From F. A. Eck [before 13 October 1834]
Summary
Heights of various places in Chile.
| Author: | Frederick Andrew Eck |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 13 Oct 1834] |
| Classmark: | DAR 35: 232 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-256 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Verde near Valp o . 1076 Fred. A. Eck End of letter: ‘Valparaiso | Sent & c &c 1834’ ink …
- … this memorandum and the letter to Caroline Darwin, 13 October 1834 ( Correspondence vol. …
- … in a later publication ( letter to Caroline Darwin, 13 October 1834 and n. 1; see also ‘ …
- … 16 August 1834. In his letter to Caroline Darwin, 13 October 1834 , he gave its height as …
- … letter was published in Correspondence vol. 1 under the name Frederick W. Eck and the date [September 1834]. …
To Peter Lund Simmonds 25 February [1849]
Summary
Sends detailed report on the prospects for a settlement on the coast of Patagonia, pointing out many problems, and recommending instead the Falkland Islands.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Peter Lund Simmonds |
| Date: | 25 Feb [1849] |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (Quentin Keynes collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1229A |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Correspondence vol. 1, letter to Catherine Darwin, 6 April 1834 ). British sovereignty …
- … Correspondence vol. 1, letter to Edward Lumb, 30 March 1834 . CD visited the Santa Cruz …
- … see Correspondence vol. 1, letter to Catherine Darwin, 6 April 1834 , and Journal of …
- … Correspondence vol. 1, letter to Catherine Darwin, 20–9 July 1834 , and Appendix I); for …
- … letter to Caroline Darwin, 30 March – 12 April 1833 ); he spent four days exploring the island in March 1834, …
To J. S. Henslow 4 October 1834
Summary
CD is unwell.
FitzRoy has dispatched two casks of bones and stones, a box with "very valuable specimens", and a large jar.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | 4 Oct 1834 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 23 DAR/1/1/23) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-258 |
To W. D. Fox [25 January 1841]
Summary
Birds has gone to the printer.
Continues "to collect all kinds of facts about ""varieties and species"" " for his "some-day work".
Would be grateful for descriptions of offspring of crossbred domestic animals.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [25 Jan 1841] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 59) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-586 |
To W. D. Fox 25 October 1833
Summary
Writes of his ride from Rio Negro to Bahia Blanca and Buenos Aires, which he undertook in order to learn the geology of the land, so full of bones of large extinct quadrupeds.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 25 Oct 1833 |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 46c) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-223 |
To J. S. Henslow [20–7] September 1833
Summary
Informs JSH that a Spanish friend has offered him a cargo of bones. If they arrive, he has arranged with Edward Lumb to forward them to JSH. [Forwarded to JSH with 244.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | [20–7] Sept 1833 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 19 DAR/1/1/19) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-216 |
To Catherine Darwin 6 April 1834
Summary
Describes Patagonia and its inhabitants.
Writes of his pleasure in geology.
Predicts that Falklands will become an "important halting place". Outlines Beagle’s future itinerary.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
| Date: | 6 Apr 1834 |
| Classmark: | DAR 223 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-242 |
From Thomas Sutcliffe [28 August – 5 September 1834]
Summary
Gives a map of part of Chile between Santiago and San Fernando. Suggests places and people that CD might profitably visit [en route].
| Author: | Thomas Sutcliffe |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [28 Aug – 5 Sept 1834] |
| Classmark: | DAR 35: 405 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-255 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … to Sutcliffe in the letter to Robert FitzRoy, [28 August 1834] ( Correspondence vol. 1), …
- … to Santiago, see the letter to Robert FitzRoy, [28 August 1834] . CD followed the route on …
- … meeting Sutcliffe in his letter to Robert FitzRoy, [28 August 1834] , but had presumably …
- … Correspondence vol. 1, letter to Caroline Darwin, 13 October 1834 . Francisco Antonio Ruiz …
To J. S. Henslow 8 November 1834
Summary
Sends two boxes of specimens and part of his "hum-drum letter-like" journal.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | 8 Nov 1834 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 24 DAR/1/1/24) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-263 |
To J. D. Hooker 4 May [1865]
Summary
On FitzRoy’s life and character.
Carl von Siebold’s cases of males and females of gall insects [True parthenogenesis in moths and bees (1857)]. Each sex produced on different plants.
