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From W. E. Darwin 5 August 1862

Summary

Has read CD’s long letter on Lythrum and agrees with it. Is examining the pollen of the different types.

Author:	William Erasmus Darwin
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	5 Aug 1862
Classmark:	DAR 27.2 (ser. 2): 32 bis, DAR 162: 92
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-3683

Matches: 18 hits

… Has read CD’s long letter on Lythrum and agrees with it. Is examining the pollen of the …
… the occurrence of the three sexual forms. See also letter from G. H. Darwin, [after 5 …
… August 1862] and n. 7. William’s letter has not been found; however, Emma Darwin …
… discussed the ‘account of Bournemouth’, in a letter to William of [9 August 1862] (DAR …
… See letter to W. E. Darwin, [2–3 August 1862] and nn. 6 …
… visit to their brother on 2 August (see letter from G. H. Darwin, [after 5 August 1862] …
… form of Lythrum salicaria matured later than the other two forms (see letter from W. E. …
… Father, I have got your fine long Lythrum letter, and have packed off the boys at once to …
… Darwin, 1 August 1862 , and letter to W. E. Darwin, [2– …
… reference is to Lythrum hyssopifolia (see letter to W. E. Darwin, [2–3 August 1862] and …
… n. 9). See enclosure. See letter to W. E. Darwin, [2–3 August 1862] and n. 8. Orley …
… book form in 1862 ( Trollope 1862 ). The letter from Emma Darwin has not been found. Susan …
… and 3 August, bringing Francis and George Howard Darwin with her (see letter from G. H. …
… Darwin, [after 5 August 1862] ). See also letter to W. E. Darwin, [2–3 August 1862] and …
… the kinds this afternoon. I got Mama’s letter, & Orley please send July Orley and the …
… Emma Darwin added a postscript to the letter to W. E. Darwin, [24 July 1862] , asking …
… the family planned to rent a house in the area for a holiday (see letter to H. C. …
… Watson, 8 [August 1862] ). In the letter to W. E. Darwin, [2–3 August 1862] , CD asked …

To W. E. Darwin 3 January [1872]

Summary

Thanks for letter [8137]. Finds observation at Stonehenge of depth of mould at different parts of slope "most valuable".

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	William Erasmus Darwin
Date:	3 Jan [1872]
Classmark:	Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Manuscripts MSS DAR 30)
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-8140

Matches: 10 hits

… Thanks for letter [ 8137 ]. Finds observation at Stonehenge of depth of mould at different …
… to ‘to do it quickly. ’ ’See CD’s annotations to the letter from W. E. Darwin, [1 …
… January 1872] . The bottom third of the third page of the letter has been excised. …
… Down Jan 3 d . My dear William Your letter & facts are quite splendid. — I cannot conceive …
… capital diagram with the 2 d page of your letter: I imagine they refer to different parts. …
… or below. — I have made pencil notes on your letter, so that I shall not forget what to …
… The year is established by the relationship between this letter and …
… the letter from W. E. …
… Darwin, [1 January 1872] . See letter from W. E. Darwin, [1 January 1872] . The diagram …
… are in DAR 63–5. The second page of the letter from W. E. Darwin, [1 January 1872] , …

From W. E. Darwin [20 May 1864]

Summary

Clarifies his letter of 18 May [4500].

Author:	William Erasmus Darwin
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	[20 May 1864]
Classmark:	DAR 110: A82, A87–8
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4504

Matches: 12 hits

… Clarifies his letter of 18 May [ 4500 ]. …
… 1864] and nn. 4 and 5. See letter from W. E. Darwin, [19 May 1864] and n. 5. …
… flower forms that William had sent in his letter of 18 May [1864] . CD also recorded this …
… am sorry to say you have misunderstood my letter, I wrote in a great hurry & was afraid it …
… CD’s letter querying statements …
… in William’s letter of 18 May [1864] has not been …
… found. See letter from W. E. Darwin, 18 May [1864] and n. …
… of long-styled anthers in the enclosure to that letter. CD had evidently queried William’s …
… as described in the enclosure to William’s letter of 18 May [1864] , and may have asked if …
… than the long-styled flower forms (see letter to W. E. Darwin, 3 May [1864] and n. …
… long-styled Pulmonaria angustifolia flowers (see letter from W. E. Darwin, 12 May [ …
… 1864] and n. 6). See also letter to W. E. Darwin, 14 May [ …

From W. E. Darwin [5 and 8? April 1868]

Summary

Langstaff has seen no trace of blushing on the body.

