To ? 12 April 1874
Summary
Thanks an unknown correspondent for the 4th edition of his 'remarkable work'.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 12 Apr 1874 |
| Classmark: | Enns Entomology Museum, University of Missouri |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9405F |
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- … Thanks an unknown correspondent for the 4th edition of his 'remarkable work'. …
To ? 26 June [1877]
Summary
Asks for a copy [of an unknown item] to be sent to Down.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 26 June [1877] |
| Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (5 May 2008) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11016F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Asks for a copy [of an unknown item] to be sent to Down. …
To ? 18 July 1881
Summary
Asks what to do with [unspecified] receipt.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 18 July 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 94 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13248 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … correspondent in Brazil, Fritz Müller ; however, the context of this letter is unknown. …
To ? 18 July [1873?]
Summary
Comments on ability of recipient to move his scalp.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 18 July [1873?] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.430) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8982 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … conjectured from a note on the letter in an unknown hand. The notepaper, with the address …
To ? 2 May [1869 or later]
Summary
"When a man has laboured hard in science & has proved that he is capable of original research, he may [some]times indulge in speculation [&] the public will indulge him. But even in this case it is a common error to speculate too largely, for speculation is far easier than observation or experiments . . ."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 2 May [1869-82] |
| Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (28 March 1983) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13866A |
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- … damaged with paper losses’. The length is unknown, as it was sold with two other letters …
To ? 18 August [1880?]
Summary
Thanks correspondent for information on a plant. It is too late for his present work.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 18 Aug [1880?] |
| Classmark: | Harvard University, Department of Psychology |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13289A |
Matches: 1 hit
- … CD’s letter contains the following note in an unknown hand: ‘Answer to a query about the …
To an editor 24 March [1863?]
Summary
Encloses a dialogue on species from a New Zealand newspaper [S. Butler’s First dialogue on evolution, from the Christchurch Press].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 24 Mar [1863?] |
| Classmark: | Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4058 |
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- … This Dialogue, written by some quite unknown to M r . Darwin, is remarkable from its …
To ? 10 May [1866?]
Summary
The apparent difference in arm lengths of compositors is due to a drooping shoulder. File-makers stand in a peculiar position and call one of their legs the hind leg.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 10 May [1866?] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5083 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … from the endorsement, which is in an unknown hand. The note has not been found. Dorrell …
From S. M. Shepley to ? 22 May 1873
Summary
Asks that recipient forward the enclosed message from Dr Hoffmann [August Wilhelm von Hofmann?] which involves an invitation from Berlin Chemical Society to join a committee for a statue in memory of Justus Liebig.
| Author: | Susannah Mary Shepley |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 22 May 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 156 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8918 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … The recipient is unknown. It is unlikely to be a member of the Darwin family, or Shepley …
| letter | (9) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Shepley, S. M. | (1) |
| Unidentified | (9) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Shepley, S. M. | (1) |
4.49 Alfred Bryan, caricature
Summary
< Back to Introduction Among the portrayals of Darwin reproduced in Bridgeman Images is a caricature titled Natural History Repeating Itself, from an unnamed private collection. It is initialled by ‘A.B.’, i.e. Alfred Bryan, who worked as an…
4.26 Christmas card caricature, monkeys
Summary
< Back to Introduction Sem’s Christmas card with a caricature of Darwin was not the only thing of its kind. A sale catalogue of 2009, Charles Robert Darwin . . . One Hundred and Two Items, included the front leaf of a greetings card inscribed in…
Matches: 1 hits
- … venerable monkey-ancestor. physical location unknown accession or …
4.57 silhouette cartoon
Summary
< Back to Introduction A strange double silhouette caricature found its way into the Darwin family collection in the 1930s. Darwin’s outsize caricatured head is attached to the body of a monkey with a long tail, which has a demonic appearance. He…
2.2 Thomas Woolner metal plaque
Summary
< Back to Introduction In Benedict Read’s account of the work of Thomas Woolner in Pre-Raphaelite Sculpture, there is a reference to a ‘bronze medallion of Darwin . . . catalogued in Woolner’s studio in February 1913 (lot 123), which was presumably…
Matches: 1 hits
- … by the Wedgwood firm? physical location unknown accession or collection …
4.58 'Simian, savage' . . . drawings
Summary
< Back to Introduction An anonymous satire in the Darwin archive has been descriptively titled ‘Simian, savage and savant’. Darwin on the right, elegantly dressed and carrying a top hat, represents the acme of civilisation. The central, nearly naked,…
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- … University Library originator(s) of images unknown; one of the wash drawings is signed …
2.21 Montford, relief at Christ's College
Summary
< Back to Introduction An oval bronze plaque with a relief portrait of Darwin by Horace Montford is at Christ’s College, Cambridge, the college where Darwin had been an undergraduate. It is likely to have been based on one of the many photographs of…
4.50 Cigar box lid design
Summary
< Back to Introduction A brightly coloured chromolithograph with a portrait of Darwin was intended to decorate the inside of a cigar box lid. It comes from a book of sample designs carried by a cigar salesman, and can be dated to the late 1880s or…
1.13 Louisa Nash, drawing
Summary
< Back to Introduction This sketch portrait of Darwin was drawn by Louisa A‘hmuty Nash as a memento of her friendship with the Darwin family and a token of her unbounded admiration and affection for Darwin himself. She and her husband, the lawyer…
3.9 Leonard Darwin, photo on horseback
Summary
< Back to Introduction It is so rare to encounter an image of Darwin in a specific locale that a family photograph of him riding his horse Tommy takes on a special interest. He is at the front of Down House, the door of which is open; it seems as…
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- … Library originator of image unknown: assumed to be Leonard Darwin …
2.18 Montford, Carnegie bust
Summary
< Back to Introduction In 1901 the immensely rich steel manufacturer and business magnate Andrew Carnegie commissioned Horace Montford for two bronze busts of Darwin. The exact circumstances of the commission are unknown, but Carnegie must have been…
4.37 'Mosquito' satire
Summary
< Back to Introduction The Buenos Aires satirical journal Mosquito published this cartoon in May 1882, shortly after Darwin’s death, with the title ‘El Homenage a Darwin en el Teatro Nacional’ (The tribute to Darwin in the National Theatre). A…
4.16 Joseph Simms, physiognomy
Summary
< 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…
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- … Library originator of image unknown engraver, after a photograph by Elliott …
Darwin in letters, 1877: Flowers and honours
Summary
Ever since the publication of Expression, Darwin’s research had centred firmly on botany. The year 1877 was no exception. The spring and early summer were spent completing Forms of flowers, his fifth book on a botanical topic. He then turned to the…
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- … prejudice in Descent of man . In a letter from an unknown correspondent on 13 June 1877 , he …
4.12 'Fun', Wedding procession
Summary
< Back to Introduction ‘The wedding procession’ appeared in Fun magazine on March 25, 1871, and contained an amusing echo of the cartoon representing Darwin as ‘A venerable orang-outang’ that had appeared in the Hornet a few days earlier. The…
Darwin’s queries on expression
Summary
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…
4.19 George Montbard, caricature
Summary
< Back to Introduction In this watercolour drawing by Charles Auguste Loye, who called himself George Montbard, Darwin is in a ‘Gallery of ancestors’. He is improbably pictured as a connoisseur in a sleek cut-away tail coat, training his lorgnette on…
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- … at lower left) date of creation unknown (1870s?) computer-readable date …
4.32 Anis liqueur label
Summary
< Back to Introduction Many late-nineteenth-century cartoons played on the popular association of Darwin with theories about humans’ simian ancestry: theories that challenged traditional religious beliefs. However, it is surprising to find an…
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- … holder Marti Dominguez originator of image unknown artist working for the Bosch family …
4.36 Sem, Chistmas card
Summary
< Back to Introduction An unattributed watercolour drawing of Darwin shows him dapperly dressed in a tail coat, but walking on all fours like an animal, his lean figure bent over in an arch and filling the space. It is inscribed ‘With Compliments of…
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- … to Frederick Sem date of creation unknown; probably late 1870s or c.1880-1 …
4.55 Harry Furniss caricature
Summary
< Back to Introduction Harry Furniss’s caricature of Darwin is in a set of seventy-two pen and ink drawings by this artist now in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London. They were acquired in 1947-8 from Theodore Cluse, who, acting…
4.2 Augustus Earle, caricature drawing
Summary
< Back to Introduction The paucity of evidence for Darwin’s appearance and general demeanour during the years of the Beagle voyage gives this humorous drawing of shipboard life a special interest. It is convincingly attributed to Augustus Earle, an…
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- … the watercolour, and what happened to it subsequently, are unknown. Janet Browne has suggested that …
