From Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker 17 March [1864]
Summary
Request for plant.
Receipt of Oliver’s letter.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 17 Mar [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 224 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4429 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … see letter from Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker, 12 March [1864] , and letter from J. D. …
- … to J. D. Hooker, 2 June [1864] , and letter from J. D. …
- … Hooker, 15 June 1864 ). Letter from Daniel Oliver, 12 March 1864 . CD felt that his …
- … 1863] ). See also letter from Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker, 12 March [1864] and n. 4. …
- … 1864 ). Hooker did not send the spiral twiner Combretum argenteum with this shipment; however, CD did acquire it later, mentioning his observations of it in ‘Climbing plants’ , pp. 18 and 24 (see letter …
From Emma Darwin to John Scott 9 January 1864
Summary
CD thinks JS’s Primula paper is fit for publication; he will send it on to the Linnean Society.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 9 Jan 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 93: B29–30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4383 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Society and it was read on 4 February 1864 (see letter to John Scott, 6 February [1864] ). …
- … In his letter of 7 January [1864] , Scott once more asked CD to look over the manuscript …
- … Scott 1864a ) (see letter from John Scott, 7 January [1864] and n. 3). Scott had …
- … see enclosure 1 to the letter from John Scott, 7 January [1864] and n. 5). CD planned to …
- … Society ( Botany ) (see letter from John Scott, 7 January [1864] and n. 2). The secretary …
- … See letter to John Scott, 8 January [1864] . In December 1863, William Brinton , a …
From Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker 15 February [1864]
Summary
John Scott is gratified at Bentham’s proposal that he become an associate of the Linnean Society.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 Feb [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 220 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4406 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … letter from John Scott, 12 [February 1864] and letter to John Scott, 9 February [1864] and …
- … this letter and the letter from John Scott, 12 [February 1864] . Emma Darwin refers to …
- … the Linnean Society . See letter to John Scott, 9 February [1864] , n. 9. From 30 January …
- … two weeks. See also letter to J. D. Hooker, [27 January 1864] and n. 4. Frances Harriet …
From Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker 12 March [1864]
Summary
Request for plants.
CD’s continuing ill health.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 12 Mar [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 223 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4426 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … better towards the end of February 1864 (see letter to Asa Gray, 25 February [1864] and …
- … offered to send Norantea in his letter of 9 [March] 1864 . CD thanked Hooker for supplying …
- … contracted ringworm (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 9 [March] 1864 and nn. 26 and 27). …
- … vol. 11, Appendix VI). Letter from J. D. Hooker, 9 [March] 1864 . CD had begun …
From Emma Darwin to Hermann Kindt 14 October [1864]
Summary
Writes, for CD, to thank him for his letter and offer to send Unsere Zeit, but will not trouble him to send it.
Sends photograph of CD.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Hermann Adolph Christian August (Hermann) Kindt |
Date: | 14 Oct [1864] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 238–239 ) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13791 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … In his letter of 11 October 1864 , Kindt had asked for the name of a photographer from …
- … this letter and the letter from Hermann Kindt, 11 October 1864 . Kindt had offered to send …
- … s scientific achievements were described. See letter from Hermann Kindt, 11 October 1864 . …
- … Erasmus Darwin (see letter from W. E. Darwin, [19 May 1864] and n. 8, and frontispiece …
From Emma Darwin to Friedrich Hildebrand 20 November [1863]
Summary
ED writes on behalf of her husband, who is ill, to thank FH for his letter
and to thank [L. C.] Treviranus for his paper on orchids.
