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 |
From J. G. Malcolmson 2 January 1840
Summary
Discusses CD’s Glen Roy paper; would like to see the theory put beyond dispute. Tells of Mr Stables’ observations on the parallel roads. Discusses geological features of Scotland which he is sure are marine in origin.
Author: | John Grant Malcolmson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Jan 1840 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 31; Geological Society of London (Membership certificates, 1840) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1147 |
To [W. A. Leighton?] [1840–77?]
Summary
Valediction only of a letter stuck into a writing case.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Allport Leighton |
Date: | [1840–77?] |
Classmark: | Estate of the late Mr D. Evans (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13770H |
To William Walton [1840–2]
Summary
Comments on the quality of the meat of the guanaco.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Walton |
Date: | [1840–2] |
Classmark: | Walton 1844, pp. 43–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-548A |
To William Walton [1840–2]
Summary
Describes the range of conditions under which the guanaco thrives and the ease with which it can be tamed.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Walton |
Date: | [1840–2] |
Classmark: | Walton 1844, pp. 50–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-548B |
To John Edward Gray 1 January [1840]
Summary
Testimonial in behalf of JEG’s application for the position of keeper of the zoological department of the British Museum from which John George Children was about to resign.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Edward Gray |
Date: | 1 Jan [1840] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Library, J. E. Gray Miscellaneous papers vol. 1: f.118) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-548C |
To T. C. Eyton [6 January 1840]
Summary
Has been unwell.
Thanks TCE for his descriptions [of specimens for Birds]. Has already expended a high proportion of Government grant on birds, but if TCE thinks engravings are needed, he shall have them. He may keep the bones.
CD has become a father.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Campbell Eyton |
Date: | [6 Jan 1840] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.20) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-549 |
To Basil Hall [7 January 1840]
Summary
CD regrets inconvenience caused by his having Royal Geographical Society’s copy of Krusenstern’s Atlas [de l’océan Pacifique (1824–7)]. Locates Sulphur Island from it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Basil Hall |
Date: | [7 Jan 1840] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-550 |
To A. Y. Spearman 16 January 1840
Summary
Presents the Smith, Elder & Co. account for the first number of the fourth part (now published) of the Zoology.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Young Spearman, 1st baronet |
Date: | 16 Jan 1840 |
Classmark: | The National Archives (TNA) (T1/4524 paper 25824) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-550A |
To the Geological Society of London 22 January 1840
Summary
W. B. Clarke’s paper on ashes falling at sea off Cape Verde Islands [Proc. Geol. Soc. Lond. 3 (1839): 145–6] need not be published in Transactions.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Geological Society of London |
Date: | 22 Jan 1840 |
Classmark: | Geological Society of London (GSL/COM/P/4/2/38) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-551 |
To J. S. Henslow [24 January 1840]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | [24 Jan 1840] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: A3–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-552 |
To Mr Folthorp of Smith, Elder & Co. [6 February 1840]
Summary
Sends MS [of Coral reefs?] to be copied.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Smith, Elder & Co |
Date: | [6 Feb 1840] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-553 |
To Charles Lyell [19 February 1840]
Summary
Remarks on his illness and treatment.
Discusses MS [of Coral reefs] and changes in his view of coral reefs since Journal of researches. Mentions C. G. Ehrenberg’s observations on coral reefs.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [19 Feb 1840] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.21) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-554 |
To Robert FitzRoy [20 February 1840]
Summary
Poor health has made him give up all geological work.
Profits on their volumes [of Narrative] seem absurdly small.
Looks back on Beagle voyage as the most fortunate circumstance in his life.
Finds marriage a great happiness.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert FitzRoy |
Date: | [20 Feb 1840] |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 117 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-555 |
To W. C. Redfield 24 February [1840]
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].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William C. Redfield |
Date: | 24 Feb [1840] |
Classmark: | Yale University: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Letters to William C. Redfield vol. 2 Scientific 1831-41 (z117 00151 2) pp. 335–8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-556 |
To Richard Owen 24 [February 1840]
Summary
Asks RO whether he has any MS [of Fossil Mammalia, no. 4] ready and to see that the plates are finished.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Owen |
Date: | 24 [Feb 1840] |
Classmark: | The Royal College of Surgeons of England (MS0025/1/5/11) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-557 |
To Benjamin Silliman 26 February 1840
Summary
Asks that a letter on tornados be forwarded to W. C. Redfield. Hopes Silliman received a copy of Journal of Researches.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Benjamin Silliman, Sr |
Date: | 26 Feb 1840 |
Classmark: | Gallery of History (dealers) (4 December 1996) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-557F |
To Basil Hall 15 March 1840
Summary
Discussion of the geology of Coquimbo, Chile.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Basil Hall |
Date: | 15 Mar 1840 |
Classmark: | Musée royal de Mariemont, Belgium (Aut. 1061/1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-558F |
To Richard Owen [March? 1840]
Summary
Sends a proof title page and asks RO to send a list of plates and contents [of Fossil mammalia] to the printer, Mr Stewart.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Owen |
Date: | [Mar? 1840] |
Classmark: | Christie’s, New York (dealers) (29 October 1993) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-559F |
To David Milne 20 [February 1840]
Summary
About earthquakes: the shock of February 1835 in Chile; possible connection between shocks occurring coincidentally in different parts of the world, and between earthquakes and the weather; DM’s collection of accounts of earthquakes in Scotland.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | David Milne Home |
Date: | 20 [Feb 1840] |
Classmark: | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Charles E. Mudie Collection, 1816–1897: Correspondence Post-1650 MS 0112) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-560 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (45) |
Henslow, J. S. | (2) |
Darwin, S. E. | (1) |
Malcolmson, J. G. | (1) |
Milne Home, David | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
Geological Society of London | (4) |
Spearman, A. Y. | (3) |
Blomefield, Leonard | (2) |
FitzRoy, Robert | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (53) |
Geological Society of London | (4) |
Henslow, J. S. | (4) |
Redfield, W. C. | (3) |
Spearman, A. Y. | (3) |