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DCP-LETT-490

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[20–1 Jan 1839]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 161
Summary:

Preparations for the wedding, various callers, and other bits of news.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-492

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[23 Jan 1839]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 162
Summary:

Responds warmly to his very nice letter. CD need have no fear that she will not be as happy as he.

Again expresses uneasiness that their opinions on religion do not agree on all points. Hopes they will sympathise in their feelings on the subject.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-493

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[26 Jan 1839]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 13
Summary:

He has the wedding ring. Agrees to coming straight home after the wedding, if that is what she prefers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-501

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Shoberl; Henry Colburn
Date:
[21 Mar 1839]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.18)
Summary:

Captain FitzRoy has no objection to appending advertisement of other works connected with Beagle voyage to CD’s volume [Journal of researches].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-510

From:
George Embury; George Tollet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[10 May 1839]
Source of text:
DAR 186: 51
Summary:

Replies to [Questions about breeding].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-527

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
15 July [1839]
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Summary:

Discusses details of LJ’s part of Zoology [Fish].

CD is working hard on Coral reefs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-536

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Washington; Royal Geographical Society
Date:
14 Oct [1839]
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society
Summary:

Returns proof-sheets of an article he has reviewed for the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society. He will find it useful when he comes to describe the Cordilleras of Chile.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-537

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Washington; Royal Geographical Society
Date:
[14 Oct 1839]
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society
Summary:

Returns proofs of J. O. French’s article ["Account of the province of La Rioja: S. America", J. R. Geogr. Soc. 9 (1839): 381–406].

Gratified by Humboldt’s praise of Journal of researches [J. R. Geogr. Soc. 9 (1839): 502].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-538

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
14 Oct [1839]
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Summary:

Informs LJ that Yarrell has recommended B. W. Hawkins to do the plates [for Fish]. Discusses arrangements to be made, number of plates, etc. Answers LJ’s questions about several specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-539

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
17 Oct [1839]
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Summary:

Discusses details of arrangements for descriptions and engravings [for Fish].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-540

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
[20 or 27] Oct 1839
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Summary:

Details regarding Fish. CD is astonished how many new things LJ has found: "four new genera is something".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-542

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood
Date:
[27 Oct 1839]
Source of text:
DAR 154: 54
Summary:

Describes his routine for a typical day – writing Coral reefs, studying German.

FitzRoy’s "Deluge Chapter" [Narrative 2, ch. 28] will amuse her.

His opinion of Carlyle’s Critical and miscellaneous essays [1839].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-544

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Washington; Royal Geographical Society
Date:
1 Nov [1839]
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society
Summary:

CD thinks report of a rock imbedded in an iceberg is remarkable; wants to write a note for the [Journal] about it. Asks for location of the sighting and a chart of the Antarctic Sea. [See "Rock seen on an iceberg", Collected papers 1: 137–9.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-511F

From:
Benjamin Silliman, Sr; Benjamin Silliman, Jr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin; William John Hamilton
Date:
24 May 1839
Source of text:
Geological Society of London (GSL/L/R/233)
Summary:

Thanks for copies of the Proceedings of the Geological Society of London, with a request for items (listed) missing from their set.

Offer to supply, if they can, any copies missing from the Geological Society’s run of the American Journal of Science.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-512

From:
Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Alphonse de Candolle
Date:
25 May [1839]
Source of text:
Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection)
Summary:

Invitation to dine at the Darwins’ with J. S. Henslow.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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