From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1839–82]
Source of text:
Raptis Rare Books (dealers) (June 2018 item 69022)
Summary:
Is glad addressee’s lectures are going well.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
[1839 – Apr 1840]
Source of text:
Charles Hamilton (dealer) (13 June 1974)
Summary:
Delighted by RO’s discussion in this sheet. RO should return revises to printer and get remaining ones.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Woodbine Parish
Date:
[Jan 1839?]
Source of text:
Shuttleworth 1910 , p. 412 n.
Summary:
Likes WP’s book [Buenos Ayres and the province of La Plata (1838)]. Thinks it will interest all "who care for graver things than what the traveller eats and says to the Señoritas".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[1839 – Aug 1842]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add 37191: 297)
Summary:
Is so unwell today that he is unable to come [to CB’s party].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Maurice Herbert
Date:
[Jan 1839 – Sept 1842]
Source of text:
Bonhams, New York (dealers) (11 December 2013)
Summary:
Suggests the names of two bird-preservers for JMH’s friend.
In reference to an earlier letter, replies: "As for Birds of Paradise from the West Indies, tell that to the marines, as we used to say on board the Beagle".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Stokes
Date:
[1839 – Sept 1842]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection
Summary:
Sends observations he made on Fungia during Beagle voyage. Asks CS to make corrections in style or names of parts as he sees fit.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Shillinglaw; Royal Geographical Society
Date:
[1839 – May 1842]
Source of text:
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (GEN/D/DARWIN (C)/4)
Summary:
Asks for volumes of F. W. Beechey’s work [Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and Bering Strait (1831)] and Nautical magazine and an order on [John] Arrowsmith for atlas of Dumont d’Urville’s Voyage in the "Astrolabe".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project