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DCP-LETT-321

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood
Date:
[9 Nov 1836]
Source of text:
DAR 154: 49
Summary:

His fossil bones are unpacked and some are great treasures. He has some geology to do: R. I. Murchison has lent him a map and asked him to look at a part of the country he has been describing.

Their only protection against having Harriet Martineau as sister-in-law is that she works Erasmus too hard.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-325

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood
Date:
[7 Dec 1836]
Source of text:
DAR 154: 50
Summary:

Dinner at the Hensleigh Wedgwoods’. They have agreed to go over his journal. Henry Holland thinks it not worth publishing alone because it goes over FitzRoy’s ground.

His impressions of Harriet Martineau: "She is overwhelmed with her own projects, her own thoughts and own abilities."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-327

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
15 Dec [1836]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 50)
Summary:

Informs WDF of his activities since the Beagle landed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-326

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Caius College
Date:
[19 Dec 1836 – 6 Mar 1837]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.7)
Summary:

"Mr Darwin presents his compliments to the Master & Fellows of Caius Coll. and is extremely sorry he is prevented by a previous engagement the honor of dining with them on Thursday."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-330

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Anthony Carlisle; Royal College of Surgeons of England
Date:
[19 Dec 1836]
Source of text:
The Royal College of Surgeons of England (Minute book of Board of Curators MUS/2/1/4)
Summary:

"Read a letter [to AC] of the 19th Instant from Mr Charles Darwin of Christs College, Cambridge stating that understanding from the Conservators that a Series of fossil Bones collected during the voyage of H: M: Surveying Vessel Beagle possesses a peculiar Interest as connected with Specimens already in the Museum of this College that it had always been his intention to present such Bones to some public collection on the condition that Casts thereof should be given to the leading Public Bodies for the sake of making them more generally useful, specifying the British Museum the Geological Society and the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, and one set for himself: and that under such Conditions he should be most happy to present the entire series to the Museum of this College."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-329

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
19 Dec [1836]
Source of text:
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (GEN/D/DARWIN (C)/11)
Summary:

Has written to Royal College of Surgeons, exactly as RO recommended, concerning disposition of his South American fossil bones. He fixed on the British Museum, rather than Paris, to receive plaster casts, because he was on board a King’s ship. Suggests RO propose another set for Paris, where they would be more useful than at BM. Has scarcely begun unpacking his cases.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13858

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[after 1836?]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.626)
Summary:

[Excised fragment only.] "I am greedy for facts.—"

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-300

From:
Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Mar 1836
Source of text:
DAR 97 (ser. 2): 32–3
Summary:

News of friends and family.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-308

From:
Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood
To:
Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood
Date:
[5 Oct 1836]
Source of text:
DAR 185
Summary:

CD has come home – little altered in looks and otherwise not a bit changed. He will go to London to be there when Beagle arrives, and he and Caroline will visit Maer soon.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-296

From:
Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Jan 1836
Source of text:
DAR 97 (ser. 2): 28–9
Summary:

They have been reading about the wreck of the Challenger; much impressed by Capt. FitzRoy’s bravery.

The W. D. Foxes have a daughter. Family news.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-336

From:
Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 [Dec 1836]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 134
Summary:

News of family and friends, Harriet Martineau’s soirée; funds deposited for him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-297

From:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb 1836
Source of text:
DAR 97(ser. 2): 30–1
Summary:

CD’s 27th birthday. News of family and friends. A niece, Mary Susan Parker, born 31 January.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday0878

From:
Decimus Burton
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
25 January 1836
Source of text:
RI MS F1 H11
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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HENSLOW-305

From:
C. W. Dilke
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
3 August 1836
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 113
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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Faraday0926

From:
Dominique François Jean Arago
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
4 July 1836
Source of text:
DP
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-292

From:
Charles D. Douglas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Jan 1836
Source of text:
DAR 39.1: 5–6
Summary:

Reports in detail on the 20 Feb 1835 earthquake and on volcanic activity into December of 1835. Encloses a letter sent to him describing the earthquake.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday4667u

From:
Edward Hawkins
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
1836
Source of text:
RI MS F1 H64
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday0894

From:
Edward Magrath
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
13 February 1836
Source of text:
RI MS F1 H66
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday0914

From:
Edward William Brayley
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
c May 1836
Source of text:
Bence Jones (1870a), 1: 346
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday0943a

From:
Faraday report
To:
Trinity House
Date:
October 1836
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/A1, pp.1-23
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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