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DCP-LETT-516

From:
Robert FitzRoy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[2 or 16] June 1839
Source of text:
DAR 204: 144
Summary:

Has not yet had time to read CD’s Journal of researches attentively. He is sure there is no expression referring to himself personally that he could wish were not in it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-522

From:
Robert FitzRoy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 June [1839]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 147
Summary:

Robert Brown has mistreated Capt. P. P. King by holding back for nine years the plants collected on King’s voyage of the Adventure and Beagle.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-555

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

Herschel9504

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert FitzRoy
Date:
[2 February 1841]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.249
Summary:

Returning some papers that should have been returned earlier. Hopes all are well.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9505

From:
Robert FitzRoy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 February 1841]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.250
Summary:

Was pleased to receive the letter and old papers. Remembers his time at the Cape with pleasure. Has been interested, but not convinced, by J. C. Ross's soundings.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-667

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert FitzRoy
Date:
31 Mar [1843]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 118
Summary:

Congratulates FitzRoy on his appointment as Governor of New Zealand. Wants to see him and his wife before their departure. Proposes to call on them in London next Thursday.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1002

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert FitzRoy
Date:
1 Oct 1846
Source of text:
DAR 144: 119
Summary:

Has just heard of RF’s return [from New Zealand]. Hopes to see him.

CD and family are well, but he is a different man in strength and energy from when he was "Flycatcher" in the Beagle.

Has just finished his book [South America].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1014

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert FitzRoy
Date:
28 Oct [1846]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 120
Summary:

Has read RF’s pamphlet on New Zealand [Remarks on New Zealand (1846)]. Sympathises with his difficulties as Governor.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1030

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert FitzRoy
Date:
23 Nov [1846]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 121a
Summary:

J. D. Hooker has described Capt. King’s Tierra del Fuego plants and CD’s Galapagos plants [in Flora Antarctica, pt 2 (1847)] which have extraordinary interest and novelty.

A malicious person has sent George Grey, Governor of New Zealand, a letter CD had written to J. L. Stokes, containing a derogatory statement likening Grey’s expedition to "a set of school boys".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel1154

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert FitzRoy
Date:
[1852 or later]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.14.11
Summary:

Is trying to help RF understand the difference between the dynamics of solid bodies moving over each other and the dynamics of moving fluids, both water and air.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9506

From:
Robert FitzRoy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 April 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.251
Summary:

Sending some publications to show the kind of work he is doing. Has read JH's Admiralty Manual and congratulates him on its authority. Has been reading J. P. Espy's Fourth Report. Note of W. J. S. Pullen's soundings in the South Atlantic.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9507

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert FitzRoy
Date:
[10 April 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.229
Summary:

Comments on wind and current charts JH has received from RF.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9508

From:
Robert FitzRoy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 May 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.252
Summary:

Entirely agrees with his views on M. F. Maury. Is surprised at David Brewster's review of Maury's work. Would JH comment on RF's work on weather forecasting.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9510

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert FitzRoy
Date:
[22 August 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.304
Summary:

Asks for meteorological data that RF may have collected.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9511

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert FitzRoy
Date:
[22 October 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.311
Summary:

Asks for information about wrecks at sea and lives lost.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4057

From:
Robert FitzRoy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 October 1860]
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:

Tells JH he will search for the requested weather data. Encloses 'Weather Reports in the Newspaper.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9512

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert FitzRoy
Date:
[24 October 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.312
Summary:

Thanks for a number of RF's writings; asks for more rainfall data to try to establish a relationship between rainfall and the solar cycle.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4377

From:
Robert FitzRoy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 October 1860]
Source of text:
Harvard: Houghton AAH 67m-67 (67)
Summary:

Reports that rainfall information is not as complete as should be. Describes available data from Meteorological Department. Thanks JH for comments on his work.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4301

From:
Robert FitzRoy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 October 1860]
Source of text:
Harvard: Houghton AAH 67m-67 (68)
Summary:

Discusses data gathering from 'the colonies.' Forwards a Scottish publication on meteorology.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4302

From:
Robert FitzRoy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 October 1860]
Source of text:
Harvard: Houghton AAH 67m-67 (69)
Summary:

Sends more data and papers on meteorological matters. Discusses weather observations by C. P. Smyth.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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