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DCP-LETT-691F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Kemp
Date:
[8 Sept 1843]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/23) (gift of Ruth Cramond and David Cramond)
Summary:

Seeds sent by Kemp have germinated and been identified by Lindley as Rumex acetosella and an Atriplex which has been sent on to J. S. Henslow.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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KEMP25

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Kemp
Date:
[8 September 1843]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/23)
Summary:

Seeds sent by Kemp have germinated and been identified by Lindley as Rumex acetosella and an Atriplex which has been sent on to J. S. Henslow.

Contributor:
Ruth Cramond

DCP-LETT-695

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Edward Davis
Date:
15 Sept [1843]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 374
Summary:

Thanks him for specimens collected.

Comments on JED’s voyage [on H.M.S. Terror, 1839–43].

Mentions activities of old Beagle crew.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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
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KEMP30

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

WK’s paper has reached him safely.

Contributor:
Ruth Cramond

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
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KEMP28

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

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

Contributor:
Ruth Cramond

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
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