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Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007

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… – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as …
… quotes from the correspondence or published writings of Asa Gray, Charles Darwin, Joseph Dalton …
… read the words of the following: Actor 1 – Asa Gray Actor 2 – Charles Darwin …
… day archivist, this actor uses the words of Jane Loring Gray, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Hugh Falconer, …
… in which the play unfolds and acting as a go-between between Gray and Darwin, and between the …
… are described by his widow Jane the final days of Professor Asa Gray, Harvard Botanist. A series of …
… of the Life of Darwin. At this time in his life, Asa Gray is in his late 70s. JANE …
… secret and potentially incendiary ideas. A younger Asa Gray (now in his mid 40s) arrives in …
… in that little sheet of note-paper! DARWIN: 11 My dear Hooker… What a remarkably …
… you might reasonably expect… Yours most sincerely Asa Gray. DARWIN: 16 My dear …
… 25 I send enclosed [a letter for you from Asa Gray], received this morning. I send my own, also, …
… instructive to me. 42 Ever most cordially yours, Asa Gray Darwin, after a short …
… run prevail. CERTAIN BENEFICIAL LINES: 1860 Asa Gray presents his argument of Creation …
… 1 OCTOBER 1846 7 C DARWIN TO JD HOOKER 11 JANUARY 1844 8 C DARWIN TO A …
… 10 C DARWIN TO A GRAY, 24 AUGUST 1855 11 C DARWIN TO JD HOOKER, 5 JUNE 1855 …
… 22 NOVEMBER 1856 29 C DARWIN TO A GRAY, 11 APRIL 1861 30 A GRAY TO C …
… A GRAY, 23 SEPTEMBER 1858 58 A GRAY TO JD HOOKER, 11 OCTOBER 1858 59 A GRAY TO …
… HOOKER, 18 OCTOBER 1859 63 C DARWIN TO A GRAY, 11 NOVEMBER 1859 64 JD …
… 13 NOVEMBER 1859 66 C DARWIN TO R OWEN, 11 NOVEMBER 1859 67 C DARWIN …
… 17 FEBRUARY 1861 111 C DARWIN TO A GRAY, 11 DECEMBER 1861 112 C DARWIN …

Darwin in letters, 1862: A multiplicity of experiments

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1862 was a particularly productive year for Darwin. This was not only the case in his published output (two botanical papers and a book on the pollination mechanisms of orchids), but more particularly in the extent and breadth of the botanical experiments…

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… gave him the commission ( see letter to John Scott, 11 December [1862] ). Darwin was altogether …
… and assistance with experiments. In January, he wrote to Asa Gray thanking him for some ‘new cases …
… had ‘different functions’. He continued to write to Gray throughout the year about his quest for …
… time on the problem: ‘the labour is great’, he told Gray ( letter to Asa Gray, 10–20 June [1862] ) …
… may be said to be generically distinct’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 14 July [1862] ). The case was so …
… on Linum ‘at once’ ( letter to John Scott, 11 December [1862] ), writing up his experiments in …
… seed. The case clearly excited Darwin, who exclaimed to Gray ( letter to Asa Gray, 9 August [1862] …
… that had given him ‘great pleasure to ride’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 22 January [1862] ). But he …
… of natural selection through the back door ( letter to Asa Gray, 23[–4] July [1862] ). Moreover, …
… his opposition to the Origin ’ ( letter from Asa Gray, 2–3 July 1862 ). Henry Walter …
… of Natural History’ ( letter to Armand de Quatrefages, 11 July [1862] ). She had had assistance …
… for a second edition ( letter from H. G. Bronn, [before 11 March 1862] ), Darwin asked him to use …
… see letter from E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 11 July 1862 ). Yet Darwin was now …
… ). War abroad. Anxiety at home As usual, Asa Gray took care that Americans should know …
… & genius you have for these researches’ ( letter from Asa Gray, 18 May 1862 ). In thanking …
… ‘not a shade of feeling against slavery’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 16 October [1862] ). It was …
… ‘fearful evil to the whole world’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 16 October [1862] )—appreciated how well …
… interest. He told Hooker ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 11 September [1862] ): ‘This is a nice, but …
… from one parent’ ( letter to Armand de Quatrefages, 11 July [1862] ). really good …

Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad

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At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…