Author:	William Erasmus Darwin
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	5 and 8 Apr 1868
Classmark:	DAR 162: 81; Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 34)
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-6149

Matches: 13 hits

… in margin, pencil 11.00 I … letter 12.1] crossed pencil …
… I; Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). The letter from Emma Darwin has not been found. …
… The date is conjectured from the relationship between this letter, …
… the letter from W. E. …
… Darwin, 3 April 1868 ( Correspondence vol. 16), and the letter from W. E. Darwin, [22? …
… also by references throughout William’s letters in April 1868 to seeing or not having seen …
… made from observation since receiving your letter to me. He does not know that they are of …
… worth while sending you. I return you your letters so that you can see what you said in …
… you. Wednesday I have had to keep back this letter till I could get Langstaff to translate …
… not see the [ interiors ] probably Thanks for Mama’s letter 6.1 He … face 6.2] ‘Langstaff’ …
… at Malvern (see Correspondence vol. 16, letter from W. E. Darwin, [after 25 March 1868] …
… Archive–CUL. It is not clear to what letters William refers, but CD had been corresponding …
… for example, Correspondence vol. 16, letter to W. E. Darwin, [15 March 1868] ). William …

From W. E. Darwin [16 January 1881]

Summary

Thanks CD for writing for papers to enter Geological Society. Will return Leslie Stephen’s letter. Has had a severe frost. Emma’s puppy died.

Author:	William Erasmus Darwin
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	[16 Jan 1881]
Classmark:	Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 100)
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-13023F

Matches: 13 hits

… Society. Will return Leslie Stephen’s letter. Has had a severe frost. Emma’s puppy died. …
… Sara had spent time at Down after Christmas ( letter from Emma Darwin to Sara Darwin, [13 …
… The date is established by the relationship between this letter and …
… the letter to W. E. Darwin, 14 January [1881] . …
… following 14 January 1881 was 16 January. See letter to W. E. Darwin, 14 January [1881] ; …
… of the Geological Society of London . See letter to W. E. Darwin, 14 January [1881] and n. …
… Sunday My dear Father, Thank you for your letter and for writing for papers to obtain …
… and so is Sara Leslie Stephen’s nice letter and memorandum; and it is a very satisfactory …
… he would advise to do nothing. I return the letter and paper registered, as it would be a …
… Stephen for advice about how to reply to Samuel Butler (see letter to Leslie Stephen, …
… 11 January 1881 , and letter from Leslie Stephen, 12 January [1881] ). Leonard Darwin …
… to unsold copies of Erasmus Darwin (see letter from Leonard Darwin to Leslie Stephen, [10 …
… January 1881] ). Leonard was ill in London ( letter from Emma Darwin to Sara Darwin, [13 …

To W. E. Darwin [19 July 1880]

Summary

Writes about gravel deposits [at Southampton] and sends a James Geikie letter [12655?] on the subject.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	William Erasmus Darwin
Date:	[19 July 1880]
Classmark:	DAR 210.6: 161
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-12661

Matches: 10 hits

… deposits [at Southampton] and sends a James Geikie letter [ 12655 ? ] on the subject. …
… for your mother. But I am tired with long letter to Geikie & another difficult one about a …
… at Birmingham. — Please return Geikie’s letter— My best of loves to my dear “dutiful & …
… six miles to the north, and about three miles north-east of Down. See letter from E. W. …
… Badger, 17 July 1880 , and letter to E. W. Badger, [19 July 1880] . …
… and taking the waters at Buxton (see letter from W. E. Darwin to Charles and Emma Darwin, …
… CD enclosed the letter from James Geikie, 15 July 1880 . CD and William had discussed CD’s …
… gravel at Southampton in 1876 (see Correspondence vol. 24, letter to W. E. Darwin, [ …
… after 20 November 1876] , and Correspondence vol. 30, Supplement, letter from W. E. …
… Darwin, 30 November [1876] . See letter to James Geikie, 19 July 1880 and n. 4. Knockholt …

To W. E. Darwin [2–3 September 1862]

Summary

Asks WED to send some specimens [of Lythrum?].

[Letter from Emma Darwin to WED on verso.]

