From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[Feb 1839 – Aug 1842]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 37191: 298)
Summary:
Asks permission to bring Fanny Allen to CB’s party.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. Feb 1839]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 14
Summary:
Discusses CD’s religious doubts. Fears his work may lead him to discount what cannot be proved, and advises that there are some things which, "if true are likely to be above our comprehension" and "that there is a danger in giving up revelation".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
19 [Feb 1839 - Aug 1842]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 37191: 299)
Summary:
Asks to be allowed to bring his sister to CB’s party "that she may see the World".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Young Spearman, 1st baronet
Date:
4 Feb 1839
Source of text:
The National Archives (TNA) (T1/4524 paper 25824)
Summary:
Submits the account of Smith, Elder & Co. for the third number of part two and second number of part three of the Zoology.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Stevens Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Feb 1839
Source of text:
DAR 204: 167
Summary:
Writes to CD as "Brother Benedick" and sends hearty good wishes for health and happiness in marriage. They are sending a little silver candlestick for a wax taper.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Whewell
Date:
16 Feb [1839]
Source of text:
Trinity College Library, Cambridge (Add c 88: 4)
Summary:
Asks WW to alter, before printing, the passages in WW’s Presidential Address to the Geological Society [Proc. Geol. Soc. Lond. 3 (1839): 93] which pointedly allude to the delay in publication of CD’s Beagle journal; they might annoy FitzRoy, who, as Captain, has a right to first use of the papers of all officers on board.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, 2nd Marquess of Northampton
To:
Lord Northampton
Date:
11 February 1839
Source of text:
MM/12/45, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, 2nd Marquess of Northampton
To:
Lord Northampton
Date:
14 February 1839
Source of text:
MM/12/47, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Peter Mark Roget
To:
P M Roget
Date:
14 February 1839
Source of text:
MM/12/48, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
20 Feb 1839
Source of text:
MSQ 1 / 5, Dep. c. 372, Bod, MS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Edward Magrath
Date:
1 February 1839
Source of text:
WIHM MS FALF
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
James Walker
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
4 February 1839
Source of text:
RI MS F1 I036
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Davies Gilbert
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
7 February 1839
Source of text:
RI MS F1 I020
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Henry Thomas De La Beche
Date:
8 February 1839
Source of text:
British Geological Survey MS GSM1/1 (p.66)
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Charles William Pasley
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
9 February 1839
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
H. Williamson
Date:
12 February 1839
Source of text:
APS Misc MS Collection
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Alexander Philip Wilson Philip
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
13 February 1839
Source of text:
RI MS F3 D169
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Frederick William Herschel
Date:
14 February 1839
Source of text:
RS MS HS 7.181
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
18 February 1839
Source of text:
UB MS NS 328
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
John Lindley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 February 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.224
Summary:
Will be pleased to examine the dried plants. Send them to the Horticultural Society's Garden, Turnham Green.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project