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… regarding species change ( letter from Charles Lyell, 11 March 1863 ). The botanist Asa Gray, …
… Huxley’s book would scare them off ( see letter from Asa Gray, 20 April 1863 ). In May, Darwin …
… bottom of seas, lakes, and rivers ( Correspondence vol. 11 , Appendix VII). Quarrels at …
… and letter to Athenæum , 18 April [1863] ). He told Gray: ‘Under the cloak of a fling at …
… Lyells amended verdict on the Origin’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 20 April [1863] ). Darwin quoted a …
… 1862 (see Correspondence vol. 10). He sent a copy to Asa Gray to review in an American journal, …
… Academy of Sciences, Berlin (see Correspondence vol. 11 , Appendix III), and of the Société des …
… January [1863] and 31 January [1863] , and letter to Asa Gray, 31 May [1863] ). Asa Gray …
… unsuccessful ( see letter from E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin, 11 November [1863] ). The council of …
… letter from Daniel Oliver, 17 February 1863 , letter to Asa Gray, 20 April [1863] , letter to …
… was ‘enough to drive the quietest man mad’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 11 May [1863] ). Hooker and Gray …
… forms that he had started the previous year ( letter to Asa Gray, 4 August [1863] ). The results …
… tropical plants than before (see Correspondence vol. 11 , Appendix VI). He was fascinated with …
… pistils mature at different times ( see letter to Asa Gray, 11 May [1863] ). The fertility of …
… ‘Crossing & Sterility’ (see Correspondence vol. 11 , Appendix II). When Darwin finished, by …

Cross and self fertilisation

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The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom, published on 10 November 1876, was the result of a decade-long project to provide evidence for Darwin’s belief that ‘‘Nature thus tells us, in the most emphatic manner, that she abhors…

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… September 1866, Darwin announced to the American botanist Asa Gray, ‘I have just begun a large …
… the growth of the young plants is highly remarkable’ ( To Asa Gray, 10 September [1866] ). By …
… 17 March [1867] ). He noted another factor in a letter to Gray, remarking, ‘I am going on with my …
… visited by insects & so have been rarely crossed’ ( To Asa Gray, 15 April [1867] ). One of …
… on cross and self-fertilised plants, as he explained to Gray, ‘I worked last summer hard at Drosera, …
… the dogs till I finish with this & get it published’ ( To Asa Gray, 11 March [1873] ). …
… a new set of experiments for the summer, as he informed Gray when asking for seeds of Nesaea …
… of Lythrum; for the fact seems to me all important.’ ( To Asa Gray, 30 May [1875] ). In earlier …
… By August 1876, the book had gone to press and Darwin told Gray, ‘This will complete all that I …
… Comes ( From Hermann Müller, 4 October 1876 ). Gray was impatient for a copy and asked for …
… your judgment than for that of almost anyone else’ ( To Asa Gray, 28 October 1876 ). Gray …
… written of, as being as faultless as your temper’ ( From Asa Gray, 12 November 1876 ). The …
… 27 January 1877 ). Darwin was especially pleased with Gray’s review, and told him, ‘Your abstract …
… given everything,—you have quite eviscerated it’ ( To Asa Gray, 18 February [1877] ). By mid-March …
… as he wanted to make corrections for a new edition. On 11 December, Darwin sent corrected sheets to …
… repaged & the index a little altered’ ( To R. F. Cooke, 11 December [1877] ). These changes …

Darwin in letters, 1860: Answering critics

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On 7 January 1860, John Murray published the second edition of Darwin’s Origin of species, printing off another 3000 copies to satisfy the demands of an audience that surprised both the publisher and the author. It wasn't long, however, before ‘the…

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… out in the United States and in Germany, he expressed to Asa Gray his astonishment at the widespread …
… thinking that it would be nice easy reading.’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 22 May [1860] ). …
… were inexplicable by the theory of creation. Asa Gray’s statement in his March review that natural …
… solely by explaining an ample lot of facts.’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 18 February [1860] ). To those …
… perfected structure as the eye. As Darwin admitted to Lyell, Gray, and others, imagining how …
… caused him greater discomfort. As he readily admitted to Gray: ‘The sight of a feather in a peacock …
… change of form’, namely those of embryology ( letter to Asa Gray, 10 September [1860] ). Only his …
… (letters to Charles Lyell, 1 June [1860] and 11 August [1860] ). As the months passed …
… in letters to his closest confidants Hooker, Lyell, and Gray. Initially he found it curious ‘how …
… not thoroughly . . . I must be a very bad explainer.' Asa Gray and design in nature …
… Origin in America by Louis Agassiz and his followers, Gray’s essays, Darwin believed, could also …

