Text Online
From:
Antoine-César Becquerel
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
Either 1839 or 1840
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Thomas Evans Blackwell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Jan 1839
Source of text:
Geological Society of London (GSL/L/R/4/121)
Summary:
A newly-elected Fellow returns the obligation to be signed upon entering the Geological Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
W. Brougham
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
1839
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 44
Summary:
Unable to visit JSH as has been ordered to Hastings for health reasons related to ‘nerves’, brought on by stresses including his mother’s death and poor physical health.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
C Pew
To:
J W Lubbock
Date:
January 1839
Source of text:
MM/12/44, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
C Pew
To:
J W Lubbock
Date:
1839
Source of text:
MM/12/49, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 January 1839]
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:
Recounts a letter from William Rowan Hamilton, President of the Royal Irish Academy, commending CH on her service to astronomy.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 January 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.292
Summary:
Will bring CB's 'Engine' to Slough tomorrow, together with Dionysius Lardner's apparatus, which CB has 'taught to write.'
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Charles William Pasley
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
12 January 1839
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Charles William Pasley
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
14 January 1839
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, 2nd Marquess of Northampton
To:
Lord Northampton
Date:
15 January 1839
Source of text:
MM/12/41, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, 2nd Marquess of Northampton
To:
Lord Northampton
Date:
19 January 1839
Source of text:
MM/12/43, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[1839 – Aug 1842]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add 37191: 297)
Summary:
Is so unwell today that he is unable to come [to CB’s party].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Maurice Herbert
Date:
[Jan 1839 – Sept 1842]
Source of text:
Bonhams, New York (dealers) (11 December 2013)
Summary:
Suggests the names of two bird-preservers for JMH’s friend.
In reference to an earlier letter, replies: "As for Birds of Paradise from the West Indies, tell that to the marines, as we used to say on board the Beagle".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
[1839 – Apr 1840]
Source of text:
Charles Hamilton (dealer) (13 June 1974)
Summary:
Delighted by RO’s discussion in this sheet. RO should return revises to printer and get remaining ones.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Woodbine Parish
Date:
[Jan 1839?]
Source of text:
Shuttleworth 1910 , p. 412 n.
Summary:
Likes WP’s book [Buenos Ayres and the province of La Plata (1838)]. Thinks it will interest all "who care for graver things than what the traveller eats and says to the Señoritas".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Shillinglaw; Royal Geographical Society
Date:
[1839 – May 1842]
Source of text:
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (GEN/D/DARWIN (C)/4)
Summary:
Asks for volumes of F. W. Beechey’s work [Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and Bering Strait (1831)] and Nautical magazine and an order on [John] Arrowsmith for atlas of Dumont d’Urville’s Voyage in the "Astrolabe".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Stokes
Date:
[1839 – Sept 1842]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection
Summary:
Sends observations he made on Fungia during Beagle voyage. Asks CS to make corrections in style or names of parts as he sees fit.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1839–82]
Source of text:
Raptis Rare Books (dealers) (June 2018 item 69022)
Summary:
Is glad addressee’s lectures are going well.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
2 [–3 Jan 1839]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 10
Summary:
His dinner with the Carlyles. "He is the best worth listening to of any man" – but CD cannot get up much admiration for Mrs C, partly because of her Scots accent, which makes her difficult to understand.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Whewell
Date:
4 [Jan 1839]
Source of text:
Trinity College Library, Cambridge (Add c 88: 5)
Summary:
Informs him of J. B. Jukes’s plans concerning the Newfoundland survey post.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project