From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Crawford Hyndman
Date:
16 Apr [1852]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.101)
Summary:
Thanks GCH for Balanus specimens.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John William Parker
Date:
5 May [1852]
Source of text:
Stationers’ Company (Records Pt XI (III) J. W. Parker: autograph letters from authors (TSC/1/F/07/22))
Summary:
As an author of some scientific works CD is of the opinion that each bookseller should settle, each for himself, the retail price.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Dwight Dana
Date:
8 May [1852]
Source of text:
Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 43)
Summary:
Gratified by JDD’s opinion of his work.
Discusses problem of homologies of cirripede larva in first stage and reasons for his view.
JDD’s information on corals was just what CD needed.
Would like specimen of blind cave rat described by B. Silliman [Jr] ["On the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 11 (1851): 336] for Waterhouse to examine.
Discusses origin of Australian valleys; he disagrees with JDD’s river-erosion hypothesis.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Norton Shaw; Royal Geographical Society
Date:
17 May [1852]
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society
Summary:
Asks for catalogue and latest number of the Journal [of the Royal Geographical Society].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
19 June [1852]
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/54)
Summary:
Discusses his account and rent reduction. Comments on agricultural prices.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
17 July [1852]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/188)
Summary:
Gratified by what RO says about his book [Living Cirripedia, vol. 1 (1851)]. The anatomical work is the only part he is really interested in; finds the "mere systematic part infinitely tedious"; but will be surprised if he is ever proved wrong on the males of Ibla and Scalpellum.
Contributor:
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From:
John Higgins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 July 1852
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/2/2)
Summary:
Explains the effects of the falling prices of wheat and cattle on the rents from CD’s and his sister Susan Elizabeth Darwin’s farms.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
29 July [1852]
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/2/3)
Summary:
Thanks JH for his exposition of the effects of falling grain and lifestock prices on farm income.
Contributor:
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From:
John Higgins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 July 1852
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/2/5)
Summary:
Asks for more information about CD’s idea of a ‘more permanent arrangement’ with his tenant.
Explains the drawback of a lease or a corn rent.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
2 Aug [1852]
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/2/6)
Summary:
Discusses rent reduction and possibility of a lease.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Ransome
Date:
5 Aug [1852]
Source of text:
Yale University Medical Historical Library, Harvey Cushing / John Hay Whitney Medical Library (William Finkelstein autograph collection 1747–1979 (MS 19th cent+) vol. 2)
Summary:
Forwards an order for £1 1s in response to a circular from Ipswich Museum.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
27 Aug [1852]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 4
Summary:
Thanks for his letter; hopes he is managing all right [at Rugby?].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Waterhouse
Date:
8 Sept [1852]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Knows no one in Buenos Aires. Suggests sites in South America where Auguste Bravard can find fossils.
Ray Society has delayed distribution [of Living Cirripedia (1851)].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III
Date:
21 Oct [1852]
Source of text:
DAR 210.10: 17
Summary:
Informs JW of his intention to sell his N. W. Railway shares.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
24 [Oct 1852]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 81)
Summary:
News of his health; has been well of late, but cannot stand excitement. Hereditary weakness is another of his bugbears.
At work on cirripedes – "I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before."
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III
Date:
20 Nov 1852
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 1019)
Summary:
A statement of payments made by trustees to CD and by CD to trustees for the years 1851 and 1852.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Johnston
Date:
23 Nov 1852
Source of text:
DAR 146: 6
Summary:
Recommends GJ for Government pension.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Dwight Dana
Date:
25 Nov [1852]
Source of text:
Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 43)
Summary:
Thanks JDD for information.
Discusses Acasta sporillus.
Comments on review of first volume of Living Cirripedia [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 14 (1852): 125–7].
Asks JDD to examine Lerneidae.
Will read with interest the geographical discussion of Crustacea when JDD’s volume [Crustacea (1852–5)] appears. John Lubbock will purchase a copy.
Discusses error in Living Cirripedia.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet
Date:
17 Dec [1852]
Source of text:
Ripon College, Lane Library
Summary:
At request of Edward Forbes sends vol. 1 of Living Cirripedia and vol. 1 of Fossil Cirripedia.
Calls attention to sexual relations of Ibla and Scalpellum.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
18 Dec [1852]
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/58)
Summary:
Discusses his account. Mentions the rent.
Contributor:
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