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DCP-LETT-556

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William C. Redfield
Date:
24 Feb [1840]
Source of text:
Yale University: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Letters to William C. Redfield vol. 2 Scientific 1831-41 (z117 00151 2) pp. 335–8)
Summary:

Much interested in WCR’s paper on "Whirlwinds excited by fire" [Am. J. Sci. 36 (1839): 50–9; Edinburgh New Philos. J. 27 (1839): 369–79].

Sends a summary account of circular clouds and waterspouts formed during volcanic eruption in the Azores [S. Tillard, "Eruption of a volcano in sea off St Michael", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. (1812): 152–8].

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DCP-LETT-585

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William C. Redfield
Date:
[22 Dec 1840]
Source of text:
Yale University: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Letters to William C. Redfield vol. 2 Scientific 1831-41(z117 00151 2) pp. 335–8)
Summary:

Illness has long delayed CD’s thanks for WCR’s meteorological pamphlets and geological reports. Mentions a reference to whirlwinds leaving rotary patterns in desert sand.

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DCP-LETT-871

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Paul Edmund de Strzelecki
Date:
[25 May 1845]
Source of text:
Yale University: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (GEN MSS MISC Group 1559 F-3)
Summary:

Thanks PEdeS for gift of his book [Physical description of New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land (1845)].

Asks how much engravings of shells cost.

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DCP-LETT-2199F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Librarian
Date:
[c. June 1858 or later]
Source of text:
Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection: Edward G. and Hortense R. Levy Autograph Collection, Part 2 (OSB MSS 137) Box 25, folder 1188)
Summary:

Will return Benjamin Jowett’s Epistles of St Paul (Jowett 1855) and requests several books, of which the latest is Hugh Miller’s Cruise of the Betsey (Miller 1858).

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-2301

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
4 [July 1858]
Source of text:
Yale University: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Yale Collection of American Literature: De Forest Family Papers (YCAL MSS 582) Box 2, folder 58, item 82)
Summary:

Death in family [Charles Waring Darwin]. Illness of children forces him to leave home and interrupt work on pigeons.

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DCP-LETT-2790

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
8 May [1860]
Source of text:
Yale University: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Yale Collection of American Literature: De Forest Family Papers (YCAL MSS 582) Box 2, folder 58, item 82
Summary:

Thanks WBT for observations on colours of newly-hatched pigeons of different breeds. Asks if breeders have noticed any differences in lengths of time eggs were incubated in different breeds.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-4080

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
9 Apr [1863]
Source of text:
Yale University: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (GEN MSS MISC Group 1559 F-1)
Summary:

Thanks HWB for his book [Naturalist on the river Amazons]. Feels sure it will often be alluded to in other works.

Asa Gray is fascinated by the "Butterfly paper" ["Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon valley", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1862): 495–566].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5012

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Xaver Robert (Robert) Caspary
Date:
21 Feb [1866]
Source of text:
Yale University: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (GEN MSS MISC Group 1559 F-2)
Summary:

Requests copy of paper read at Amsterdam Horticultural Congress, on graft-hybrids like that of Cytisus adami [see 5018].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11672

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
23 Aug 1878
Source of text:
Yale University: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (GEN MSS MISC Group 104 F-1)
Summary:

Writes for CD. Thanks correspondent for curious case of inheritance, which CD cannot use as he is working in different directions.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8832

From:
Marian (Mary Anne) (George Eliot) Evans; Marian (Mary Anne) (George Eliot) Lewes; Marian (Mary Anne) (George Eliot) Cross
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Mar 1873
Source of text:
Yale University: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (George Eliot and George Henry Lewes Collection (GEN MSS 963) Box 2)
Summary:

The Leweses will be happy to see the Litchfields, and hope CD will come again, with Emma.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-565H

From:
William C. Redfield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 May 1840
Source of text:
Yale University: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (William C. Redfield’s outbound letter book 1835–41 (z117 00151 2), pp. 179–80)
Summary:

Thanks CD for information about Captain Tillard’s account of the volcanic eruption in the Azores in 1811.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-598A

From:
William C. Redfield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
May 1841
Source of text:
Yale University: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (William C. Redfield’s outbound letter book 1835–41 (z117 00151 2) p. 239)
Summary:

Is sending through John Blunt a copy of the last geological report of the state of New York along with a short paper on the tornado that passed through the state of New Jersey in June 1835.

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