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DCP-LETT-765

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[25 July 1844]
Source of text:
John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection)
Summary:

Sends a specimen of rusty wheat from the banks of the Plata.

Asks for bits of peat he collected

and a bit of the paint used by Fuegians to colour themselves.

He will send these to C. G. Ehrenberg for analysis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1045

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Scott Bowerbank
Date:
[Jan–Aug 1848]
Source of text:
John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection)
Summary:

Thanks him for Balanus specimens. Comments on his findings. A large Acasta in the wet state would be valuable. Asks JSB to mention his work to J. T. Quekett at the College of Surgeons.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13784

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th baronet
Date:
[20 Mar 1855]
Source of text:
John Hay Library, Brown University
Summary:

CD hopes to have an hour’s talk with CJFB before CD leaves London.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2416

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mary Butler
Date:
20 Feb [1859]
Source of text:
John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection, MS 84.2 (Box 3, Folder 37))
Summary:

Sends naturalists’ autographs.

Enjoyed fortnight at Moor Park.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2723

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Williams & Norgate
Date:
6 Mar [1860]
Source of text:
John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection)
Summary:

Orders first part of vol. 3 of Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Histoire naturelle générale des règnes organiques [3 vols. (1854–62)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6136

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Kippist
Date:
22 Apr [1868]
Source of text:
John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection, Ms.84.2 (Box 3, Folder 36))
Summary:

"Please give Bearer Books for me.–"

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6849

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Walter Elliot
Date:
3 Aug [1869]
Source of text:
John Hay Library, Brown University
Summary:

Asks whether the wild boar in India is polygamous.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13806

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Miss Fenwick
Date:
8 Feb [1871-82]
Source of text:
John Hay Library, Brown University (Hay MSS Ms.44.31)
Summary:

Sends two waste sheets of MS of Descent; Miss F can cut out any portion she likes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8299

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Henry Edwards
Date:
23 Apr [1872]
Source of text:
John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection, Ms. 84.2 (Box 3, Folder 38))
Summary:

Thanks for part nine of WHE’s [Butterflies of North America (1868–72)].

Comments on trimorphism in Papilio ajax.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8886

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Cupples
Date:
28 Apr [1873]
Source of text:
John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection, MS. 84.2)
Summary:

Asks whether GC knows who gave CD a scolding in last Edinburgh Review [Apr 1873].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8965

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Harrison Blackley
Date:
5 July [1873]
Source of text:
John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection, Ms.84.2)
Summary:

Comments on CHB’s book [Experimental researches on catarrhus aestivus – hay-fever or hay-asthma (1873)].

Explains that some pollens are wind-blown while others depend on insects for dispersal. Effect of pollen on skin and mucous membrane astonishing. Sends a book [M. Wyman, Autumnal catarrh (1872)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9686

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
19 Oct [1874]
Source of text:
John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection, MS.84.2)
Summary:

Returns insectivorous plants to Kew, with questions about their range. Most species seem to have remarkably confined ranges.

Asks for a Bengal Aldrovanda leaf so that he can see whether it differs from the German species.

Roridula interested him extremely.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10364

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Karl von Scherzer
Date:
24 Jan [1876]
Source of text:
John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection, Ms. 84.2 (Box 3, Folder 38))
Summary:

Thanks for KHvS’s book [La province de Smyrne (1873)].

Discusses possible meeting.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11485

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Karl von Scherzer
Date:
26 Apr 1878
Source of text:
John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection, MS.84.2)
Summary:

Congratulates correspondent on appointment to important post.

Leaving tomorrow for visit [with William Darwin].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11525

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Thomson
Date:
23 May 1878
Source of text:
John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection, MS.84.2)
Summary:

Cannot express opinion on RT’s views on earthquakes. To do good work on that subject a man must be deeply versed in wave motions.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13234

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arabella Burton Buckley
Date:
6 July [1881]
Source of text:
John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection, MS.84.2)
Summary:

Will be glad to read over her article.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10381

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Feb 1876
Source of text:
John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection, Ms. 84.2 (Box 3, Folder 39))
Summary:

JT will not quit the subject [of spontaneous generation] until light is let in on every cranny of the question.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10382

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Feb 1876
Source of text:
John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection, Ms. 84.2 (Box 3, Folder 39))
Summary:

The teapot is exquisite. Louisa says to say "the gift is worthy of the giver. Nothing higher can be said."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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