CD’s notes arising from conversations with J. D. Hooker 8 December 1844
Summary
[Notes on conversations with J. D. Hooker.] Geographical distribution; diffusion and distribution of species. Island and mountain floras; means of migration (high-roads, icebergs).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Dec 1844 |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 35–40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-798 |
Notes on marriage [after 7 Apr 1838]
Summary
Published as an appendix to vol. 2 of the Correspondence; see https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/tags/about-darwin/family-life/darwin-marriage. Considers his options for the future. Debates marriage and the best place to live. Feels the need for experiment and direct observation which would be difficult living in London; he "could not go on as Lyell does correcting & adding up new information to old train".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 7 Apr 1838] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.8 :1, DAR 210.8: 2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-409 |
Notes on marriage [July 1838]
Summary
Published as an appendix to vol. 2 of the Correspondence; see https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/tags/about-darwin/family-life/darwin-marriage. Debates with himself the pros and cons of marriage. Considers plans for future.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [July 1838] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-420 |
From Emma and Charles Darwin 13 May 1865
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin; Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 May 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.10: 26 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4832 |
To a local landowner [1866?]
Summary
Requests that correspondent take some action regarding the state of horses on his farm. Robert Ainslie of Tromer Lodge, Down, was fined in 1852 following CD’s complaints.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [1866?] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 27 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4963 |
To ? 10 May [1866?]
Summary
The apparent difference in arm lengths of compositors is due to a drooping shoulder. File-makers stand in a peculiar position and call one of their legs the hind leg.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 10 May [1866?] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5083 |
Letter of recommendation for Syms Covington 29 May 1839
Summary
A letter of reference for Syms Covington.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 29 May 1839 |
Classmark: | Mitchell Library, Sydney (MLMSS 2009/108: 6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-514 |
To the Lords of the Admiralty [2–4 July 1866]
Summary
Petition earnestly requesting that a ship surveying the Strait of Magellan collect fossil bones in the south of Patagonia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Admiralty |
Date: | [2–4 July 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 25–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5142 |
To ? 2 August [1866]
Summary
Has not seen K. E. von Baer’s paper ["Über Papuas und Alfuren", Mem. Acad. Imp. Sci. St.-Pétersbourg (Sci. Nat.) 8 (1859): 269–346], but has read extract.
Knew of case of hairy and toothless family through John Crawfurd, Journal of an embassy from the Governor-General of India [2d ed. (1834)].
Working on causes of variability.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 2 Aug [1866] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.318) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5170 |
To ? 17 December [1866]
Summary
Gives information about obtaining the most recent (4th) edition of Origin.
Is glad to hear that his correspondent is interested in the subject.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 17 Dec [1866] |
Classmark: | Bloomsbury Auctions (dealers) (22 June 2017) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5310F |
To Athenæum 1 January 1867
Summary
Expresses his support for new books being sold with the pages cut.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Athenæum |
Date: | 1 Jan 1867 |
Classmark: | Athenæum, 5 January 1867, pp. 18–19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5343F |
To Ladies 24 February [1862–9]
Summary
Thanks for their kind feelings towards him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 24 Feb [1862-9] |
Classmark: | R. M. Smythe (dealer) (no date) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5418F |
To [?] 22 [March? 1867]
Summary
CD must decline his correspondent’s kind offer [unspecified], but he is out of health and has passed the part about dogs in a work now at the printer’s [Variation].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 22 [Mar? 1867] |
Classmark: | Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (GEN/D/DARWIN (C)/6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5453 |
To ? [2 June? 1840]
Summary
Can give no information on the separation of the sexes in the guanaco.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [2 June? 1840] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Charnwood Autographs Vol. IV Add MS 70951: 315) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-570F |
To ? [after June 1868]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [after June 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 54 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5747 |
To Reviewer [February–April 1868?]
Summary
Suggests, if further notice is to be taken of Variation, that the reviewer grapple with the subject of Pangenesis. Thanks him for his fair and friendly spirit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [Feb–Apr 1868?] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 38 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5829 |
From ? 6 April 1868
Summary
Gives details of some points that occurred to him while reading Variation, including observations on horses, cattle, silkworms, and hereditary baldness and disease.
Author: | Unidentified |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Apr 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 139 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6097 |
To ? 6 April [1869–71]
Summary
"My experiment was intended solely to show that colour reappeared, and I choose kinds which breed [true] to colour, as is certainly the case with [sports] and those which I tried . . .
I have recorded an undoubted case of wild rock Pigeons caught in Scotland having bred in confinement …"
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 6 Apr [1869-71] |
Classmark: | L’Autographe (dealers) (Catalogue 21) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6098A |
To ? 7 April [1871]
Summary
Asks correspondent to thank Thomas Laycock for his references. CD has been away from home and has not yet consulted his copy of Laycock’s Mind and brain [1860].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 7 Apr [1871] |
Classmark: | R. M. Smythe (dealer) (November 1998) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6102A |
To ? [before 1 July 1868]
Summary
Sends a copy of George Bentham’s Anniversary address to the Linnean Society of London (Bentham 1868).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [before 1 July 1868] |
Classmark: | Deutsches Museum Archive, Munich (Pamphlet HS-Nr. 04130) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6262F |
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