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DCP-LETT-11271F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter; William Baxter
Date:
8 Dec [1842-81]
Source of text:
University of Otago, Special Collections (MS 49)
Summary:

Orders large pot of spermaceti ointment.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13828

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Edward Mudie; Mary Kingsford Pawling; Mary Kingsford Mudie
Date:
10 Dec [1842-5 or 1855-68]
Source of text:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Charles E. Mudie Collection, 1816–1897: Correspondence, B29)
Summary:

Declines invitation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-654

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
[9 Dec 1842]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 64)
Summary:

CD likes Down House, describes countryside.

Tells of Edward Charlesworth fracas at Geological Society.

Is at work on Volcanic islands.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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KEMP18

From:
William Oliver
To:
William Kemp
Date:
26 Dec 1842
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/13)
Summary:

Thanks for Maclaren’s Sketch (Maclaren 1839 bibl_5120).

Has seen WK’s views on Rubers Law and commiserates with him on William Buckland’s disapproval.

David Milne (later David Milne Home) is preparing a paper on the geology of Roxburghshire. (Presumably Milne, David. 1842-3. Geological account of Roxburghshire. Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh (15) 1844, pp. 433-502.)

Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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Faraday1449

From:
Edward Stanley
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
1 December 1842
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1450

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Charles Bagot
Date:
3 December 1842
Source of text:
NAC MG 24, A 13, volume 2, f.742
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1451

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Dawson Turner
Date:
8 December 1842
Source of text:
TCC MS O.14.33, f.165
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1452

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Robert Faraday
Date:
10 December 1842
Source of text:
RI MS F1 B34
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1453

From:
Charles Bagot
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
11 December 1842
Source of text:
NAC MG 24, A 13, volume 5, pp.242-6
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1453a

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Robert William Sievier
Date:
16 December 1842
Source of text:
RI MS F1 F20
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1454

From:
William Robert Grove
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
19 December 1842
Source of text:
RI MS F1 I052a
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1455

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Robert Grove
Date:
21 December 1842
Source of text:
RI MS G F11
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1456

From:
Samuel Morison Brown
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
23 December 1842
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1457

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Samuel Morison Brown
Date:
26 December 1842
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 3
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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HENSLOW-216

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
William Whewell
Date:
29 December 1842
Source of text:
Trinity College Cambridge Whewell Add.Ms.a.65: 30
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

Herschel1073

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John William Draper
Date:
[5 December 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.6.16
Summary:

Comments on JD's work in photography; JH goes on to talk about JH's ideas of 'chemical' rays of light.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10743

From:
Robert Hunt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 December 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.95
Summary:

Was very pleased with the specimen JH sent him; it is still in good condition. Has he read [John William] Draper's paper? Comments on some of the points. Outlines some of his own proposed experiments.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10744

From:
Robert Hunt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 December 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.96
Summary:

Much indebted for his paper on the influence of the solar spectrum on vegetable colors. Has a series of experiments ready that he hopes will resolve some of his own doubts. Does not like the term J. W. Draper uses for the new rays.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10745

From:
Robert Hunt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 December 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.97
Summary:

Sends a few samples of plates made by the cyanotype process; they are poor because the sun has not been very strong of late. Comments on this process and wishes JH would make a few experiments with his more perfect apparatus. Inclined to agree with him about the mechanism of the eye.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1122

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Wheatstone
Date:
[4 December 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.11.4
Summary:

Sends CW a specimen of JH's 'mercurial photographic process.' JH is pleased that W. H. Fox Talbot received the Rumford medal.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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