From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Murray
Date:
10 Apr 1861
Source of text:
133, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Murray
Date:
26 May 1861
Source of text:
135, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Francis Jamieson
Date:
6 Sept [1861]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (MS. 5406, ff. 167–8)
Summary:
Has read TFJ’s letter on Glen Roy. His arguments seem conclusive. CD gives up the ghost. "My paper is one long gigantic blunder." How rash it is "to argue that because a case is not one thing it must be some second thing which happens to be known to the writer".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Murray
Date:
24 Sep 1861
Source of text:
137, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Murray
Date:
11 Nov 1861
Source of text:
139, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Murray
Date:
20 Nov 1861
Source of text:
141, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Murray
Date:
10 Dec 1861
Source of text:
143, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Murray
Date:
14 Mar 1862
Source of text:
144, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Martha Somerville
To:
John Murray
Date:
9 Apr 1862
Source of text:
146, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Horner
Date:
13 June [1862]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (MS.2216:167)
Summary:
Sends condolences on death of LH’s wife. Recalls many pleasant hours in Bedford Place. He and Emma thank LH for sending the memorial paper.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Patrick Matthew
Date:
13 June [1862]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (Acc.10963)
Summary:
It would be a pleasure to see "the first enunciator of the theory of Natural Selection" but his health makes it impossible. Hopes to come to London soon and would like to arrange an interview with PM if he is staying more than a week.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Date:
21 June [1862]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (MS.553:440 (241))
Summary:
His friend Trenham Reeks [Secretary of Museum of Practical Geology] would give Carlyle information and help. This note will serve as introduction.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Francis Jamieson
Date:
21 Nov 1862
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (MS.5406:171–2)
Summary:
CD expresses his high opinion of TFJ’s scientific qualifications for lecturing on agriculture.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Smith, Elder & Co
Date:
14 Jan [1863]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (MS.23181, ff.1-5 (S. E. & Co. work slip, ff.1-2, letter ff.3-4, address envelope f.5))
Summary:
Asks for account of sales of Geology of "Beagle". Willing to consider offer for remaining stock in order to close account.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Smith, Elder & Co
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1863
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (MS.23181:1)
Summary:
Sum due to CD is £11 13s 1d. Offer £5 for remaining stock of South America and Volcanic islands.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Smith, Elder & Co
Date:
5 Mar [1863]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (MS.23181, ff.6-10 (S. E. & Co. work slip, ff.6-7, letter ff.8-9, address envelope f.10))
Summary:
Accepts offer of £5 [for remaining stock of Geology of "Beagle"].
Orders postage stamps for son.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Smith, Elder & Co
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Mar 1863
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (MS.23181:6v)
Summary:
Cheque for books, stamps for CD’s son.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Smith, Elder & Co
Date:
10 Mar [1863]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (MS.23181, ff.11-15 (S. E. & Co. work slip, ff.11-12, letter ff.13-14, address envelope f.15))
Summary:
Receipt for cheque enclosed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Murray
Date:
23 May 1863
Source of text:
148, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Patrick Matthew
Date:
21 Nov [1863]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (Acc.10963)
Summary:
CD is too ill to write.
As for natural selection, he is more faithful to PM’s "own original child" than PM is himself. To illustrate, CD relates the metaphor of an architect selecting well-shaped stones and rejecting ill-shaped ones. [See Variation 2: 431.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project