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To Syms Covington   9 March 1856

Summary

Thanks SC for his interesting account of the state of the colony. SC was wise to settle there where his sons have much better prospects.

Has finished his book on barnacles [1854]. Royal Medal awarded him chiefly for this work.

Asks SC whether he has observed any odd imported breeds of poultry, for his work on variation of species.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Syms Covington
Date:  9 Mar 1856
Classmark:  Sydney Mail, 9 August 1884, p. 255
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1840

Matches: 1 hit

  • … DCP-LETT-1840

To Charles Babbage   19 [February 1839 – August 1842]

Summary

Asks to be allowed to bring his sister to CB’s party "that she may see the World".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Babbage
Date:  19 [Feb 1839 - Aug 1842]
Classmark:  The British Library (Add MS 37191: 299)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-479

Matches: 12 hits

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To Robert Fitzroy   [20 February 1840]

Summary

Cancelled. Same as To Robert FitzRoy   [20 February 1840]. Dated 21 [May 1840], in first edition of the printed Calendar, but cancelled before the second edition.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Robert FitzRoy
Date:  [20 Feb 1840]
Classmark:  DAR 144: 117
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-569

Matches: 4 hits

  • … To Robert Fitzroy   [20 February 1840] …
  • … DAR 144: 117 Charles Robert Darwin London, Upper Gower St, 12 [20 Feb 1840] Robert FitzRoy …
  • … Cancelled. Same as To Robert FitzRoy [20 February 1840] . …
  • … Dated 21 [May 1840], in first edition of the printed Calendar , but cancelled before the …

To G. N. Smith   20 November [1840]

Summary

Sorry that ill health prevented sooner reply. Letter about caves at Caldy was already read by Buckland. Will examine birds’ beaks when better and present to Geological Society of London in Smith’s name.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Gilbert Nicholas Smith
Date:  20 Nov [1840]
Classmark:  Angus Carroll (private collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-580F

Matches: 9 hits

  • … To G. N. Smith   20 November [1840] …
  • … collection) Charles Robert Darwin 12 Upper Gower St 20 Nov [1840] Gilbert Nicholas Smith …
  • … to Smith (see Correspondence vol. 2, letter to G. N. Smith, [ c . 15 August 1840]). …
  • … the Geological Society of London in autumn 1840 (see Correspondence vol. 2, letter to G. …
  • … N. Smith, [ c . 15 August 1840]). The letter from …
  • … Greaves to William Buckland , dated 6 June 1840, on the discovery of the bones of birds, …
  • … had been read at the meeting of 10 June 1840 ( Proceedings of the Geological Society of …
  • … s family home in Staffordshire, on 5 June 1840 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)); CD fell …
  • … his letter to Smith of [ c. 15 August 1840] ( Correspondence vol. 2). CD had asked Smith …

To William Buckland   [November 1840 – 17 February 1841]

Summary

He encloses an unidentified paper received from R. I. Murchison the previous day.

Is unable to provide information about Dr Du Gard.

Appreciates the maps of Glen Roy sent by WB. Would welcome the opinions of WB and Louis Agassiz concerning the parallel roads but cannot give up the idea of their marine origin.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Buckland
Date:  [Nov 1840 – 17 Feb 1841]
Classmark:  Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Buckland papers, Glaciation /4 (iv))
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-641A

Matches: 11 hits

  • … To William Buckland   [November 1840 – 17 February 1841] …
  • … Charles Robert Darwin London, Upper Gower St, 12 [Nov 1840 – 17 Feb 1841] William Buckland …
  • … fellow of the Geological Society, died on 19 January 1840 ( Gentleman’s Magazine n.s.   …
  • … 14 (1840): 556). Buckland, who was president of the Geological Society, included a brief …
  • … Bibliography Buckland, William. 1840. Memoir on the evidences of glaciers in Scotland and …
  • … Read 4 and 18 November, and 2 December 1840. ] Proceedings of the Geological Society of …
  • … found in the Darwin Archive–CUL. Buckland and Agassiz visited Glen Roy together in 1840 ( …
  • … Buckland 1840 , p.  333). Agassiz’s account of his theory …
  • … at the Geological Society on 4 November 1840, was summarised in the Proceedings of the …
  • … Society of London (J.  L.  R. Agassiz 1840 , p.  332; see also Rudwick 1974 ); Buckland’s …
  • … November were also reported ( Buckland 1840 , p.  333). Buckland and Agassiz had concluded …

From David Milne   28 March 1840

Summary

Comments on CD’s paper on South American volcanoes [Trans. of the Geol. Soc. of London, 2d ser., pt 3, 5 (1840): 601–31]. Jets of steam or flame issuing from the side of a hill in Glen Almond.

Author:  David Milne Home
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  28 Mar 1840
Classmark:  Milne Home 1891, pp. 69–72
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-562F

Matches: 10 hits

  • … From David Milne   28 March 1840
  • … pp. 69–72 David Milne Home Edinburgh, York Place, 10 28 Mar 1840 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … Geol. Soc. of London , 2d ser. , pt 3, 5 (1840): 601–31]. Jets of steam or flame issuing …
  • … See Correspondence vol.  2, letter to David Milne, [19 March 1840] , which should now …
  • … be dated 20 [February 1840] (see n.  1, above). Milne discussed the evidence for the …
  • … York Place, Edinburgh, 28 th March 1840. Sir,— I have been so much occupied professionally …
  • … in 1839, and had written to CD in early 1840 ( Milne Home 1891 , p.  63; this letter has …
  • … that should now be dated 20 [February 1840] (it was published in Correspondence vol.   …
  • … 2 with the date [19 March 1840] and in Milne Home 1891 , pp.   …
  • … 67–9, with the date 20 March 1840). In the letter, CD offered to send Milne, in a week or …

To Thomas Walker   5 May [1840]

Summary

Acknowledges TW’s letter supplying him with William Kemp’s address.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Walker
Date:  5 May [1840]
Classmark:  Jim Somerville (private collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-565G

Matches: 5 hits

  • … To Thomas Walker   5 May [1840] …
  • … Society (‘ The Galashiels geological society’, Scotsman , 21 March 1840, p.  3). …
  • … Jim Somerville (private collection) Charles Robert Darwin 5 May [1840] Thomas Walker …
  • … Charles Maclaren to Thomas Walker, 30 March 1840 (this volume, Supplement). This letter …
  • … Charles Maclaren to Thomas Walker, 30 March 1840  and n.  1. CD refers to William Kemp . …

From W. C. Redfield   6 May 1840

Summary

Thanks CD for information about Captain Tillard’s account of the volcanic eruption in the Azores in 1811.

Author:  William C. Redfield
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  6 May 1840
Classmark:  Yale University: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (William C. Redfield’s outbound letter book 1835–41 (z117 00151 2), pp. 179–80)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-565H

Matches: 9 hits

  • … From W. C. Redfield   6 May 1840
  • … z117 00151 2), pp. 179–80) William C. Redfield New York 6 May 1840 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … New York State Senate, no. 64, 2 March 1840), also inscribed by Redfield, is in DAR 137.5. …
  • … vol. 2, letter to W. C. Redfield, 24 February [1840] . James Tillard’s observations on the …
  • … letter to Benjamin Silliman, 26 February 1840 ). In Oersted 1839 , Hans Christian Oersted …
  • … New York May 6 th 1840 To Charles Darwin Esqr ∣ 12 Upper Gower St. London Dear Sir Your …
  • … CD acknowledged these gifts in December 1840 (see Correspondence vol. 2, letter to W. …
  • … C. Redfield, [22 December 1840] ). There are two geological survey reports for …
  • … York dated 27 February 1839 and 24 January 1840, and inscribed by Redfield, in DAR 137.3 …

To Richard Owen   [March? 1840]

Summary

Sends a proof title page and asks RO to send a list of plates and contents [of Fossil mammalia] to the printer, Mr Stewart.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Richard Owen
Date:  [Mar? 1840]
Classmark:  Christie’s, New York (dealers) (29 October 1993)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-559F

