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From:
William Stevenson
To:
William Kemp
Date:
25 Sept 1851
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/75)
Summary:
Describes his Highland tour.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
3 Oct [1851]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 2
Summary:
Discusses domestic affairs and gives some advice on manners.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Nov 1851]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 82–5
Summary:
Flora of New Zealand.
Reconsidering variability of insular species.
Becoming convinced of the probability that the southern flora is a fragmentary one – all that remains of a great southern continent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
William Stevenson
To:
William Kemp
Date:
18 Nov 1851
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/76)
Summary:
His plans to marry.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
James Scott Bowerbank
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
28 December 1851
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 6 & 6(ii)
Summary:
Discusses the methods for adulteration of alcoholic drinks, including porter, ales and spirits. States that adulteration is far less harmful than the public imagine.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edwin Lankester
Date:
30 Jan [1852]
Source of text:
DAR 221.5: 19 photocopy; John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 56)
Summary:
The Binder "by some wonderful Blunder" has bound the enclosed in all of CD’s copies [of Living Cirripedia, vol. 1]. He requests that it be pulled out. It may belong to W. A. Leighton’s volume [Lichens (1851)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[February 1852]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 1
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
James Scott Bowerbank
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
3 February 1852
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 7
Summary:
Discusses advice given to JSH on nux vomica and advice given to Bowerbank by JSH on leech cocoons. Compliments Henslow on his comparative kindness. Sends waste prints for JSH and the Ipswich Museum.
Discusses campaign to secure a comfortable position with a government pension for an associate, possibly Robert Edmond Grant.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
William Stevenson
To:
William Kemp
Date:
6 Feb 185[2]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/77)
Summary:
He has been very busy since the sudden death of his employer shortly before his own marriage.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
Text Online
From:
H. T. De la Beche
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
10 February 1852
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 132
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Henry Moseley
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
16 February 1852
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8176: 153a
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
Henry Moseley
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
19 February 1852
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8176: 153b
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
Henry Moseley
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
21 February 1852?
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8176: 153c
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
24 [Feb 1852]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 3
Summary:
Is glad WED has made a good beginning [at Rugby?].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[c. March 1852]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[c. March 1852]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 3
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
William Clark
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
14 March 1852
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177:92
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[Apr 1852]
Source of text:
DAR 107: 66–7
Summary:
Questions on variation in nature: taxa varying in one region but not another. Variation between vs within species. Rarity of variation in important organs within a species. G. R. Waterhouse’s views on variation in highly developed organs, which CD relates to variation in rudimentary organs.
Asks for cases of obligate self-fertilising plants.
[CD annotation proposes using the Steudel Nomenclator botanicus (1821–4) to determine if variable species occur in genera with many species.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
William Stevenson
To:
William Kemp
Date:
29 May 185[2]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/78)
Summary:
Describes more geological rambles in the Lammermuirs.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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- Cambridge University Library
- American Philosophical Society3
- Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives, Imperial College2
- David Schulson Autographs (dealer)1
- Harvard University, Archives of the Gray Herbarium1
- John Wilson Manuscripts Limited (dealer), Painswick Lawn, 7 Painswick Road1
- Provenance unknown1
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond1
- The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections1