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From:
Anna Carpenter
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
1850
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 60
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
John Grant Malcolmson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Jan 1840
Source of text:
DAR 171: 31; Geological Society of London (Membership certificates, 1840)
Summary:
Discusses CD’s Glen Roy paper; would like to see the theory put beyond dispute. Tells of Mr Stables’ observations on the parallel roads. Discusses geological features of Scotland which he is sure are marine in origin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[24 Jan 1840]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A3–4
Summary:
Sends specimens from Indian Ocean atolls.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
W. B. Carpenter
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
7 February 1840
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 64
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert FitzRoy
Date:
[20 Feb 1840]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 117
Summary:
Poor health has made him give up all geological work.
Profits on their volumes [of Narrative] seem absurdly small.
Looks back on Beagle voyage as the most fortunate circumstance in his life.
Finds marriage a great happiness.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
W. B. Carpenter
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
17 March 1840
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 65
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Maclaren
To:
Thomas Walker
Date:
30 Mar 1840
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/1) (gift of Ruth Cramond and David Cramond)
Summary:
CD has asked CM whether he can supply William Kemp’s address, and CM passes the enquiry to TW.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Maclaren
To:
Thomas Walker
Date:
30 Mar 1840
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/1a)
Summary:
Charles Darwin has asked for William Kemp’s address in order to send him a copy of his paper on Glenroy and to ask him some questions.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[5 Apr 1840]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 5
Summary:
An amusing description of his railway journey to Shrewsbury.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Benjamin Silliman, Sr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Apr 1840
Source of text:
DAR 204: 184
Summary:
Thanks CD for a copy of his Journal of researches which is "not second in interest and instruction to any work of the kind I have ever read".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Kemp
Date:
1[1] May [1840]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/2) (gift of Ruth Cramond and David Cramond)
Summary:
CD has read WK’s abstract in the Scotsman, 15 February 1840, p. 3, and asks for further details.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 May 1840
Source of text:
DAR 177: 274
Summary:
Gives CD the results of some calculations for "dip" over different distances, as requested.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Kemp
Date:
1[8] May [1840]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/2)
Summary:
Encloses a copy of his Glen Roy paper. Asks for more details of Kemp’s work on the terraces of the Eildon hills.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
20 May 1840
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/3)
Summary:
The bearer of the letter, Thomas Smibert, is a friend of RC and his brother, William Chambers. RC would like WK to show him the raised beaches.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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From:
Hannah Charlotte Scott, Lady Scott Douglas; Hannah Charlotte Scott Douglas, Lady Scott Douglas; Hannah Charlotte Scott Kerr, Lady Scott Douglas
To:
William Kemp
Date:
3 Jun 1840
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/5)
Summary:
Thanks WK for his help recovering her belongings, and enclosing half a sovereign.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
[before 4 June 1840]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/4)
Summary:
The bearer of the letter, Lady Scott Douglas, wishes to see the terraces at Galashiels if she can do so without exertion. Thomas Smibert’s visit has been delayed.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
From:
Jean-Charles Léonard de Sismondi; Jessie Allen; Jessie de Sismondi
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
1 July 1840
Source of text:
DAR 177: 175
Summary:
Sismondi’s appreciation of CD’s Journal of researches.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
3 July [1840]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A5–6
Summary:
Describes an orange tree with curious "horned" fruit; sends specimen. Asks if the horns represent "metamorphoses of some organ into the fruit orange".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[22 July 1840]
Source of text:
DAR 261.11: 24 (EH 88206076)
Summary:
Reference to W. Smellie’s Natural history [1791] requested by CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ettwin Lumholtz
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
17 October 1840
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8176: 76
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project