CD wishes to know whether Orchis pyramidalis grows in FH’s neighbourhood. He needs a fresh specimen to compare the stigma with those grown locally.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Date: | 20 Nov [1863] |
Classmark: | Courtesy of Eilo Hildebrand (photocopy) (Original, previously owned by Klaus Groove, sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4343F |
From Emma Darwin to John Scott 19 November [1863]
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 19 Nov [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: B31 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4343 |
Matches: 3 hits
From Emma Darwin to Elinor Mary Bonham-Carter 23 December [1864]
Summary
CD sends thanks to Mr Noel for allowing him to see article [sent by Alice Bonham-Carter, see 4722]. CD is pleased at Bernhard von Cotta’s remarks on species; very few of the older distinguished geologists have so favourable a view of his work. He was particularly pleased to read Cotta’s remarks on the azoic formations.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Elinor Mary Bonham-Carter; Elinor Mary Dicey |
Date: | 23 Dec [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 442 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4723 |
From Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox [6 May 1864]
Summary
CD has been so ill they must discourage visit by WDF. Recovering slowly with new treatment.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | [6 May 1864] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 143) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4487 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … DAR 242)). See also letter from William Jenner to Emma Darwin, [17 March 1864] and n. …
- … See letter from W. D. Fox, 5 [May 1864] . The Darwin family spent from 3 September to …
- … by Jenner, see the letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 April [1864] and n. 6. Fox had taken a …
- … 2, and letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 April [1864] . CD stayed with Erasmus Alvey Darwin from …
From Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker [28 April 1864]
Summary
Emma prepares JDH for his visit to Wedgwood factory and Barlaston.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [28 Apr 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 232 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4473 |
From Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin [17 May 1864]
Summary
CD says Meneanthes is now in flower.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [17 May 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 219.1: 80 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4498F |
Matches: 4 hits
- … 1864 for their tour. James Mackintosh Wedgwood, Emma’s nephew, was suffering from incurable cancer (see letter …
- … this letter and the letter from W. E. Darwin, 18 May [1864] , and by the references to …
- … 1864. Holwood Park, almost two miles from Down, was the estate of Robert Monsey Rolfe , with whom the Darwins were on visiting terms (see, for example, Correspondence vol. 10, letter …
- … letter from Charles and Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [4 May 1863]. In her diary (DAR 242), Emma Darwin noted the hot weather on 17 and 18 May 1864. …
From Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox 16 May [1864]
Summary
Urges WDF to send trap he has invented to the exhibition and competition of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Advertisement of Brailsford’s Patent Vermin Trap enclosed.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 16 May [1864] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 144) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4497 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … J. D. Hooker, 13 April [1864] and n. 6, and letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, [6 …
- … in March 1864 as part of a course of treatment prescribed by William Jenner (see letter to …
- … 1864, p. 14). For a discussion of the outcome of the competition, see Correspondence vol. 11, Appendix IX. See enclosure. No letter …
From Emma Darwin to Alfred Newton 4 November [1863]
Summary
CD thanks AN for the note and remarks on the partridge’s leg. CD is too ill to write a note, but will send [for] the specimen as soon as he can. [See 4326.]
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
Date: | 4 Nov [1863] |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/65) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4330F |
From Emma Darwin to Frederick Pollock 23 October [1863?]
Summary
Apologises that CD is too unwell to do any work, but he is most interested in the frequent occurrence of inherited variations in one locality. It would have been a pleasure to visit if his health had permitted.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Jonathan Frederick (Frederick) Pollock, 1st baronet |
Date: | 23 Oct [1863?] |
Classmark: | Private collection |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4321F |
From Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin [28 October 1863]
Summary
CD’s health.
Family and local news.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [28 Oct 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 219. 1: 78 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4323F |
From Emma Darwin to Julius von Haast 12 December [1863]
Summary
CD too unwell to answer JvH’s letter.
He was interested in the "marvellous ground parrot"
and the report on "naturalisation of animals in New Zealand".
Honoured by election to the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast |
Date: | 12 Dec [1863] |
Classmark: | Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Haast family papers, MS-Papers-0037-051-3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4356 |
From Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox [29 September 1863]
Summary
Thanks to WDF’s directions, Anne’s tombstone has been found.
CD improved, but recovery is slow. She describes treatment.
Encloses paper she and CD have written [see 4294, which was wrongly addressed by ED and had not reached WDF].
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | [29 Sept 1863] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (Fox 141) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4312 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … letter to E. A. Darwin, 19 April 1851 ; Post Office directory of Birmingham 1850 and 1864). …
- … letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, [6–27 September 1863] . The enclosure referred to is reproduced in Appendix IX. According to CD’s Address book (Down House MS), Fox’s address was ‘Delamere R[ectory]. Northwich’; see also Post Office directory of Cheshire 1864. …
From Emma Darwin to John Murray [before 17 December 1863]
Summary
CD too ill to write.
Asks that a presentation copy of Origin be sent off.
He has authorised an Italian translation of Origin.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | [before 17 Dec 1863] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 128–129) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4352 |
From Emma and Charles Darwin to W. E. Darwin [20 May 1864]
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin; Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [20 May 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 97: A7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3366 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … see n. 5, below). In his letter of [19 May 1864] , William mentioned sending drawings of …
- … later (see, for example, letter to Asa Gray, 28 May [1864] ). See letter from H. E. …
- … this letter and the letter from W. E. Darwin, [19 May 1864] , and by George Howard, …
- … Pulmonaria angustifolia , see letter to W. E. Darwin, 14 May [1864] and nn. 6 and 7. …
- … Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [18 May 1864] and n. 4. See letter from W. E. …
- … visited Down (see letter from Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [17 May 1864] and n. 4). …
- … and Forms of flowers , p. 115). See letter from W. E. Darwin, [19 May 1864] and n. 8. …
- … 1864] and n. 3. CD wrote in Forms of flowers , p. 115, that the short-styled Menyanthes trifoliata appeared to be sterile with its own pollen. However, in this letter, …
From Charles and Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker [10 July 1865]
Summary
Health very bad. All scientific work stopped for 2½ months.
