To Josiah Wedgwood III [July 1848]
Summary
Writes about Emma’s trust account investments and calls due upon them. Sends his record and asks JW to bring it up to date.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Josiah Wedgwood, III |
| Date: | [July 1848] |
| Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 1019) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1142 |
To Edward Cresy [5 or 12 July 1848]
Summary
Has written to William Buckland, recommending EC for position.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
| Date: | [5 or 12] July 1848 |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 306 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1188 |
To J. S. Henslow 2 July [1848]
Summary
Criticises lecturing system in education and emphasis on classics. Has forgotten all his classical knowledge.
Asks JSH’s help in naming cirripedes, on which he is working. Believes he has made "some very curious points".
Expects a sixth child [Francis] in August.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | 2 July [1848] |
| Classmark: | DAR 93: A18–A20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1189 |
To S. P. Woodward 10 July 1848
Summary
Is pleased to support SPW’s application for a position in the fossil department at the British Museum.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
| Date: | 10 July 1848 |
| Classmark: | British Museum (Central Archive Staff Applications and Testimonials: S. P. Woodward CE33/710/45) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1189A |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle 13 July [1848]
Summary
Reports on the effect of potato blight in his crop.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
| Date: | 13 July [1848] |
| Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle, 22 July 1848, p. 491 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1189F |
From William Buckland 15 July [1848]
Summary
Will forward recommendation of Edward Cresy to Edwin Chadwick, but thinks there will be no further need of engineers.
| Author: | William Buckland |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 July [1848] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1190 |
To Edward Cresy [15 July 1848]
Summary
Encloses note from William Buckland [1190], stating that no appointment of surveyor is to be made. Thinks further recommendation would be unwise, but will write to Sir Henry De la Beche and [Robert?] Hutton if EC wishes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
| Date: | [15 July 1848] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 307 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1191 |
To Edward Cresy [20 July 1848]
Summary
Will speak to Richard Owen, Henry De la Beche, and Robert Hutton concerning appointment for EC.
Leaving for sea-side on Saturday.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
| Date: | [20 July 1848] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 308 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1192 |
From J. D. Hooker 24 July [1848]
Summary
Brian Hodgson reading CD’s Journal of researches with delight.
Forwarding breeding pamphlets.
JDH recommends P. S. Pallas on degeneration.
CD’s facts on sex in barnacles startling.
Hugh Falconer’s health.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 July [1848] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (India letters 1847–51: 94 JDH/1/10) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1193 |
To John Russell [10 July 1848]
Summary
Ask JR to advise the Queen to issue Her Royal Commission of Inquiry into the best methods of securing the improvement of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; Nassau William Senior; John Stevens Henslow; Baden Powell; Bonamy Price; Thomas Jodrell Phillips; Thomas Jodrell Phillips-Jodrell; James Heywood; Edmund Walker Head, 8th baronet; Thomas James Agar Robartes; Philip le Breton; George Nugent Grenville, 2d Baron Nugent of Carlanstown; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet; Harry Calvert, 2d baronet; Harry Verney, 2d baronet; Peter John Locke King; Henry Galgacus Redhead Yorke; Joseph Kay; Edward France Percival; Edward Horsman; Erasmus Alvey Darwin; Hensleigh Wedgwood; Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | John Russell, 1st Earl Russell |
| Date: | [10 July 1848] |
| Classmark: | Cambridge Pamphlets, Folio Series, vol. 4: CUL Cam.a.500.5/124 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1188F |
| letter | (10) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Breton, Philip le | (1) |
| Buckland, William | (1) |
| Calvert, Harry | (1) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Cresy, Edward, Jr | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Gardeners’ Chronicle | (1) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
| Russell, John | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
| Cresy, Edward, Jr | (3) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (2) |
| Breton, Philip le | (1) |
| Buckland, William | (1) |
