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DCP-LETT-13803

From:
[–] Edwards
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before end of 1839?]
Source of text:
DAR 163: 4
Summary:

Reports on a setter puppy born of apparently pure pointer parents. Any cross must have been far back.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-472

From:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 24 Oct 1839]
Source of text:
DAR 261.11: 25 (on display at Down House in 1991)
Summary:

Gives some information on Darwin family history.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-475

From:
George Robert Waterhouse
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1839 – 10 Feb 1840]
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 295
Summary:

Sends John Blackwall’s book [Researches in zoology (1834)]. Discusses his reasons for doubting that there are any marsupials in Java or Sumatra.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-487

From:
John Maurice Herbert
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Jan [1839]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 168
Summary:

Sends congratulations on CD’s engagement, with a gift.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-494

From:
Thomas Evans Blackwell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Jan 1839
Source of text:
Geological Society of London (GSL/L/R/4/121)
Summary:

A newly-elected Fellow returns the obligation to be signed upon entering the Geological Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-495

From:
John Stevens Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Feb 1839
Source of text:
DAR 204: 167
Summary:

Writes to CD as "Brother Benedick" and sends hearty good wishes for health and happiness in marriage. They are sending a little silver candlestick for a wax taper.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-496A

From:
Andrew Irvine
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Mar 1839
Source of text:
Geological Society of London (GSL/L/R/4/165)
Summary:

Supports John Lawrance’s application to become a fellow of the Geological Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-498

From:
Andrew Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Mar 1839
Source of text:
DAR 204: 172
Summary:

Sends his congratulations and best wishes on CD’s marriage.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-500

From:
Robert FitzRoy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[20 Mar 1839]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 146
Summary:

Has objected to loading Narrative with advertisements, but thinks CD’s Zoology and Geology might be advertised. Mentions other details of the final stages of publication.

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-505

From:
John Stevens Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 14 Apr 1839]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 63v
Summary:

[Note forwarding 503.]

Lord Fitzwilliam’s gardener does not believe in hybrid ferns.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-507A

From:
Caleb Burrell Rose
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Apr 1839
Source of text:
Geological Society of London (GSL/L/R/4/216)
Summary:

Sends fee for admission to the Geological Society and a signed obligation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-509

From:
Richard Sutton Ford
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 May 1839
Source of text:
DAR 186: 44
Summary:

Answers to [Questions about breeding].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-516

From:
Robert FitzRoy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[2 or 16] June 1839
Source of text:
DAR 204: 144
Summary:

Has not yet had time to read CD’s Journal of researches attentively. He is sure there is no expression referring to himself personally that he could wish were not in it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-518

From:
William Buckland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 June 1839
Source of text:
DAR 204: 176
Summary:

Acknowledges receipt of Journal of researches.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-519

From:
Richard Owen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 June 1839
Source of text:
DAR 204: 183
Summary:

Thanks CD effusively [for Journal of researches] – "the most delightful book in my collection".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-520

From:
William Henry Fitton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 June 1839
Source of text:
DAR 204: 178
Summary:

Thanks CD for Journal of researches. Praises its "want of pretension"; "the Geology seems … to be excellent – and a good part of it new".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-521

From:
William Lonsdale
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 June 1839
Source of text:
DAR 204: 182
Summary:

Acknowledges Journal of researches.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-522

From:
Robert FitzRoy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 June [1839]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 147
Summary:

Robert Brown has mistreated Capt. P. P. King by holding back for nine years the plants collected on King’s voyage of the Adventure and Beagle.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-524

From:
William Herbert, dean of Manchester
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 27 June 1839]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 67
Summary:

Rejects necessity of outbreeding and any general law of reversion.

Describes further experiments with Hippeastrum showing greater fertility with foreign pollen than with individual’s own pollen or with pollen from another individual of same species.

Does not believe CD’s questions about reversion can be answered in present state of knowledge.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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