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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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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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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.

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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