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DCP-LETT-314

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Thomas Whitley
Date:
24 Oct [1836]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 41567: 248–50)
Summary:

Congratulates CW on his marriage. Waiting in London till Beagle arrives in Woolwich.

Describes recent visit to Henslow in Cambridge.

At a loss to arrange specimens and observations.

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DCP-LETT-349

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[14 Mar 1837 – 31 Dec 1838]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 37190: 326)
Summary:

Would have had great pleasure in accepting CB’s invitation, "whether for beauty or for shells", but has another engagement.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-358

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[June – Sept 1837]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 37190: 322)
Summary:

At Lyell’s request sends his copy of Whewell’s History of inductive sciences [1837] to CB.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-351

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[1838]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 37191: 81)
Summary:

CD is much obliged for invitations to CB’s parties, but is afraid to accept because he would meet people to whom he has sworn he never goes out.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-357

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[21 Jan 1838]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 37190: 320)
Summary:

Asks Babbage to take small parcel to Henslow.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-476

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[1839 – Aug 1842]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add 37191: 297)
Summary:

Is so unwell today that he is unable to come [to CB’s party].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-470

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

DCP-LETT-479

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:
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DCP-LETT-508

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Gray
Date:
[June–Oct 1839]
Source of text:
The British Library (Egerton MS 2348: 235–6)
Summary:

Asks for some Anthus skins to examine [for Birds]. Fears they may turn out to be all one species. Sends details from his notes on Falkland Island specimens.

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DCP-LETT-474

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[Oct 1839 – Aug 1842]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 37191: 296)
Summary:

Regrets he cannot accept invitation. "My health will not at present stand going out in the evenings."

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-570

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
26 May [1840]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 37191: 294–5)
Summary:

Asks if he can bring his guests, J. C. L. and Mme [Simonde de] Sismondi and [Fanny] Allen, to CB’s parties.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-570F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[2 June? 1840]
Source of text:
The British Library (Charnwood Autographs Vol. IV Add MS 70951: 315)
Summary:

Can give no information on the separation of the sexes in the guanaco.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-581

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Gray
Date:
[20 Nov – 11 Dec 1840]
Source of text:
The British Library (Egerton MS 2348: 237–8)
Summary:

Thanks GRG for his gift [A list of the genera of birds (1840)] and trusts that now GRG will be able to finish John Gould’s MS for Zoology.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-587

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Gray
Date:
[Feb 1841]
Source of text:
The British Library (Egerton MS 2348: 239)
Summary:

In a revise [of Birds] CD has altered "Colaptes Chilensis Vigors" to "Chrysoptilus Chilensis G. R. Gray". Is that right?

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-589

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Gray
Date:
[Feb–Mar 1841]
Source of text:
The British Library (Egerton MS 2348: 240)
Summary:

Sends proof of index of final number of Birds for checking.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-653

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[Nov–Dec 1842]
Source of text:
The British Library (Surrogate RP 7381(i))
Summary:

Believes "absurd letter" hastily read at last Geological Society Council meeting was from Charlesworth’s solicitor. Suggests that it may have been sent to entrap the Council and that it should be read over carefully.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-697

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Pickworth Woodward
Date:
29 [Sept 1843]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 42579: 228–9)
Summary:

Says he will call tomorrow to examine indicated specimens and books at Geological Society.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-983G

From:
James Francis Stephens
To:
Robert Peel, 2d baronet
Date:
8 June 1846
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 40593: 187–91 Papers of Sir Robert Peel)
Summary:

Petitions for a Civil Pension.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1016

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Sharpe
Date:
[1 Nov 1846]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 37725: ff. 4–5)
Summary:

Discusses foliation and cleavage. Comments on dip of cleavage laminae in mountains. Mentions views of Sedgwick and Studer. Suggests reading C. L. von Buch [Travels through Norway and Lapland (1813)] "as an amusement". Praises views of William Hopkins. Suggests reading paper by H. D. Rogers ["On cleavage of slate-strata", Edinburgh New Philos. J. 41 (1846): 422–3)]. Comments on the paper.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1052

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Sharpe
Date:
[19 Jan 1847]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 42240: 21–2)
Summary:

Comments on letter by Bernhard Studer ["Remarks on the geological relations of the gneiss of the Alps", Edinburgh New Philos. J. 42 (1846–7): 186] and on article by DS ["On slaty cleavage", J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 3 (1847): 74–105]. Discusses geological cleavage and foliation.

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