The Lyell–Lubbock dispute

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In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book Prehistoric times, accused Lyell of plagiarism. The dispute caused great dismay among many of their mutual scientific friends, some of whom took immediate action…

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… on the topic. Lyell also added the following note on page 11: *Mr. John Lubbock published …
… 2 have struck out Galton & Prestwich at p. 11 who will be surprisd [ sic ] to …
… the book in correspondence with Joseph Dalton Hooker, Asa Gray, and Huxley but he never spoke out …
… had done ‘an injustice’ to Falconer and Prestwich. 11 In the same review Lubbock expressed …
… he took exception to the wording of the note on p. 11 of C. Lyell 1863c, which implied that Lubbock …
… The statement made by Sir Charles Lyell, in a note to page 11 of his work, that my article on the …
… of the note in the preface (letter to John Lubbock, 11 June [1865] ). No correspondence with …
… of the preface of C. Lyell 1863c and reworded the note on p. 11. Unlike the earlier …
… Lyell revised both the preface and the note on page 11 of the third edition of Antiquity of man …
… versions of the end of the preface and of the note on page 11 are included below. Preface, C …
… as well as of the subsequent issues.” Note on page 11, C. Lyell 1863c (original version) …
… made by him in company with Mr. Busk. Note on page 11, C. Lyell 1863c (revised version) …
… in Letters, 1863 , (introduction to Correspondence vol. 11, pp. xv–xvii). For a comparison of …
… 1984, pp. 154–9. 7. See Correspondence vol. 11, letter to J. D. Hooker, 24[–5] …
… Bartholomew 1973. 8. See Correspondence vol. 11, letter to Charles Lyell, 6 March …
… 18 April [1863 ]. 10. Correspondence vol. 11, letter to J. D. Hooker, 17 March …
… (rough draft of letter from T. H. Huxley to Charles Lyell, 11 June 1865, Imperial College, Huxley …

Darwin in letters, 1876: In the midst of life

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1876 was the year in which the Darwins became grandparents for the first time. And tragically lost their daughter-in-law, Amy, who died just days after her son's birth. All the letters from 1876 are now published in volume 24 of The Correspondence…

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… … poor creature, has won only 2490 games’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 28 January 1876 ). Francis Darwin, …
… to think of the future’, Darwin confessed to William on 11 September just hours after Amy’s …
… of work’ left in him for ‘new matter’ (letter to Asa Gray, 28 January 1876). The preparation of the …
… evidence for the ‘advantages of crossing’ (letter to Asa Gray, 28 January 1876). Revising Orchids …
… naturalist Thomas Edward ( letter from F. M. Balfour, 11 December 1876 ; letter to Samuel Smiles …
… and sympathised with his close friends Joseph Hooker and Asa Gray, whose situations often …
… you suffer largely in the same way’, Darwin wrote to Gray on 28 January . On 14 November, Hooker …
… who died at the age of 10 in 1851, but William, who was 11 years old at the time of her death, would …
… you are one of the best of all’ ( letter to W. E. Darwin, 11 September [1876] ). …
… do I cannot conceive’, Darwin wrote anxiously to Hooker on 11 September. By the time Darwin …
… my horrid bad style into intelligible English’, he told Asa Gray on 28 October . …
… are not readable, & the 6 last very dull’, he warned Asa Gray on 28 October , when sending …
… lively reading for one so poor at figures as I am’, Gray conceded on 12 November , although he …
… compare size of pollen grains & state of stigma’, he told Gray on 4 December. Darwin also …
… than the more widely used ‘heterostyle’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 20 December 1876 ). Darwin …

Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition

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Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn. That lost list is recreated here.

