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List of correspondents
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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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- … Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. …
- … A. A. van (2) Bence Jones, Henry (8) …
- … E. M. (6) Bonham-Carter, Henry (1) …
- … Charles (2) Bradshaw, Henry (1) …
- … Cattell, John (3) Cecil, Henry (2) …
- … A. A. L. P. (2) Coe, Henry (6) …
- … Cohn, F. J. (22) Colburn, Henry (3) …
- … Dareste, Camille (9) Darwin family (1) …
Darwin in letters, 1879: Tracing roots
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Darwin spent a considerable part of 1879 in the eighteenth century. His journey back in time started when he decided to publish a biographical account of his grandfather Erasmus Darwin to accompany a translation of an essay on Erasmus’s evolutionary ideas…
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- … There are summaries of all Darwin's letters from the year 1879 on this website. The full texts …
- … 27 of the print edition of The correspondence of Charles Darwin , published by Cambridge …
- … to publish a biographical account of his grandfather Erasmus Darwin to accompany a translation of an …
- … the sensitivity of the tips. Despite this breakthrough, when Darwin first mentioned the book to his …
- … a holiday in the Lake District in August did little to raise Darwin’s spirits. ‘I wish that my …
- … all, Darwin, despite his many blessings, was finding old age ‘a dismal time’ ( letter to Henry …
- … all over like a baked pear’ ( enclosure in letter from R. W. Dixon, 20 December 1879 ). The year …
- … on 12 February was a cause for international celebration. A telegram sent on the day from the …
- … Zoology’, but it was in Germany that Darwin was most fêted. A German bookkeeper and his wife sent …
- … nice and good as could be’ ( letter from Karl Beger, [ c. 12 February 1879] ). The masters of …
- … & would please Francis’, he pointed out ( letter from E. A. Darwin, 13 March [1879 ]). …
- … Beaufort of the Admiralty described the unknown young man as ‘A M r Darwin grandson of the well …
- … thought ‘perfect in every way’ ( letter from E. A. Wheler, 25 March 1879 ). She suggested that …
- … him on 9 June not to ‘expend much powder & shot on M r Butler’, for he really was not worth …
- … be given the task of cutting up the text and rearranging it—a job, he was sure, she could do ‘very …
- … leaving Darwin ‘more perplexed than ever about life of D r . D’ ( letter to Francis Darwin, 12 …
- … with ‘no shade of doubt’ that the apex of the radicle was ‘a kind of brain for certain movements’ ( …
- … the highest point, for his “why”—“what for” &c are incessant’, Darwin joked on 2 July (first …
- … atrocious. The other cloud on the horizon was Thomas Henry Farrer’s objection to the …
- … which is his profession tho’ not a profitable one; also D r C[lark]’s opinion that he was so …
- … greatly amused Darwin, who felt it was ‘very acute of M r Ruskin to know that I feel a deep & …
- … and prevent ‘Cattle diseases, Potato diseases &c’, probably did not know that Darwin had already …
- … Darwin’s salary as his assistant, he mentioned that Henry Woodward, a palaeontologist at the British …
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 …
- … for scientific colleagues or their widows facing hardship. Darwin had suffered from poor health …
- … of his scientific friends quickly organised a campaign for Darwin to have greater public recognition …
- … Botanical observation and experiment had long been Darwin’s greatest scientific pleasure. The year …
- … to Fritz Müller, 4 January 1882 ). These were topics that Darwin had been investigating for years, …
- … working at the effects of Carbonate of Ammonia on roots,’ Darwin wrote, ‘the chief result being that …
- … contents, if immersed for some hours in a weak solution of C. of Ammonia’. Darwin’s interest in root …
- … 30 March 1882 ). He received a specimen of Nitella opaca , a species of freshwater green algae, …
- … contained particles of starch very clearly,’ he wrote to Henry Groves, the botanist who had supplied …
- … about the life of any one plant or animal!’ ( letter to Henry Groves, 3 April 1882 ). He wrote to …
- … over the microscope affects my heart’ ( letter to Henry Groves, 3 April 1882 ). Earthworms …
