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DCP-LETT-1343

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James de Carle Sowerby
Date:
8 July [1850]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (17 June 2010)
Summary:

Has received plates. Gives instructions for scale and arrangement of engravings.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1649

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Horner
Date:
18 [Mar 1855]
Source of text:
Kinnordy MS (private collection) (Sold at Sotheby’s (dealers), 9 July 2018, lot 373)
Summary:

CD has been a referee for LH’s Nile geology paper [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 145 (1855): 105–38]. Praises the work but offers criticism not in his report: Joseph Russegger’s statement about the baked Upper Sandstone deposit cannot be believed; LH’s paper is too long.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1676

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Horner
Date:
27 Apr [1855]
Source of text:
Kinnordy MS (private collection) (Sold at Sotheby’s (dealers), 9 July 2018, lot 373)
Summary:

Regrets that he has not published his information on superficial beds except in abbreviated form, on p. 143 of Volcanic islands.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1875

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Pickworth Woodward
Date:
15 May [1856]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (21 March 1966)
Summary:

Thanks for Supplement to SPW’s Manual of the Mollusca [1851–6]. Praises SPW’s work. "What an amount of labour is condensed in your little volume! … I fully believe & hope that you will reap the only reward worth having, the consciousness that you have done good service to the cause of Science."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2020A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Maurice Herbert
Date:
18 Nov [1856]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (June 1991); Remember When Antiquities (dealers) (catalogue 26, 1992); Gerard A. J. Stodolski Inc. (dealers) (1995)
Summary:

Defers a visit with Lieutenant Blakiston; "my wife is out of health & expects her confinement in a few weeks, & I cannot possibly receive any one here or leave home . . ."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2559

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[28 Nov 1859]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (6 July 1977)
Summary:

Asks how many kinds of supposed birds’ footprints were found in North American sandstone.

Making progress on second edition of Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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