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DCP-LETT-13925F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1839–82]
Source of text:
Raptis Rare Books (dealers) (June 2018 item 69022)
Summary:

Is glad addressee’s lectures are going well.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-397

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
[1839 – Apr 1840]
Source of text:
Charles Hamilton (dealer) (13 June 1974)
Summary:

Delighted by RO’s discussion in this sheet. RO should return revises to printer and get remaining ones.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-398

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Woodbine Parish
Date:
[Jan 1839?]
Source of text:
Shuttleworth 1910 , p. 412 n.
Summary:

Likes WP’s book [Buenos Ayres and the province of La Plata (1838)]. Thinks it will interest all "who care for graver things than what the traveller eats and says to the Señoritas".

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-470

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[Feb 1839 – Aug 1842]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 37191: 298)
Summary:

Asks permission to bring Fanny Allen to CB’s party.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-473

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Phillips
Date:
[18 Mar 1839]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History Archive Collections (John Phillips collection)
Summary:

Will send JP a map as requested. Asks for a ticket to one of JP’s lectures.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-474

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[Oct 1839 – Aug 1842]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 37191: 296)
Summary:

Regrets he cannot accept invitation. "My health will not at present stand going out in the evenings."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-476

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[1839 – Aug 1842]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add 37191: 297)
Summary:

Is so unwell today that he is unable to come [to CB’s party].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-476A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Maurice Herbert
Date:
[Jan 1839 – Sept 1842]
Source of text:
Bonhams, New York (dealers) (11 December 2013)
Summary:

Suggests the names of two bird-preservers for JMH’s friend.

In reference to an earlier letter, replies: "As for Birds of Paradise from the West Indies, tell that to the marines, as we used to say on board the Beagle".

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-478

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Stokes
Date:
[1839 – Sept 1842]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection
Summary:

Sends observations he made on Fungia during Beagle voyage. Asks CS to make corrections in style or names of parts as he sees fit.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-479

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
19 [Feb 1839 - Aug 1842]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 37191: 299)
Summary:

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

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-480

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[c. 9 Jan 1839]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.15)
Summary:

Discusses his Glen Roy paper [(1839), Collected papers 1: 87–137], which he is sending to CL.

Remarks on Charles MacLaren’s treatment of alluvium. Comments on alluvial action in Lochaber.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-483

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Whewell
Date:
4 [Jan 1839]
Source of text:
Trinity College Library, Cambridge (Add c 88: 5)
Summary:

Informs him of J. B. Jukes’s plans concerning the Newfoundland survey post.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-488

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William John Broderip
Date:
19 Jan [1839]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D)
Summary:

Hopes Richard Owen will have time to do CD’s shells in spirits.

Doubts WJB’s suggestion that moles may play a part in formation of mould.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-491

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edwin Charles Prince
Date:
21 Jan [1839]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Asks what generic and subgeneric name John Gould has given to the goatsuckers of the U. S. [for Birds].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-494A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Young Spearman, 1st baronet
Date:
4 Feb 1839
Source of text:
The National Archives (TNA) (T1/4524 paper 25824)
Summary:

Submits the account of Smith, Elder & Co. for the third number of part two and second number of part three of the Zoology.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-496

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Whewell
Date:
16 Feb [1839]
Source of text:
Trinity College Library, Cambridge (Add c 88: 4)
Summary:

Asks WW to alter, before printing, the passages in WW’s Presidential Address to the Geological Society [Proc. Geol. Soc. Lond. 3 (1839): 93] which pointedly allude to the delay in publication of CD’s Beagle journal; they might annoy FitzRoy, who, as Captain, has a right to first use of the papers of all officers on board.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-496F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Lonsdale
Date:
[27 Apr 1839 or earlier]
Source of text:
University Archives (dealers) (3 March 2021, lot 73)
Summary:

Returns Whewell’s presidential address to the Geological Society of London (Whewell 1839), and suggests that ‘rules’ be changed to ‘customs’.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-497

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Lonsdale
Date:
[8 Mar 1839]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Has finished earthquake paper ["Volcanic phenomena in South America" (1840), Collected papers 1: 53–86]. Gives instructions about a woodcut. There should be an outline map.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-499

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Royal Geographical Society
Date:
[19 Mar 1839]
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society
Summary:

Formal request for F. Lutké’s charts of the Caroline Islands and any charts by Beechey of the Lagoon Islands [Ellice Islands] that the Society might possess.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-502

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Herbert, dean of Manchester
Date:
[c. 1 Apr 1839]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 62
Summary:

Questions on breeding of plants: variation in established versus new varieties; predominance of wild species and old varieties when crossed with newer forms; predominance of males versus females; correlations between ease of hybridisation and tendency to vary and undergo cultivation; reversion; correlations between hybridisation and geographic distribution.

In WH’s Amaryllidaceae [1837], does he intend to say crossing is inimical to fertility?

[Sent via J. S. Henslow; note to amanuensis Syms Covington.]

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