Carlyle, Thomas. 1888. Letters of Thomas Carlyle: 1826–1836. 2 vols. Edited by C. E. Norton. London and New York: Macmillan and Co.
To Dear Friend 4 January 1822
Summary
Likes Mariane who is very good to Miss Jones; CD bought cakes in town while Mariane visited Miss Jones; he was embarrassed to be shown into her bedroom when he returned. Miss Clare has had an accident.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Friend |
| Date: | 4 Jan 1822 |
| Classmark: | DAR 271/1/1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1J |
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- … and Susan Darwin, 2 [January 1826], and letter from Catherine Darwin, 15 January [1826] ). …
- … Correspondence vol. 1, letter from Susan Darwin, [27 March 1826] ). Possibly Clare …
- … letter to Dear Friend, 1 January 1822 , n. 1. CD refers to his sister Marianne Darwin . Possibly Martha Jones , a housemaid, who appears in Robert Waring Darwin’s accounts as receiving money between 1817 and 1822 (DAR 227.5: 82, f. 51 and contents page). The local poor and sick whom Erasmus Alvey Darwin visited in 1826 …
Heber, Reginald. 1828. Narrative of a journey through the upper provinces of India from Calcutta to Bombay 1824–25. (With notes upon Ceylon.) An account of a journey to Madras and the Southern provinces, 1826, and letters written in India. (Edited by Amelia Heber.) 2 vols. London.
To Caroline Darwin 8 April [1826]
Summary
CD is studying the Bible, likes the gospels best.
Glad he stayed for T. C. Hope’s lectures on electricity.
Is running short of funds.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
| Date: | 8 Apr [1826] |
| Classmark: | DAR 154: 29 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-30 |
From Charles Whitley 13 September 1831
Summary
Congratulates CD on Beagle appointment as an "opportunity … of studying all the natural sciences at once, after your own taste".
| Author: | Charles Thomas Whitley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Sept 1831 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 69 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-125 |
To Susan Darwin [4 September 1831]
Summary
Spent preceding day with Henslow; much to be done. A friend, Alexander Charles Wood, has written to Capt. FitzRoy about CD. Peacock offered appointment as Beagle naturalist first to Leonard Jenyns, who almost accepted, as did Henslow himself. CD will talk to Capt. Francis Beaufort [Hydrographer] and FitzRoy. Thanks all his family.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
| Date: | [4 Sept 1831] |
| Classmark: | DAR 223 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-115 |
To Dear Friend 3 January 1822
Summary
"Monseur Beodoes" is inquisitive and impertinent; Mr Bayly "was formerly a devlish boor". Asks who his sisters have been talking about.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Friend |
| Date: | 3 Jan 1822 |
| Classmark: | DAR 271/1/1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1H |
To Henry Johnson 9 June 1880
Summary
Thanks for enclosures.
Remembers Edward Vivian.
Glad to hear of flint tools.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Johnson |
| Date: | 9 June 1880 |
| Classmark: | Torquay Museum Society (AR471) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12626 |
To W. D. Fox 12 [June 1828]
Summary
Account of insects he has collected, with figures drawn by sister.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 12 [June 1828] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-42 |
From W. E. Darwin 27 October [1876]
Summary
Discussing a purchase of land.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Oct [1876] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 64) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11212F |
From John Price 17 September 1881
Summary
Nathan Hubbersty [of Cambridge days] is very ill.
| Author: | John Price |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Sept 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 174: 76 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13341 |
To T. H. Huxley 21 September [1871]
Summary
On Mivart’s Genesis of species, and THH’s intention to reply to it.
Chauncey Wright’s pamphlet [see 7940].
CD is revising Origin and will answer Mivart on incipient organs. "Pendulum is swinging against us, but will swing back again".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 21 Sept [1871] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 279) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7958 |
From Sarah Owen 30 March [1828]
Summary
Caroline and Catherine Darwin were at the Forest a few days last week and Susan Darwin comes the next day. Mentions other relatives, friends, and acquaintances.
| Author: | Sarah Harriet Mostyn Owen; Sarah Harriet Williams; Sarah Harriet Haliburton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Mar [1828] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 60 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-41 |
From William Henry Kinnaird Gibbons 7 February 1867
Summary
Asks CD whether he has given any thought to the phenomena of spiritualism.
| Author: | W. H. S Gibbons |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Feb 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 36 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5394 |
To J. D. Hooker [18 April 1847]
Summary
Thanks for H. C. Watson’s interesting letter. Disagrees with him on intermediate varieties.
CD has read latest numbers of JDH’s The botany of the Antarctic voyage [pt I, Flora Antarctica (1844–7)]; notes several sentences against "us Transmutationists".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [18 Apr 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 86 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1082 |
From John Coldstream 28 February 1829
Summary
News of his activities in recent months, of mutual Edinburgh acquaintances, and the Plinian Society.
JC has given up natural history for a time to prepare himself better for medical practice.
| Author: | John Coldstream |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Feb 1829 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 33 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-58 |
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Darwin in letters, 1821-1836: Childhood to the Beagle voyage
Summary
Darwin's first known letters were written when he was twelve. They continue through school-days at Shrewsbury, two years as a medical student at Edinburgh University, the undergraduate years at Cambridge, and the of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle.…
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- … Darwin's first known letters were written when he was twelve. They continue through his school …
