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DCP-LETT-641

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Waterhouse
Date:
[4 or 11] Sept 1842
Source of text:
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Summary:

Thanks GRW for collection [of insects] he has made up for CD’s nephew.

Leaves decision to GRW as to which institutions should receive CD’s Beagle insects.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-613

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Yarrell
Date:
[5 or 12] Sept 1842
Source of text:
Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Letters to Dr William Kitchen Parker and his sons, MS-Papers-1256-2)
Summary:

CD is too dull and languid to see Mr Bicheno but will be glad to answer his questions if he writes.

Asks WY to ask J. Sebright "whether the cross with white bantam brought back any of the ""secondary male characters"" to the hen–cock breed".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-633

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton
Date:
[16 Sept 1842]
Source of text:
DAR 153: 6 (EH 88202298)
Summary:

Emma and Doddy [W. E. Darwin] like Down. CD has met, and plans to employ, the local surgeon. "I feel sure I shall become deeply attached to Down, with a few improvements".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-642

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
16 Sept [1842]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A7
Summary:

CD gives JSH Fuegian paints and spears and a Pacific dolphin hook for his museum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8132

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter; William Baxter
Date:
2 [Oct 1842 - Mar 1882]
Source of text:
University of Rochester Libraries, Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation (tipped into a copy of Insectivorous plants (QH 9.9 I59m))
Summary:

Requests some carbonate of ammonia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-647

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Geological Society of London
Date:
4 Oct 1842
Source of text:
Geological Society of London (GSL/COM/P/4/2/130)
Summary:

Papers by T. J. Newbold [Proc. Geol. Soc. Lond. 3 (1842): 702–5], T. C. Hunt [3 (1842): 565–6] and J. Phillips [3 (1842): 705–6] need not be printed in Transactions of the Geological Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-648

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Anne Susanna Lloyd; Anne Susanna Horner
Date:
[4 Oct 1842]
Source of text:
DAR 261.11: 1 (EH 88206053)
Summary:

Emma recovering well from birth of third child, Mary Eleanor.

Sorry to hear Leonard Horner has been ill.

Has received high praise of Coral reefs from Lyell.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-649

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
5 and 7 Oct 1842
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.28)
Summary:

Discusses growth of various species of coral. Explains significance of dead reefs.

Describes meeting of the Council of the Geological Society; the controversy involving Edward Charlesworth.

Mentions conversations with William Lonsdale about Lonsdale’s work on corals and the financial support for his work.

Murchison’s views on glaciation in Wales.

Agassiz’s observations at Glen Roy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13776

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Baxter; William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
10 [Oct 1842 – Apr 1882]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Orders distilled water, 2 oz of camphorated spirits, and perfume.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-650

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julian Jackson
Date:
13 Oct [1842]
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society
Summary:

Discusses JJ’s proposed review of his volume [Coral reefs].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-651

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Hallowes Miller
Date:
[16 Oct – 27 Nov 1842]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.29)
Summary:

Mentions preparing geological notes for press. Asks whether WHM still has some geological specimens he had examined for CD.

Urges WHM to attend important meeting of Geological Society on 3 December.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1768

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter; William Baxter
Date:
24 Oct [1842-5, 1853 or 1855-68]
Source of text:
University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library (BANC MSS 74/78 z)
Summary:

Sends enclosed order for two bottles [of unspecified chemical].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-653

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[Nov–Dec 1842]
Source of text:
The British Library (Surrogate RP 7381(i))
Summary:

Believes "absurd letter" hastily read at last Geological Society Council meeting was from Charlesworth’s solicitor. Suggests that it may have been sent to entrap the Council and that it should be read over carefully.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-662

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Maclaren
Date:
[15 Nov – Dec 1842]
Source of text:
Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal 34 1843: 47
Summary:

Responds to CM’s review of Coral reefs [Edinburgh New Philos. J. 34 (1843): 33–47].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1786

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Price
Date:
29 Nov [1842-55]
Source of text:
University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library (BANC MSS 74/78 z)
Summary:

Not able to assist JP as he knows no schoolmaster in the area.

Cannot answer zoological question but thinks the two Serpulae are distinct.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11271F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter; William Baxter
Date:
8 Dec [1842-81]
Source of text:
University of Otago, Special Collections (MS 49)
Summary:

Orders large pot of spermaceti ointment.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-654

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
[9 Dec 1842]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 64)
Summary:

CD likes Down House, describes countryside.

Tells of Edward Charlesworth fracas at Geological Society.

Is at work on Volcanic islands.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13828

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Edward Mudie; Mary Kingsford Pawling; Mary Kingsford Mudie
Date:
10 Dec [1842-5 or 1855-68]
Source of text:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Charles E. Mudie Collection, 1816–1897: Correspondence, B29)
Summary:

Declines invitation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13798

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
Date:
[1843 – 8 Mar 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 154: 91
Summary:

Reports events at Down.

The "atrocious doings" of "Old Price". Price’s dispute with Sir John Lubbock over a boundary fence.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-658

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Smith, Elder & Co
Date:
[14 Jan 1843]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Asks for account.

Discusses delay of Reptiles by Thomas Bell. Asks them to inform R. B. Hinds of delay.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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