From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[24 Jan 1840]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A3–4
Summary:
Sends specimens from Indian Ocean atolls.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert FitzRoy
Date:
[20 Feb 1840]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 117
Summary:
Poor health has made him give up all geological work.
Profits on their volumes [of Narrative] seem absurdly small.
Looks back on Beagle voyage as the most fortunate circumstance in his life.
Finds marriage a great happiness.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Maclaren
To:
Thomas Walker
Date:
30 Mar 1840
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/1) (gift of Ruth Cramond and David Cramond)
Summary:
CD has asked CM whether he can supply William Kemp’s address, and CM passes the enquiry to TW.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[5 Apr 1840]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 5
Summary:
An amusing description of his railway journey to Shrewsbury.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Benjamin Silliman, Sr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Apr 1840
Source of text:
DAR 204: 184
Summary:
Thanks CD for a copy of his Journal of researches which is "not second in interest and instruction to any work of the kind I have ever read".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Kemp
Date:
1[1] May [1840]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/2) (gift of Ruth Cramond and David Cramond)
Summary:
CD has read WK’s abstract in the Scotsman, 15 February 1840, p. 3, and asks for further details.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 May 1840
Source of text:
DAR 177: 274
Summary:
Gives CD the results of some calculations for "dip" over different distances, as requested.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
3 July [1840]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A5–6
Summary:
Describes an orange tree with curious "horned" fruit; sends specimen. Asks if the horns represent "metamorphoses of some organ into the fruit orange".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Jean-Charles Léonard de Sismondi; Jessie Allen; Jessie de Sismondi
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
1 July 1840
Source of text:
DAR 177: 175
Summary:
Sismondi’s appreciation of CD’s Journal of researches.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[22 July 1840]
Source of text:
DAR 261.11: 24 (EH 88206076)
Summary:
Reference to W. Smellie’s Natural history [1791] requested by CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Stevens Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Nov 1840
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 236
Summary:
Would like further experimentation to confirm report about germination of wheat from Egyptian tombs. Sir G. Wilkinson may have been deceived by the Arabs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Stevens Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Nov 1840
Source of text:
DAR 109: A86
Summary:
Reports on abortive anthers in flowers of thyme sent by CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Hannah Charlotte Scott, Lady Scott Douglas; Hannah Charlotte Scott Douglas, Lady Scott Douglas; Hannah Charlotte Scott Kerr, Lady Scott Douglas
To:
William Kemp
Date:
3 Jun 1840
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/5)
Summary:
Thanks WK for his help recovering her belongings, and enclosing half a sovereign.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
Text Online
From:
Charles Maclaren
To:
Thomas Walker
Date:
30 Mar 1840
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/1a)
Summary:
Charles Darwin has asked for William Kemp’s address in order to send him a copy of his paper on Glenroy and to ask him some questions.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
Text Online
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Kemp
Date:
1[8] May [1840]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/2)
Summary:
Encloses a copy of his Glen Roy paper. Asks for more details of Kemp’s work on the terraces of the Eildon hills.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
Text Online
From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
20 May 1840
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/3)
Summary:
The bearer of the letter, Thomas Smibert, is a friend of RC and his brother, William Chambers. RC would like WK to show him the raised beaches.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
Text Online
From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
[before 4 June 1840]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/4)
Summary:
The bearer of the letter, Lady Scott Douglas, wishes to see the terraces at Galashiels if she can do so without exertion. Thomas Smibert’s visit has been delayed.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
Text Online
From:
W. B. Carpenter
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
7 February 1840
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 64
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
W. B. Carpenter
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
17 March 1840
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 65
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Anna Carpenter
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
1850
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 60
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project