From Fanny Owen [January 1828]
Summary
Surprised to hear from Sarah [Owen] that CD has decided to become a D.D., not an M.D.
She has been to a ball or a party almost every night.
| Author: | Frances (Fanny) Mostyn Owen; Frances (Fanny) Myddelton Biddulph |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [Jan 1828] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 42 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-37 |
From Fanny Owen [late January 1828]
Summary
Tells him the Woodhouse family will set forth for return home.
Reports on activities in Brighton.
| Author: | Frances (Fanny) Mostyn Owen; Frances (Fanny) Myddelton Biddulph |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [late Jan 1828] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 43 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-38 |
From Sarah Owen 18 February [1828]
Summary
Writes of the last part of their lively stay at Brighton and three days in London.
None of CD’s sisters can come to enliven the "truly awful" tranquillity at the Forest [Woodhouse].
| Author: | Sarah Harriet Mostyn Owen; Sarah Harriet Williams; Sarah Harriet Haliburton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Feb [1828] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 59 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-39 |
From Fanny Owen [9 March 1828]
Summary
Went recently to Tommy Hunt’s festivities before Lloyd Kenyon joined his regiment.
Hopes Caroline and Catherine Darwin will visit in a week.
| Author: | Frances (Fanny) Mostyn Owen; Frances (Fanny) Myddelton Biddulph |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [9 Mar 1828] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 44 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-40 |
From Sarah Owen 30 March [1828]
Summary
Caroline and Catherine Darwin were at the Forest a few days last week and Susan Darwin comes the next day. Mentions other relatives, friends, and acquaintances.
| Author: | Sarah Harriet Mostyn Owen; Sarah Harriet Williams; Sarah Harriet Haliburton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Mar [1828] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 60 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-41 |
To W. D. Fox 12 [June 1828]
Summary
Account of insects he has collected, with figures drawn by sister.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 12 [June 1828] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-42 |
To W. D. Fox [30 June 1828]
Summary
Mainly concerned with entomological specimens CD has recently captured. Three figures of beetles are included.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [30 June 1828] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-43 |
From Fanny Owen [July? 1828]
Summary
Is eager to know all that goes on at the Forest [Woodhouse], Bliss Castle [Maer], and Darwin Hall [The Mount].
| Author: | Frances (Fanny) Mostyn Owen; Frances (Fanny) Myddelton Biddulph |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [July? 1828] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 45 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-44 |
To W. D. Fox [29 July 1828]
Summary
CD on a reading party at Barmouth, Wales;
difficulty with mathematics.
Reports on his entomological collecting.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [29 July 1828] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-45 |
To C. T. Whitley [10 August 1828]
Summary
His idle life and the pleasures of Barmouth: "my reading [in mathematics] is a failure"; "Beettle hunting … is my proper sphere".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Thomas Whitley |
| Date: | [10 Aug 1828] |
| Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-45A |
To W. D. Fox [19 August 1828]
Summary
Accepts invitation to a Music Meeting at Osmaston, Derbyshire.
Entomological news and queries.
Has taken up angling.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [19 Aug 1828] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-46 |
To John Maurice Herbert [13 September 1828]
Summary
Asks JMH to collect some insects at Barmouth.
Reports on his shooting luck.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Maurice Herbert |
| Date: | [13 Sept 1828] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-47 |
To W. D. Fox [October 1828]
Summary
Sends some stuffed birds for "Osmaston Museum" and some insects.
Home having cloyed, plans to go to Woodhouse to visit the Owens and the black-eyed houris [Sarah and Fanny] there.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [Oct 1828] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 5) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-48 |
To J. M. Herbert [3 October 1828]
Summary
CD obliged for JMH’s labours in "the science". He reports having spent a pleasant month. Entomological pursuits succeeded.
Looks forward to receiving beetles and butterflies from JMH when he passes through Shrewsbury.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Maurice Herbert |
| Date: | [3 Oct 1828] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-49 |
To the Darwin Family 3 October 1828
Summary
[Caroline Darwin on behalf of CD] submits a petition to Darwin family for £20 to purchase a new double-barrelled gun, CD’s present one having become dangerous.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Darwin family |
| Date: | 3 Oct 1828 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 34 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-50 |
From Fanny Owen [26 October 1828]
Summary
Woodhouse news, including going to a play.
She has been spending much time painting.
| Author: | Frances (Fanny) Mostyn Owen; Frances (Fanny) Myddelton Biddulph |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [26 Oct 1828] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 46 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-51 |
To W. D. Fox [29 October 1828]
Summary
Has met Frederick William Hope, the entomologist; relates F. W. Hope’s praise of CD’s collection and his generous offer of assistance.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [29 Oct 1828] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-52 |
To E. A. Darwin 21 December 1828
Summary
Has found nice rooms in [Christ’s] College, which he has furnished with some very good prints. Lives almost entirely with W. D. Fox and entomology.
