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 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … 13 November 1863] , and letter from J. D. Hooker to Emma Darwin, 11 November 1863 . …
- … of Canterbury , New Zealand, on 7 August 1863 (see letter from the secretary of the …
- … Julius von Haast, 21 July [– 7? August] 1863 . Letter from Julius von Haast, 21 July [– …
- … 7? August] 1863 . See letter from Julius von Haast , 21 July [– 7? August] and nn. …
- … 13, 14, and 17. See letters to J. D. Hooker, 10 [November 1863] and [ …
From Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker [7 December 1863]
Summary
CD too ill to write.
Has evidence of long life of seed transported on a partridge’s foot.
Sends a squib by Samuel Butler on the Origin.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [7 Dec 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 215 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4351 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … J. D. Hooker, [1 or 3 November 1863] , and letter from J. D. Hooker to Emma Darwin, …
- … wind transport (see letter from Alfred Newton, 31 October 1863 and nn. 2 and 5). Hooker …
- … Darwin probably refers to the letter from Asa Gray, 23 November 1863 . CD refers to Samuel …
- … Zealand, on 20 December 1862 (see letter to an editor, 24 March [1863? ] and n. 3). The …
- … from J. D. Hooker, [13 May 1863] and n. 20, and letters to J. D. Hooker, 15 and 22 …
- … this letter and the letter to J. D. Hooker, 5 [December 1863] , and the entries in Emma …
- … day (DAR 242). See also letter to J. D. Hooker, 5 [December 1863] and n. 7. See letter …
- … to J. D. Hooker, 5 [December 1863] and n. 8. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 5 [December …
- … Animals (see letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, [6–27 September 1863] , and Appendix …
- … 1863 ). Galton circulated a privately printed preprint of the paper, which Hooker may have referred to in a missing letter, …
- … 1863, p. 2. There are copies in the ‘Scrapbook of reviews’ in the Darwin Archive–CUL (DAR 226.1: 130 and DAR 226.1: 133–4, respectively). Samuel Butler (1774–1839) was headmaster at Shrewsbury School, 1798–1836; CD attended Shrewsbury between 1818 and 1825 ( Freeman 1978 ). The 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 John Scott 24 September [1863]
Summary
JS’s MS [of Primula paper] arrived, but CD is too ill to read it.
CD has sent JS’s paper on orchid sterility to Botanische Zeitung and to Hooker.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Scott |
| Date: | 24 Sept [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 93: B3–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4304 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … which Scott had sent to CD for comment (see letter from John Scott, 21 September [1863] ). …
- … Scott 1863a ; see letter from John Scott, 21 September [1863] . The …
- … is to Joseph Dalton Hooker ; see letter from John Scott, 21 September [1863] and n. …
- … 5. See letter to John Scott, 7 November [1863] . …
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: 7 hits
- … for finding it (see letter to W. D. Fox, 4 [September 1863] , and letter from W. D. …
- … hydropathic treatment on 15 September 1863. See letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, [ …
- … See letter from W. D. Fox, 7 September [1863] . Emma had been unable to locate in the …
- … who died in 1851 (see letter to W. D. Fox, 4 [September 1863] ). At CD’s request, Fox, …
- … associate of Gully’s (see letter to W. D. Fox, 4 [September 1863] and n. 1). According …
- … ill (see Browne 1990 and letter from W. D. Fox, [16–22 May 1863] ). As a result, CD was …
- … 1863] ). The reference is to Eliza Partington , the lodging-house keeper who ran Montreal House, where Annie had apparently lodged ( Correspondence vol. 5, letter …
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 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … between this letter and the letter from Friedrich Hildebrand, 10 November 1863 . …
- … See letter from Friedrich Hildebrand, 10 November 1863 . The references are to Ludolph …
- … 1863a . See also letter from Friedrich Hildebrand, 16 July 1863 . In Treviranus 1863c , …
- … Treviranus is the letter from L. C. Treviranus, 12 February 1863 , in which he mentioned …
From Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox 8 December [1863]
Summary
Thanks WDF for his letter [on steel traps].
