From S. E. Wedgwood [1867–72?]
Summary
Jessie [Wedgwood] says driving in sun made one of her eyes water.
| Author: | Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1867–72?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 195.4: 104 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13856 |
To Athenæum 1 January 1867
Summary
Expresses his support for new books being sold with the pages cut.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Athenæum |
| Date: | 1 Jan 1867 |
| Classmark: | Athenæum, 5 January 1867, pp. 18–19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5343F |
From Fritz Müller 1 January 1867
Summary
Describes his experiments in fertilising Oncidium flexuosum and comparison with Notylia.
Has been examining Catasetum.
Encloses seeds of two species of Gesneria and describes hairs in the seed capsule. Hairs in other plants seem to have a different function.
Starting tomorrow for a botanical excursion on the Continent.
| Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Jan 1867 |
| Classmark: | Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 104–9; DAR 157a: 104 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5344A |
From Hensleigh Wedgwood [1867–72]
Summary
On origin of hand-shaking.
| Author: | Hensleigh Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1867–72] |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 53 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7041 |
From Hensleigh Wedgwood [1867–72]
Summary
Expression: derivation of the term "brown study".
| Author: | Hensleigh Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1867–72] |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 54 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7042 |
From Hensleigh Wedgwood [1867–72?]
Summary
A fragment that may contain information for Expression.
| Author: | Hensleigh Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1867–72?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 53v |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7043 |
From F. J. Wedgwood to H. E. Darwin [1867–72]
Summary
Miss Gourlay reports case of girl at the Lock Hospital who covered her face in shame.
| Author: | Frances Julia (Snow) Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | [1867–72] |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 45 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7058 |
From F. J. Wedgwood to H. E. Darwin [1867–72]
Summary
The expression of shame in ancients, Milton, the Bible, and in poor girls under Miss Gourlay’s charge.
| Author: | Frances Julia (Snow) Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | [1867–72] |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 46, DAR 189: 140 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7059 |
From F. J. Wedgwood [1867–72]
Summary
Sends extract from Charma [Essai sur le langage (1846)] on the origin of nodding and shaking the head [See Expression, p. 273 n. 17].
| Author: | Frances Julia (Snow) Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1867–72] |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 47, DAR 195.1: 52 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7060 |
From F. J. Wedgwood to H. E. Darwin? [1867–72]
Summary
An extract from Macrobius’ Saturnalia dealing with blushing.
| Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1867–72] |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 48 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7061 |
From F. J. Wedgwood [1867–72]
Summary
Extract from Seneca’s letters establishes that hiding the face in shame was not a classical gesture.
| Author: | Frances Julia (Snow) Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1867–72] |
| Classmark: | DAR 195.1: 53 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7062 |
From Ellen Frances Lubbock [1867–8?]
Summary
Has marked a page from Adam Bede which may be relevant to CD’s work on expression.
| Author: | Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1867–8?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 227–228 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7065 |
| letter | (12) |
| Wedgwood, F. J. | (4) |
| Wedgwood, Hensleigh | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (1) |
| Hordern, E. F. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (2) |
| Litchfield, H. E. | (2) |
| Athenæum | (1) |
| Athenæum | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (3) |
| Hordern, E. F. | (1) |
| Litchfield, H. E. | (3) |
| Lubbock, E. F. | (1) |
| Müller, Fritz | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Elizabeth | (1) |
| Wedgwood, F. J. | (4) |
| Wedgwood, Hensleigh | (3) |
Dramatisation script
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Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
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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- … Rigby Eastlake, ‘Photography’, Quarterly Review , 101 (April 1857), 2 parts, part 2, pp. 442–468. …
4.34 'Punch', Sambourne cartoon 1
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< Back to Introduction Linley Sambourne’s cartoon in Punch, a ‘Suggested Illustration’ for Darwin’s forthcoming book on The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants (1875) is another playful transformation of the author into an ape or monkey. However,…
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- … Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2010), pp. 92, 101. …
3.18 Elliott and Fry photos, c.1869-1871
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< Back to Introduction The leading photographic firm of Elliott and Fry seems to have portrayed Darwin at Down House on several occasions. In November 1869 Darwin told A. B. Meyer, who wanted photographs of both him and Wallace for a German…
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- … collections of the period, for example in albums 40 and 101 in the National Portrait Gallery. An …
3.19 Elliott and Fry photos c.1880-1
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< Back to Introduction In addition to Elliott and Fry’s photographs showing an old and enfeebled Darwin on the verandah of Down House, there are at least two other images of him created by the same firm at this period of his life - perhaps even on…
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- … ‘Annus mirabilis’, The Graphic (23 Jan. 1909), p. 101. A.C. Seward (ed.), Darwin and Modern …
Before Origin: the ‘big book’
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Darwin began ‘sorting notes for Species Theory’ on 9 September 1854, the very day he concluded his eight-year study of barnacles (Darwin's Journal). He had long considered the question of species. In 1842, he outlined a theory of transmutation in a…
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- … Darwin began ‘sorting notes for Species Theory’ on 9 September 1854, the very day he concluded his …
Animals, ethics, and the progress of science
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Darwin’s view on the kinship between humans and animals had important ethical implications. In Descent, he argued that some animals exhibited moral behaviour and had evolved mental powers analogous to conscience. He gave examples of cooperation, even…
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- … virtue yet attained by ‘man’ (see Descent , pp. 75-7, 101). In his autobiographical memoir, he …
Canary Islands
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'Canary scheme'
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- … Letters about preparing for an unrealised, research trip to the Canary Islands before Darwin was …
Dates of composition of Darwin's manuscript on species
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Many of the dates of letters in 1856 and 1857 were based on or confirmed by reference to Darwin’s manuscript on species (DAR 8--15.1, inclusive; transcribed and published as Natural selection). This manuscript, begun in May 1856, was nearly completed by…
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'An Appeal' against animal cruelty
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The four-page pamphlet transcribed below and entitled 'An Appeal', was composed jointly by Emma and Charles Darwin (see letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, [29 September 1863]). The pamphlet, which protested against the cruelty of steel vermin…
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- … Classed account books (Down House MS)). In Descent 1: 101, he argued that sympathy for animals …
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…
1.21 window at Christ's College Cambridge
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< Back to Introduction Among the many posthumous commemorations of Darwin is a portrayal of him in stained glass. It is in the oriel window of the Hall at his alma mater, Christ’s College Cambridge – in a bay looking onto the First Court of the…
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People featured in the Dutch photograph album
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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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- … 18 october 1930 Leiden 101 Slingsby van Hoven F.J.J. …
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
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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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- … October 1930 Leiden 101 Slingsby van Hoven F …