- … more than complimentary.’ ‘If the Reviewer is a young man & a worker in any branch of Biology,’ …
- … fact the clergyman and professor of ecclesiastical history Henry Wace. Darwin was confident that the …
- … were taken up by individual readers. James Frederick Simpson, a musical composer, had provided …
- … Simpson, 7 January 1882 ). The agricultural chemist Joseph Henry Gilbert was struck by the benefits …
- … power. This was confirmed by one of his correspondents. A clerk, George Frederick Crawte, recounted …
- … our homes, would in this case greatly suffer’ ( letter to C. A. Kennard, 9 January 1882 ). Kennard …
- … judged, intellectually his inferior, please ( letter from C. A. Kennard, 28 January 1882 ). …
- … Collier, 16 February 1882 ). Collier had married Thomas Henry Huxley’s daughter Marian. He returned …
- … recent work had been highly praised by his scientific peers. A lecture by Robert Stawell Ball that …
- … dull aching in the chest’ (Emma Darwin to G. H. Darwin, [ c . 28 March 1882] (DAR 210.3: 45)). …
- … to some Estancia,’ wrote Hughes, ‘as the scenery &c. will amply repay your trouble’ ( letter …
- … where he had witnessed an earthquake in 1835 ( letter from R. E. Alison, [March–July 1835 ]). …
- … will be months before I am able to work’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, [ c . 10 April 1864] ). To …
- … observations years earlier. In 1871, he had asked Henry Johnson to observe the thickness of mould …
Women’s scientific participation
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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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- … | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a …
- … community. Here is a selection of letters exchanged between Darwin and his workforce of women …
- … Women: Letter 1194 - Darwin to Whitby, M. A. T., [12 August 1849] Darwin …
- … peculiarities in inheritance. Letter 3787 - Darwin, H. E. to Darwin, [29 October …
- … in her garden. Letter 4523 - Wedgwood, L. C. to Darwin, [6 June 1864] …
- … her home in South Africa. Letter 6736 - Gray, A. & J. L to Darwin, [8 & 9 …
- … Egypt. Letter 7223 - Darwin to Wedgwood, L. C., [8 June 1867 - 72] Darwin …
- … Henrietta. Letter 7179 - Wedgwood, L. C. to Darwin, [5 May 1870] …
- … of wormholes. Letter 8611 - Cupples, A. J. to Darwin, E., [8 November1872] …
- … from Calcutta. Letter 3634 - Darwin to Gray, A., [1 July 1862] Darwin …
- … on orchids and passes on their observations contained in “a little treatise”. Letter 4436 …
- … his work on Climbing Plants . The plants are such “a great amusement” to observe that he …
- … the wallpaper. Letter 5756 - Langton, E. & C. to Wedgwood S. E., [after 9 …
- … Letter 1701 - Morris, M. H. to Prior, R. C. A., [17 June 1855] Margaretta Hare Morris …
- … in Llandudno. Letter 4823 - Wedgwood, L. C. to Darwin, H. E., [May 1865] …
- … Letter 8144 - Darwin to Wedgwood, L. C., [5 January 1872] Darwin asks his niece, …
- … in Lychnis diurna. Letter 8168 - Ruck, A. R . to Darwin, H., [20 January …
- … lawn. Letter 8224 - Darwin to Ruck, A. R., [24 February 1872] Darwin …
- … a new species of waterlily. Letter 12389 - Johnson, M. to Darwin, [January 1880] …
- … Letter 1701 - Morris, M. H. to Prior, R. C. A., [17 June 1855] Margaretta Hare Morris …
- … garden ”. Letter 6083 - Casparay, J. X. R. to Darwin, [2 April 1868] …
- … Doubleday, H. to Darwin, [22 April 1868] Naturalist Henry Doubleday details his experiments …
- … Letter 7858 - Darwin to Wa llace, A. R., [12 July 1871] Darwin tells Wallace that …
Darwin’s student booklist
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In October 1825 Charles Darwin and his older brother, Erasmus, went to study medicine in Edinburgh, where their father, Robert Waring Darwin, had trained as a doctor in the 1780’s. Erasmus had already graduated from Cambridge and was continuing his studies…
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- … In October 1825 Charles Darwin and his older brother, Erasmus, went to study medicine in Edinburgh, …
- … on to London for further medical training (see letter from E. A. Darwin, [29 September 1826] ). …
- … of England. This list is difficult to date precisely. Darwin mentions reading Granby in a …
- … The position of Granby on the list would suggest that Darwin was very busy reading in January …
