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SOMERVILLE596

From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
28 Jan 1850
Source of text:
MSQ 1 / 6, Dep. c. 372, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE51

From:
Dr Adolph Barth
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
30 Oct 1850
Source of text:
MSB 4 / 302, Dep. c. 369, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE582

From:
Jean Plana
To:
?Mary Somerville
Date:
11 Dec 1851
Source of text:
MSP 4 / 266, Dep. c. 371, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE628

From:
Stratford de Redcliffe
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
11 Feb 1854
Source of text:
MSS 9 / 132, Dep. c. 372, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE386

From:
William Burnet Kinney
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
28 Jun 1854
Source of text:
MSK 2 / 51, Dep. c. 371, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE87

From:
Henry Brougham
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
19 ? 1855
Source of text:
MSB 13 / 409, Dep. c. 369, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE88

From:
Henry Brougham
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
31 ? 1855
Source of text:
MSB 13 / 411, Dep. c. 369, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

DCP-LETT-1870F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward William Vernon Harcourt
Date:
9 May [1856]
Source of text:
Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Harcourt dep. adds. 346, fols. 248–9)
Summary:

Has seen EWVH’s list of the birds of Madeira, and would like to know more about the ‘occasional visitants’.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1885F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward William Vernon Harcourt
Date:
1 June [1856]
Source of text:
Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Harcourt dep. adds. 346, fols. 250–1)
Summary:

Thanks for the very detailed information sent by EWVH.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1900F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward William Vernon Harcourt
Date:
12 June [1856]
Source of text:
Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Harcourt dep. adds. 346, fols. 252–4)
Summary:

Would like to compare the length of the wings of non-migratory and migratory swallows.

Wonders if EWVH could show him skins of Columba livia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1909F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward William Vernon Harcourt
Date:
24 June [1856]
Source of text:
Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Harcourt dep. adds. 346, fols. 255–7)
Summary:

Thanks EWVH for his offer but he is not likely to go to London soon to visit John Leadbeater, the bird dealer; he could take a rock pigeon for comparison, but other skins he would have compare at the British Museum.

Would be obliged if EWVH could investigate domestic species in Egypt, especially a type of dog depicted in ancient monuments; and he is particularly interested in tumbler pigeons.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

SOMERVILLE575

From:
Joseph Pentland
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
1857
Source of text:
MSP 3 / 255, Dep. c. 371, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE403

From:
Sir Coutts Lindsey
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
31 Jan 1857
Source of text:
MSL 4 / 112, Dep. c. 371, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

DCP-LETT-2182F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward William Vernon Harcourt
Date:
13 Dec [1857]
Source of text:
Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Harcourt dep. adds. 346, fols. 258–62)
Summary:

Thanks for offer of pigeons, if breeding is successful; hopes to go to poultry show to see them.

Several questions about the Boz or Booz pigeon of Tunis.

If any of EWVH’s birds die and he does not want the skin, perhaps he would send it to CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2184F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward William Vernon Harcourt
Date:
15 Dec [1857]
Source of text:
Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Harcourt dep. adds. 346, fols. 263–4)
Summary:

Will not accept invitation to Hastings, or offer to send pigeons to Down.

Is looking forward to seeing pigeons at Crystal Palace poultry show.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2201F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward William Vernon Harcourt
Date:
13 Jan [1858]
Source of text:
Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Harcourt dep. adds. 346, fols. 265–8)
Summary:

Went to the show and saw EWVH’s birds.

Thinks he will give up his pigeons at the end of the summer.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

SOMERVILLE476

From:
Maury
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
1 Apr 1859
Source of text:
MSM 3 / 195, Dep. c. 371, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE400

From:
Grand Duke Leopold of Tuscany
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
31 May 1859
Source of text:
MSL 3 / 106, Dep. c. 371, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
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