To Edward Cresy [24 June 1849]
Summary
Declines to canvass for Richard King.
Water-cure has benefited health.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
| Date: | [24 June 1849] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1238 |
To Charles Lyell [14–28 June 1849]
Summary
Mentions illness of Emma Darwin.
Comments on CL’s Second visit to the United States [1849].
His water treatment by J. M. Gully.
CD’s contribution ["Geology"] to J. W. Herschel’s Manual of scientific enquiry [(1849), Collected papers 1: 227–50].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [14–28 June 1849] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.78) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1242 |
To John Higgins 5 June [1849]
Summary
Comments on his account.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Higgins |
| Date: | 5 June [1849] |
| Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/26) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1243 |
To John Murray 7 June [1849]
Summary
CD’s vexation at the serious printer’s error in his "Geology" [Collected papers 1: 227–50].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 7 June [1849] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42153 ff.14–15) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1244 |
To John Murray 12 June [1849]
Summary
Appreciates what Murray and the printer are doing to rectify the error [transposition of pages of text in "Geology"]. But if the responsible person will be fined heavily, CD would want to "make some present".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 12 June [1849] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42153 ff.16–17) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1245 |
To J. F. W. Herschel 13 June [1849]
Summary
Thanks JFWH for the trouble he has taken to correct printing error in "Geology".
Discusses Dr Gully’s water-cure.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Frederick William Herschel, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 13 June [1849] |
| Classmark: | The Royal Society (HS6: 16) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1246 |
From J. D. Hooker 24 June 1849
Summary
Pleasure at receiving CD’s scientific letters to JDH and Hodgson.
The H. Wedgwoods’ pecuniary loss.
Condolences at CD’s father’s death.
Rajah harasses JDH’s work. Lack of supplies, rain, malarial valleys, and landslips make going difficult. Cannot get into Tibet.
"Twenty species [of plants] here [Camp Sikkim] to one there [Tierra del Fuego?] always are asking me the vexed question, ""where do we come from?""."
From observation of terraces descending to steppes and plains of India, he thinks that the Himalayas were once a grand fiord coast.
Has information CD requested on Yangsma valley. JDH’s detailed hypothesis of origin of dam there. Does not agree with CD’s interpretation.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 June 1849 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (India letters 1847–51: 187–8 JDH/1/10) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1247 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Murray, John (b) | (2) |
| Cresy, Edward, Jr | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Herschel, J. F. W. | (1) |
| Higgins, John | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Murray, John (b) | (2) |
| Cresy, Edward, Jr | (1) |
| Herschel, J. F. W. | (1) |
| Higgins, John | (1) |