Gives a better report of CD’s health since he gave up water-cure.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 8 Dec [1863] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 142) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4355 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … from W. D. Fox, [16–22 May 1863] , and letters to W. D. Fox, 23 May [1863] , and 4 [ …
- … Darwin to W. D. Fox, [29 September 1863] . See also letter From Emma Darwin to J. D. …
- … hydrocyanic acid (see letter from George Busk , [ c. 27 August 1863]). Ellen Sophia Fox . …
- … 1863 (see ‘Journal’ ( Correspondence vol. 11, Appendix II)). CD had formerly received hydropathic treatment from James Manby Gully at Great Malvern, Worcestershire, but was treated on this occasion by Ayerst, presumably on the recommendation of Gully, owing to Gully’s own ill health (see letter …
From Emma Darwin to Patrick Matthew 21 November [1863]
Summary
CD is too ill to write.
As for natural selection, he is more faithful to PM’s "own original child" than PM is himself. To illustrate, CD relates the metaphor of an architect selecting well-shaped stones and rejecting ill-shaped ones. [See Variation 2: 431.]
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Patrick Matthew |
| Date: | 21 Nov [1863] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (Acc.10963) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4344 |
From Emma Darwin to John Scott 19 November [1863]
Summary
CD agrees about reversion.
The discovery of crossing in cryptogams is very interesting.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Scott |
| Date: | 19 Nov [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 93: B31 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4343 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … this letter and the letter to John Scott, 7 November [1863] (see n. 4, below). The letter …
- … of Linum monogynum (see letter from John Scott, 21 September [1863] ). He eventually sent …
- … of the genus was (see letter to John Scott, 7 November [1863] ). Scott’s reply has not …
- … 1 April 1863 (see ‘Journal’ ( Correspondence vol. 11, Appendix II)). The letter in which …
From Emma Darwin to John Scott 23 September [1863]
Summary
CD too unwell to read. JS should not send Primula paper MS until CD returns home.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Scott |
| Date: | 23 Sept [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 93: B1–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4302 |
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 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … at Down in November and December 1863 (see letter from W. E. Darwin, 21 August [1863] , …
- … disorders (see letter from George Busk , [ c. 27 August 1863]). Brinton was a physician at …
- … letters from Emma Darwin to William Erasmus Darwin , 29 October 1862 and [15 April 1863], …
- … 1863. Mrs Acland was probably Robina Jemima Acland , the wife of Lawford Acland of Langdown Lawn, Hythe, near Southampton ( letter …
- … 1863. Tatsfield is a village eight miles south-east of Croydon, three miles south-west of Down ( Survey gazetteer of the British Isles ). Mr Solomon has not been further identified. Hope Elizabeth Wedgwood was CD’s first cousin once removed ( Freeman 1978 ). The letter …
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 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 |
From Emma Darwin to Alphonse de Candolle 17 December [1863]
Summary
CD sends thanks for pamphlet.
He has been very unwell for three months; it will be long before he can apply himself to his usual pursuits.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alphonse de Candolle |
| Date: | 17 Dec [1863] |
| Classmark: | Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4358 |
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: 3 hits
- … February 1863] ). On the course of treatment prescribed by Jenner, see the letter to J. …
- … 1863 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). CD and Fox met on 13 February (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter …
- … letter from W. D. Fox, 5 [May 1864] . The Darwin family spent from 3 September to 12 or 13 October 1863 …
From Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox [6–27 September 1863]
Summary
Encloses a four-page printed pamphlet on the cruelty of steel traps [see Collected papers 2: 83–4].
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [6–27 Sept 1863] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 142a) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4294 |
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 Darwin to J. D. Hooker 26 December [1863]
Summary
CD would be pleased to sit for a bust by Thomas Woolner for JDH, but he is too ill now.
