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The Charles Darwin Collection
The Darwin Correspondence Project is publishing letters written by and to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882). Complete transcripts of letters are being made available through the Project’s website (www.darwinproject.ac.uk) after publication in the ongoing print edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press 1985–). Metadata and summaries of all known letters (c. 15,000) appear in Ɛpsilon, and the full texts of available letters can also be searched, with links to the full texts.
Asks CD to do an experiment for him.
Has found a curious stone in his fire.
Price’s iron in tea measured 13 per cent.
Tells CD a bill is all right. Hopes his father will pay it and a wine merchant’s bill as well.
EAD thinks it a pity if CD does not go to Cambridge, but it will be very pleasant for them to be together at Edinburgh, where they should go as soon as possible and read. EAD is getting "case-hardened" in anatomy.
Asks CD to send him some books on physiology and natural history from the family library.
Asks CD whether he is making any plans for Edinburgh.
Will be home in three weeks.
Describes his trip by canal to Glasgow, and sightseeing there.
Found his vessel delayed. Spent an hour or so at the Hunterian Museum, "well worth going to".
Describes the lectures at medical school in London.
Medical studies in London. Compares lectures and students at London and Edinburgh. Comments on the cost of dissection.
Reports on the commissions CD requested of him [in a missing letter]; comments on English political issues.
Sends congratulations on CD’s engagement. "It is a marriage which will give almost as much pleasure to the rest of the world as it does to yourselves."
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.
Feels deeply for them at their "impossible loss" [of Anne].
Acknowledges the receipt of some securities.
Calculations relating to bees’ cells.
Gives calculations on the structure of bees’ cells.
Encloses projections and models relating to geometry of bees’ cells.
Sends a model of bee cells "as bad as a Chinese puzzle". [A series of paper cut-out figures.]
Discusses geometry related to the structure of bees’ cells. Encloses notes and diagrams dealing with intersections of spheres.
Wonders whether CD would be interested in a book by Dr Bucknell [J. C. Bucknill?] on psychology.