News of John Price, B. H. Kennedy, and Charles Whitley. Fanny Owen is as charming as ever.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Dec 1828 |
| Classmark: | DAR 154: 66 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-53 |
To W. D. Fox [24 December 1828]
Summary
CD is collecting entomological specimens;
extols the charms of Fanny Owen.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [24 Dec 1828] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 7) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-54 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (12) |
| Haliburton, S. H. | (2) |
| Mostyn Owen, Fanny | (5) |
| Mostyn Owen, S. H. | (2) |
| Myddelton Biddulph, Fanny | (5) |
| Williams, S. H. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Fox, W. D. | (7) |
| Herbert, J. M. | (2) |
| Darwin family | (1) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (19) |
| Fox, W. D. | (7) |
| Mostyn Owen, Fanny | (5) |
| Myddelton Biddulph, Fanny | (5) |
| Haliburton, S. H. | (2) |
Darwin’s first love
Summary
Darwin’s long marriage to Emma Wedgwood is well documented, but was there an earlier romance in his life? How was his departure on the Beagle entangled with his first love? The answers are revealed in a series of flirtatious letters that Darwin was…
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Darwin in letters, 1821-1836: Childhood to the Beagle voyage
Summary
Darwin's first known letters were written when he was twelve. They continue through school-days at Shrewsbury, two years as a medical student at Edinburgh University, the undergraduate years at Cambridge, and the of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle.…
Darwin’s reading notebooks
Summary
In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
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- … has pub. German pamphlet on crossing oats &c [Wiegmann 1828] Horticultural Transact 15 …
- … [Winch 1819] M. Girou de Buzareingues on generation. 1828 [Girou de Buzareingues 1828a]. …
- … 30 [Jesse 1838] Salmonia— Sir. H Davy [H. Davy 1828] 31 An analysis of …
- … [J. L. Scott 1841] Lockarts Life of Burns [Lockhart 1828] Seguir. Russian Expedition …
- … de la fôret de Bialowcka. Varsovie 1826 [Brincken 1828] quoted by Weissenborn on Aurochs …
- … 1839]— Meckel’s Anatomy. French Translat. [Meckel 1828–38] in Royal Soc D r . Holland says …
- … Napiers Hist. of Peninsular War [W. F. P. Napier 1828–40] Campbell’s Chief Justices [J. …
- … [Coleridge 1835]. Campbell’s Poems [T. Campbell 1828]. Some of Shellys Poems [Shelley …
- … Marked—— 10 th Veterinary [ Veterinarian ] 1828 Vol 1 to end of 1841.— extracted …
- … 1841] 8 th . Lockart life of Burns [Lockhart 1828] 16 L d Dudley’s Letters …
- … /ducks 76 Sept. 14 th . Salmonia [H. Davy 1828] & some vols: of Annals of Nat Hist [ …
- … 1844 Wiegman on Hybrids—German— [Wiegmann 1828] March 24 th Martins Voyage to St …
- … —— Failed in reading Niebuhr’s Rome [Niebuhr 1828–42] [DAR 119: 14a] 1844 …
- … 1843] —— Crawfords Embassy to Siam [Crawfurd 1828] May. Blanco White. Auto-biography …
- … 1779] —— 30. Heber’s Indian Journal [Heber 1828] —— 31 Kitto on Deafness [Kitto 1845] …
- … Mar 18 th Hofacker ueber den Eigenschaften [Hofacker 1828] —— 20 th Hilaire Augt St. …
- … good —— 25 Malcolms Sketches of Persia [Malcolm 1828] Colon. Library fair Dec 5 th …
- … 1858] (Read) Combes Constitution of Man [Combe 1828] Macclintocks Arctic Voyage …
- … Ap. 30. Napier’s Peninsular War [W. F. P. Napier 1828–40] Vol. I. (poor) —— Grotes History of …
- … [Pistor 1831]. —— 15 Die Enten & Gansezucht. Ulm. 1828 [Anon. 1828] 22. Temminck …
- … Ulm. [Darwin Library.] 128: 12, 13 Anon. 1828. Die Enten- Schwanen- und Gänsezucht . …
- … Dublin. [Other eds.] 119: 18a Brincken, Julius. 1828. Mémoire descriptif sur la forêt …
- … London. *119: 23; 119: 23b Campbell, Thomas. 1828. The poetical works of Thomas …
- … in DAR 71: 164–5.] 119: 15a Combe, George. 1828. The constitution of man considered in …
- … 3 vols. Edinburgh. *119: 5v. ——. 1828. Journal of en embassy from the Governor …
- … in DAR 71: 154.] 128: 20 Davy, Humphry. 1828. Salmonia; or, the days of fly fishing …
- … Tagebuch, geführt auf einer Reise nach Färo in Jahre 1828 . Hamburg and Kiel. [Darwin Library.] …
- … 1771, & 1772. London. 119: 9a Heber, Reginald. 1828. Narrative of a journey …
- … Hodson. London. 128: 25 Hofacker, Johann Daniel. 1828. Ueber die Eigenschaften …
- … [Other eds.] *119: 14 Lockhart, John Gibson. 1828. Life of Robert Burns . London. …
Books on the Beagle
Summary
The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.
