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‘. . . a work of magisterial scholarship, meticulous in every respect.’ Quarterly Review of Biology The Darwin Correspondence Project is locating and researching all known letters to and from Charles Darwin, and is publishing complete texts together…
St George Jackson Mivart
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In the second half of 1874, Darwin’s peace was disturbed by an anonymous article in the Quarterly Review suggesting that his son George was opposed to the institution of marriage and in favour of ‘unrestrained licentiousness’. Darwin suspected, correctly,…
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- … restrictions to liberty of marriage’ in the Contemporary Review (G. H. Darwin 1873b). In this …
- … granted divorce on very slight causes. Mivart's review George’s article appeared …
- … Murray, his own publisher and also the proprietor of the Quarterly Review. George took advice …
- … Darwin send it for publication in the next issue of the Quarterly ( letter from G. H. Darwin, …
- … laws’. Darwin’s main objection to the Quarterly Review article was the suggestion that …
- … were mentioned in the text Darwin wanted to quote from the review, and, if George did not repudiate …
- … was to ask Murray to publish George’s letter in the Quarterly. George was anxious not to bring …
- … appeared, followed by an anonymous rejoinder from Mivart ( Quarterly Review 137 (1874): 587–8). …
- … 1874. Sir, In the July number of the ‘Quarterly Review’ of the present year reference …
- … to an essay by me, published in the ‘Contemporary Review’ for August 1873, and entitled ‘On …
- … varied appliances of a complex civilisation.’ The Review thus asserts,— First , …
- … | George Darwin. To the Editor of the Quarterly Review. Nothing could …
- … Darwin thanked Murray for sending him the issue of the Quarterly Review including these letters, …
- … reviewed. When I wrote out, at Dresden, my MS for the Quarterly, I unhappily trusted to my …
- … the inference, however I had to consider the dignity of the Review & not merely my own. …
- … ‘the anonymous Reviewer’, Mivart, in a passage of his review of Ernst Haeckel’s book Anthropogenie …
- … in the Academy , 16 January 1875, p. 66, signed, ‘The Quarterly Reviewer of 1874’. In it he …
- … of repeating, what has already been stated by the Quarterly Review for October, that however I …
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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- … on insectivorous plants. A vicious dispute over an anonymous review that attacked the work of Darwin …
- … In August 1873, he had published in the Contemporary Review ‘On beneficial restrictions to …
- … 1873b). In July 1874, an anonymous essay appeared in the Quarterly Review discussing works on …
- … of vice in order to check population’. The review was by St George Jackson Mivart, one of the …
- … previous anonymous attacks ([Mivart] 1869; 1871c). In his review, Mivart criticised both son and …
- … 'scurrilous libel' As the authorship of the review became known within Darwin’s …
- … essay. Mivart’s attack had been published in the Quarterly Review , one of the most …
- … in my position, and imagine me to be the proprietor of a review in which according to your own …
- … why he had written to Murray and not the editor of the Quarterly : ‘I cannot expect fair …
- … your Son’s letter as it stands in the next number of the Review & in the same type’ ( letter …
- … that asked Mivart directly whether he was the author of the review ( see letter to J. D. Hooker, 14 …
- … a plethora of excuses followed Mivart’s statement that the review caused him more pain and regret …
- … apology’ and sent a retraction to the editor of the Quarterly Review . Huxley concluded: ‘our …
- … [1875] ), preferring to attack Mivart in print, as in his review of Ernst Haeckel’s Anthropogenie …
4.16 Joseph Simms, physiognomy
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< Back to Introduction In September 1874, the American doctor Joseph Simms, then on a three-year lecture tour of Britain, sent Darwin a copy of his book, Nature’s Revelations of Character; Or, Physiognomy Illustrated. He was seeking a public…
Darwin on human evolution
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'I hear that Ladies think it delightful reading, but that it does not do to talk about it, which no doubt promotes the sale.' For the first time online you can now read the full texts of nearly 800 letters Darwin wrote and received during 1871,…
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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- … attack upon Darwin’s son George, in an anonymous review in 1874 (see Correspondence vol. 22, …
- … some of his anger toward John Murray, the publisher of the Quarterly Review , in which Mivart’s …
- … whose anthropological work had been reviewed in the same Quarterly article that attacked George. …
- … plants lured insects to their death were described in a review of the book in the Academy , 24 …
- … articles for leading periodicals such as the Contemporary Review . Having just emerged from the …
- … marriage, he was embroiled in another as the result of a review of William Dwight Whitney’s work on …
- … in letters (see Correspondence vol. 21), and George’s review prompted Max Müller to write to …
- … that ‘Mr Darwin, jun.’ had used the pretext of a review of Whitney to defend his father. He compared …
- … of Darwin’s theories. In August, he published a favourable review of Insectivorous plants for …
- … Darwin pleaded that the paper not be referred to him for review. In the end, it was firmly rejected …
3.14 Julia Margaret Cameron, photos
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< Back to Introduction In the summer of 1868 Darwin took a holiday on the Isle of Wight with his immediate family, his brother Erasmus, and his friend Joseph Hooker. The family’s accommodation at Freshwater was rented from the photographer Julia…
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- … Eastlake, in her articles on photography published in the Quarterly Review in 1857, had already …
- … Lady Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake, ‘Photography’, Quarterly Review , 101 (April 1857), 2 parts, part …
- … House: creating the “lived-in” look’, Collections Review , 2 (London: English Heritage, 1999), p. …
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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1.1 Ellen Sharples pastel
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< 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…
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Origin
