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DCP-LETT-1103F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Salt
Date:
27 July [1849]
Source of text:
Rachel Salt (private collection); sold by Spink’s (dealers), July 2018
Summary:

Returns the enclosed from his brother [Erasmus Alvey Darwin]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1248

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
3 July [1849]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.79)
Summary:

Discusses CL’s Second visit to the United States [1849]. Corrects CL’s error regarding location of Megatherium finds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1249

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
7 [July 1849]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 74)
Summary:

Continues water-cure treatment at home and must do so for a year. Considers himself absolutely cured.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

SOMERVILLE366

From:
Alexander von Humboldt
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
12 Jul 1849
Source of text:
MSH 6 / 355, Dep. c. 370, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE510

From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Murray III
Date:
18 Jul 1849
Source of text:
102, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
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Faraday2204a

From:
Mary Buckland
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
July 1849
Source of text:
Gordon (1894), 257
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2205

From:
Warren De La Rue
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
6 July 1849
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online

Faraday2206

From:
Benjamin Collins Brodie
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
7 July 1849
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online

Faraday2207

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Benjamin Collins Brodie
Date:
9 July 1849
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 3
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2208

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Arthur-Auguste De La Rive
Date:
9 July 1849
Source of text:
BPUG MS 2316, f.65-6
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2209

From:
Benjamin Collins Brodie
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
10 July 1849
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2210

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Benjamin Collins Brodie
Date:
16 July 1849
Source of text:
RI MS F1 C32
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2211

From:
William Thomson
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
24 July 1849
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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HENSLOW-249

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Leonard Jenyns
Date:
28 July 1849
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution Jenyns Collection Letter 3022
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

Herschel11657

From:
E[neas] MacKintosh
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 July 1849]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.22
Summary:

Was not at home when JH's letter arrived. Appointment of John [JH's son] is to all intents JH's own, and Leslie Melville will sanction any appropriation JH may desire. Thinks that JH and his wife should consider the situation before embarking further.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11659

From:
E[neas] MacKintosh
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
2 July [1849]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.24
Summary:

Has judged wisely for Willie [JH's son] in the present uncertain state of his health. Theodore Hope has just returned from Madeira to take his place at College. Will visit the Herschels before they set out for the Pyrenees.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11784

From:
Thomas Maclear
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 July 1849]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.144
Summary:

Has had four men working on the Dome to complete it before the bad weather. Has not heard who has been appointed to Madras. The candidate from the Cape is in financial difficulties. Tide reductions are progressing. Outlines the disturbances caused by the expected arrival of the convicts.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12835

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Eneas Mackintosh
Date:
[13 July 1849]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0239; Reel 1054
Summary:

Efforts by Duncan Stewart to provide new career for brother Peter Stewart, whose mischief created economic ruin, left Duncan Stewart in difficult financial situation. JH is willing to relinquish EM's appointment to Haileybury College for JH's son John and to seek position for John at [Royal Military Academy,] Woolwich, if EM would transfer recommendation to Haileybury from JH's son John to Duncan Stewart's second son.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7955

From:
Charles Wheatstone
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 July 1849]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.156
Summary:

Lists seven French and German works [1837-1847] on optical science. Comments on one. Quotes copyright law on reproducing passages from these.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8853

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[15 July 1849]
Source of text:
Univ. of London Library
Summary:

Thanks for present of Thomas Wright's books [An Original Theory of the Universe, 1750]. Finds it curious. Suggests that it is conceptually as distant from 1849 as the ancients were from it. Praises printing of its plates.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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