From Hugh Falconer to Erasmus Alvey Darwin 3 January 1865
Summary
Encloses letter [missing] which he believes will clear up the part he played in Edward Sabine’s Presidential Address. Does not wish CD to think that he did not support the Origin.
| Author: | Hugh Falconer |
| Addressee: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Jan 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 23 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4737 |
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- … See Correspondence vol. 12, letter from Hugh Falconer to William Sharpey, 25 October …
- … Medal’. In his letter of 3 November 186[4] ( Correspondence vol. 12), Falconer wrote: ‘ …
- … written to CD in his letter of 2 December 1864 ( Correspondence vol. 12) about the ‘small …
- … In the letter to William Sharpey, 25 October 1864 ( Correspondence vol. 12), Falconer …
- … letter from Edward Sabine to William Sharpey, 29 December 1864 , Royal Society, Misc. Mss. 19, no. 41). The address contained the remark that Origin had not been included among the grounds of the Copley award. A controversy arose over whether Sabine’s address had misrepresented the views of the Council (see Correspondence vol. 12, …
From E. A. Darwin 30 June [1864]
Summary
Henry Holland thought CD would be interested to know that Buxton’s brewery cannot go on with their own yeast, but are obliged to interchange with other breweries.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 June [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B30 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4548 |
From E. A. Darwin 13 September [1871]
Summary
Location of stock certificates.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Sept [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B80 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7939 |
From E. A. Darwin 1 February [1864]
Summary
Tells of a declaration and a subscription list to defend the rights of Bishop Colenso.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Feb [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B23–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4400 |
From E. A. Darwin 13 March [1879]
Summary
Sends suggestions for CD’s preface to Erasmus Darwin.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Mar [1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: B1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11931 |
From E. A. Darwin 13 December [1878]
Summary
Very glad to hear Anthony Rich is leaving CD money "encouraging science in such a very practical manner".
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Dec [1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B104 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11790 |
From Hugh Falconer to E. A. Darwin 5 January [1865]
Summary
HF merely wanted to correct a false impression given by a sentence taken out of context.
| Author: | Hugh Falconer |
| Addressee: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Jan [1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 24 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4739 |
To E. A. Darwin 12 December 1878
Summary
Informs EAD of Anthony Rich’s proposal to bequeath his property to CD.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Dec 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 153: 10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11789 |
From E. A. Darwin [after 21 April 1869]
Summary
Discusses CD’s health and James Paget’s "verdict".
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 21 Apr 1869] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B65 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6521 |
From E. A. Darwin 12 November [1860–8]
Summary
Sends the tithes.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Nov [1860-8] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4340 |
From Alexander Shaw to E. A. Darwin 22 March 1867
Summary
At the request of his sister, Marion Bell, he sends a copy of his essay on the nervous system. It contains a view of the development of the animal kingdom in illustration of Charles Bell’s classification of the nerves. Human powers are held to be more dependent upon the structure of the mouth than that of the hand.
| Author: | Alexander Shaw |
| Addressee: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Mar 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 145 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5454A |
From E. A. Darwin 19 [December 1870]
Summary
Has received a letter, and two packets of securities.
Comments on George’s escape.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 [Dec 1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B69–70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7066 |
From E. A. Darwin [15? April 1864]
Summary
Sir Henry Holland wants to see [Erasmus Darwin] Zoonomia.
Snow [F. J. Wedgwood] has gone, hoping to meet Fanny who is in a state of anxiety.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [15? Apr 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B19–20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4482 |
From E. A. Darwin 27 June [1864]
Summary
CD will be proposed for the Copley Medal. Hugh Falconer wants information: list of all CD’s papers, dates of the voyage, things not judicious to mention, when his sickness came on, etc.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 June [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B28–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4546 |
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- … letter to E. A. Darwin, 30 June 1864 . CD was nominated for the Copley Medal by George Busk at the meeting of the Council of the Royal Society , 23 June 1864 (Royal Society, Council minutes, 23 June 1864). For a discussion of the procedure according to which candidates were proposed for the medal, see Correspondence vol. 12, …
From E. A. Darwin 20 June [1862]
Summary
Asks CD to help Thomas Carlyle find and borrow a book.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 June [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105 (ser. 2): 4–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3614 |
From E. A. Darwin 27 January [1877]
Summary
Carlyle hoped CD had not been annoyed by that forged letter, which was the reverse of his opinion. [Enclosed is a published extract, said to be taken from a Thomas Carlyle letter, which denies CD’s intellect and regrets his influence.]
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Jan [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B99–100 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11333 |
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- … letter was actually an account of a conversation Carlyle had had with an American visitor, and that, in spite of the denial in The Times , which Wylie described as having been written by ‘Mr Lecky, the historian’, the account was verified by other witnesses to the conversation. Another version of the account, citing it as ‘remarks addressed to a visitor’, appeared in the Tablet , 12 …
From E. A. Darwin 4 February 1878
Summary
Sends CD’s and George’s tithes.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Feb 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B103 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11346 |
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- … 12 s. 10 d. The payment was for tithes for CD’s property at Castle Morton, Worcestershire. CD and each of his five siblings had inherited one sixth of a ‘Castle Morton trust’ from their father, Robert Waring Darwin , in 1837. The trust was evidently related to a property of their grandfather Josiah Wedgwood I in the parish of Castle Morton ( Robert Waring Darwin’s Investment book, Down House MS). After the death of CD’s sister Catherine Langton in 1866, her share was inherited by CD’s son George Howard Darwin ( letter …
From Thomas Salt to E. A. Darwin 8 February 1849
Summary
Discusses the division of R. W. Darwin’s estate.
