To Richard Owen 30 July [1853]
Summary
Bartholomew James Sulivan’s address is Guildford. Please to have CD’s copy [of Owen 1853] left at the Athenaeum Club or the Geological Society of London.
He and his family are in Eastbourne but the weather has been poor.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | 30 July [1853] |
| Classmark: | Onondaga County Public Library (Autograph Manuscripts collection Box 1 Folder 44) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1526F |
To Richard Owen 10 September [1850]
Summary
Asks to borrow specimen of Balanus glacialis from the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons. It will be necessary to disarticulate it, but CD will return the valves to the Museum.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | 10 Sept [1850] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/199) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1356 |
To Richard Owen [1839 – April 1840]
Summary
Delighted by RO’s discussion in this sheet. RO should return revises to printer and get remaining ones.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | [1839 – Apr 1840] |
| Classmark: | Charles Hamilton (dealer) (13 June 1974) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-397 |
To Richard Owen 25 November [1846]
Summary
Asks to borrow specimens of sessile cirripedes from Museum of Royal College of Surgeons.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | 25 Nov [1846] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/201) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1033 |
To Richard Owen [1849?]
Summary
CD proposes to call for tea if he is well enough on Thursday.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | [1849?] |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1089 |
To Richard Owen [January – 23 March 1850]
Summary
CD regrets the trouble RO has had about C. G. Ehrenberg’s parcel.
He is reading On the nature of limbs [1849] with uncommon interest and admires the way Owen worked out the toes.
Also has read On parthenogenesis [1849] with great interest.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | [Jan – 23 Mar 1850] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1231 |
To Richard Owen [November 1847–51]
Summary
"I had not heard before of Whench [Whewell?] having scolded you; I am rather glad of it …
What a grand number of novelties Hooker no doubt will bring home".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | [Nov 1847–51] |
| Classmark: | John K. Lattimer (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13833 |
To Richard Owen 28 [December 1837]
Summary
Sends perfect revise of "Toxodon" [Fossil Mammalia] which he has read and marked.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | 28 [Dec 1837] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/209) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-395 |
To Richard Owen [January 1838]
Summary
Would like to call upon RO to discuss the last engravings sent by George Scharf. CD assumes that the revise of Toxodon [see 395] was received.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | [Jan 1838] |
| Classmark: | Kenneth W. Rendell (dealer) (1990) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-399A |
To Richard Owen 24 [February 1840]
Summary
Asks RO whether he has any MS [of Fossil Mammalia, no. 4] ready and to see that the plates are finished.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | 24 [Feb 1840] |
| Classmark: | The Royal College of Surgeons of England (MS0025/1/5/11) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-557 |
To Richard Owen [March 1843 – 15 May 1846]
Summary
Invites the Owens to stay at Down, joining Falconer and a few others.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | [Mar 1843 – 15 May 1846] |
| Classmark: | Michael H. McHugh (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-657 |
To Richard Owen [21 April 1846]
Summary
Asks to visit RO to talk about mammifers of the [Rio] Plata.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | [21 Apr 1846] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.48) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-959 |
To Richard Owen [1847?]
Summary
Asks to meet RO to get his opinion on zoological points.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | [1847?] |
| Classmark: | Yale University Medical Historical Library, Harvey Cushing / John Hay Whitney Medical Library (MMS) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1044 |
To Richard Owen 11 November [1859]
Summary
Has asked his publisher to send a copy of Origin. Fears it will be "an abomination" in RO’s eyes. Urges him to read it straight through, as it is a condensed abstract and will otherwise be unintelligible.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | 11 Nov [1859] |
| Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2515 |
To Richard Owen [before 28 April 1850]
Summary
Asks to borrow a cirripede specimen from collection of Frederick Dixon.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | [before 28 Apr 1850] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.89) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1357 |
To Richard Owen 23 December [1847–54]
Summary
Is searching for a tooth of Carcharias which he might have left with RO.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | 23 Dec [1847-54] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13834 |
To Richard Owen [28 December 1837]
Summary
CD sorry RO is not well and fears work on Macrauchenia may have contributed. Thinks new name very good. Other details concerning publication [of Zoology, pt 1, no. 1].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | [28 Dec 1837] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-396 |
To Richard Owen [4 February 1842]
Summary
Informs Owen of the fossil finds of F. J. Muñiz in south America.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | [4 Feb 1842] |
| Classmark: | Enns Entomology Museum, University of Missouri |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-617G |
To Richard Owen 21 [June 1846]
Summary
B. J. Sulivan has just arrived with fossil bones from Patagonia. Wants to arrange meeting.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | 21 [June 1846] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/204) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-984 |
To Richard Owen 10 September [1850]
Summary
About to go to press with "wearyful" Fossil Cirripedia [vol. 1 (1851)];
would like to borrow proof-sheets of Frederick Dixon’s work [The geology and fossils of the Tertiary and Cretaceous formations of Sussex (1850)]. Would also like to borrow a specimen of Balanus glacialis from Royal College of Surgeons. Encloses formal request [see 1356].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | 10 Sept [1850] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/198) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1355 |
| letter | (43) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (37) |
| Owen, Richard | (5) |
| Lyell, Charles | (2) |
| Babbage, Charles | (1) |
| Bostock, John | (1) |
| Owen, Richard | (36) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Peel, Robert | (1) |
| Spring Rice, Thomas | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (42) |
| Owen, Richard | (41) |
| Lyell, Charles | (2) |
| Babbage, Charles | (1) |
| Bostock, John | (1) |
