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DCP-LETT-727

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[May 1844 – 1 Oct 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 39: 28–30
Summary:

Sends calculations of angles of elevation [of sea-bottom, for South America?].

Swale has sent Lady Willoughby’s diary, which EAD will forward to CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13855

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III
Date:
[May 1844]
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 1028)
Summary:

Family financial matters.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel10758

From:
Robert Hunt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 May 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.110
Summary:

Charles Lemon has communicated to him the result of an application made by JH to Prince Albert on behalf of one of RH's children. Is deeply grateful for his assistance.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10759

From:
Robert Hunt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 May 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.112
Summary:

Sends a copy of G. R. Anson's letter to Charles Lemon regarding a scholarship for one of RH's children. Is deeply grateful to JH for his nomination and support.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11290

From:
Sir Charles Lemon
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
3 May [1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.193
Summary:

Encloses a copy of a letter received from Prince Albert's secretary; has sent the original to Robert Hunt. Encloses a note received from Hunt this morning.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-750

From:
Philip de Malpas Grey- Egerton, 10th baronet Egerton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 May [1844]
Source of text:
DAR 163: 6
Summary:

Sends Lord Enniskillen’s account of origin of the Irish yew: transplanted from the wild; propagated by cuttings thereafter. Offspring recently raised from seed are intermediate between common and Irish [weeping] yew.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel3021

From:
Wilhelm Struve
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 May 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.131
Summary:

Sends this letter through his son Otto Struve. Informs JH of his upcoming visit to England and desires to renew the acquaintance at Collingwood.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10914

From:
William Ivory
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 May 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.260
Summary:

Is grateful for the interest JH takes in their late friend's orphan daughter. Gives summary of her financial position. A pension would be welcome. Outlines the arrangements for the sale of Thomas Henderson's books. Would JH mark the ones he thinks should be purchased for the Observatory.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6918

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[7 May 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.193
Summary:

Forwards a copy of the rules and regulations of the benefit society, with much thanks.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4000

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[9 May 1844]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0589.5; Reel 1058
Summary:

Happy that his Cape Results are nearly finished. After reviewing his work, JH concluded that the amount of error per observation is no more than 30 or 35 seconds.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6919

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 May 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.205
Summary:

Thanks for book. Has written three books on the foundation of algebra. Comments on these.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2514

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adam Sedgwick
Date:
[15 May 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.424 (C: RS:HS 22.195)
Summary:

Discusses the meeting of the B.A.A.S. and William Whewell's view of the proceeding. Will assume the chair and expects support from AS, George Peacock, and probably Whewell.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9134

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[15 May 1844]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.20757 (C: RS:HS 22.194)
Summary:

Has been converted to some of WW's philosophical views. Accepts WW's invitation to stay at Trinity Lodge during the 1845 B.A.A.S. meeting in Cambridge. W. R. Dawes has taken a house in Kent.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2513

From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 May 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.423
Summary:

Discusses prior meeting of B.A.A.S. to determine if [Cambridge] University would receive it. Says meeting went well. Asks if JH will agree to chair the B.A.A.S. meeting.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10760

From:
Robert Hunt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 May 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.113
Summary:

Sending some specimens of photographs by a new process that he thinks is unrivalled for simplicity and sensibility. Comments on his method. Has sent an account of another curious process to the P.M. His little boy will go to Christ's Hospital in July or September.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5361

From:
Benjamin Herschel Babbage
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 May 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.308
Summary:

Would like JH to be a godfather. Regarding his own work in Italy. Preparing the plans for the railway from Genoa to Milan under the direction of I. K. Brunel.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-751

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julian Jackson; Royal Geographical Society
Date:
23 May [1844]
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society
Summary:

Discusses a paper on the Rio Negro.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel7921

From:
Robert Wauchope
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 May 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.124
Summary:

Death of son William on [21 May 1844].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4746

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 May 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.136 (C: RGO 6.8.621)
Summary:

Regarding JH's forthcoming visit to the Greenwich Observatory.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-752

From:
George Brettingham Sowerby; Edward Forbes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 May 1844
Source of text:
DAR 46.2: B1–2
Summary:

[Recto is a list of Galapagos shells, by island, signed GBS. Verso is another list of shells in EF’s hand.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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