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DCP-LETT-11271F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter; William Baxter
Date:
8 Dec [1842-81]
Source of text:
University of Otago, Special Collections (MS 49)
Summary:

Orders large pot of spermaceti ointment.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11313

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter; William Baxter
Date:
[1842–82?]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.536)
Summary:

Orders pot of soft spermaceti ointment.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13776

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Baxter; William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
10 [Oct 1842 – Apr 1882]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Orders distilled water, 2 oz of camphorated spirits, and perfume.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1768

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter; William Baxter
Date:
24 Oct [1842-5, 1853 or 1855-68]
Source of text:
University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library (BANC MSS 74/78 z)
Summary:

Sends enclosed order for two bottles [of unspecified chemical].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-614

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
[13? Jan 1842]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD is pleased with LJ’s introduction [to Fish]. He rejoices that he persuaded LJ to undertake this work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-622

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[8 Mar 1842]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 18
Summary:

Family news from Shrewsbury.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-623

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[13 Mar 1842]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 19
Summary:

News of family and of his stay at Shrewsbury.

Calculates the newly instituted income tax will mean £30 per annum.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-626

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[9 May 1842]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 20
Summary:

Is "stomachy and be-blue-devilled" because of costs of publishing [Zoology and Coral reefs]. Wonders how the remainder [of the Zoology and Geology of "Beagle"] can be published without taking £200 or £300 out of their personal funds.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-627

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
[May–Sept 1842]
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Summary:

Glad to hear that LJ will repeat his notes to Gilbert White’s [Natural history of] Selborne [1843] in a separate work.

Critical of G. R. Gray’s attaching his own name to Furnarius cunicularius [in Birds, pp. 65–6]. Strickland’s nomenclature laws are needed to check egoism.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-628

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mary Anne Johnes; Mary Anne Herbert
Date:
[5 May 1842]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Acknowledges Mrs H’s disappointing answer to his quest for a house in the country. Five miles from a railway station is "the length of my tether".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-629

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
[9 May 1842]
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Summary:

Is sending fish skins and bottles off to Cambridge Philosophical Society.

Fish numbers [of Zoology], now finished, give CD satisfaction when he doubts whether he ought to have applied for Government money.

Wishes Thomas Bell would finish his part [Reptiles].

CD has just corrected last page of index of Coral reefs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-633

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton
Date:
[16 Sept 1842]
Source of text:
DAR 153: 6 (EH 88202298)
Summary:

Emma and Doddy [W. E. Darwin] like Down. CD has met, and plans to employ, the local surgeon. "I feel sure I shall become deeply attached to Down, with a few improvements".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-637

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton
Date:
[24 July 1842]
Source of text:
DAR 153: 7 (EH 88202299)
Summary:

Describes the village of Down and the house they are thinking of buying.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-648

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Anne Susanna Lloyd; Anne Susanna Horner
Date:
[4 Oct 1842]
Source of text:
DAR 261.11: 1 (EH 88206053)
Summary:

Emma recovering well from birth of third child, Mary Eleanor.

Sorry to hear Leonard Horner has been ill.

Has received high praise of Coral reefs from Lyell.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8132

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter; William Baxter
Date:
2 [Oct 1842 - Mar 1882]
Source of text:
University of Rochester Libraries, Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation (tipped into a copy of Insectivorous plants (QH 9.9 I59m))
Summary:

Requests some carbonate of ammonia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13828

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Edward Mudie; Mary Kingsford Pawling; Mary Kingsford Mudie
Date:
10 Dec [1842-5 or 1855-68]
Source of text:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Charles E. Mudie Collection, 1816–1897: Correspondence, B29)
Summary:

Declines invitation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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