) |
Blomefield, Leonard | (2) |