Matches: 10 hits

  • … To Richard Owen   [March? 1840] …
  • … 29 October 1993) Charles Robert Darwin London, Upper Gower St, 12 [Mar? 1840] Richard Owen …
  • … the letter to Richard Owen, 24 [February 1840] ( Correspondence vol.  2), containing CD’s …
  • … of publication of Zoology was originally 1 March 1840, and the absence of any reference to …
  • … in the letter to Owen of 24 [February 1840] , suggest that the letter may have been …
  • … 2, letter to Leonard Jenyns, [27 February 1840] ). Stewart and Murray were the printers of …
  • … 2, letter to Richard Owen, 24 [February 1840] ). The last number of each part was issued …
  • … Fossil Mammalia was published in April 1840 ( Freeman 1977 ). Fossil Mammalia , by Richard …
  • … The ‘whole work’ to which CD refers is the 1840 publication of all the separate numbers of …
  • … Owen’s final number appeared in January 1840 ( Freeman 1977 , pp.  27, 29). Therefore, …

To John Gould   [after 1 December 1840]

Summary

Feels he cannot keep the gift of Gould’s "magnificent work" or take out a subscription now that he is a married man.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Gould
Date:  [after 1 Dec 1840]
Classmark:  Profiles in History (dealers) (12 December 2012)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-578F

Matches: 8 hits

  • … To John Gould   [after 1 December 1840] …
  • … 12 December 2012) Charles Robert Darwin 12 Upper Gower St [after 1 Dec 1840] John Gould …
  • … Bibliography Gould, John. 1840–8. The birds of Australia. 7 vols. London: the author. …
  • … 2, below). The first part of Gould’s Birds of Australia ( J. Gould 1840–8 ) was published …
  • … on 1 December 1840 ( Aust. dict. biog. ). It contained seventeen folio plates with …
  • … on 29 January 1839. The first number of J. Gould 1840–8 was based on Gould’s direct …
  • … observation of Australian birds from 1838 to 1840; prior to his trip to Australia in 1838, …
  • … on prospective subscribers to J. Gould 1840–8 , he evidently offered to take back the two …

To William Kemp   1[1] May [1840]

Summary

CD has read WK’s abstract in the Scotsman, 15 February 1840, p. 3, and asks for further details.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Kemp
Date:  1[1] May [1840]
Classmark:  Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/2) (gift of Ruth Cramond and David Cramond)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-565F

Matches: 7 hits

  • … To William Kemp   1[1] May [1840] …
  • … WK’s abstract in the Scotsman , 15 February 1840, p.  3, and asks for further details. …
  • … Cramond) Charles Robert Darwin 12 Upper Gower St, London 1[1] May [1840] William Kemp …
  • … Maclaren to Thomas Walker, 30 March 1840 (this volume, Supplement). Before conservation in …
  • … but read as May 10, 16, or 18. In 1840, 18 May fell on a Monday; after conservation the …
  • … Charles Maclaren to Thomas Walker, 30 March 1840  and n.  1. Thomas Walker . CD refers …
  • … had already read ( Scotsman , 15 February 1840, p.  3). He did not publish further on the …

To G. R. Gray   [20 November – 11 December 1840]

Summary

Thanks GRG for his gift [A list of the genera of birds (1840)] and trusts that now GRG will be able to finish John Gould’s MS for Zoology.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George Robert Gray
Date:  [20 Nov – 11 Dec 1840]
Classmark:  The British Library (Egerton MS 2348: 237–8)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-581

Matches: 6 hits

  • … To G.  R. Gray   [20 November – 11 December 1840] …
  • … Charles Robert Darwin London, Upper Gower St, 12 [20 Nov – 11 Dec 1840] George Robert Gray …
  • … his gift [ A list of the genera of birds (1840)] and trusts that now GRG will be able to …
  • … University Press. 1985–. Gray, George Robert. 1840. A list of the genera of birds, with an …
  • … Probably the first edition of Gray 1840 . A second, corrected edition was published in …
  • … that he returned to London on 14 November 1840; on 15 December he ‘Commenced last number …

To Basil Hall   15 March 1840

Summary

Discussion of the geology of Coquimbo, Chile.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Basil Hall
Date:  15 Mar 1840
Classmark:  Musée royal de Mariemont, Belgium (Aut. 1061/1)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-558F

