From A child of God [after 24 February 1871?]
Summary
Urges CD to repent and seek salvation through Christ.
| Author: | Unidentified |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 24 Feb 1871?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 201: 1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13770 |
To ? 27 September [1871–81]
Summary
Thanks for a book. "I am so much overworked at present that I cannot read it now, & I am a very poor German scholar".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 27 Sept [1871-81] |
| Classmark: | David Schulson (dealer) (August 2005) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13886 |
To ? 18 November [1871–81]
Summary
"With Mr. Charles Darwin’s compliments enclosing one guinea."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 18 Nov [1871–81] |
| Classmark: | Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (14 September 1993) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13887 |
To ? 19 May [1871]
Summary
Thanks for references about dogs. Fears work will not allow him to deal with subject again. Heartily subscribes to what correspondent says about qualities of dogs. Loves his "with all my heart".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 19 May [1871] |
| Classmark: | Paul C. Richards Autographs (dealer) (Catalogue 109) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13889 |
To ? 7 April [1871]
Summary
Asks correspondent to thank Thomas Laycock for his references. CD has been away from home and has not yet consulted his copy of Laycock’s Mind and brain [1860].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 7 Apr [1871] |
| Classmark: | R. M. Smythe (dealer) (November 1998) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6102A |
To ? 25 February [1871]
Summary
Thanks for two reviews of Descent. Second is "most fair, kind and carefully abstracted".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 25 Feb [1871] |
| Classmark: | The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. Manuscripts and Archives Division. (Miscellaneous papers) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7513 |
To ? 10 May [1871]
Summary
Thanks correspondent for item of criticism in a foreign newspaper.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 10 May [1871] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.396) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7747 |
To ? 28 June [1871]
Summary
Thanks for the photographs.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 28 June [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 249: 123 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7836F |
To ? 1 July 1871
Summary
Regrets ill health will prevent his attending the BAAS meeting at Edinburgh.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 1 July 1871 |
| Classmark: | Historical Society of Pennsylvania |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7844 |
To an editor 12 October [1871]
Summary
Sends photograph of himself for a proposed memoir in correspondent’s Review.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 12 Oct [1871] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8003 |
To ? 20 November [1871]
Summary
Asks for some pamphlets, the titles of which have been sent to him by Dr Spengel [see 8053].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 20 Nov [1871] |
| Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (9 April 1963) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8076 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
| Unidentified | (1) |
| Unidentified | (10) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Darwin as mentor
Summary
Darwin provided advice, encouragement and praise to his fellow scientific 'labourers' of both sexes. Selected letters Letter 2234 - Darwin to Unidentified, [5 March 1858] Darwin advises that Professor C. P. Smyth’s observations are not…
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- … Selected letters Letter 2234 - Darwin to Unidentified, [5 March 1858] Darwin …
- … Letter 7605 - Darwin to Darwin, H. E., [20 March 1871] Darwin reports booming sales of …
4.17 'Figaro', unidentifiable 1871
Summary
< Back to Introduction Yet another portrayal of Darwin as a tree-dwelling ape was published in The Figaro in October 1871, and titled ‘A Darwinian hypothesis’. The image survives in a torn page in the Darwin archive, but it has so far proved…
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- … tree-dwelling ape was published in The Figaro in October 1871, and titled ‘A Darwinian …
- … University Library originator of image unidentified date of creation …
3.15 George Charles Wallich, photo
Summary
< Back to Introduction In the years around 1868–1871, when professional photographers competed for sittings with Darwin, a doctor called George Charles Wallich approached him with a similar request. Wallich was planning to publish a set of his own…
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- … < Back to Introduction In the years around 1868–1871, when professional photographers …
- … featured in Eminent Men of the Day, published in 1870–1871. However, in 1871 Wallich did take …
- … Library, which carries the Downeys’ label. A previous unidentified owner wrote on it by hand ‘Bought …
- … date of creation probably between May and the end of June 1871 computer-readable date …
- … National Archives, Kew, copyright record 1/17/499, 3 July 1871 (but with no photographs attached); …
4.29 Richard Grant White, 'Fall of man'
Summary
< Back to Introduction At about the same time as The Hornet pictured Darwin as ‘A Venerable Orang-Outang’, a novella by the American journalist and critic Richard Grant White offered a more scurrilous take on The Descent of Man. The Fall of Man: Or,…
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- … in London, New York, Toronto and possibly elsewhere in 1871, and must have been a potent influence …
- … signed ‘Stephens’, but it is unclear whether this so-far unidentified artist was the draughtsman or …
- … ‘Stephens’ date of creation c. 1870-1871 computer-readable date c.1870-01-01 …
- … of Peace’ (New York: G.W. Carleton and London: S. Low, 1871). Gowan Dawson, Darwin, Literature …
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…
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- … that had been discovered in a thornbush in Cumberland. An unidentified correspondent offered facts …
