To V. O. Kovalevsky 17 August 1872
Summary
Cost of plates [for Expression] is greater than expected: £75 per 1000 copies.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Date: | 17 Aug 1872 |
| Classmark: | Institut Mittag-Leffler |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8475 |
From L. C. Wedgwood [8 February 1872]
Summary
Describes earthworm experiments. She has measured depth of mould in various locales, e.g., on ridges and furrows of an old ploughed field.
| Author: | Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [8 Feb 1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 63: 79–80 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8203 |
To R. F. Cooke 17 August 1872
Summary
Will inform all foreign publishers that John Murray will supply 1000 copies of heliotype plates [for Expression] for £75. CD would not have used so many photos had he foreseen the cost, but woodcuts would not have done.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Date: | 17 Aug 1872 |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 283–4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8474 |
To R. F. Cooke [14 August 1872]
Summary
Is greatly relieved to hear that the estimate [of the Heliotype Company] was a mistake. Sends lettered copies of seven plates for Expression, and discusses payment to be made by foreign editors for copies of the plates.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Date: | [14 Aug 1872] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 253–4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8468 |
To R. F. Cooke 15 August 1872
Summary
Arrangements for the plates for Expression and charges to be made for them to foreign editors.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Date: | 15 Aug 1872 |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 260–1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8471 |
To L. C. Wedgwood 21 January [1872]
Summary
Thanks for observations on angles of worm-holes on slopes. William Darwin is observing at Stonehenge. She is worth her weight in gold.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison |
| Date: | 21 Jan [1872] |
| Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (Add 4251: 332) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8171 |
To L. C. Wedgwood 5 January [1872]
Summary
Asks her to probe worm-holes on grassy slopes with a knitting needle to ascertain whether they come out at right angles to the slope or to the horizon.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison |
| Date: | 5 Jan [1872] |
| Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (Add 4251: 331) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8144 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … p. 270). Wedgwood lived with her parents at Leith Hill Place, near Dorking, Surrey. …
To V. O. Kovalevsky 10 August [1872]
Summary
Sends proofs and details [concerning VOK’s Russian translation of Expression (1872)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Date: | 10 Aug [1872] |
| Classmark: | Institut Mittag-Leffler |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8462 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 10 August [1872] and n. 2. CD was at Leith Hill Place in Surrey, the home of the Josiah …
From G. H. Darwin [13 August 1872]
Summary
Discusses the price of some heliotype prints [for Expression?].
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [13 Aug 1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 23 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8500 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … August 1872, p. 5). CD had travelled to Leith Hill Place in Surrey, where he stayed from …
From T. H. Farrer 16 June 1872
Summary
Asks CD for seeds of some plants.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 June 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 72 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8390 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Josiah Wedgwood III lived at Leith Hill Place, Dorking, Surrey, close to Abinger Hall ( …
From V. O. Kovalevsky [12–17 August 1872]
Summary
CD cannot omit mention of Wilhelm Wundt’s Thierseele [Vorlesungen über die Menschen und Thierseele (1863)] in his book.
Murray could control the number of copies of translation of Expression sold in Russia by the number of heliotypes he will supply.
| Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [12–17 Aug 1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 57 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8464 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 2d. ed. , pp. 52 and 386). CD stayed at Leith Hill Place in Surrey from 13 to 21 August …
| letter | (11) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
| Harrison, L. C. | (1) |
| Kovalevsky, V. O. | (1) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Harrison, L. C. | (2) |
| John Murray | (3) |
| Kovalevsky, V. O. | (2) |
| Wedgwood, L. C. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (3) |
| Harrison, L. C. | (3) |
| John Murray | (3) |
| Kovalevsky, V. O. | (3) |
Leith
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What to take
Matches: 1 hits
- … A friend from Darwin's time at Edinburgh suggests books and equipment to take on the voyage. …
Darwn's letters from 1878 online
Summary
Investigating the movements and 'sleep' of plants, being entertained by the mental faculties of his young grandson Bernard, finally elected a corresponding member of the French Académie des sciences, trying to secure a government grant to support…
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- … the Darwins set off on a round of visits to relatives at Leith Hill and Abinger in Surrey, and then …
1.1 Ellen Sharples pastel
Summary
< 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…
Matches: 1 hits
- … exhibition, ‘in the possession of Miss Wedgwood of Leith Hill Place’; i.e. Sophy Wedgwood, daughter …
Darwin and barnacles
Summary
In a letter to Henslow in March 1835 Darwin remarked that he had done ‘very little’ in zoology; the ‘only two novelties’ he added, almost as an afterthought, were a new mollusc and a ‘genus in the family Balanidæ’ – a barnacle – but it was an oddity. Who,…
Matches: 1 hits
- … world of sea creatures he could observe on the beach at Leith. His first paper, in March 1827, …
Women’s scientific participation
Summary
Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
Matches: 1 hits
- … of fieldwork undertaken in the fields around her home at Leith Hill Place. Letter 6139 …
Darwin in letters, 1880: Sensitivity and worms
Summary
‘My heart & soul care for worms & nothing else in this world,’ Darwin wrote to his old Shrewsbury friend Henry Johnson on 14 November 1880. Darwin became fully devoted to earthworms in the spring of the year, just after finishing the manuscript of…
Darwin's in letters, 1873: Animal or vegetable?
Summary
Having laboured for nearly five years on human evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of emotions, Darwin was able to devote 1873 almost exclusively to his beloved plants. He resumed work on the digestive powers of sundews and Venus fly traps, and…
Matches: 1 hits
- … Montague Street in London in March, visited the Wedgwoods at Leith Hill Place in June, stayed with …
Darwin in letters, 1871: An emptying nest
Summary
The year 1871 was an extremely busy and productive one for Darwin, with the publication in February of his long-awaited book on human evolution, Descent of man. The other main preoccupation of the year was the preparation of his manuscript on expression.…
Matches: 1 hits
- … yards of ground were marked out near the Wedgwoods’ home, Leith Hill Place in Surrey, and CD’s niece …
Darwin in letters, 1878: Movement and sleep
Summary
In 1878, Darwin devoted most of his attention to the movements of plants. He investigated the growth pattern of roots and shoots, studying the function of specific organs in this process. Working closely with his son Francis, Darwin devised a series of…
Matches: 1 hits
- … William and his wife Sara, and visits to the Wedgwoods at Leith Hill Place, and the Farrers at …