Haeckel’s astonishing case of propagation in a Medusa.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 4 May [1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 268a–b |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4827 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … see Correspondence vol. 1, letter to Catherine Darwin, 8 November 1834 . See also …
- … 1865 (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 2 May 1865 ). On FitzRoy’s breakdown in 1834, during …
- … letter to J. S. Henslow, 16 July [1860] , Mellersh 1968 , pp. 130–6, Bowlby 1990 , pp. 152–8, and n. 3, below. In his Autobiography CD recalled the incidents referred to; the first occurred early in the voyage, at Bahia, Brazil, and concerned slavery (pp. 73–4), and the other occurred during FitzRoy’s breakdown at Concepción, Chile, in 1834 ( …
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 J. S. Henslow March 1834
Summary
On fossils ([Megatherium], etc.), plants, shells sent and new ones found; geological observations. Asks for help in understanding cleavage and planes of deposition.
A new species of ostrich. Cites differences in size, colour, nidification, and geographical distribution.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | Mar 1834 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 21 DAR/1/1/21) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-238 |
To Caroline Darwin [7 December 1836]
Summary
Dinner at the Hensleigh Wedgwoods’. They have agreed to go over his journal. Henry Holland thinks it not worth publishing alone because it goes over FitzRoy’s ground.
His impressions of Harriet Martineau: "She is overwhelmed with her own projects, her own thoughts and own abilities."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
| Date: | [7 Dec 1836] |
| Classmark: | DAR 154: 50 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-325 |
From Caroline Darwin 30 September 1834
Summary
News of family and friends.
Word that William Clift thinks CD’s latest fossils are of much value.
| Author: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Sept 1834 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 81 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-257 |
To J. S. Henslow 24 July – 7 November 1834
Summary
CD is excited by JSH’s high opinion of his collections.
Discusses his notes and some new discoveries. Summary of events since leaving Falklands.
Geology of Patagonia.
Corallines at Tierra del Fuego convince him of artificiality of arrangement of their families by Lamarck and Cuvier.
Geological expedition in Andes, ending with serious illness. Specimens being sent.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | 24 July & 28 Oct & 7 Nov 1834 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 22 DAR/1/1/22) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-251 |
From Susan Darwin [23] May 1834
Summary
News of family and friends.
| Author: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [23] May 1834 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 103 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-246 |
To Adam Sedgwick 11 October [1850]
Summary
Thanks AS for a copy of his book, Discourse [on the studies of the University, 5th ed.].
Thinking of not sending his eldest son [William] to a classical school.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Adam Sedgwick |
| Date: | 11 Oct [1850] |
| Classmark: | Rensselaer Libraries, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Gerald and Sue Friedman manuscript collection MC 72 Box 1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1369F |
From J. D. Hooker 6 October 1865
Summary
On novels he has been reading: Eliot, Richardson, etc.
On Wallace, the Reader, and anthropology.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Oct 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 37–42 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4910 |
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Conrad Martens
Summary
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- … Conrad Martens was born in London, the son of an Austrian diplomat. He studied landscape painting …
Thomas Burgess
Summary
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- … As well as its complement of sailors, the Beagle also carried a Royal Marine sergeant and …
Robert FitzRoy
Summary
Robert FitzRoy was captain of HMS Beagle when Darwin was aboard. From 1831 to 1836 the two men lived in the closest proximity, their relationship revealed by the letters they exchanged while Darwin left the ship to explore the countries visited during the…
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- … Robert FitzRoy was captain of HMS Beagle when Darwin was aboard. From 1831 to 1836 the two men …
Edward Lumb
Summary
Edward Lumb was born in Yorkshire. According to the memoirs of his daughter Anne, Lady Macdonell, he travelled to Buenos Aires aged sixteen with his merchant uncle, Charles Poynton, and after some fortunate enterprises set up in business there. In 1833…
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- … Edward Lumb was born in Yorkshire. According to the memoirs of his daughter Anne, Lady Macdonell, …
George Robert Waterhouse
Summary
George Waterhouse was born on 6 March 1810 in Somers Town, North London. His father was a solicitor’s clerk and an amateur lepidopterist. George was educated from 1821-24 at Koekelberg near Brussels. On his return he worked for a time as an apprentice to…
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- … George Waterhouse was born on 6 March 1810 in Somers Town, North London. His father was a …
