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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Kemp
Date:
1[8] May [1840]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/2)
Summary:

Encloses a copy of his Glen Roy paper. Asks for more details of Kemp’s work on the terraces of the Eildon hills.

Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
[27 Feb 1840]
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Summary:

Has been unwell. Publication of two numbers [of Zoology] has been delayed. Thought first Fish number good.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
5 Apr [1840]
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Summary:

Health is improved, but would do anything to get strong again. Is consulting his father; will return to London soon to see B. W. Hawkins.

Will send MS [of Fish, no. 2] to the printer, and be there when LJ comes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[5 Apr 1840]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 5
Summary:

An amusing description of his railway journey to Shrewsbury.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Washington; Royal Geographical Society
Date:
16 May 1840
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society
Summary:

Has much pleasure "in accepting the honour of being proposed as a member of the Council of the Geographical Society".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project