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DCP-LETT-351

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[1838]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 37191: 81)
Summary:

CD is much obliged for invitations to CB’s parties, but is afraid to accept because he would meet people to whom he has sworn he never goes out.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-357

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[21 Jan 1838]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 37190: 320)
Summary:

Asks Babbage to take small parcel to Henslow.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday1071

From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
15 March 1838
Source of text:
Elizabeth M. Milton
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1072

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
20 March 1838
Source of text:
BL add MS 37190, f.399
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1098

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
2 July 1838
Source of text:
BL add MS 37190, f.487
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1127

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
29 December 1838
Source of text:
BL add MS 37191, f.68
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel14766

From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Hugh Percy (3rd Duke of Northumberland)
Date:
[3 September 1838]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0969; Reel 1083
Summary:

Proposes JH for several positions in B.A.A.S. [Annotations by JH explain reasons for declining.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5344

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[15 August 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.291
Summary:

Regarding his party. Difficulties and accidents.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5453

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
19] June [1838
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.400 (draft marked 'Most confidential': RS:HS 2.290a dated 1838-6-19; C:
Summary:

Has had a long letter from Frederick Augustus (Duke of Sussex), who wishes him to accept a baronetcy. JH's comments on this.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-421F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin; William Buckland; Adam Sedgwick; John Phillips; William Whewell; Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st baronet; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet; Charles Stokes; William John Hamilton; Edward Stanley; Richard Owen; William Clift; Charles Babbage; John Bostock; Peter Mark Roget; John Taylor; Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, 2d Marquess of Northampton; William John Broderip
To:
Thomas Spring Rice
Date:
[before 7 July 1838]
Source of text:
House of Commons papers; accounts and papers, 1837/38, XXXVI, 307
Summary:

Express their concern that the offer for sale to the British Museum, by G. A. Mantell and Thomas Hawkins, of two valuable collections, has been declined.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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