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DCP-LETT-1171

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
[May 1848]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 305
Summary:

May go to Paris next summer about barnacles.

Unable to appreciate second volume of Alexander von Humboldt’s Cosmos [1848].

Recommends review by Sir John Herschel [Edinburgh Rev. 87 (1848): 170–229].

Recommends book by Mary Somerville [Physical geography (1848)].

Mentions article [on species] by M. E. Chevreul [Ann. Sci. Nat. (Bot.) 3d ser. 6 (1846): 142–214].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1188

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
[5 or 12] July 1848
Source of text:
DAR 143: 306
Summary:

Has written to William Buckland, recommending EC for position.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1191

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
[15 July 1848]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 307
Summary:

Encloses note from William Buckland [1190], stating that no appointment of surveyor is to be made. Thinks further recommendation would be unwise, but will write to Sir Henry De la Beche and [Robert?] Hutton if EC wishes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1192

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
[20 July 1848]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 308
Summary:

Will speak to Richard Owen, Henry De la Beche, and Robert Hutton concerning appointment for EC.

Leaving for sea-side on Saturday.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1238

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
[24 June 1849]
Source of text:
DAR 143
Summary:

Declines to canvass for Richard King.

Water-cure has benefited health.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13787

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
26 [Dec 1843 - Apr 1846 or Sept 1855 - Oct 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 311
Summary:

Says Hooker does not want plant.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13788

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
8 Jan [1862 or 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 321
Summary:

Obliged for the Theophrastus. Will return it.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1545

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
[before May 1848?]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 303
Summary:

Obliged for account of change in quality of wool. "Some authors will not admit that climate has any perceptible action."

Hopes his health is re-established.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1677

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
29 Apr [1853]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 310
Summary:

Discusses installation of watering system. Sent question to Gardeners’ Chronicle but, through EC’s kindness, superfluously.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1682

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
15 May [1853]
Source of text:
R. M. Smythe (dealer) (March 2002)
Summary:

Apologises for the trouble he has given EC. CD has given up the siphon plan and intends to make only an ordinary tank with a pump.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2620

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
[12 Nov 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 318
Summary:

Thanks for information about the weight of water.

Describes experiments on Drosera.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2652

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
15 Jan [1860]
Source of text:
Private collection
Summary:

P. T. A. Talandier wants to translate Origin into French. Talandier gave Louis Blanc as a referee. Could Mrs Cresy, who knows Blanc, find out what he thinks of Talandier?

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-2657

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
20 Jan [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 312
Summary:

Thanks EC for help in finding French translator [for Origin].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2899

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
25 Aug [1860]
Source of text:
Private collection
Summary:

Invites EC to visit. Wants to discuss education of his sons.

Daughter [Henrietta] has been very ill for 15 weeks.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2933

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
[19 Oct 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 315
Summary:

Obliged for note of 16th.

Failed to enclose letter from Hofmann.

Will be glad to read A. S. Taylor’s work [On poisons in relation to medical jurisprudence and medicine, 2d ed. (1859)].

Daughter Henrietta still weak.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-2947B

From:
August Wilhelm von Hofmann
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
13 Oct 1860
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 4
Summary:

Has not himself experimented with delicacy of tests but sends several illustrations of what other authorities have done. Reference to James Marsh’s test for arsenic and that of Ashley Paston Price for iodine.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-2950

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
14 Oct [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 314
Summary:

Discusses letter from A. W. v. Hofmann concerning solution of iodine in water.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-2966A

From:
August Wilhelm von Hofmann
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
27 Oct 1860
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 5
Summary:

Is enclosing Alfred Swaine Taylor’s book On poisons (1848). Reports on his own experiment with the starch test in dissolving iodine in different measures of water.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-2968

From:
Edward Cresy, Jr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Oct 1860
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 6, 58.2: 49–52
Summary:

Sends CD passages from A. S. Taylor’s book [On poisons in relation to medical jurisprudence and medicine, 2d ed. (1859)], citing smallest portions of poisons that are chemically detectable. "Drosera beats the chemists hollow."

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-2973

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
2 Nov [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 316
Summary:

Thanks for pamphlet by A. S. Taylor.

"… we have had a terrible week with my poor girl [Henrietta] on the point of death".

Discusses experiments involving placing solutions of ammonia and other substances on leaves of plants.

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