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- … * Boitard, Pierre. Manuel d’entomologie. 2 vols. Paris, 1828. (Inscription in vol. 2: ‘Charles …
- … Manuel d’ornithologie. 2 vols. Paris, 1828. (DAR 30.2: 182v., 184). Darwin Library–Down. * …
- … researches and illustrations. Vol. 1, Pt 1. Cork, 1828–30. (DAR 30.2: 133v.). Turnbull, …
- … of a voyage to the southern Atlantic Ocean, in the years 1828, 29, 30, performed in H.M. Sloop …
- … of Ansichten der Natur , 2d ed., 1826. 2 vols. Paris, 1828. (Letter to Catherine Darwin, 5 July …
John Maurice Herbert
Summary
John Maurice Herbert was a close friend of Darwin’s at Cambridge University. He was affectionately called ‘Cherbury’ by Darwin, a reference to the seventeenth-century philosopher Edward Herbert, Baron Cherbury, who, like John Herbert, hailed from…
Robert FitzRoy
Summary
Robert FitzRoy was captain of HMS Beagle when Darwin was aboard. From 1831 to 1836 the two men lived in the closest proximity, their relationship revealed by the letters they exchanged while Darwin left the ship to explore the countries visited during the…
2.4 Wedgwood plaque
Summary
< Back to Introduction Soon after Darwin’s death, a Wedgwood plaque in green jasper with a profile portrait of him was presented to Christ’s College, Cambridge, by his son George Darwin, who was himself a Cambridge don. It was set into the panelling…
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- … Robert Darwin 1829–31’ (the first date should be 1828). There is also an inscription, ‘Erected by G …
Cambridge University
Summary
Darwin goes to study at Christ's College, Cambridge
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- … Darwin goes to study at Christ's College, Cambridge …
Darwin’s student booklist
Summary
In October 1825 Charles Darwin and his older brother, Erasmus, went to study medicine in Edinburgh, where their father, Robert Waring Darwin, had trained as a doctor in the 1780’s. Erasmus had already graduated from Cambridge and was continuing his studies…
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- … not to continue the study of medicine, and in January 1828 he went up to Cambridge to read for a …
Darwin and the Church
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The story of Charles Darwin’s involvement with the church is one that is told far too rarely. It shows another side of the man who is more often remembered for his personal struggles with faith, or for his role in large-scale controversies over the…
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- … professions. As a young man, Charles went up to Cambridge in 1828 with the aim of completing the …
New material added to the American edition of Origin
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A ‘revised and augmented’ American edition of Origin came on the market in July 1860, and was the only authorised edition available in the US until 1873. It incorporated many of the changes Darwin made to the second English edition, but still contained…
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- … are various degenerations of the same type. It was not until 1828 that he published his conviction …
Natural selection
Summary
How do new species arise? This was the ancient question that Charles Darwin tackled soon after returning to England from the Beagle voyage in October 1836. Darwin realised a crucial (and cruel) fact: far more individuals of each species were born than…
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- … Essay on the Principle of Population (6 th edition, 1828); Malthus argued that famine and …
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
Summary
Here is a list of people that appeared in the photograph album Darwin received for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from scientific admirers in the Netherlands. Many thanks to Hester Loeff for identifying and researching them. No. …
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- … 1st class. 49 Haarlem 10 march 1828 Maastricht 16 january …
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
Summary
List of people appearing in the photograph album Darwin received from scientific admirers in the Netherlands for his birthday on 12 February 1877. We are grateful to Hester Loeff for providing this list and for permission to make her research available.…
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- … 1st class. 49 Haarlem 10 March 1828 Maastricht 16 January …
Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson
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[f.146r Title page] Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle Supplement / to the 2nd 3rd and Appendix Volumes of the First / Edition Written / for and in the name of the Author of those / Volumes By J.C. Ross. / Sometime Master of a…
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Introduction to the Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle
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'a humble toadyish follower…': Not all pictures of Darwin during the Beagle voyage are flattering. Published here for the first time is a complete transcript of a satirical account of the Beagle’s brief visit in 1836 to the Cocos Keeling islands…
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- … serving in South America. He took command of Beagle in 1828, during her first South American …
