Text Online
From:
Faraday report
To:
Trinity House
Date:
October 1836
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/A1, pp.1-23
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Maclear
Date:
[1836-10]
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:
Asks for TM's barometer and thermometer readings for 20-28 September.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Fairbairn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 October 1836]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.146
Summary:
Comments on the wise measures introduced for the governing of the Cape Colony. Has taken over the editorship of a periodical and intends to introduce some of the best local writers. Would welcome JH's advice.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[3 October 1836]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0581.4.b; Reel 1058
Summary:
Confident that 1837 will be his last year in Africa. JH's catalog of nebulae and double stars is nearly complete. Has a series of observations of Halley's Comet from 1836-1-25 to 1836-5-5. Although JH is too busy to undertake any magnetic studies, he has been providing information about Carl Gauss's magnetometer to the new observatory in Bombay. Recalls that Charles Babbage mentioned the 'principle' of Gauss's method 'at least 10 or 12 years' ago.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert FitzRoy
Date:
[3 October 1836]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.248 & 21.216 & 25.5.2
Summary:
Sends a copy of the printed paper by RF. Regarding chronometer measurements. Has just received a communication from Alexander von Humboldt in which he seems to have anticipated both JH's and RF's ideas. Comments on a new machine for sounding.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood
To:
Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood
Date:
[5 Oct 1836]
Source of text:
DAR 185
Summary:
CD has come home – little altered in looks and otherwise not a bit changed. He will go to London to be there when Beagle arrives, and he and Caroline will visit Maer soon.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Mostyn Owen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Oct [1836]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 138
Summary:
Welcomes CD home; urges him to come to Woodhouse.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Josiah Wedgwood, II
Date:
[5 Oct 1836]
Source of text:
DAR 185
Summary:
Happily home, he sends thanks to his "first Lord of the Admiralty". Will visit Maer in two or three weeks.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert FitzRoy
Date:
6 Oct [1836]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 114
Summary:
CD describes his happy home-coming. Finds his family and Shrewsbury unchanged.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
6 Oct [1836]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 31 DAR/1/1/31)
Summary:
His joy at being home. Anxious to see JSH for advice on his geological specimens.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Maclear
Date:
12] October [1836
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:
Compares JH's and TM's barometric readings. Criticizes Pierre Morin's work.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Maclear
Date:
[13 October 1836]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.95 (C: RS:HS 21.212)
Summary:
Reports on JH's actinometer observations. Explains why he subscribed to 'Col. [Harry] Smith's piece of plate.'
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Fairbairn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 October 1836]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.147
Summary:
Sending a few more of the 'examinations.' Also sends an extract of a letter from Mr. Philips. The English papers have got hold of Charles Grant's (Baron Glenelg) dispatches.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
the R.A.S.
Date:
[18 October 1836]
Source of text:
R.A.S.Mem., 10 (1938), 325-36
Summary:
Reports in detail JH's observations of Halley's Comet as observed from the Cape of Good Hope.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Robert FitzRoy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[19–]20 Oct [1836]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 135
Summary:
Sends news of his movements since Beagle put in at Falmouth. His charts are safe and already being engraved.
Announces his engagement.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Percy Drummond
Date:
20 October 1836
Source of text:
RMA WO150 / 16, f.139
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Antonio Lombardi
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
23 October 1836
Source of text:
RS MS 241, f.70
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood
Date:
24 Oct [1836]
Source of text:
DAR 154: 48
Summary:
Last four days have been spent calling on naturalists. Geologists have been kind, but zoologists seem to think a number of undescribed creatures a nuisance.
Will send his belongings to Cambridge, but eventually his quarters must be London.
FitzRoy is to be married.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Monck Mason
To:
Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex
Date:
24 October 1836
Source of text:
MM/14/150, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Mackintosh; Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood
Date:
[24 Oct 1836]
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS WM 233)
Summary:
They are impatient for CD’s arrival.
EW is reading F. Head’s "gallop" [Rapid journeys across the Pampas (1826)] "to get up a little knowledge for him".
CD has nearly settled in favour of living in Cambridge.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project