From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
[–] Wynne
Date:
[Feb–July 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 206: 42
Summary:
Questions on breeding and habits.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert FitzRoy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Feb 1838
Source of text:
DAR 204: 145
Summary:
His work [on vol. 2 of Narrative] is going slowly.
Has no objection to anything in CD’s excellent volume. CD should "entertain no further scruple on that subject".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[26 Mar 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A1–2
Summary:
Declines Ray Club dinner; too busy with Zoology.
Thanks JSH for presenting his work to Cambridge Philosophical Society.
Asks him to get an answer from W. H. Miller on specimen of crystallised mineral.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
Date:
[1 Apr 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 223: 39
Summary:
FitzRoy is hard at work on his book [Narrative, vol. 2].
CD’s health is improved.
Describes his visit to zoo.
Gives news of E. A. Darwin and Harriet Martineau.
Contributor:
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From:
Leonard Horner
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Apr [1838]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 1
Summary:
Postpones meeting with CD because he must attend House of Commons for Factory Amendment Act.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
Date:
[26 Apr 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 92: A5–6
Summary:
Thanks for ham and corrections in spelling. Gives account of his social activities in past week.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
Date:
[15 May 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 223: 38
Summary:
Recounts dinner at Erasmus’ house with Harriet Martineau and others, and a visit to Cambridge to stay with Henslow and meet old friends again.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Forbes Royle
Date:
[24 May 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 397
Summary:
Would like to attend a lecture by JFR on "geography of plants with relation to the Himalayas".
"A grand battle" at the Geological Society between Sedgwick and G. B. Greenough.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. Nov 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 173
Summary:
Reports on the effects of inbreeding in dogs and the results of crossing Canada and common geese.
Contributor:
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From:
Francis Walker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 July [1838]
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 293
Summary:
Thanks CD for suggestions for improving his descriptions of species by indicating localities. With few exceptions the Chalcidites of South America and Australia are remarkably like European species.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Oct 1838
Source of text:
DAR 39: 18–19
Summary:
Reports arrival at Falklands; weather conditions, and unsuccessful search he made for a geological formation CD had seen. Describes cliffs, streams, rocks, and lines of elevation; includes two drawings.
Contributor:
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From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[14 Nov 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 164
Summary:
Sends congratulations on CD’s engagement. "It is a marriage which will give almost as much pleasure to the rest of the world as it does to yourselves."
Contributor:
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From:
William Mostyn Owen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Nov 1838
Source of text:
DAR 204: 171
Summary:
Expresses his pride and pleasure in CD’s friendship and wishes him well on hearing of his forthcoming marriage.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Bell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[5 Dec 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 163
Summary:
Sends congratulations on CD’s forthcoming marriage.
Has received some of the reptiles back from G. Bibron, who has named them. TB will get "some subjects in readiness for figuring" by CD’s date.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Albert Way
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Dec 1838
Source of text:
DAR 204: 148
Summary:
Congratulations on CD’s engagement.
In answer to CD’s request, tells him how to locate an artist who made excellent sketches of Scotland, and probably of Glen Roy. AW himself made a sketch of the Glen which he offers to CD [Collected papers 1: 88].
Contributor:
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From:
John Stevens Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Dec 1838
Source of text:
DAR 204: 166
Summary:
On his 15th wedding anniversary JSH writes to CD wishing him happiness as great as JSH has had in his marriage, and adds some advice.
Contributor:
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From:
William Yarrell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 17 Dec 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 205.7: 287
Summary:
Extract of a letter from Sir Robert Heron to WY, copied for CD, about the crossing of solid- and divided-hoofed pigs, and Angora rabbits of different colours.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Adam Sedgwick
Date:
21 [Dec 1838]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library Add 7652 IB: 175
Summary:
CD informs AS of the position of the Council of the Geological Society on recommending J. B. Jukes for a geological survey of Newfoundland. Feels Jukes’s application would have best chance of success if Sedgwick, his Professor at Cambridge, wrote a letter.
Contributor:
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From:
William Yarrell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Dec 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 205.7: 286
Summary:
A "Zoological memorandum" for CD with an extract from L. Hindmarsh, "On the wild cattle of Chillingham Park" [Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 2 (1838): 274–84].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood
Date:
[May 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 154: 53
Summary:
His books grow in size. Hopes to bring out work on volcanic islands and coral formations in the autumn or winter. The Journal of researches will not be published until autumn [actually not until 1839]. Whewell and Lyell flatter him about it. Has given up all society.
Contributor:
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Correspondent
- Darwin, C. R.
- Darwin, Emma15
- Wedgwood, Emma15
- Darwin, S. E.3
- Darwin, Caroline2
- Henslow, J. S.2
- Langton, Charlotte2
- Wedgwood, Caroline2
- Wedgwood, Charlotte2
- Yarrell, William2
- Bell, Thomas1
- Darwin, E. A.1
- FitzRoy, Robert1
- Fox, W. D.1
- Haliburton, S. H.1
- Henslow, Harriet1
- Horner, Leonard1
- Jenyns, Harriet1
- Mostyn Owen, S. H.1
- Mostyn Owen, William1
- Royle, J. F.1
- Sedgwick, Adam1
- Sulivan, B. J.1
- Walker, Francis1
- Way, Albert1
- Williams, S. H.1
- Wynne, [–] (a)1