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DCP-LETT-1170

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Phillips
Date:
[7 or 14] Apr 1848
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History Archive Collections (John Phillips collection))
Summary:

Some geologists (especially H. T. De la Beche) doubt boulders have really been carried above their parent rock, but rather thought they were left behind as a result of denudation. Asks JP’s view of this, which he can quote. Supposes he will be well abused for his paper, but is resolved "not to show a white feather".

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DCP-LETT-1171

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
[May 1848]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 305
Summary:

May go to Paris next summer about barnacles.

Unable to appreciate second volume of Alexander von Humboldt’s Cosmos [1848].

Recommends review by Sir John Herschel [Edinburgh Rev. 87 (1848): 170–229].

Recommends book by Mary Somerville [Physical geography (1848)].

Mentions article [on species] by M. E. Chevreul [Ann. Sci. Nat. (Bot.) 3d ser. 6 (1846): 142–214].

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DCP-LETT-1172

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
[8 May 1848]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Encloses his £3 subscription to JBI’s Sunday School. Asks to reduce it in the future to £2 per annum.

Has been unwell.

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DCP-LETT-1173

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Frederick William Herschel, 1st baronet
Date:
7 May [1848]
Source of text:
The Royal Society (HS6: 15)
Summary:

Sends MS of "Geology" for Manual [Collected papers 1: 227–50]. First parcel lost. Asks JFWH to give advice on an unclear note, translated from Élie de Beaumont, on measuring incline of lava-flows.

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DCP-LETT-1174

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 May 1848
Source of text:
DAR 114: 112
Summary:

Confident of species theory as result of applying it to cirripede sexual systems.

CD’s opinion of E. Blyth. JDH should meet Blyth, inquire about domesticated varieties, study insular flora, solve coal-plant problem.

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DCP-LETT-1175

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Frederick William Herschel, 1st baronet
Date:
11 May [1848]
Source of text:
The Royal Society (HS6: 12)
Summary:

Describes colour changes from blue to red in valves of operculum of the cirripede genus Ibla.

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DCP-LETT-1176

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[20–1 May 1848]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 27
Summary:

Reports on his father’s health, and Catherine’s. CD, himself, has been a little sick.

Hensleigh [Wedgwood] thinks he has settled the free-will question – "we have none whatsoever".

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DCP-LETT-1177

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[22 May 1848]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 28
Summary:

His health not good.

Has been reading John Evelyn’s Life of Mrs Godolphin, and Mme Sévigné.

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DCP-LETT-1178

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[23 May 1848]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 29
Summary:

Family news. Finds Shrewsbury too noisy.

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DCP-LETT-1179

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[25 May 1848]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 30
Summary:

Anxiety about R. W. Darwin’s health.

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DCP-LETT-1180

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[27–8 May 1848]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 31
Summary:

Has been unwell but is improving. His father also very ill.

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DCP-LETT-1181

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[21? June 1848]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.75)
Summary:

Comments on apology by Chambers for using some of CD’s material without acknowledgment in discussing Glen Roy. His opinion of Chambers’ book [Ancient sea-margins (1848)].

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DCP-LETT-1182

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Chambers
Date:
[June 1848]
Source of text:
DAR 50: C1–C2
Summary:

Congratulates RC on his work on Scottish sea-margins [Ancient sea-margins (1848)].

Discusses Glen Roy; Milne staggered him in favour of the glacier view, but now his opinion has reverted.

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DCP-LETT-1183

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Frederick William Herschel, 1st baronet
Date:
6 June [1848]
Source of text:
The Royal Society (HS6: 13)
Summary:

Sends two valves of Ibla.

In his chapter [for Manual, Collected papers 1: 227–50], he will strike out any part that JFWH wants struck out, but if much shortening is required it will need rewriting.

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DCP-LETT-1184

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
6 June [1848]
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/17)
Summary:

Mentions his account; visit to Lincolnshire by his sister [Susan Darwin].

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DCP-LETT-1185

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
14 June [1848]
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/20)
Summary:

Discusses possible land transactions.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1186

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[16 June 1848]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.73)
Summary:

Comments on Ann Susan Horner’s escape in a dangerous incident at sea.

Compares addresses by William Buckland and CL, delivered at recent meeting of the Geological Society.

Discusses the views on Glen Roy in Chambers’ Ancient sea-margins [1848].

Speculates that Chambers wrote Vestiges [of creation (1844)].

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DCP-LETT-1187

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Edward Gray
Date:
28 [June 1848]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.74)
Summary:

Mentions returning borrowed book by Camillo Ranzani.

Discusses loan of cirripede specimens from British Museum. "In truth never will a mountain in labour have brought forth such a mouse as my book on the Cirripedia. It is ridiculous the time each species takes me."

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DCP-LETT-1188

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
[5 or 12] July 1848
Source of text:
DAR 143: 306
Summary:

Has written to William Buckland, recommending EC for position.

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DCP-LETT-1188F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin; Nassau William Senior; John Stevens Henslow; Baden Powell; Bonamy Price; Thomas Jodrell Phillips; Thomas Jodrell Phillips-Jodrell; James Heywood; Edmund Walker Head, 8th baronet; Thomas James Agar Robartes; Philip le Breton; George Nugent Grenville, 2d Baron Nugent of Carlanstown; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet; Harry Calvert, 2d baronet; Harry Verney, 2d baronet; Peter John Locke King; Henry Galgacus Redhead Yorke; Joseph Kay; Edward France Percival; Edward Horsman; Erasmus Alvey Darwin; Hensleigh Wedgwood; Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
Date:
[10 July 1848]
Source of text:
Cambridge Pamphlets, Folio Series, vol. 4: CUL Cam.a.500.5/124
Summary:

Ask JR to advise the Queen to issue Her Royal Commission of Inquiry into the best methods of securing the improvement of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.

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