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DCP-LETT-356F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lort Stokes
Date:
[after 31 May 1837]
Source of text:
Stokes 1846 , 1: 331
Summary:

Asks JLS: "Are there masses of coral or beds of shells some yards above high water mark, on the coast fronting the barrier reef?" [In reference to JLS’s proposed exploration of Australian coasts and rivers.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-940

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lort Stokes
Date:
[Nov–Dec 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 121b
Summary:

Comments on book by George Grey [Journals of two expeditions of discovery in north-west and Western Australia (1841)]. "The whole expedition was that of a set of School Boys".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1017

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lort Stokes
Date:
3 Nov 1846
Source of text:
Auckland Public Library (Grey collection GL D8 (1))
Summary:

CD’s note to Stokes [see 940] has been forwarded to George Grey; CD fears he may be offended. Asks how it could have happened.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1019

From:
John Lort Stokes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Nov 1846
Source of text:
Auckland Public Library (Grey collection GL D8 (1))
Summary:

Is upset by what has happened [see 1017], but does not know how CD’s note reached Grey.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1020

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lort Stokes
Date:
[c. 26 Nov 1846]
Source of text:
Sir Tom Ramsay (private collection)
Summary:

Discusses CD’s unintended insult to George Grey.

Compliments JLS on his book [Discoveries in Australia (1846)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1050A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lort Stokes
Date:
2 Jan [1847]
Source of text:
University of Akron (Herman Muehlstein Rare Book Collection: tipped into a copy of Origin 1st ed. (QH365 .O2 1859))
Summary:

Thanks for sending his "magnificent book" [Discoveries in Australia (1846)].

Asks JLS to visit Down on "Saturday the 16th" and Sunday. He has also invited Forbes, Falconer, Hooker and Waterhouse. [See 1036.]

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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