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	William Erasmus Darwin
Date:	[2–3 Sept 1862]
Classmark:	DAR 210.6: 103
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-3673

Matches: 11 hits

… WED to send some specimens [of Lythrum ? ]. [Letter from Emma Darwin to WED on verso. ] …
… My dearest William Thanks for your pleasant letter. Your account made us all laugh. — Dare …
… is established by the relationship of this letter to CD’s correspondence with John Lubbock …
… bees (see n. 5, below), and by reference to the letter to William from Emma Darwin , …
… written on the verso of this letter. CD, Emma, and Leonard Darwin stayed with William in …
… Correspondence vol. 10, Appendix II)). In her letter to William, Emma described the house …
… did not examine them until the evening of 3 September (see letter to John Lubbock, …
… 2 September [1862] , letter to Asa Gray, [3–] …
… 4 September [1862] , and letter to John Lubbock, [3 September 1862] ). …
… visited them on 6 September. William’s letter has not been found. The reference has not …
… scarlet fever since 12 June 1862 (see letter to W. E. Darwin, 13 [June 1862] ); Emma …

From W. E. Darwin 18 April 1864

Summary

CD is right about variability [of Pulmonaria]. Encloses observations and diagrams of additional plants.

Author:	William Erasmus Darwin
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	18 Apr 1864
Classmark:	DAR 110: A77–81b
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4466

Matches: 16 hits

… circled numbers are some of William’s letters, covers, or enclosure regarding pulmonaria …
… correlate with similiar numbers on CD’s abstracts of the letters in DAR 110: A53. …
… CD’s letter has not been found; however, CD may have referred to William’s earlier …
… angustifolia had the longest papillae (see letter from W. E. Darwin, 14 April [1864] and …
… William’s comment at the end of this letter that it did not seem worthwhile to include …
… variability (see nn. 1, 5, and 7, above; letter from W. E. Darwin, 14 April [1864] and …
… in length, but not quite Cover : ‘2 d letter | does stigma on short style correspond in …
… P. angustifolia on the Isle of Wight, as he had in 1863 (see letter from W. E. Darwin, …
… 14 April [1864] and nn. 1 and 6, and letter to W. E. Darwin, [after 14 April – 5 May …
… short filaments that had withered in his letter of 14 April [1864] . CD mentioned William’ …
… of the pistil length in the long-styled form in the CD note to this letter, and in his …
… abstracts of William’s letters in DAR 110: A53 ( …
… see CD annotations, and letter from W. E. Darwin, 14 April [1864] and n. 2). …
… angustifolia and other heterostyled species, see letter from W. E. Darwin, 14 …
… April [1864] and n. 4. See letter from W. E. Darwin, 14 April [1864] and n. …
… 5, and n. 1, above. See letter from W. E. Darwin, 14 April [1864] and n. 8. The …

From W. E. Darwin 18 May [1864]

Summary

Sends Pulmonaria anthers, with measurements of styles and pollen counts.

Author:	William Erasmus Darwin
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	18 May [1864]
Classmark:	DAR 110: A83–6, A94
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4500

Matches: 14 hits

… on the Isle of Wight (see, for example, letter from W. E. Darwin, 12 May [1864] and n. …
… judge wh. has most pollen. I got Mamma’s letter about Menyanthes. I have written to the …
… The year is established by the relationship between this letter and …
… the letter from W. E. Darwin [20 May 1864] . …
… of Pulmonaria angustifolia (see memorandum and letter from W. E. Darwin, 6 May 1864 and …
… that were still in the flower-bud (see letter to W. E. Darwin, 14 May [1864] and n. …
… to become diœcious’ ( Forms of flowers , p. 107). See letter from W. E. Darwin, 12 …
… May [1864] and n. 8. See letter from Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [17 May 1864] and …
… of marked anthers, see the enclosure. In a letter that has not been found, CD queried this …
… of William’s (see CD’s first annotation, and letter from W. E. Darwin, [20 May 1864] and …
… be shorter, not longer, than those of short-styled (see letters from W. E. Darwin, 14 …
… 1864] and 18 April 1864 and n. 7, and letter to W. E. Darwin, 14 May [1864] and nn. 5 …
… styled and long-styled flowers in his letters to William of 14 May [1864] and [14–17 May …
… numbers in his abstract of William’s letters on Pulmonaria angustifolia (see DAR 110: …

To W. E. Darwin [2–3 August 1862]

Summary

Discusses Lythrum, "a really wonderful case"; asks WED to make observations and collect specimens; sends a diagram which shows what crosses he believes are fertile.

