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DCP-LETT-696

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[15 or 22] Sept 1843
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.32)
Summary:

Mentions expected birth of child [Henrietta Emma].

BAAS meeting.

Comments on letters from G. R. Waterhouse and William Lonsdale.

Describes survival of apparently "fossil" seeds sent by W. Kemp.

Is at work on MS [of Volcanic islands].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-679

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins
Date:
[c. 1 Oct 1843]
Source of text:
Dartmouth College Library (MSS 843900.3)
Summary:

Discusses poor impression of plates [for Reptiles by Thomas Bell].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-697

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Pickworth Woodward
Date:
29 [Sept 1843]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 42579: 228–9)
Summary:

Says he will call tomorrow to examine indicated specimens and books at Geological Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-698

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Dieffenbach
Date:
2 Oct 1843
Source of text:
J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 574 11–13 November 1965)
Summary:

On ED’s planned edition [German] of CD’s Journal of researches.

Informs him of his forthcoming volume, Volcanic islands.

"I am well acquainted with your paper on Chatham Island ["An account of the Chatham Islands", J. R. Geogr. Soc. 11: 195–215], & … those passages on the very curious fact of the apparent specific differences of the birds there & at New Zealand".

Thanks ED for recognition of his "small labours in Natural History… . praise from men, like yourself, is the only, though quite sufficient, reward I ever expect or wish to obtain for my works. – I have lately had the extreme satisfaction of hearing that Hooker speaks highly of the accuracy … of my statements". Refers to Humboldt and Owen.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-699F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[before 7 Oct 1843]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle , 7 October 1843, p. 694
Summary:

Has seen fields of clover near Down affected with clover dodder.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-700

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Syms Covington
Date:
7 Oct 1843
Source of text:
Sydney Mail , 9 August 1884, p. 254
Summary:

A new ear trumpet has been sent to SC as a present.

Sends news of his publications, health, and other developments since SC left for Australia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-701F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Kemp
Date:
9 Oct [1843]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/16b and 10252/17) (gift of Ruth Cramond and David Cramond)
Summary:

WK’s paper has reached him safely.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-702

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Smith, Elder & Co
Date:
[9 Oct 1843]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (23–4 July 1979)
Summary:

Says he is forwarding the Smith, Elder & Co. account to the Treasury. Discusses advertisements of Zoology and Coral reefs. Volcanic islands "is almost ready for press".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-702A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Young Spearman, 1st baronet
Date:
9 Oct 1843
Source of text:
The National Archives (TNA) (T1/4861 paper 21128)
Summary:

The work of the Zoology is now completed. The Smith, Elder & Co. account for the second number of part five is presented. CD expresses his "grateful thanks" to the Lords Commissioners.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-704

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[12–24 Oct 1843]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 21
Summary:

News of the Shrewsbury family. He cannot get his father to sympathise with the numbness in his finger ends or his fears of "ruin and extravagance".

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-703

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III
Date:
[12–24] Oct 1843
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 833)
Summary:

Note of hand, signed by CD, for £260 13s 6d.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-705

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[14 Oct 1843]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A11–12
Summary:

CD has written to W. Kemp to ascertain what precautions he took in sowing his seeds. "It will be rather flat if you … pronounce the Atriplex to be merely a variety". Suggests sending plants to C. C. Babington.

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DCP-LETT-705F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Kemp
Date:
[14 Oct 1843]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/16a) (gift of Ruth Cramond and David Cramond)
Summary:

J. S. Henslow expresses his doubts about WK’s seeds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-709

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Smith, Elder & Co
Date:
27 Oct [1843]
Source of text:
University of Virginia Library, Special Collections (3314 1: 29)
Summary:

Treasury ready to make payment [for Zoology plates].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-710

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Waterhouse
Date:
[Nov 1843]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Library MSS WAT)
Summary:

Congratulates GRW on appointment to position at British Museum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-710F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Kemp
Date:
1 Nov [1843]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/18) (gift of Ruth Cramond and David Cramond)
Summary:

J. S. Henslow’s and C. C. Babington’s opinions on WK’s seeds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-712

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[4 Nov 1843]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A13–14
Summary:

Babington has reared a facsimile [of W. Kemp’s Atriplex] by sowing seeds of A. angustifolia. CD has advised Kemp not to publish since anyone would say it was more probable that the seeds of his specimens were in the soil, than that the ones he found had retained vitality. CD regrets this, as he has no doubt of the antiquity of the seeds.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-711F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Kemp
Date:
[9 Nov 1843]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/20) (gift of Ruth Cramond and David Cramond)
Summary:

CD has been reflecting on John Lindley’s and C. C. Babington’s comments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-714

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[13 or 20] Nov 1843
Source of text:
DAR 114: 1
Summary:

Congratulations on JDH’s safe return.

Henslow has sent CD’s S. American plants to JDH for examination.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-715

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
[20 Nov 1843]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 68)
Summary:

Family news and their quiet life at Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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