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… German edition (see letter from H. G. Bronn, [before 11 March 1862] ). Since the publication of …
… & a few of importance’ (see letter to H. G. Bronn, 11 March [1862] ). Darwin had sent Bronn …
… letter from E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 11 July 1862 ). (No American edition …
… we shall immediately see)’. Page xiv, n., line 11, delete ‘in the years 1794–5’. …
… substitute for ‘but then . . . kinds of flowers.’: 11 In just some of …
… This view has been supported by three referees: Prof. Asa Gray, Dr. Hooker, and Prof. Oliver. …
… sentence also appears in Origin 4th ed., p. 20. 11. p. 56. This whole paragraph was …
… in Origin 4th ed., p. 449. 47. p. 409–11. This passage also appears, with slight …

Religion

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Design|Personal Belief|Beauty|The Church Perhaps the most notorious realm of controversy over evolution in Darwin's day was religion. The same can be said of the evolution controversy today; however the nature of the disputes and the manner in…

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… of design. The first is between Darwin and Harvard botanist Asa Gray, taking as their point of …
… force”. Letter 2855 — Darwin, C. R. to Gray, Asa, 3 July [1860] Darwin writes to …
… for the attention now given to the subject. He poses Gray a question on design in nature, as he is …
… an angel. Letter 3342 — Darwin, C. R. to Gray, Asa, 11 Dec [1861] Darwin writes to …
… white flag than to fire my usual long-range shot”. He asks Gray some questions about design. …
… gives an “excellent idea of Pangenesis”. He talks about Gray giving him a good slap at his …
… theist and evolutionist, giving the examples of Kingsley and Asa Gray. As regards his own views, his …
… Letter 5004 — Darwin, C. R. to Shaw, James, 11 Feb [1866] Darwin thanks James Shaw for the …
… Letter 1536 — Darwin, C. R. to Lubbock, J. W. (b), 11 Oct [1853] Darwin gives his opinion to …

Darwin in letters, 1874: A turbulent year

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The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early months working on second editions of Coral reefs and Descent of man; the rest of the year was mostly devoted to further research on insectivorous plants. A…

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… backwards much more than forwards’ ( letter to W. D. Fox, 11 May [1874] ). I feel …
… review me in a hostile spirit’ ( letter to John Murray, 11 August 1874 ). Darwin was …
… Correspondence vol. 20, letter to St G. J. Mivart, 11 January [1872] ). To Darwin’s relief, …
… the moment of being hatched ( letter to Nature , 7 and 11 May [1874] ; Spalding 1872a). …
… & that must be enough for me’ ( letter to W. D. Fox, 11 May [1874] ). Plants that eat . …
… cartilage, bone & meat &c. &c.’ ( letter to W. D. Fox, 11 May [1874] ). His research …
… Correspondence vol. 21, letter from Francis Darwin, [11 October 1873] ). Darwin wasted …
… the photograph he sent highly ( letter from D. F. Nevill, [11 September 1874] ). At the …
… ). the man-eating tree of Madagascar Asa Gray publicised Darwin’s work on …
… it was a hoax till I came to the woman’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 3 June [1874] ). Response to …
… F. S. B. François de Chaumont, 29 April 1874 ). Asa Gray forwarded a letter from the …
… seen in bank with enormous tips to his ears ( letter from Asa Gray, 12 May 1874 ). The …
… letter to J. N. Lockyer, 13 May [1874] ), and he wrote to Asa Gray, who provided the essay on him: …
… bit insane, as we all are occasionally’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 5 June [1874] ). The …

Scientific Networks

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Friendship|Mentors|Class|Gender In its broadest sense, a scientific network is a set of connections between people, places, and things that channel the communication of knowledge, and that substantially determine both its intellectual form and content,…

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… the networks of others, such as Joseph Dalton Hooker and Asa Gray, who were at leading scientific …
… contact. His correspondence with Joseph Hooker and Asa Gray illustrates how close personal ties …
… D. Hooker. The second is between Darwin and Harvard botanist Asa Gray. Darwin and Hooker …
… Letter 729 — Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. D., [11 Jan 1844] Darwin begins with an assessment …
… species to wide-ranging genera. Darwin and Gray Letter 1674 — Darwin, C. R. …
… in the USA. Letter 2125 — Darwin, C. R. to Gray, Asa , 20 July [1857] Darwin writes …
… Letter 3800 — Scott, John to Darwin, C. R., [11 Nov 1862] Scottish gardener John Scott notes …
… Primula . Letter 4611 — Darwin, C. R. to Gray, Asa , 13 Sept [1864] Darwin sends …

Darwin’s queries on expression

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When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations more widely and composed a list of queries on human expression. A number of handwritten copies were sent out in 1867 (see, for example, letter to Fritz Muller…