| Author: | Thomas Salt |
| Addressee: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Feb 1849 |
| Classmark: | Shropshire Archives (SA D3651/B/47/1/11) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1222F |
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- … letter concerns the winding up of the estate of Robert Waring Darwin , the father of Erasmus Alvey Darwin and CD. Lord Powis ( Edward James Herbert ) had inherited the debts of his father, the former Lord Powis ( Edward Herbert ), to R. W. Darwin. Rocke, Eytons & Co. was a private bank in Shrewsbury, Ludlow, and Ellesmere ( Banking almanac 1849, p. 102). Susan Elizabeth Darwin . R. W. Darwin had 15 shares in the North Staffordshire Railway Company, and 12 …
From E. A. Darwin [8 June 1858]
Summary
Encloses projections and models relating to geometry of bees’ cells.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [8 June 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 48a, 50 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2283 |
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- … 12 of these pyramids would make the Dodec. You will be surprized how firm the model will feel when put together, but dont be in a hurry & let one flap dry before you paste another, When you have got the model in your hand, & hold them in the same position as my diagrames, they will all become quite clear. I think I have answered all your questions. ED Over the page I will draw another little diagram to fix the positions of the acute ∠ s N E S W – equator S P N P’ – meridian W P E P’ – East & West circle 6 acute angles at the letters …
From E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin 11 November [1863]
Summary
CD’s Copley Medal. The numbers were ten to eight in CD’s favour but the Cambridge men mustered strongly for Sedgwick.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Nov [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B116–17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4671 |
| letter | (21) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (16) |
| Falconer, Hugh | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Salt, Thomas | (1) |
| Shaw, Alexander | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (14) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (5) |
| Darwin, Emma | (2) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (15) |
| Darwin, E. A. | |
| Darwin, Emma | (2) |
| Falconer, Hugh | (2) |
| Salt, Thomas | (1) |
| Shaw, Alexander | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (2) |
Lost in translation: From Auguste Forel, 12 November 1874
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You receive a gift from your scientific hero Charles Darwin. It is a book that contains sections on your favourite topic—ants. If only you had paid attention when your mother tried to teach you English you might be able to read it. But you didn’t, and you…
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- … You receive a gift from your scientific hero Charles Darwin. It is a book that contains sections …
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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- … The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early …
Darwin in letters, 1879: Tracing roots
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Darwin spent a considerable part of 1879 in the eighteenth century. His journey back in time started when he decided to publish a biographical account of his grandfather Erasmus Darwin to accompany a translation of an essay on Erasmus’s evolutionary ideas…
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- … There are summaries of all Darwin's letters from the year 1879 on this website. The full texts of …
Darwin’s hothouse and lists of hothouse plants
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Darwin became increasingly involved in botanical experiments in the years after the publication of Origin. The building of a small hothouse - a heated greenhouse - early in 1863 greatly increased the range of plants that he could keep for scientific…
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- … Towards the end of 1862, Darwin resolved to build a small hothouse at Down House, for …
1.2 George Richmond, marriage portrait
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< Back to Introduction Few likenesses of Darwin in his youth survive, although more may once have existed. In a letter of 1873 an old Shrewsbury friend, Arthur Mostyn Owen, offered to send Darwin a watercolour sketch of him, painted many years…
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- … < Back to Introduction Few likenesses of Darwin in his youth survive, although more …
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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- … As the sheer volume of his correspondence indicates, 1862 was a particularly productive year for …
Darwin's in letters, 1873: Animal or vegetable?
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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…
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- … Having laboured for nearly five years on human evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of …
Darwin in letters, 1881: Old friends and new admirers
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In May 1881, Darwin, one of the best-known celebrities in England if not the world, began writing about all the eminent men he had met. He embarked on this task, which formed an addition to his autobiography, because he had nothing else to do. He had…
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- … In May 1881, Darwin, one of the best-known celebrities in England if not the world, began …
Women’s scientific participation
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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…
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- … Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants …
German and Dutch photograph albums
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Darwin Day 2018: To celebrate Darwin's 209th birthday, we present two lavishly produced albums of portrait photographs which Darwin received from continental admirers 141 years ago. These unusual gifts from Germany and the Netherlands are made…
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- … In 1877, Charles Darwin was sent some unusual birthday presents: two lavishly …
Darwin in letters, 1875: Pulling strings
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‘I am getting sick of insectivorous plants’, Darwin confessed in January 1875. He had worked on the subject intermittently since 1859, and had been steadily engaged on a book manuscript for nine months; January also saw the conclusion of a bitter dispute…
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- … I am merely slaving over the sickening work of preparing new Editions …
Darwin in letters, 1878: Movement and sleep
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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…
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- … I think we have proved that the sleep of plants is to lessen injury to leaves from radiation …
Darwin in letters, 1869: Forward on all fronts
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At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of Origin. He may have resented the interruption to his work on sexual selection and human evolution, but he spent forty-six days on the task. Much of the…
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- … At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of …
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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- … At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of …
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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- … In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book …
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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- … ‘My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, ‘is so nearly closed. . . What little more I …
Darwin in letters, 1882: Nothing too great or too small
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In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and for the first time in decades he was not working on another book. He remained active in botanical research, however. Building on his recent studies in plant…
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- … In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and …
Diagrams and drawings in letters
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Over 850 illustrations from the printed volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin have been added to the online transcripts of the letters. The contents include maps, diagrams, drawings, sketches and photographs, covering geological, botanical,…
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- … Over 850 illustrations from the printed volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin have …
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…
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- … Species theory In November 1845, Charles Darwin wrote to his friend and confidant Joseph …
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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- … When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations …