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Darwin’s most famous work, Origin, had an inauspicious beginning. It grew out of his wish to establish priority for the species theory he had spent over twenty years researching. Darwin never intended to write Origin, and had resisted suggestions in 1856…
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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- … was Darwin’s main concern. He eagerly scrutinised each new review and was heartened to find that …
- … from Richard Owen in the April issue of the Edinburgh Review . Indeed, after reading not only …
- … the theory of creation. Asa Gray’s statement in his March review that natural selection was a …
- … explicitly raised in February in Thomas Vernon Wollaston’s review in the Annals and Magazine of …
- … Correspondence vol. 8 Appendix VI. Wilberforce’s review of Origin , published in the …
- … [1860] ). As the months passed by, Darwin read each review with less trepidation, commenting …
- … better than anyone else. Having been impressed by Gray’s review in the American Journal of Science …
Darwin in letters, 1871: An emptying nest
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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.…
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- … and favourable reception. He suggested various journals for review, and ordered a large number of …
- … (8 April 1871, p. 5). Darwin condemned the author of the review as ‘a windbag full of metaphysics …
- … 188–9). Darwin was particularly interested in an anonymous review in the Pall Mall Gazette , and …
- … year, Mivart wrote an even more hostile article in the Quarterly Review ([Mivart] 1871c]). It …
- … of natural selection. He arranged for a highly critical review of Genesis of species to be …
- … took up the defence in an article in the Contemporary Review attacking Mivart’s misreading and …
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,…
Darwin in letters, 1858-1859: Origin
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The years 1858 and 1859 were, without doubt, the most momentous of Darwin’s life. From a quiet rural existence filled with steady work on his ‘big book’ on species, he was jolted into action by the arrival of an unexpected letter from Alfred Russel Wallace…
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- … his monograph on Fossil Cirripedia (1851 and 1854) ( Quarterly Journal of the Geological …
- … was, after all, also the publisher of the conservative Quarterly Review . He sent the manuscript …
- … great surprise, The Times carried a highly favourable review. ‘Certainly I should have said that …
- … Huxley admitted his authorship to Darwin and wrote a longer review for the December issue of …
The writing of "Origin"
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From a quiet rural existence at Down in Kent, filled with steady work on his ‘big book’ on the transmutation of species, Darwin was jolted into action in 1858 by the arrival of an unexpected letter (no longer extant) from Alfred Russel Wallace outlining a…
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Darwin’s reading notebooks
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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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- … Read Loudon’s Arboretum [Loudon 1838] in Edinburgh Review July 1839 [Anon. 1839a]— there are …
- … Man. Mentioned by Athenæum 1839 p. 765. in Geograph. Soc?? Review of this in Edin. Phil Jour. 1840. …
- … 1839. p. 408 [Flourens 1839] read Quarterly Review 1839. p. 336 [Broderip] 1839]. M r …
- … in Lib. Useful Knowledge [Bacon 1827] Num 41. Ed. Review. Sir. J. Mack. on Deaf & Dumb …
- … [DAR *119: 15v.] From Herschel’s Review Quart. June /41/ [Herschel 1841] I see I must …
- … par August. de Saint-Hilaire [Saint-Hilaire 1841]: review annal. des Scien. p. 100/41/—dull—but …
- … species (alluded to by Hooker) Foreign & British Med. Review by D r Forbes [ British …
- … Macleay’s letter to D r Fleming [Macleay 1830] Review of D[itt] o in Quarterly [Fleming …
- … [T. Gray 1775] Jeffrey. art. on Alison Taste. Ed. Review [Jeffrey] 1811] Maer. 68 …
- … living Animals [Leidy 1853]. (Read) Some paper or Review in a Medical Journal which Hooker …
- … Field Sports [Williamson 1807] recommended by Blyth in Review 107 M. de Castelnau, Cattle …
- … to Nicholas Aylward Vigors about John Fleming, and the review was by Fleming (see Notebooks , p. …
- … Loudon’s British trees and shrubs . Edinburgh Review 69: 384–405. *119: 8v. …
- … Containing a description of the country … with a review of its history . London: T. C. Newby …
- … on the natural history and fishery of the sperm whale. Quarterly Review 63: 318–41. *119: 9v. …
- … methods in natural history , by J. E. Bicheno, Esq. Quarterly Review 41: 302–27. 119: 1a …
- … [——]. 1841. Whewell on the inductive sciences. Quarterly Review 68: 177–238. *119: 15v. …
- … . London. 119: 6a Hickson, William Edward. 1849. Review of Thomas Robert Malthus, An …
- … The true law of population etc. Westminster Review 52: 133–201. *119: 22v. ——. …
- … [Jeffrey, Francis]. 1811. Alison on taste. Edinburgh Review 18: 1–46. 119: 9b …
- … Thomas Babington]. 1837. Lord Bacon. Edinburgh Review 65: 1–104. 119: 9b ——. 1848 …
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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- … Jenkin. Darwin had been very impressed by Jenkin’s 1867 review, which argued that any variation in …
- … wrote to Darwin about a forthcoming article in the Quarterly Review : ‘I venture for the …
- … in scientific literature, and the appearance of Delpino’s review in Scientific Opinion allowed …
- … wrote to Hooker, regretting only that Nature did not review more foreign articles ( letter to J …
2.1 Thomas Woolner bust
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< Back to Introduction Thomas Woolner’s marble bust of Darwin was the first portrayal of him that reflected an important transition in his status in the later 1860s. In the 1840s–1850s Darwin had been esteemed within scientific circles as one among…
Darwin in letters,1866: Survival of the fittest
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The year 1866 began well for Charles Darwin, as his health, after several years of illness, was now considerably improved. In February, Darwin received a request from his publisher, John Murray, for a new edition of Origin. Darwin got the fourth…
Volume appendices
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Here is a list of the appendices from the print volumes of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin with links to adapted online versions where they are available. Appendix I in each volume contains translations of letters in foreign languages and these can…