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… Blair, R.H. 11 July 1871 Worcester College for the …
… Chaumont, F.S.B.F. de 11 March 1871 Woolston, …
… Ceylon Gray, Asa 26 March 1867 …
… Nile Gray, Asa 14 April 1871 …
… Laura Bridgman Gray, Asa 10 & 14 March …
… on Laura Bridgman Gray, Asa 9 May [1869] …
… possibly included in letter(s) from Asa Gray Nile Gray, …
… 9 Nov 1870 11 St Mary Abbot's Terrace, London, England …
… 1 Feb 1871 11 St Mary Abbot's Terrace, London, England …
… 7 Sept 1872 11 St Mary Abbot's Terrace, London, England …
… British Columbia, Canada) forwarded by Asa Gray Atnah Espyox Nasse …
… 1 Feb. 1871 11 Saint Mary Abbot's Terrace, Kensington. W., London, …
… Sulivan, B.J. 11 Jan 1867 Bournemouth, England …
… Wallace, A. R. 11 March [1867] 9 St. Mark’s Crescent …

Darwin in letters, 1872: Job done?

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'My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, 'is so nearly closed. . . What little more I can do, shall be chiefly new work’, and the tenor of his correspondence throughout the year is one of wistful reminiscence, coupled with a keen eye…

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… St George Jackson Mivart ( letter to St G. J. Mivart, 11 January [1872] ). A worsening …
… Mivart not to acknowledge it ( letter to St G. J. Mivart, 11 January [1872] ). 'I hate …
… attacks on Darwin became notorious, had written on 11 May expressing concern that his recently, …
… well informed: `The die is cast’, he wrote excitedly on 11 May , when the matter was first raised …
… old subject which formerly interested me,’ Darwin wrote to Asa Gray at the beginning of the year; & …
… have worked out and published about Drosera & Dionæa’, Gray had replied on hearing of the …
… the 'nervous system(!?)’ of Drosera ( letter to Asa Gray, 22 October 1872 ). By early …

Darwin in letters, 1877: Flowers and honours

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Ever since the publication of Expression, Darwin’s research had centred firmly on botany. The year 1877 was no exception. The spring and early summer were spent completing Forms of flowers, his fifth book on a botanical topic. He then turned to the…

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… out anything about dried flowers’, Darwin complained to Asa Gray on 8 March , ‘I never look at …
… the popularity of his book, writing to Robert Cooke on 11 April , ‘though I believe it is of …
… for extended periods. In a letter to Thiselton-Dyer of 11 October , Darwin described how the …
… Charles Darwin and Ernst Haeckel). Writing to Darwin on 11 March 1877 , Krause declared the …
… visits from distinguished persons. Gladstone came to Down on 11 March. ‘I expected a stern, …
… not been a difficulty to me,’ he replied to Romanes on 11 June , ‘as I have never believed in a …
… that they become quite tipsy’ ( letter to W. M. Moorsom, 11 September [1877] ). Moorsom replied …

Darwin in letters, 1864: Failing health

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On receiving a photograph from Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July 1864: ‘the venerable beard gives the look of your having suffered, and … of having grown older’. Because of poor health, Because of poor health, Darwin…

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… a photograph from Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July 1864 : ‘the …
… continue his observations indoors ( Correspondence vol. 11). In a letter of [27 January 1864] …
… the result of a long series of changes . . .’ When he told Asa Gray in a letter of 29 October …
… species. References and enclosures in letters from Gray and Hooker show how Darwin was able to …
… activities of collectors and curators at a great distance. Gray forwarded a letter from Charles …
… two letters to the Athenæum ( Correspondence vol. 11). Darwin’s anxiety about the matter was …
… old Testament’ ( Correspondence vol. 10, letter to Asa Gray, 6 November [1862] ). A …
… and the question of human origins ( Correspondence vol. 11). Wallace, however, traced a possible …
… read aloud to him by his ‘dear womenkind’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 29 October [1864] ). It was …

Darwin in letters, 1861: Gaining allies

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The year 1861 marked an important change in the direction of Darwin’s work. He had weathered the storm that followed the publication of Origin, and felt cautiously optimistic about the ultimate acceptance of his ideas. The letters from this year provide an…