E. B. Tylor’s Early history of mankind [1865] impresses him.
Would like JDH’s opinion of last number of Spencer’s [Principles of] Biology [vol. 1 (1864)], especially on umbellifers. CD not satisfied with Spencer’s views on irregular flowers.
ED reports on CD’s health.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [10 July 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 272 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4868 |
Darwin, Emma | |
Wedgwood, Emma | (20) |
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
Darwin, W. E. | (3) |
Fox, W. D. | (3) |
Scott, John | (2) |
Bonham-Carter, E. M. | (1) |
Darwin, Emma | (20) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (20) |
Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
Darwin, W. E. | (3) |
Fox, W. D. | (3) |
Darwin in letters, 1864: Failing health
Summary
On receiving a photograph from Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July 1864: ‘the venerable beard gives the look of your having suffered, and … of having grown older’. Because of poor health, Because of poor health, Darwin…
Matches: 1 hits
- … On receiving a photograph from Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July …
Darwin's health
Summary
On 28 March 1849, ten years before Origin was published, Darwin wrote to his good friend Joseph Hooker from Great Malvern in Worcestershire, where Dr James Manby Gully ran a fashionable water-cure establishment. Darwin apologised for his delayed reply to…
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- … On 28 March 1849, ten years before Origin was published, Darwin wrote to his good friend …
Darwin’s hothouse and lists of hothouse plants
Summary
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 …
Women’s scientific participation
Summary
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 …
Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex
Summary
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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- … On 6 March 1868, Darwin wrote to the entomologist and accountant John Jenner Weir, ‘If …
Natural Science and Femininity
Summary
Discussion Questions|Letters A conflation of masculine intellect and feminine thoughts, habits and feelings, male naturalists like Darwin inhabited an uncertain gendered identity. Working from the private domestic comfort of their homes and exercising…
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- … Discussion Questions | Letters A conflation of masculine intellect and feminine …
Diagrams and drawings in letters
Summary
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 …
'An Appeal' against animal cruelty
Summary
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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- … The four-page pamphlet transcribed below and entitled 'An Appeal', was composed jointly by Emma …
Scientific Networks
Summary
Friendship|Mentors|Class|Gender In its broadest sense, a scientific network is a set of connections between people, places, and things that channel the communication of knowledge, and that substantially determine both its intellectual form and content,…
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- … Friendship | Mentors | Class | Gender In its broadest sense, a scientific …
The Lyell–Lubbock dispute
Summary
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 …
Science: A Man’s World?
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Discussion Questions|Letters Darwin's correspondence show that many nineteenth-century women participated in the world of science, be it as experimenters, observers, editors, critics, producers, or consumers. Despite this, much of the…
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- … Discussion Questions | Letters Darwin's correspondence show that many nineteenth …
Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments
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The year was marked by three deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend and supporter; Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and father of Darwin’s friend…
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- … In 1865, the chief work on Charles Darwin’s mind was the writing of The variation of animals and …
Evolution: Selected Letters of Charles Darwin 1860-1870
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This selection of Charles Darwin’s letters includes correspondence with his friends and scientific colleagues around the world; letters by the critics who tried to stamp out his ideas, and by admirers who helped them to spread. It takes up the story of…
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- … This selection of Charles Darwin’s letters includes correspondence with his friends and scientific …
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
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- … Re: Design – performance version – 25 March 2007 – 1 Re: Design – Adaptation of the …
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 …
Darwin's notes for his physician, 1865
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On 20 May 1865, Emma Darwin recorded in her diary that John Chapman, a prominent London publisher who had studied medicine in London and Paris in the early 1840s, visited Down to consult with Darwin about his ill health. In 1863 Chapman started to treat…
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- … On 20 May 1865, Emma Darwin recorded in her diary that John Chapman, a prominent London publisher …
Darwin and Fatherhood
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Charles Darwin married Emma Wedgwood in 1839 and over the next seventeen years the couple had ten children. It is often assumed that Darwin was an exceptional Victorian father. But how extraordinary was he? The Correspondence Project allows an unusually…
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- … Charles Darwin married Emma Wedgwood in 1839 and over the next seventeen years the couple had ten …
3.5 William Darwin, photo 2
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< Back to Introduction Darwin’s son William, who had become a banker in Southampton, took the opportunity of a short visit home to Down House in April 1864 to photograph his father afresh. This half-length portrait was the first to show Darwin with a…
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- … < Back to Introduction Darwin’s son William, who had become a banker in Southampton, …
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 …
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 …