University of California Berkeley, Marian Koshland Bioscience, Natural Resources & Public Health Library, Berkeley, California, USA
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- … Bioscience, Natural Resources & Public Health Library, Berkeley, California, USA UC …
From Robert Caspary 7 May 1866
Summary
Thanks CD for invitation. Solicitous of CD’s health. Will let Hooker decide whether CD’s health will allow his visit.
[Alexander] Braun in poor health.
| Author: | Johann Xaver Robert (Robert) Caspary |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 May 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 120 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5082 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … Thanks CD for invitation. Solicitous of CD’s health. Will …
- … let Hooker decide whether CD’s health will allow his visit. [ …
- … Alexander] Braun in poor health. …
- … and 4 March 1866 ). On CD’s recent state of health, see the letter to J. D. Hooker, [28 …
- … and other social occasions for reasons of health, see Correspondence vol. 13, Appendix IV …
- … hear with greatest sympathy, that your health is weak and that you must avoid excitements …
- … science you know as I, is also in very poor health for months, although his suffering is …
- … would be perhaps a real injury to your health. Therefore I must at present consider it …
- … to see you, without injury to your precious health, which God the strengthen, that you are …
- … Sir, do all in your power to strengthen your health, avoid every, even little thing, which …
- … weakens it. May your health be spared to finish as much, of the scientific objects, the …
Cresy, Edward. 1850. Public Health Act, 11 & 12 Vict., cap. 63. Report to the General Board of Health on a preliminary inquiry into the sewerage, drainage, and supply of water, and the sanitary condition of the inhabitants of the town of Worthing. London: General Board of Health.
Porter, Dorothy. 1999. Health, civilization and the state: a history of public health from ancient to modern times. London: Routledge.
To Down School Board 16 November 1874
Summary
Must resign because of his health.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Down School Board |
| Date: | 16 Nov 1874 |
| Classmark: | Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (P/123/25/10/1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9720 |
Simon, John (1816–1904)
Matches: 5 hits
- … John Simon 1816–1904 Surgeon and public-health officer. Apprentice at St Thomas’s …
- … president, 1878. First medical officer of health to the Sewers Commission of the City of …
- … from 1848; chief medical officer of the Board of Health and its successors, 1855–76. …
- … reformer and publiciser of public-health problems. Knighted, 1887. ODNB Bibliography …
- … Press. 2004. 23,25,26,29 London’s public health departments London Sanitary reformer …
From Alfred Russel Wallace 14 January [1863]
Summary
Health.
Is sending information about Timor fossils to be forwarded to Hugh Falconer.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Jan [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3915 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Health. Is sending information about Timor fossils to be forwarded to Hugh Falconer. …
- … indeed to hear you are still in weak health. Have you ever tried mountain air. A residence …
- … I trust your family are now all in good health, & that you may be spared any anxiety on …
- … of seeing you— I am now in much better health but find sudden changes of weather affect me …
- … wishes for the speedy recovery of your health | I remain | My dear Mr. Darwin | Yours …
- … spring of 1862 in a weak state of health (see Wallace 1905 , 1: 386, and Correspondence …
To Henry Bence Jones 3 January [1866]
Summary
A report on his somewhat improved health.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Bence Jones |
| Date: | 3 Jan [1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 249: 86 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4968A |
Matches: 8 hits
- … A report on his somewhat improved health. …
- … 1865] ). For further discussion of CD’s health, see Bowlby 1990 , Browne 1998 , Colp …
- … vol. 13, Appendix IV, for an account of CD’s health in the preceding months. …
- … In his notes on his health, submitted to John Chapman in May 1865, CD mentioned that he …
- … in height ( LL 1: 109). In his notes on his health dated May 1865, CD wrote that reading …
- … Appendix II). In his May 1865 notes on his health, CD had stated that he seldom suffered …
- … the beneficial effects of coffee on CD’s health have been found. In 1864, CD’s illness had …
- … acidity was recorded in the notes on his health of May 1865 ( Correspondence vol. 13, …
To Adam Sedgwick 24 August [1859]
Summary
Sorry to hear of AS’s poor health.
Would like to attend Aberdeen meeting [BAAS, 1859] but is unfit for so great an exertion. Has been told he has "suppressed gout".
Pleased that AS remembers their 1831 geological trip, which made CD appreciate the noble science of geology.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Adam Sedgwick |
| Date: | 24 Aug [1859] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2482 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Sorry to hear of AS’s poor health. Would like to attend Aberdeen meeting [BAAS, 1859] but …
- … sorry to hear so poor an account of your health. I should much like to attend at Aberdeen, …
- … Advancement of Science and to Sedgwick’s ill health (see nn. 3 and 4, below). The tone of …
- … Sedgwick suffered particularly poor health during the summer of 1858 and throughout 1859. …
From R. B. Carter 17 October 1881
Summary
Requests interview to get CD’s views on stages in evolution of the eye for a talk he is to give at a health congress. [Address to working men & women, 17 December 1881.] in Transactions of the Brighton health congress
| Author: | Robert Brudenell Carter |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Oct 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 51 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13409 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … 1881. ] In Transactions of the Brighton Health Congress . London: E. Marlborough and Co. …
- … of the eye for a talk he is to give at a health congress. [Address to working men & women, …
- … 17 December 1881. ] in Transactions of the Brighton health congress …
- … The Brighton Health Congress was held from 13 to 17 December 1881. Carter delivered the …
- … indulgence to me. at the approaching ‘health congress’ at brighton, i have undertaken to …
From John Scott to Emma Darwin 25 September [1863]
Summary
Regrets CD’s poor health.
"Do not return Primula MS."
| Author: | John Scott |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Sept [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 97 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4307 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Regrets CD’s poor health. "Do not return Primula MS." …
- … again labouring under such a weak state of health. I hope & trust that you may be deceived …
- … of seeing him again in the full enjoyment of health. Please convey to M r . Darwin my best …
- … your returning my M.S. on account of M r . Darwin’s weak state of health. Presuming that …
- … he had been enjoying his usual state of health, I knew full well that his time was too …
To J. D. Hooker [14 July 1844]
Summary
Health and weather permitting, CD proposes to visit Kew.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [14 July 1844] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-763 |
To William Crookes 9 May [1874]
Summary
Regrets he cannot comply with request because of his work and poor health.
Delighted to have seen correspondent’s "wonderful experiment" at Royal Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Crookes |
| Date: | 9 May [1874] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9449 |
To John Higgins 18 November 1872
Summary
Acknowledges the sum of £216 18s. 6d.
Obliged for kind enquiries about his health.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Higgins |
| Date: | 18 Nov 1872 |
| Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/6/15) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8633F |
To George Ransome 27 [August 1849]
Summary
Regrets that state of his health prevents acceptance of invitation [to be present at inauguration of J. S. Henslow as President of Ipswich Museum in Dec 1850].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Ransome |
| Date: | 27 [Aug 1849] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1335 |
From Julius von Haast 2 June 1864
Summary
Inquires about CD’s health.
| Author: | John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 June 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4518 |
To George Cupples [after June 1869]
Summary
Wishes Cupples had said something about health. Sends regards to Mrs Cupples.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Cupples |
| Date: | [after June 1869] |
| Classmark: | Fraser’s Autographs (dealer) (2013) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6770F |
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Asa Gray in Commentary
Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex
Summary
The quantity of Darwin’s correspondence increased dramatically in 1868 due largely to his ever-widening research on human evolution and sexual selection.Darwin’s theory of sexual selection as applied to human descent led him to investigate aspects of the…
