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
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. Feb 1839]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 14
Summary:
Discusses CD’s religious doubts. Fears his work may lead him to discount what cannot be proved, and advises that there are some things which, "if true are likely to be above our comprehension" and "that there is a danger in giving up revelation".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Stevens Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Feb 1839
Source of text:
DAR 204: 167
Summary:
Writes to CD as "Brother Benedick" and sends hearty good wishes for health and happiness in marriage. They are sending a little silver candlestick for a wax taper.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
From:
Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, 2nd Marquess of Northampton
To:
Lord Northampton
Date:
11 February 1839
Source of text:
MM/12/45, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, 2nd Marquess of Northampton
To:
Lord Northampton
Date:
14 February 1839
Source of text:
MM/12/47, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Peter Mark Roget
To:
P M Roget
Date:
14 February 1839
Source of text:
MM/12/48, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
20 Feb 1839
Source of text:
MSQ 1 / 5, Dep. c. 372, Bod, MS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
John Lindley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 February 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.224
Summary:
Will be pleased to examine the dried plants. Send them to the Horticultural Society's Garden, Turnham Green.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Roderick Impey Murchison
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 February 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.397
Summary:
Has a few pounds surplus from the subscription for JH's vase and wonders if it could be used to supply a plinth for the pedestal. Does JH agree? Perhaps Lady Herschel can supply the wording.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Pringle Nichol
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
24 February [1839?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.133
Summary:
Along with the Lord Advocate and other Scotch members of the House of Commons had an interview with [Thomas Spring-?] Rice concerning the enclosed memorial (Observatory of the University). Comments on their proposed plan for the work of the university.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Henry Fox Talbot
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 February 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.282
Summary:
Wants to withhold description of 'developing' process until it is perfected to obviate others using it. Also refers to second process to make 'positive' and 'negative.'
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Henry Fox Talbot
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 February 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.283
Summary:
Some comments on JH's light and photography experiments, especially effects of different kinds of glass and fixing with ferrocyanate.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Henry Fox Talbot
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 February 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.284
Summary:
Describes mediocre results obtained using ferrocyanate of potash for fixing image. Mentions some other methods, including his favorite, common salt. Asks JH to keep these secret.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Henry Fox Talbot
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 February 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.280
Summary:
More about paper being published in both the R.S.P.T. and Athenaeum.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Henry Fox Talbot
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 February 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.285
Summary:
Finally had success washing with ferrocyanate. Wants to present note of 'his' processes to R.S.L. and so to the world.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Henry Fox Talbot
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 February 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.286
Summary:
Wishes to communicate to J. B. Biot, and so to Academie des sciences, JH's two 'beautiful' fixing methods, by hyposulfite and ferrocyanate.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Henry Fox Talbot
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 February 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.281a
Summary:
Questions JH's intent to display 'photogenic drawings' to R.S.L.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project