- … of physiology was an influential work; John Ayrton Paris, a doctor from Cambridge, published the …
- … of chemistry in 1801. Other books illustrate Darwin’s wider scientific interests, and also …
- … , which was edited by David Brewster; and Robert Grant took Darwin to meetings of the Wernerian …
- … university. There are several books of travel, and Darwin seems to have been particularly …
- … was written by Darwin’s grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, a doctor at Lichfield; Anna Seward wrote a …
- … in 1804. On rereading this work in 1879 Darwin judged it ‘a wretched production’ (letter to Ernst …
- … essays, many of a philosophical nature, produced by Samuel Johnson and published twice a week …
- … practice. The remaining titles provide lighter fare. Henry Kirke White (1785–1806) died aged …
- … most shockingly idle, actually reading two novels at once. a good scolding would do me a vast deal …
- … Vol. 8 Vo Almack & Granby 16 6 Vols 12. mo Henry Chemistry 17 2 Vols 8 Vo …
- … new philosophical journal vols. 1–19 (1826–64), a continuation of the Edinburgh …
- … Harriet Owen ( 31 [December 1827] ) refers to ‘Scorpions’, a term used in Lister 1826 for younger …
- … Library–Down. 19 Rambler . 1–208 (1750–2). A periodical by Samuel Johnson. 20 …
- … Zoonomia; or, the laws of organic life . 2 vols. London: J. Johnson. Desmond, Adrian, and …
- … years 1819, 20, 21, and 22 . London: John Murray. Henry, William. 1823. The elements of …
- … William Blackwood. London: T. Cadell. Lister, Thomas Henry. 1826. Granby . 3 vols. London. …
- … times to the year 2000 . (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. …
- … Thomas. 1784–85. Arctic zoology . 2 vols. London: Henry Hughs. Scoresby, William. 1820. …
- … roundheads . 3d ed. 3 vols. London: Colburn. White, Henry Kirke. 1826. The life and …
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…
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- … In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to …
- … (DAR 119) opens with five pages of text copied from Notebook C and carries on through 1851; the …
- … used these notebooks extensively in dating and annotating Darwin’s letters; the full transcript …
- … *128). For clarity, the transcript does not record Darwin’s alterations. The spelling and …
- … about the works were later additions to the notebook text. A number of entries in the ‘Books to be …
- … book had been consulted. Those cases where it appears that Darwin made a genuine deletion have been …
- … the scientific works listed on the left-hand pages (labelled ‘a’ in the transcript) and the non …
- … numbered as follows: the verso of the pages of DAR *119, the ‘a’ pages of DAR 119, the odd-numbered …
- … identification of the book or article to which Darwin refers. A full list of these works is given in …
- … to be Read [DAR *119: Inside Front Cover] C. Darwin June 1 st . 1838 …
- … [DAR *119: 2v.] White’s regular gradation in man [C. White 1799] Lindley’s …
- … 8 vo p 181 [Latreille 1819]. see p. 17 Note Book C. for reference to authors about E. Indian …
- … Tucker’s light of Nature [Tucker 1768–78] Johnson lifes of Poets [S. Johnson 1779]. Erasmus—— …
- … [Fellows 1839] Catherine 48 Life of Collins R.A. [Collins 1848] Phases of Faith …
- … 1814]. Sense & S [Austen 1811]. Rich d . 2 d . poor. Henry IV [Shakespeare: King Richard …
- … Letters to Philosoph Unbeliever [Priestly 1780] Johnson. Tour to Hebrides by Boswell [Boswell …
- … 3. vols. [Bradley 1724] (nothing) scarcely —— 10 Johnson’s Field Sports of India [D. Johnson …
- … 1857] (the best Travels I ever read) Sept. Froude Henry VIII [Froude 1856]. 4 vols very …
- … printed notices pasted into the notebook. 26 Henry Peter Brougham, Baron Brougham and …
- … been located. CD may possibly have been referring to Samuel Johnson, The vanity of human wishes …
- … in December, 1841 . Oxford. 119: 13b Atkinson, Henry George and Martineau, Harriet. 1851 …
- … 1848. Memoirs of the life of William Collins, Esq., R.A. 2 vols. London. *119: 23; 119: …
- … by Richard Owen. Vol. 4 of The works of John Hunter, F.R.S. with notes . Edited by James F. …
- … Robert. 1843. Memoirs of the life of John Constable, R.A., composed chiefly of his letters. …
- … Peacock, George. 1855. Life of Thomas Young, M.D., F.R.S. London. *128: 172; 128: 21 …
Darwin in letters, 1880: Sensitivity and worms
