From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
[20 Nov 1843]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 68)
Summary:
Family news and their quiet life at Down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Kemp
Date:
22 Nov [1843]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/21) (gift of Ruth Cramond and David Cramond)
Summary:
CD is pleased with how good a case WK’s facts have made.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Kemp
Date:
1 Dec [1843]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/22) (gift of Ruth Cramond and David Cramond)
Summary:
Robert Brown has cast much doubt on the integrity of the seed-planting experiment.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Waterhouse
Date:
[3 or 17] Dec 1843
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR A 3)
Summary:
Comments on GRW’s paper [Rep. BAAS (1843): 65–7; Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 12 (1843): 399–412]. CD says by "link" between any two groups he never understood a half-way link, merely one in a long series. Observes that one cannot have a simple species intermediate between two great families. Criticises GRW’s use of circles to represent groups, which leads to thinking that groups are of equal value.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
Date:
2 Dec 1843
Source of text:
DAR 154: 87
Summary:
Thanks SD for some furniture. Describes arrangement of furnishing at Down and work carried out on the grounds. Children are "very full of their approaching lessons".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Kemp
Date:
7 Dec [1843]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/25) (gift of Ruth Cramond and David Cramond)
Summary:
Has sent WK’s paper to the Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Kemp 1844).
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[12 Dec 1843]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 2
Summary:
Thanks JDH for short sketch of botanical geography of Southern Hemisphere. Comments on his own S. American collections and observations; notes other Galapagos collections.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[16 Dec 1843]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.33)
Summary:
Description and defence of his view of the tosca in Banda Oriental, along the Rio Uruguay and at the Rio Negro, taking issue with A. D. d’Orbigny. Refers to the pumice in the Patagonian Territory. Two tables show the layered tosca formation along the Uruguay.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Dieffenbach
Date:
16 Dec 1843
Source of text:
J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 574 11–13 November 1965)
Summary:
"You will have been sorry to have seen in the newspapers, the disturbances & fightings with the New Zealanders. – I have lately been much interested in reading your chapters on the slow decrease in numbers … of these poor people. The case appears to me very curious, especially as the decrease has commenced or continued since the introduction of the potato – the relation between the amount of population & of food is hence inverted. It would have been a case for the great Malthus to have reflected on".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Holland
Date:
[after 12 July 1843]
Source of text:
John L. McDonald (private collection)
Summary:
Discusses fossil bones found in Australia by Mr Isaac. Suggests they be sent to Richard Owen.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Kemp
Date:
7 Apr [1843]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/14)
Summary:
CD will sent seeds to specialists for identification.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
Text Online
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Kemp
Date:
24 [Apr 1843]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/15)
Summary:
Has not yet heard from R. Brown, but John Lindley thinks species will probably turn out to be common ones.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
Text Online
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Kemp
Date:
[8 September 1843]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/23)
Summary:
Seeds sent by Kemp have germinated and been identified by Lindley as Rumex acetosella and an Atriplex which has been sent on to J. S. Henslow.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
Text Online
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Kemp
Date:
[14 Oct 1843]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/16a)
Summary:
J. S. Henslow expresses his doubts about WK’s seeds.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
Text Online
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Kemp
Date:
9 Oct [1843]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/16b and 10252/17)
Summary:
WK’s paper has reached him safely.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
Text Online
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Kemp
Date:
1 Nov [1843]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/18)
Summary:
J. S. Henslow’s and C. C. Babington’s opinions on WK’s seeds.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
Text Online
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Kemp
Date:
[9 Nov 1843]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/20)
Summary:
CD has been reflecting on John Lindley’s and C. C. Babington’s comments.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
Text Online
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Kemp
Date:
22 Nov 1843
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/21)
Summary:
CD is pleased with how good a case WK’s facts have made.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
Text Online
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Kemp
Date:
1 Dec [1843]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/22)
Summary:
Robert Brown has cast much doubt on the integrity of the seed-planting experiment.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
Text Online
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Kemp
Date:
7 Dec [1843]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/25)
Summary:
Has sent WK’s paper to the Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Kemp 1844).
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
Author
Addressee
- Baxter, W. W.2
- Baxter, William2
- Colburn, Henry1
- Covington, Syms1
- Cresy, Edward, Jr1
- Darwin, Emma1
- Darwin, S. E.4
- Davis, J. E.1
- Dieffenbach, Ernst5
- FitzRoy, Robert1
- Fox, W. D.3
- Gardeners’ Chronicle1
- Geological Society of London2
- Gray, J. E.1
- Hawkins, B. W.1
- Henslow, J. S.5
- Holland, Edward1
- Hooker, J. D.2
- Hooker, W. J.1
- Horner, Leonard1
- Jackson, Julian1
- Kemp, William20
- Lindley, John1
- Lyell, Charles2
- Maclaren, Charles1
- Mantell, G. A.2
- Owen, Richard1
- Royal Geographical Society1
- Smith, Elder & Co5
- Spearman, A. Y.1
- Unidentified3
- Waterhouse, G. R.5
- Wedgwood, Emma1
- Wedgwood, Josiah, III1
- Woodward, S. P.2
- FEWER