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DCP-LETT-658

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Smith, Elder & Co
Date:
[14 Jan 1843]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Asks for account.

Discusses delay of Reptiles by Thomas Bell. Asks them to inform R. B. Hinds of delay.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-660

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[22 Jan 1843]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Comments on JSH’s botanical work with his parishioners. Lyell will be pleased that he has done some fossil botanical work.

Describes a Geological Society meeting about Edward Charlesworth’s complaints.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-677

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Horner
Date:
25 June 1843
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.31)
Summary:

Sends notes on volcanic islands for LH to read and return.

[Letter could be an inaccurate contemporary copy to which the copyist interpolated details, or a forgery. The address "Down House Orpington Kent" occurs nowhere else.]

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-680

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Colburn
Date:
4 July [1843]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Offers to pay for use of plate of map of S. America and for three woodcuts, for German edition of Journal of researches [1844].

Contributor:
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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-724

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[16 Dec 1843]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.33)
Summary:

Description and defence of his view of the tosca in Banda Oriental, along the Rio Uruguay and at the Rio Negro, taking issue with A. D. d’Orbigny. Refers to the pumice in the Patagonian Territory. Two tables show the layered tosca formation along the Uruguay.

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