To ? 18 August 1875
Summary
Thanks for the photographs of disks of stone, but not to trouble to send casts, as he will not work on expression again.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 18 Aug 1875 |
| Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 3269/1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10124F |
To ? 23 September [1875–6?]
Summary
Encloses a photograph and [?].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 23 Sept [1875-6] |
| Classmark: | Empire Auction (dealers) (1996) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10167F |
To ? 24 October [1876]
Summary
Asks his correspondent to thank Prof. Reichenbach for his kindness. A plant was discovered in flower at Kew, and he was able to examine the doubtful point.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 24 Oct [1876] |
| Classmark: | RR Auction (dealers) (June 2006) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10221F |
To ? [after 11 December 1875]
Summary
Strongly disapproves of the blackballing of Edwin Ray Lankester by the Linnean Society. States the reasons for his disapproval and hopes they will be considered.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [after 11 Dec 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 97: C1–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10296 |
To ? [1876?]
Summary
Complies with correspondent’s request; encloses photographs of himself.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [1876?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 90 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10339 |
To ? 3 February 1876
Summary
Sends autograph.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 3 Feb 1876 |
| Classmark: | Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (19 March 2015) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10378 |
To ? 15 February 1876
Summary
Thanks correspondent for present of book [unspecified].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 15 Feb 1876 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.485) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10393 |
To ? 25 February 1876
Summary
Sends his autograph.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 25 Feb 1876 |
| Classmark: | Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (Palsbo Ac, sp. 100) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10410 |
To ? 21 March 1876
Summary
Thanks for sending the impressions of the gems, but, because CD is ignorant of archaeology, the recipient should not send one for inspection.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 21 Mar 1876 |
| Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 3269/2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10423F |
To ? 19 May 1876
Summary
Sends his autograph.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 19 May 1876 |
| Classmark: | International Autograph Auctions (dealers) (8 June 2013, lot 625) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10510F |
To ? 13 June 1876
Summary
CD thanks the editor of a picture book "for … the photographs of your striking pictures, & for the honour which you have done me by the introduction of my name and likeness into one of them".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 13 June 1876 |
| Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (24 and 25 November 1981) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10537 |
To ? 13 June 1876
Summary
Thanks for his interesting essay on insectivorous plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 13 June 1876 |
| Classmark: | Alexander Historical Auctions (dealers) (no date) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10537F |
To ? 22 June [1875–81]
Summary
Sends signed photo of himself.
Has published only one paper in Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society, "Parallel roads of Glen Roy" [Collected papers 1: 87–137]. His conclusions have proved erroneous.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 22 June [1875-81] |
| Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 15) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10544 |
To ? 30 June [1875–81]
Summary
Asks for copy of [unspecified] essay, but will not answer it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 30 June [1875-81] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.496) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10552 |
To ? 21 December 1876
Summary
Sends his signature
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 21 Dec 1876 |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10728F |
To ? [1876]
Summary
Letter of reference giving his opinion of the character of a man who has been his footman for a year.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 92 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10745 |
To ? 26 February 1877
Summary
Acknowledges receipt of a publication from a German author. Hopes that the German will not be too difficult to understand in an "important & abstruse" subject.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 26 Feb 1877 |
| Classmark: | eBay (September 2001) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10871A |
To ? 30 March 1877
Summary
Sends autograph as requested.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 30 Mar 1877 |
| Classmark: | L’Autographe (dealers) (1997?) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10918F |
To ? 7 June 1877
Summary
Thanks correspondent for his essay and kind allusions [to Cross and self-fertilisation].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 7 June 1877 |
| Classmark: | The Morgan Library and Museum, New York (MA 9975) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10989 |
To ? 24 June [1877]
Summary
Advises correspondent on adopting a career; "each person shd. follow his natural bent & improve his special abilities".
Strongly recommends study of J. S. Mill’s Logic.
His own zeal for science was most stimulated by Herschel’s Introduction to the study of natural philosophy.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 24 June [1877] |
| Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (25 July 1972); Kobunso (dealer) (1974) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11014 |
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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 …
List of correspondents
Summary
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,…
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- … Linnean Society (1) Unidentified (204) …
3.8 Leonard Darwin, interior photo
Summary
< Back to Introduction Leonard Darwin, who created the distinctive image of his father sitting on the verandah at Down House, also portrayed him as a melancholy philosopher. His head, brightly lit from above, emerges from the enveloping darkness; he…
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- … Leonard Darwin’s letter to his father, enclosing unidentified photographs, 25 April 1878. …
Proteus
Summary
Proteus is a bit of an Unidentified Film Object. A work that mixes documentary with animation, its subject is a scientist who walked a tight line between arts and sciences. Is the film a documentary or an artistic vision? As our guest speaker Nick Hopwood…
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- … Proteus is a bit of an Unidentified Film Object. A work that mixes documentary with animation, its …
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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- … University Library originator of image unidentified date of creation …
2.5 Wedgwood medallions, 2nd type
Summary
< Back to Introduction Two identical oval medallions in green jasper in the Wedgwood Museum, portraying Darwin’s head in profile, are different from the rest. The portrayal was apparently taken not from Woolner’s model of 1869, but from the Royal…
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- … originator of image Allan Wyon, interpreted by an unidentified ceramicist date …
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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- … Library, which carries the Downeys’ label. A previous unidentified owner wrote on it by hand ‘Bought …
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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- … signed ‘Stephens’, but it is unclear whether this so-far unidentified artist was the draughtsman or …
Wearing his knowledge lightly: From Fritz Müller, 5 April 1878
Summary
Darwin received letters from so many people and wrote so many fascinating letters himself, that it’s hard to choose from many letters that stand out, but one of this editor’s favourites, that always brings a smile, is a letter from Fritz Müller written 5…
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- … same ‘caterpillar genus’. Müller also found eggs of an unidentified species of the tribe Heliconiini …
Black Venus
Summary
Sadiah Qureshi (University of Birmingham) on the film Vénus Noire (Abdellatif Kechiche, 2010) Sara Baartman has long been characterised as ‘Black Venus’, or ‘Vénus Noire’. The epithet encapsulates how her exploitation and objectification whilst alive…
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- … after birth. Whilst in England she was also married to an unidentified groom. In the film, these …
Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex
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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 …
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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- … Library–Down. Cook, James. Voyages (editions unidentified; see also Hawkesworth, John). …
Darwin’s observations on his children
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Charles Darwin’s observations on the development of his children, began the research that culminated in his book The Expression of the emotions in man and animals, published in 1872, and his article ‘A biographical sketch of an infant’, published in Mind…
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- … in Emma Darwin’s hand. [81] This sentence is in an unidentified child’s hand. …
