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DCP-LETT-1188F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin; Nassau William Senior; John Stevens Henslow; Baden Powell; Bonamy Price; Thomas Jodrell Phillips; Thomas Jodrell Phillips-Jodrell; James Heywood; Edmund Walker Head, 8th baronet; Thomas James Agar Robartes; Philip le Breton; George Nugent Grenville, 2d Baron Nugent of Carlanstown; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet; Harry Calvert, 2d baronet; Harry Verney, 2d baronet; Peter John Locke King; Henry Galgacus Redhead Yorke; Joseph Kay; Edward France Percival; Edward Horsman; Erasmus Alvey Darwin; Hensleigh Wedgwood; Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
Date:
[10 July 1848]
Source of text:
Cambridge Pamphlets, Folio Series, vol. 4: CUL Cam.a.500.5/124
Summary:

Ask JR to advise the Queen to issue Her Royal Commission of Inquiry into the best methods of securing the improvement of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1241

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
6 May 1849
Source of text:
DAR 145: 63 and Bernard Quaritch (dealers) (2023)
Summary:

Describes cold water cure he has been taking for two months at J. M. Gully’s establishment.

Plans to go to BAAS meeting at Birmingham if health improves.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1254

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[26 Sept 1849]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A92–A95
Summary:

Describes the Birmingham meeting [1849] of BAAS.

His health is poor. Continues with water-cure with considerable benefit.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1283

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[7 Oct 1849]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A89–A90
Summary:

Thanks JSH for information and suggestions on benefit clubs,

and for a shipment of fossil cirripedes.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1284

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[before 12 Oct 1849]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A91
Summary:

J. B. Innes is greatly obliged for JSH’s letter. JSH’s observation of chalk flints strikes CD as "very curious".

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1272

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
20 Nov [1849]
Source of text:
Princeton University Library (General MSS)
Summary:

Has had his portrait taken;

is anxious about scarlet fever among his children.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1293

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
17 Jan [1850]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A96–A97
Summary:

Announces birth of his fourth son, Leonard.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1463

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
11 Dec [1851]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A85–A88
Summary:

Sends cirripede specimens for Ipswich Museum.

Asks how much a village fireworks display would cost.

Comments on the need in education for good habits of expression and accurate observation instead of making "wretched Latin verses".

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1466F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[1852–60]
Source of text:
Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine (H MS c3.3)
Summary:

Sends an enclosure forwarded from Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1506

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
8 Mar [1853]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A21–A24
Summary:

CD has been reassured about his "speculation" in Mr Warren’s company. Thanks JSH for his advice and trouble.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1510

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
31 Mar [1853]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A52
Summary:

Would like to meet JSH in London.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1554

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
20 Feb [1854]
Source of text:
California State Library, San Francisco, Sutro Library (Crocker collection: folder #11)
Summary:

Honoured and gratified by the dedication [to CD] of Hooker’s book [Himalayan journals].

News of Lyell from Madeira.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1586

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
2 Sept [1854]
Source of text:
California State Library, San Francisco, Sutro Library (Crocker collection: folder #11)
Summary:

Sends his comments on JSH’s MS on cirripedes ["On typical objects in natural history", Rep. BAAS (1855): 108–26].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1602

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
17 Nov [1854]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.109)
Summary:

Asks JSH to inquire about drift-wood at Kerguelen Land.

Hooker’s observation on similarity of Kerguelen plant species to those of Tierra del Fuego strikes CD as a great anomaly, so he is searching for an answer, "however improbable".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1647

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
13 Mar 1855
Source of text:
DAR 93: A25
Summary:

Acknowledges a list [of plants?].

Looks forward to new edition [of British plants growing wild in the parish of Hitcham, Suffolk, 2d ed. (1855)].

JSH should not trouble about Anacharis until he is less busy. Will send cirripedes.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1655

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
26 Mar [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A26–A27
Summary:

Thanks JSH for Anacharis which is flourishing.

P. H. Gosse told him he had several sea animals and algae living in artificial sea-water for over 13 months.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1705

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
27 June [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A28–A30
Summary:

Asks whether JSH considers Lychnis diurna and L. vespertina species or varieties.

Asks for help with his work on hybrids.

Would like JSH to go over London catalogue of British plants, marking "close species", i.e., those he considers real species but which are very closely allied. Withholds his motive as it might influence the result.

Has found Agrostis with worms in every germen and no stamens on stigma.

Now has 46 kinds of peas all growing together.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1706

From:
John Stevens Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 June 1855
Source of text:
DAR 166: 177
Summary:

Red and white campions: JSH regards them as races, not species; a flesh-coloured intermediate exists.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1708

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
2 July [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A31–A35
Summary:

Sends a list of plants with stamps to pay the Hitcham girls who will collect seeds for him.

Describes his work with seeds in salt water.

For his experiments he would like seeds collected from plants that grow both near Hitcham and in the Azores.

Explains again what JSH should do in marking "close species".

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1712

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
7 July [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A36–A37, A114
Summary:

Thanks JSH for seeds.

Clarifies his request about marking [London] catalogue [of British plants] – JSH is to mark those he thinks really are species, but which are very closely allied to some other species.

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