To ? 11 March 1874
Summary
Thanks correspondent for offer of [unidentified] rare book but does not accept it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 11 Mar 1874 |
| Classmark: | Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9351 |
From Albert Wigand 11 March 1874
Summary
Sends copy of his book [Der Darwinismus und die Naturforschung Newtons und Cuviers, vol. 1 (1874)]. Expresses respect for CD in spite of the book’s criticism of him.
| Author: | Julius Wilhelm Albert (Albert) Wigand |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Mar 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 100 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9352 |
To P. F. Perfil’eva 11 March 1874
Summary
Sends photograph.
Comments on Mme P’s bulldogs.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Perfil’eva, P. F. |
| Date: | 11 Mar 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 147: 242 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9353 |
| letter | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Wigand, Albert | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Perfil’eva, P. F. | (1) |
| Unidentified | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Perfil’eva, P. F. | (1) |
| Unidentified | (1) |
| Wigand, Albert | (1) |
3.11 Edwards, in Illustrated London News
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< Back to Introduction A photograph of Darwin by Ernest Edwards, showing him in three-quarter view to the left, must have been taken at the same session as the profile published in Men of Eminence in 1866. The baggy sleeve of Darwin’s coat looks…
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- … < Back to Introduction A photograph of Darwin by Ernest Edwards, showing him in three …
Books on the Beagle
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The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.
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The Mount, Shrewsbury
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Letters from home
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- … Darwin writes in preparation for the voyage, and his father and sisters write with news from home …
1.1 Ellen Sharples pastel
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< Back to Introduction The earliest surviving portrayal of Darwin, who was born on 12 February 1809, is this pastel or chalk drawing by Ellen Wallace Sharples. He is shown kneeling chivalrously before his sister Catherine (born in 1810), in the kind…
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- … Woman’s Art Journal , 16:1 (Spring–Summer 1995), pp. 3–11. Julius Bryant (ed.), English Heritage …
Darwin in letters, 1847-1850: Microscopes and barnacles
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Darwin's study of barnacles, begun in 1844, took him eight years to complete. The correspondence reveals how his interest in a species found during the Beagle voyage developed into an investigation of the comparative anatomy of other cirripedes and…