Emma’s views on slavery and the Civil War.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 26 Dec [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 214 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4359 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 1862] , and this volume, letter to Asa Gray, 23 February [1863] and n. 22). Frederick Law …
- … letter to J. D. Hooker, 26 November [1868] ( Calendar , no. 6476)). William Erasmus, George Howard, Francis, Leonard, and Horace Darwin . Frances Harriet Hooker . President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, which came into effect on 1 January 1863, …
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 |
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 |
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| Wedgwood, Emma | (25) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
| Fox, W. D. | (4) |
| Scott, John | (4) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (3) |
| Candolle, Alphonse de | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (25) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (25) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
| Fox, W. D. | (4) |
| Scott, John | (4) |
Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
Summary
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…
Matches: 1 hits
- … At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of …
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…
Matches: 1 hits
- … 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 …
Thomas Rivers
Summary
Rivers and Darwin exchanged around 30 letters, most in 1863 when Darwin was hard at work on the manuscript of Variation of plants and animals under domestication, the lengthy and detailed sequel to Origin of species. Rivers, an experienced plant breeder…
Matches: 1 hits
- … The Project was contacted by the owner of an important Darwin letter that contains a rare instance …
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…
Matches: 1 hits
- … In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book …
'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…
Matches: 1 hits
- … The four-page pamphlet transcribed below and entitled 'An Appeal', was composed jointly by Emma …
Dining at Down House
Summary
Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Dining, Digestion, and Darwin's Domestic Life While Darwin is best remembered for his scientific accomplishments, he greatly valued and was strongly influenced by his domestic life. Darwin's…
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- … Sources | Discussion Questions | Experiment Dining, Digestion, and Darwin's …
Science, Work and Manliness
Summary
Discussion Questions|Letters In 1859, popular didactic writer William Landels published the first edition of what proved to be one of his best-selling works, How Men Are Made. "It is by work, work, work" he told his middle class audience, …
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- … Discussion Questions | Letters In 1859, popular didactic writer William Landels …
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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- … Darwin provided advice, encouragement and praise to his fellow scientific 'labourers' of both …
Capturing Darwin’s voice: audio of selected letters
Summary
On a sunny Wednesday in June 2011 in a makeshift recording studio somewhere in Cambridge, we were very pleased to welcome Terry Molloy back to the Darwin Correspondence Project for a special recording session. Terry, known for his portrayal of Davros in Dr…
Matches: 1 hits
- … On a sunny Wednesday in June 2011 in a makeshift recording studio somewhere in Cambridge, we were …
Dramatisation script
Summary
Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
Matches: 1 hits
- … Re: Design – performance version – 25 March 2007 – 1 Re: Design – Adaptation of the …
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…
Matches: 1 hits
- … On 28 March 1849, ten years before Origin was published, Darwin wrote to his good friend …
Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments
Summary
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 …
Referencing women’s work
Summary
Darwin's correspondence shows that women made significant contributions to Darwin's work, but whether and how they were acknowledged in print involved complex considerations of social standing, professional standing, and personal preference.…
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- … Darwin's correspondence shows that women made significant contributions to Darwin's work, but …
Inheritance
Summary
It was crucial to Darwin’s theories of species change that naturally occurring variations could be inherited. But at the time when he wrote Origin, he had no explanation for how inheritance worked – it was just obvious that it did. Darwin’s attempt to…
Matches: 1 hits
- … 'Hypotheses may often be of service to science, when they involve a certain portion of …
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 …
Darwin in letters, 1862: A multiplicity of experiments
Summary
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 …
Evolution: Selected Letters of Charles Darwin 1860-1870
Summary
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 …
Climbing Plants
Summary
Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment A monograph by which to work After the publication of On the Origin of Species, Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, The Descent of Man, and The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals in…
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- … Sources | Discussion Questions | Experiment A monograph by which to work …
Darwin in letters, 1882: Nothing too great or too small
Summary
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 …