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… with natural theology. He made arrangements with his friend Asa Gray to reprint and distribute in …
… me & Natural Selection, right good service’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 26–7 Februrary [1861] ). …
… III). However, Darwin himself remained unconvinced by Gray’s suggestion that providence may have …
… intercrossing between distinct individuals. He told Gray that such cases could perhaps ‘throw some …
… be ‘a form of typhus fever’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 11 May 1860 ). This hope was realised. By …
… profoundly interesting’, Darwin told the Harvard botanist Asa Gray on 5 June, and added, despite the …
… or heard a soul who is not with the North’. Darwin and Gray both unreservedly supported the northern …
… views and sentiments are perfectly satisfactory to me’, Gray wrote to Darwin on 31 December. …
… greatest curse on Earth Slavery abolished’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 5 June [1861] ): Some …
… of war. Darwin wrote, almost disbelievingly, to Gray on 11 December: ‘What a thing it is, that when …

Darwin in letters, 1867: A civilised dispute

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Charles Darwin’s major achievement in 1867 was the completion of his large work, The variation of animals and plants under domestication (Variation). The importance of Darwin’s network of correspondents becomes vividly apparent in his work on expression in…

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… to his newly completed book: a paragraph throwing doubt on Asa Gray’s doctrine that each variation …
… Trail, 5 April 1867 ). Darwin told his American friend Asa Gray, ‘I am repeating this experiment on …
… asking again for information on Fuegian expressions. On 11 January 1867, Sulivan replied , …
… to Alfred Russel Wallace, who suggested in his response of 11 March [1867] that Darwin send his …
… the queries to acquaintances in remote areas. On 26 March, Asa Gray wrote, ‘You see I have …
… one to send them to, so do not want any more’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 15 April [1867] ). …
… , 31 August 1867. Another version, possibly derived from Asa Gray’s printed queries, was published …
… Darwin’s theory (letter from Fritz to Hermann Müller, 11 February 1867, in Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: …

Darwin's bad days

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Despite being a prolific worker who had many successes with his scientific theorising and experimenting, even Darwin had some bad days. These times when nothing appeared to be going right are well illustrated by the following quotations from his letters:

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… Despite being a prolific worker who had many successes with his scientific theorising and …

Forms of flowers

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Darwin’s book The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species, published in 1877, investigated the structural differences in the sexual organs of flowers of the same species. It drew on and expanded five articles Darwin had published on the…

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… produced seed capsules. He told the American botanist Asa Gray , ‘ If it should prove that the …
… in several species of the genus Linum ’, between 11 and 21 December 1862. The paper was read at …
… make 126 additional crosses!! ’ Nevertheless, on telling Gray about the need for this further work, …
… often adapted for insect visitation. In his reply to Darwin, Gray unsurprisingly revealed, ‘ I know …
… believe in my results. ’ Undeterred, Darwin reported to Gray at the beginning of August, ‘I have …
… triple marriage between three hermaphrodite. ’ Gray replied, ‘ If your Lythrum -paper shall be …
… , a species of lungwort also known as blue cowslip. He told Gray in October 1865 that with respect …
… of Origin . He encouraged Huxley to read it, noting, ‘ Asa Gray & Fritz Müller (the latter …
… in as many natural families as possible’, explaining to Gray that he had ‘ become convinced that …
… term heterostyly in preference to di- or trimorphism. Gray objected and suggested his own …

List of correspondents

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Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. Click on a name to see the letters Darwin exchanged with that correspondent. "A child of God" (1) Abberley,…

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… (1) Athenæum (11) Atkin, J. R. (1) …
… (3) Bosquet, J. A. H. de (11) Bostock, John …
… (2) Breitenbach, Wilhelm (11) Brent, B. P. …
… (2) Bunbury, C. J. F. (11) Bunbury, F. J. …
… (1) Caspary, Robert (11) Cassell Petter & …
… (40) Crick, W. D. (11) Crier, John …
… (1) Crocker, C. W. (11) Crocq, Jean …
… (1) Dobell, H. B. (11) Dobson, G. E. …
… (7) Farrar, F. W. (11) Farrer, T. H. …
… (1) Harvey, W. H. (11) Harward, John …
… (289) Hyatt, Alpheus (11) Hyndman, G. C. …
… (1) Lewes, G. H. (11) Lewin, Friend …
… (3) Lynch, R. I. (11) Lónyay, Menyhért …
… (1) Morgan, L. H. (11) Morley, John …
… (3) Shaw, James (11) Shaw, Robert (3 …
… (4) Sowerby, G. B. (11) Sowerby, G. B., Jr …
… (1) Strickland, H. E. (11) Struthers, John …
… (2) Wedgwood, Elizabeth (11) Wedgwood, Emma …

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