To G. H. Darwin 12 July 1879
Summary
CD thinks nothing had better be done about the deeds at present.
Henrietta thinks Erasmus Darwin almost too dull to publish.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 12 July 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 87; unknown |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12149 |
To Stephen Paul Engleheart? [April 1867?]
Summary
Asks for a note about sling for Leonard’s arm, as he is about to leave for school.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Stephen Paul Engleheart |
| Date: | [Apr 1867?] |
| Classmark: | Provenance unknown |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5385 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Provenance unknown Charles Robert Darwin Down [Apr 1867? ] Stephen Paul Engleheart …
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 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Thanks an unknown correspondent for the 4th edition of his 'remarkable work'. …
To G. B. A. Duchenne about 10 March [1871]
Summary
Asks permission to copy plates from GBAD’s work [Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine (1862)] to illustrate Expression.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Guillaume Benjamin Amand Duchenne |
| Date: | about 10 Mar [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 103–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7566 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … The date is in CD’s hand. The French part of the draft is in two unknown hands. …
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 G. H. Darwin 24 August [1881]
Summary
The General Post Office sent one penny in response to GHD’s complaint, and demanded a receipt, which CD has sent. CD will keep the penny.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Aug [1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 106 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13295 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … The year is established by ‘81’ being written after the date in an unknown hand. …
From Albert Gaudry 22 May 1867
Summary
Sends a notice on a reptile intermediate between true Triassic reptiles and Devonian fishes ["Sur le reptile (Actinodon)", C. R. Hebd. Acad. Sci. 63 (1866): 341–4].
Expresses his admiration for CD, and his growing sense that transformation of species is probable, though he does not share CD’s explanation of the cause. He avoids the question, since he lacks requisite knowledge and is convinced that there are causes of which God alone knows the secret.
| Author: | Albert-Jean (Albert) Gaudry |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 May 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 15 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5546 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … to come there will be splendid work— I also agree how much unknown in Embryology & causes …
- … of each variation—utterly unknown [ after del illeg — | My book in French | I am aware …
- … to come there will be splendid work— I also agree how much unknown in Embryology & causes …
- … of each variation—utterly unknown [ after del illeg ]— | My book in French | I am aware …
To W. A. Leighton 4 December [1862]
Summary
Apologises for the trouble he has caused over his enquiries about strawberries. Describes the problems he and Emma have had with Verbascum.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Allport Leighton |
| Date: | 4 Dec [1862] |
| Classmark: | Unknown dealer |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3633F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Unknown dealer Charles Robert Darwin 4 Dec [1862] Down William Allport Leighton …
From W. D. Fox 25 October [1872]
Summary
Has not seen CD for about 25 years. Has heard an absurd story that CD and Emma are exploring an unknown part of America.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Oct [1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 196 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8577 |
To W. E. Darwin 15 [October 1858]
Summary
Writes to WED about his living arrangements at Christ’s College; reminisces about his own Cambridge days.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 15 [Oct 1858] |
| Classmark: | Provenance unknown |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2341 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Provenance unknown Charles Robert Darwin Down 15 [Oct 1858] William Erasmus Darwin …
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 J. D. Hooker 10 February [1875]
Summary
Is provoked by trouble he is having writing Insectivorous plants.
Curious case of an unknown form of Glaucium in earth covered with slag for 1400 years.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 10 Feb [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 374–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9850 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 24 October [1878]
Summary
Wants some plants for sleep-movement observations. Has almost finished experimental work and must start sorting his notes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 24 Oct [1878] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 150–2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11727 |
To George Maw 31 August [1861]
Summary
Would welcome any facts on correlation, or GM’s criticisms. Explains how natural selection could produce apparent correlation of characters, but feels GM’s Pelargonium example must arise from the leaves and petals being similarly affected at an early stage by an unknown cause.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Maw |
| Date: | 31 Aug [1861] |
| Classmark: | Royal Horticultural Society, Lindley Library (MAW/1/7) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3239 |
From Charles Lyell 4 October 1859
Summary
Response to Origin. Praise for summary of chapter 10 and chapter 11.
The dissimilarity of African and American species is ‘necessary result of “Creation” adapting new species to the pre-existing ones. Granting this unknown & if you please miraculous power acting’.
C. T. Gaudin writes of Oswald Heer’s finding many species common between Miocene floras of Iceland and Switzerland. Interesting for CD’s migration theory.
| Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Oct 1859 |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 81; The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Notebook 241, pp. 75–90) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3132 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … to the pre-existing ones. Granting this unknown & if you please miraculous power acting’. …
- … must alike govern the plans of Nature or this unknown First Cause even if creating nothing …
- … to the preexisting ones— Granting this unknown & if you please miraculous power acting as …
- … are not brought about by extinct or unknown causes, yet the power which can superinduce …
- … are I presume a part of this mysterious & unknown Creative Power. If this power has caused …
To A. W. Bennett 9 November [1869]
Summary
Returns proofs of a notice which he finds "highly honourable" to himself.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred William Bennett |
| Date: | 9 Nov [1869] |
| Classmark: | Provenance unknown: formerly Sang Collection of Autographs and Manuscripts, Illinois Institute of Technology |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6980 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Provenance unknown: formerly Sang Collection of Autographs and Manuscripts, Illinois …
From Charles Lyell [after 3 October 1860]
Summary
CD would have carried the public more if he had explained adaptations by multiple causes, some unknown and some well known, i.e., natural selection.
Discusses Hooker’s views of extinction on St Helena.
Work on antiquity of man suspended.
Stopped by 11th edition of Principles of geology [1872].
| Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 3 Oct 1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 397 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2937 |
To J. B. Innes 5 October 1877
Summary
CD’s opinion of a specimen sent by JBI from an unknown tree, and the Ross-shire tale about it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
| Date: | 5 Oct 1877 |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11168 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … opinion of a specimen sent by JBI from an unknown tree, and the Ross-shire tale about it. …
To Leonard Horner 14 February [1861]
Summary
Variations in nature arise from unknown causes, accidentally or spontaneously, and are preserved by natural selection if beneficial.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leonard Horner |
| Date: | 14 Feb [1861] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3062 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Variations in nature arise from unknown causes, accidentally or spontaneously, and are …
To [William Whitaker?] 16 March 1880
Summary
Thanks for sending article on inheritance.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Whitaker |
| Date: | 16 Mar 1880 |
| Classmark: | Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12537 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … correspondent is conjectured from a note in an unknown hand at the foot of the letter (‘W. …
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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,…
Matches: 1 hits
- … 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…
Matches: 1 hits
- … 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…
Matches: 1 hits
- … 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…
Matches: 1 hits
- … 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…
Matches: 1 hits
- … 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…
Matches: 1 hits
- … 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…
Matches: 1 hits
- … 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…
Matches: 1 hits
- … the watercolour, and what happened to it subsequently, are unknown. Janet Browne has suggested that …