Matches: 9 hits

  • … To Basil Hall   15 March 1840
  • … Aut. 1061/1) Charles Robert Darwin 12 Upper Gower Street, London 15 Mar 1840 Basil Hall …
  • … See, for example, Correspondence vol. 1, letter from J. G. Malcolmson, 2 January 1840 . …
  • … Archibald Constable and Co. Hall, Basil. 1840. Extracts from a journal written on the …
  • … 12 Upper Gower Street Sunday 15 th March 1840 My dear Sir I much regret, that from the …
  • … Hall has been found. According to B. Hall 1840 , p. 77, CD had been asked to comment on …
  • … CD was unwell from January to 26 March 1840 (see Correspondence vol. 2, Appendix II). …
  • … was three or four miles wide ( B. Hall 1840 , p. 75 n. ); he also published CD’s letter in …
  • … beaches at each new level ( B. Hall 1840 , pp. 76 and 77). The River Spean originates in …

To W. A. Leighton   1 December 1840

Summary

Acknowledges election as Honorary Member of Shropshire and North Wales Natural History and Antiquarian Society.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Allport Leighton
Date:  1 Dec 1840
Classmark:  Shropshire Archives (SA 6001/133/57)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-584

Matches: 5 hits

  • … To W. A. Leighton   1 December 1840
  • … Charles Robert Darwin London, Upper Gower St, 12 1 Dec 1840 William Allport Leighton …
  • … ibid. 1: 53–86) were published in the Transactions of the Geological Society of 1840. …
  • … Geological Society of London 2d ser. 5 (1840): 505–9. [ Shorter publications , pp. 124– …
  • … 12 Upper Gower St December 1 st . 1840 Sir I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of …

To the Geological Society of London   18 November [1840]

Summary

Recommends that Consul Chatfield’s communication on an earthquake in San Salvador [read 5 Feb 1840; Proc. Geol. Soc. Lond. 3 (1840): 179] not be published in Transactions.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Geological Society of London
Date:  18 Nov [1840]
Classmark:  Geological Society of London (GSL/COM/P/4/2/35)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-580

Matches: 4 hits

  • … To the Geological Society of London   18 November [1840] …
  • … Robert Darwin London, Upper Gower St, 12 18 Nov [1840] Geological Society of London …
  • … Chatfield’s communication on an earthquake in San Salvador [read 5 Feb 1840; Proc. Geol. …
  • … Soc. Lond. 3 (1840): 179] not be published in Transactions . …

To John Washington, Secretary, Royal Geographical Society   16 May 1840

Summary

Has much pleasure "in accepting the honour of being proposed as a member of the Council of the Geographical Society".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Washington; Royal Geographical Society
Date:  16 May 1840
Classmark:  Royal Geographical Society
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-568

Matches: 4 hits

  • … To John Washington, Secretary, Royal Geographical Society   16 May 1840
  • … Darwin London, Upper Gower St, 12 16 May 1840 John Washington Royal Geographical Society …
  • … the Society in 1838. Elected to the Council on 25 May 1840, he served for only one year. …
  • … 12 Upper Gower St May 16 th 1840 Sir I beg leave to inform you, that I shall have much …

From J. S. Henslow   2 November 1840

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Summary

Would like further experimentation to confirm report about germination of wheat from Egyptian tombs. Sir G. Wilkinson may have been deceived by the Arabs.

Author:  John Stevens Henslow
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  2 Nov 1840
Classmark:  DAR 205.2: 236
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-579

Matches: 6 hits

  • … From J.  S. Henslow   2 November 1840
  • … DAR 205.2: 236 John Stevens Henslow Hitcham 2 Nov 1840 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … at the General Meeting, 12 December 1840, Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society 2 ( …
  • … by Martin Farquhar Tupper of Albury, Guildford, dated ‘Sept. 1840’, was published in The …
  • … Record of 15 October 1840. It describes his success in raising wheat from grains found in …
  • … Hitcham 2 Nov r 1840 My dear Darwin, I was very glad to see your handwriting & trust you …

