From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
26 [Dec 1843 - Apr 1846 or Sept 1855 - Oct 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 311
Summary:
Says Hooker does not want plant.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
Date:
[1843 – 8 Mar 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 154: 91
Summary:
Reports events at Down.
The "atrocious doings" of "Old Price". Price’s dispute with Sir John Lubbock over a boundary fence.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Gould
Date:
[c. Oct 1846]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library Add 4251: 329
Summary:
Recommends Ernst Dieffenbach for expedition to Guatemala.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[1847 or 1848]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 329
Summary:
Replies to note from CL asking about views of glaciers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
[before May 1848?]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 303
Summary:
Obliged for account of change in quality of wool. "Some authors will not admit that climate has any perceptible action."
Hopes his health is re-established.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugh Falconer
Date:
[Dec? 1844]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 17
Summary:
Returns notes on mule yaks [see Natural selection, p. 438]
and sends queries on silkworms.
A bed is ready any time HF will come.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugh Falconer
Date:
1845-7 or 1857-64
Source of text:
DAR 144: 21
Summary:
Arranges a time for visiting HF.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Georgina Tollet
Date:
1 Oct [1846-71]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 140
Summary:
Describes results of experiments on cobwebs, "neither spider or anything else had caused a line to disappear". Apologises for having to draw this conclusion as she had cheered him so in his work on species.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[24 Jan 1840]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A3–4
Summary:
Sends specimens from Indian Ocean atolls.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert FitzRoy
Date:
[20 Feb 1840]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 117
Summary:
Poor health has made him give up all geological work.
Profits on their volumes [of Narrative] seem absurdly small.
Looks back on Beagle voyage as the most fortunate circumstance in his life.
Finds marriage a great happiness.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Kemp
Date:
1[1] May [1840]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/2) (gift of Ruth Cramond and David Cramond)
Summary:
CD has read WK’s abstract in the Scotsman, 15 February 1840, p. 3, and asks for further details.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
3 July [1840]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A5–6
Summary:
Describes an orange tree with curious "horned" fruit; sends specimen. Asks if the horns represent "metamorphoses of some organ into the fruit orange".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Stokes
Date:
[Jan–Mar 1842]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 91
Summary:
Returns snuff box.
Sends a microscope for repair.
Makes appointment to discuss some corals that he is sending.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
Date:
[22 Feb 1842]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 10
Summary:
Comments on birth [of Catherine Elizabeth Sophia Wedgwood].
Plans to visit Shrewsbury.
Describes behaviour of William Darwin.
Discusses speculation losses of acquaintances, including T. Carlyle’s. Mentions his own loss on Journal of researches.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Allport Leighton
Date:
[1–23 July 1841]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 39
Summary:
Tells WAL where specimen of Cynoglossum sylvaticum may be seen growing.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
Date:
[late July–Aug 1842]
Source of text:
DAR 92: A16–17
Summary:
Has made an offer for house at Down, renting having been refused. Discusses price, risks involved, and Edward Cresy’s advice.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
16 Sept [1842]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A7
Summary:
CD gives JSH Fuegian paints and spears and a Pacific dolphin hook for his museum.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Maclaren
Date:
[c. Feb 1843]
Source of text:
DAR 69: A94v
Summary:
[Written on CD’s annotated copy of a pamphlet reprint of CM’s review of Coral reefs.] CD asks CM to return the pamphlet to him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert FitzRoy
Date:
31 Mar [1843]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 118
Summary:
Congratulates FitzRoy on his appointment as Governor of New Zealand. Wants to see him and his wife before their departure. Proposes to call on them in London next Thursday.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Kemp
Date:
7 Apr [1843]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/14) (gift of Ruth Cramond and David Cramond)
Summary:
CD will sent seeds to specialists for identification.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Author
- Darwin, C. R.
- Breton, Philip le1
- Calvert, Harry1
- Darwin, E. A.1
- Farrer, T. H.1
- Grenville, G. N.1
- Head, E. W.1
- Henslow, J. S.1
- Heywood, James1
- Horsman, Edward1
- Kay, Joseph1
- King, P. J. L.1
- Lyell, Charles1
- Percival, E. F.1
- Phillips, T. J.1
- Phillips-Jodrell, T. J.1
- Powell, Baden1
- Price, Bonamy1
- Robartes, T. J. A.1
- Senior, N. W.1
- Verney, Harry1
- Wedgwood, Hensleigh1
- Yorke, H. G. R.1
Correspondent
- Darwin, C. R.
- Hooker, J. D.118
- Kemp, William24
- Darwin, Emma18
- Wedgwood, Emma18
- Henslow, J. S.15
- Darwin, S. E.9
- Cresy, Edward, Jr8
- FitzRoy, Robert5
- Darwin, Catherine3
- Horner, Leonard3
- Langton, Catherine3
- Lyell, Charles3
- Chambers, Robert2
- Darwin, E. A.2
- Falconer, Hugh2
- Royle, J. F.2
- Waterhouse, G. R.2
- Wedgwood, Josiah, III2
- Breton, Philip le1
- Calvert, Harry1
- Carpenter, W. B.1
- Davis, J. E.1
- De la Beche, H. T.1
- Denny, Henry1
- Farrer, T. H.1
- Gardeners’ Chronicle1
- Gould, John1
- Grenville, G. N.1
- Head, E. W.1
- Herbert, J. M.1
- Heywood, James1
- Horner, A. S.1
- Horner, M. E.1
- Horsman, Edward1
- Kay, Joseph1
- King, P. J. L.1
- Leighton, W. A.1
- Lloyd, A. S.1
- Lyell, M. E.1
- Maclaren, Charles1
- Norman, G. W.1
- Percival, E. F.1
- Phillips, T. J.1
- Phillips-Jodrell, T. J.1
- Powell, Baden1
- Price, Bonamy1
- Reeks, Trenham1
- Robartes, T. J. A.1
- Russell, John1
- Senior, N. W.1
- Sharpe, Daniel1
- Stokes, Charles1
- Stokes, J. L.1
- The Scotsman1
- Tollet, Georgina1
- Verney, Harry1
- Wedgwood, Hensleigh1
- Yorke, H. G. R.1