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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Gage
Date:
22 January 1838
Source of text:
ULC MS Hengrave 21/9
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
[–] Wynne
Date:
[Feb–July 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 206: 42
Summary:
Questions on breeding and habits.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Fullerton Lindsay-Carnegie
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[14 Feb 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 170: 3
Summary:
Impressed by CD’s theory [of earthworm action].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert FitzRoy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Feb 1838
Source of text:
DAR 204: 145
Summary:
His work [on vol. 2 of Narrative] is going slowly.
Has no objection to anything in CD’s excellent volume. CD should "entertain no further scruple on that subject".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Bastard James
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[c. 10 Mar 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 168: 43
Summary:
Sends four samples of dust blown on board his ship from the coast of Africa, nearly 400 miles away, during four days in March 1838. Gives careful descriptions and relates the tests he made of it [see Collected papers 1: 200].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[26 Mar 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A1–2
Summary:
Declines Ray Club dinner; too busy with Zoology.
Thanks JSH for presenting his work to Cambridge Philosophical Society.
Asks him to get an answer from W. H. Miller on specimen of crystallised mineral.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Justus Radius
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
30 March 1838
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 274
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
Date:
[1 Apr 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 223: 39
Summary:
FitzRoy is hard at work on his book [Narrative, vol. 2].
CD’s health is improved.
Describes his visit to zoo.
Gives news of E. A. Darwin and Harriet Martineau.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Leonard Horner
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Apr [1838]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 1
Summary:
Postpones meeting with CD because he must attend House of Commons for Factory Amendment Act.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
Date:
[26 Apr 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 92: A5–6
Summary:
Thanks for ham and corrections in spelling. Gives account of his social activities in past week.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood
Date:
[May 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 154: 53
Summary:
His books grow in size. Hopes to bring out work on volcanic islands and coral formations in the autumn or winter. The Journal of researches will not be published until autumn [actually not until 1839]. Whewell and Lyell flatter him about it. Has given up all society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
Date:
[15 May 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 223: 38
Summary:
Recounts dinner at Erasmus’ house with Harriet Martineau and others, and a visit to Cambridge to stay with Henslow and meet old friends again.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Forbes Royle
Date:
[24 May 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 397
Summary:
Would like to attend a lecture by JFR on "geography of plants with relation to the Himalayas".
"A grand battle" at the Geological Society between Sedgwick and G. B. Greenough.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Walker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 July [1838]
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 293
Summary:
Thanks CD for suggestions for improving his descriptions of species by indicating localities. With few exceptions the Chalcidites of South America and Australia are remarkably like European species.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[7 Aug 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 3
Summary:
His [first] railway journey was disappointing.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Oct 1838
Source of text:
DAR 39: 18–19
Summary:
Reports arrival at Falklands; weather conditions, and unsuccessful search he made for a geological formation CD had seen. Describes cliffs, streams, rocks, and lines of elevation; includes two drawings.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. Nov 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 173
Summary:
Reports on the effects of inbreeding in dogs and the results of crossing Canada and common geese.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
W. Brougham
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
10 November 1838
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 43
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[11 Nov 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 173
Summary:
Expresses her pleasure at CD’s engagement.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton
Date:
[13 Nov 1838]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 174
Summary:
Hopes the Darwins in Shrewsbury will help her convince CD that he must not hurry their marriage too greatly. Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood [II] adds a postscript to the same effect.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project