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DCP-LETT-640

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William John Broderip
Date:
[31 Aug 1842]
Source of text:
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Summary:

Discusses toad [mentioned in Journal of researches, p. 115].

Describes house at Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-641

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Waterhouse
Date:
[4 or 11] Sept 1842
Source of text:
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Summary:

Thanks GRW for collection [of insects] he has made up for CD’s nephew.

Leaves decision to GRW as to which institutions should receive CD’s Beagle insects.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1023

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Smith, Elder & Co
Date:
13 Nov [1845]
Source of text:
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Summary:

Sends corrections and suggestions for an advertisement for Zoology and Geology of "Beagle".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1075

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Wickham Flower
Date:
23 Mar [1851]
Source of text:
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Summary:

Thanks JWF for [cirripede] fossils; one species seems from a new formation.

Regrets that his health makes it necessary to decline an invitation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1958

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Henry Gosse
Date:
22 Sept [1856]
Source of text:
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Summary:

CD is working hard on variations.

Asks if PHG’s bald-pate pigeon [described in A naturalist’s sojourn in Jamaica (1851)] is a true rock-pigeon.

Can he obtain a specimen of the rabbits that have run wild, and a wild canary, and the body of any domestic or fancy pigeon which has been in the West Indies for some generations?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2517

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Frederick William Herschel, 1st baronet
Date:
11 Nov [1859]
Source of text:
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Summary:

Sends a copy of Origin as a measure of his respect and in recognition of the obligation he feels he owes to JFWH’s book [A preliminary discourse on the study of natural philosophy (1831)]. "Scarcely anything in my life made so deep an impression on me."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9351

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
11 Mar 1874
Source of text:
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Summary:

Thanks correspondent for offer of [unidentified] rare book but does not accept it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10546

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
The Times
Date:
23 June 1876
Source of text:
The Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin ( The Times (London, England) collection MS 4238)
Summary:

Forwards for publication an article by Dr Richardson [apparently not published] showing the necessity of experiments on living animals. Hopes it will make women, "who from the tenderness of their hearts and from their profound ignorance are the most vehement opponents of all such experiments", pause.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13429

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Benjamin Dancer
Date:
25 Oct [1881]
Source of text:
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin (John Benjamin Dancer MS 1052 1.3)
Summary:

Informs JBD that his book [Earthworms] profited from JBD’s interesting notice ["On the transfer of subsoil to the surface", Proc. Manchester Lit. & Philos. Soc. 16: 247–8].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday4616u

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Yonge Akerman
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
UTA Faraday Autograph Letter File
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4670u

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Frederick William Herschel
Date:
Between 1825 and 1835
Source of text:
UTA Herschel Papers M187
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday0343

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Prandi
Date:
23 January 1828
Source of text:
University of Texas at Austin, Faraday Autograph Letter File
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online

Faraday0768

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Charles Tomlinson
Date:
7 March 1835
Source of text:
UTA Charles Darwin letters
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online

Faraday1284

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Geological Society
Date:
June 1840
Source of text:
UTA Faraday Autograph Letter File
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online

Faraday0672a

From:
Third Earl of Egremont
To:
Faraday
Date:
6 August 1833
Source of text:
UTA Stark Library, tipped Greville (1874), volume 3
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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