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DCP-LETT-2634

From:
William Whewell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Jan 1860
Source of text:
DAR 98 (ser. 2): 19
Summary:

Thanks CD for the Origin. WW is not yet a convert but there is so much "of thought and of fact" in what CD has written that "it is not to be contradicted without careful selection of the ground and manner of the dissent".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-347

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[10 Mar 1837]
Source of text:
Trinity College Library, Cambridge (Add c 88: 2)
Summary:

CD seeks to decline the Secretaryship [of the Geological Society] by citing his obligation to FitzRoy to write his volume of the narrative of their expedition. His youth, inexperience, and ignorance of English geology.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-361

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Whewell
Date:
18 June [1837]
Source of text:
Trinity College Library, Cambridge (Add c 88: 3)
Summary:

Asks Whewell questions on earthquake wave action.

Thanks him for signature [to CD’s request to Chancellor of the Exchequer for funds for Zoology].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-483

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Whewell
Date:
4 [Jan 1839]
Source of text:
Trinity College Library, Cambridge (Add c 88: 5)
Summary:

Informs him of J. B. Jukes’s plans concerning the Newfoundland survey post.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-496

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

DCP-LETT-504

From:
William Whewell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Apr 1839
Source of text:
DAR 204: 175
Summary:

Sends a book [his translation of Goethe’s Hermann u. Dorothea] as a wedding gift.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-506

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Whewell
Date:
16 Apr [1839]
Source of text:
Trinity College Library, Cambridge (Add c 88: 6)
Summary:

Thanks WW for wedding gift.

Expresses admiration for his History of the inductive sciences [1837].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-001514

From:
William Whewell
To:
Rev J S Howson
Date:
20 March 1862
Source of text:
MM/19/122, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

SOMERVILLE634

From:
William Whewell
To:
William Somerville
Date:
2 Dec 1831
Source of text:
MSW 2 / 168, Dep. c. 372, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE635

From:
Mary Somerville
To:
William Whewell
Date:
4 May 1832
Source of text:
Trinity College (Cambridge) Library, Whewell Papers
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE636

From:
William Whewell
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
5 Jun 1832
Source of text:
MSW 2 / 172, Dep. c. 372, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE637

From:
William Whewell
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
3 Apr 1833
Source of text:
MSW 2 / 174, Dep. c. 372, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE638

From:
William Whewell
To:
William Somerville
Date:
4 Jul 1833
Source of text:
MSW 2 / 176, Dep. c. 372, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE639

From:
William Whewell
To:
William Somerville
Date:
1833
Source of text:
MSW 2 / 177, Dep. c. 372, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE640

From:
William Whewell
To:
William Somerville
Date:
22 Nov 1833
Source of text:
MSW 2 / 178, Dep. c. 372, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE641

From:
William Whewell
To:
William Somerville
Date:
22 Nov 1833
Source of text:
MSW 2 / 179, Dep. c. 372, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE642

From:
William Whewell
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
5 Jan 1838
Source of text:
MSW 2 / 180, Dep. c. 372, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE643

From:
William Whewell
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
29 Aug 1839
Source of text:
MSW 2 / 182, Dep. c. 372, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
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Faraday0483

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Whewell
Date:
21 February 1831
Source of text:
TCC MS O.15.49, f.2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday0651

From:
William Whewell
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
2 April 1833
Source of text:
TCC MS 0.15.49, f.46
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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