To Benjamin Silliman   26 February 1840

Summary

Asks that a letter on tornados be forwarded to W. C. Redfield. Hopes Silliman received a copy of Journal of Researches.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Benjamin Silliman, Sr
Date:  26 Feb 1840
Classmark:  Gallery of History (dealers) (4 December 1996)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-557F

Matches: 5 hits

  • … To Benjamin Silliman   26 February 1840
  • … dealers) (4 December 1996) Charles Robert Darwin 26 Feb 1840 Benjamin Silliman, Sr …
  • … receipt of the volume in his letter to CD of 7 April 1840 ( Correspondence vol.  2). …
  • … letter to Redfield, dated 24 February [1840], is printed in Correspondence vol.  2. See …
  • … letter to W.  C. Redfield, [22 December 1840] . Journal of researches was first published …

To J. M. Herbert   [after 5 June 1840]

Summary

Writes to find whether the date of the event [JMH’s marriage?] has been fixed.

Has been unwell and does not yet feel up to work.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Maurice Herbert
Date:  [after 5 June 1840]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.19)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-571

Matches: 4 hits

  • … To J.  M. Herbert   [after 5 June 1840] …
  • … Society (Mss.B.D25.19) Charles Robert Darwin Maer [after 5 June 1840] John Maurice Herbert …
  • … Garthmyl, Montgomeryshire. It took place on 13 August 1840 ( Gentleman’s Magazine n.s. …
  • … 14 (1840): 423). CD stayed at Maer until November (‘Journal’; Correspondence vol.  2, …

To John Phillips   [November 1840]

Summary

Sends his paper on earthquakes [(1840), Collected papers 1: 53–86]. Now sets less value on theoretical reasoning in geology than when he wrote it.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Phillips
Date:  [Nov 1840]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.22)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-578

Matches: 3 hits

  • … To John Phillips    [November 1840] …
  • … Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.22) Charles Robert Darwin Maer [Nov 1840] John Phillips …
  • … Sends his paper on earthquakes [(1840), Collected papers 1: 53–86]. Now sets less value on …
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Darwin in letters, 1837–1843: The London years to 'natural selection'

Summary

The seven-year period following Darwin's return to England from the Beagle voyage was one of extraordinary activity and productivity in which he became recognised as a naturalist of outstanding ability, as an author and editor, and as a professional…

Matches: 5 hits

  • … Agassiz (see Barrett 1973, Rudwick 1974, and L. Agassiz 1840). In another paper, “On the …
  • … My stomach as usual has been my enemy In 1840 the illness was different. As he wrote to …
  • … life. ‘My stomach’, he wrote to FitzRoy, [20 February 1840] , ‘as usual has been my enemy—but D …
  • … reasonable diagnosis (see Colp 1977). The illness of 1840 appears to have been the …
  • … descendants, twelve letters from Darwin to Kemp in the years 1840 to 1843 have come to light; they …

Darwin in letters, 1847-1850: Microscopes and barnacles

Summary

Darwin's study of barnacles, begun in 1844, took him eight years to complete. The correspondence reveals how his interest in a species found during the Beagle voyage developed into an investigation of the comparative anatomy of other cirripedes and…

Matches: 1 hits

  • …  vol. 2, letter from J. S. Henslow, 21 November 1840 ). The sexual relations of barnacles seemed …

Bibliography of Darwin’s geological publications

Summary

This list includes papers read by Darwin to the Geological Society of London, his books on the geology of the Beagle voyage, and other publications on geological topics.  Author-date citations refer to entries in the Darwin Correspondence Project’s…

Matches: 2 hits

  • … of the Geological Society of London  2nd ser., pt. 3, 5 (1840): 505-9.  [ Shorter publications , …
  • … of the Geological Society of London  2nd ser., pt. 3, 5 (1840): 601-31.  [ Shorter publications , …

Darwin & Glen Roy

Summary

Although Darwin was best known for his geological work in South America and other remote Beagle destinations, he made one noteworthy attempt to explain a puzzling feature of British geology.  In 1838, two years after returning from the voyage, he travelled…

Matches: 2 hits

  • … had once been much more widespread across Europe.  In 1840 he toured locations in Britain with many …
  • … September [1838] To William Buckland, [November 1840-17 February 1841] To …