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‘My heart & soul care for worms & nothing else in this world,’ Darwin wrote to his old Shrewsbury friend Henry Johnson on 14 November 1880. Darwin became fully devoted to earthworms in the spring of the year, just after finishing the manuscript of…
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- … heart & soul care for worms & nothing else in this world,’ Darwin wrote to his old …
- … to adapt to varying conditions. The implications of Darwin’s work for the boundary between animals …
- … studies of animal instincts by George John Romanes drew upon Darwin’s early observations of infants, …
- … of evolution and creation. Many letters flowed between Darwin and his children, as he took delight …
- … Financial support for science was a recurring issue, as Darwin tried to secure a Civil List pension …
- … with Samuel Butler, prompted by the publication of Erasmus Darwin the previous year. …
- … life and other bits of family history. On 1 January , a distant cousin, Charles Harrison Tindal, …
- … character is of much value to me’ ( letter to C. H. Tindal, 5 January 1880 ). Darwin had employed …
- … Darwin’s Life . ‘In an endeavour to explain away y r . treatment of [William Alvey Darwin],’ …
- … by anticipation the position I have taken as regards D r Erasmus Darwin in my book Evolution old …
- … 21 January 1880 ). He stated his case in the Athen æum , a leading literary weekly. He …
- … to the end’, added her husband Richard ( letter from R. B. Litchfield, 1 February 1880 ). Even the …
- … outside the medium of correspondence or scientific publishing, a critic whom he clearly regarded as …
- … objects of study was root-growth in Megarrhiza californica (a synonym of Marah fabacea , …
- … in the genus given by Gray in an article and textbook (A. Gray 1877 and A. Gray 1879, pp. 20–1). ‘I …
- … shake their heads in the same dismal manner as you & M r . Murray did, when I told them my …
- … Francis Balfour described Movement in plants as ‘a complete revelation— The remarkable nervous …
- … in a book about beetles the impressive words “captured by C. Darwin”. … This seemed to me glory …
- … ‘but the subject has amused me’ ( letter to W. C. McIntosh, 18 June 1880 ). Members of the family …
- … with diverse backgrounds and interests. In February, a 12-year-old boy asked politely, ‘What causes …
- … 1880 ). On 16 February , ‘an ardent student’, Henry Faulds, sought help in collecting finger and …
- … Scientific Association (1880): 19–20). In November, a delegation from the Yorkshire Naturalists’ …
- … great doctrines …“Come of Age”‘ ( letter from W. C. Williamson to Emma Darwin, 2 September 1880 ). …
- … against English landlords from the Irish Land League. In May, a parliamentary committee was …
- … his voice as clearly as if he were present’ (letters to C. W. Fox, 29 March 1880 and 10 [April …
- … Darwin children, 17 [January 1880] ). At the year’s end, a Christmas card from another old friend, …
4.21 Gegeef, 'Our National Church', 1
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< Back to Introduction A print with the ironic title Our National Church: The Aegis of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity was issued by the London publisher Edmund Appleyard in c.1872-3, and sold at a penny. The artist who drew it signed himself …
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- … was issued by the London publisher Edmund Appleyard in c.1872-3, and sold at a penny. The artist …
- … religious bigotry. Examples can be found in the John Johnson collection of political and satirical …
- … he also signed the printed commentary below the image. A printed advertisement at the bottom of the …
- … topical and well informed. It evidently interested both the Darwin and Huxley tribes enough to be …
- … of much comment. This second version was signed by ‘Ion’, a nom de plume of the secularist …
- … the rising sun is a long-tailed monkey with the head of Darwin, as in Fun cartoons of this date. …
- … towards Rome is dark.’ physical location Darwin archive, Cambridge University …
- … George Jacob Holyoake date of creation c. 1872-3 computer-readable date c. …
- … references and bibliography Warren R. Dawson, The Huxley Papers: A Descriptive Catalogue of the …
- … (London: Constable, 1967), p. xiii. Janet Browne, Charles Darwin: The Power of Place. Volume II of …