Would like George to watch bees visiting the flowers; wants some pods from different forms to compare shapes and count seeds.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	William Erasmus Darwin
Date:	[2–3 Aug 1862]
Classmark:	DAR 185: 70, DAR 210.6: 102
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-3678

Matches: 17 hits

… Emma Darwin: a century of family letters, 1792–1896. Edited by Henrietta Litchfield. 2 …
… Dated by the relationship to the letters from W. E. Darwin, 1 …
… 2 August [1862] , and 5 August 1862 . The letter was written on Saturday and Sunday; 2 …
… August 1862 fell on Saturday. See letter from W. E. Darwin, 1 August 1862 . …
… s sister, Susan Elizabeth Darwin . In a letter to William of [late July 1862] (DAR 219.1: …
… Hooker, 30 [June 1862] and n. 16, and letter to Asa Gray, 1 July [1862] and nn. 7–9). …
… styled . Sunday Evening P.S. I kept back my letter, because I received this morning the …
… write to invite her. See enclosure. See letters from W. E. Darwin, 1 August 1862 and 2 …
… specimens from 102 plants of Lythrum salicaria on 6 August 1862 (see letter from W. E. …
… results, along with those given in the letter from W. E. Darwin, 1 August 1862 , in ‘ …
… a visit to William on 2 August 1862 (see letter from G. H. Darwin, [after 5 August 1862] …
… William enclosed the first of these with the letter from W. E. Darwin, 5 August 1862 . …
… CD refers to Lythrum hyssopifolia (see letter to H. C. Watson, 8 [August 1862] ). See …
… see Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), and letter to W. E. Darwin [24 July 1862] ). During …
… was at Down at the time ( Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 178; see also letter to W. E. Darwin, 4 [ …
… July 1862] and n. 8). See letter from W. E. Darwin, 2 August [1862] . …
… had made a series of observations on the insects visiting orchids (see letter to J. D. …

From W. E. Darwin 14 April [1864]

Summary

Observations on [length of style and length of filament and stigmas of] Pulmonaria.

Author:	William Erasmus Darwin
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	14 Apr [1864]
Classmark:	DAR 110: A68–74
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4462

Matches: 15 hits

… he left on the following Monday. See letter to W. E. Darwin, [after 14 April – 5 May …
… circled numbers on some of William’s letters, covers, or enclosures regarding Pulmonaria …
… correlate with similar numbers on CD’s abstracts of the letters in DAR 110: A53. …
… in 1863, CD and William had exchanged letters following William’s discovery of dimorphism …
… of Wight (see Correspondence vol. 11, letters from W. E. Darwin, 4 May [1863] and 8 …
… Forms of flowers , pp. 105, 107). CD’s letter of [25 July 1863] ( Correspondence vol. …
… CD included this information in his abstract of this letter in DAR 110: A53, and noted ‘ …
… Variability good’ on the cover of the letter (CD annotations). See …
… also Correspondence vol. 11, letters from W. E. Darwin, 4 May [1863] and 8 May [1863] . …
… to drawings in the enclosure to his letter of 18 April 1864 . In 1863, William also …
… were an indication of heterostyly (see letter from John Scott, 7 January [1864] and n. 9, …
… of the papillae on the stigma in the letter from himself and Emma Darwin , [4 May 1863] ( …
… styled flowers in his abstract of the letter (see DAR 110: A53). However, a note in DAR …
… the Isle of Wight (see n. 1, above). The letter to William mentioning what was probably …
… oryzoides has not been found; however, see letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 April [1864] and …

From W. E. Darwin [1 August 1862]

Summary

Suggests sending plant specimens. Asks about visit of Emma and the boys.

Author:	William Erasmus Darwin
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	[1 Aug 1862]
Classmark:	Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 13)
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-3585G

Matches: 11 hits

… The date is established by the relationship between this letter and …
… the letters from W. E. Darwin, 1 August 1862 …
… and 2 August [1862] ( Correspondence vol. 10). This letter is probably a …
… continuation of the incomplete letter from W. E. Darwin, 1 August 1862 ( Correspondence …
… collecting plants (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter from W. E. Darwin, 1 August 1862 ). …
… July 1862? ] (DAR 219.1: 47)). In a letter to William of [late July 1862] (DAR 219.1: 59), …
… write before Brodie comes, also to send a letter of advice with her whether she is to eat …
… they were due to arrive on 1 August (letter from Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [late July …
… 2 August (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter from G. H. Darwin, [after 5 August 1862] and …
… pistilled’ (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter from W. E. Darwin, 1 August 1862 ). William …
… towards the end of Francis and George’s stay (letter from Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [ …

To W. E. Darwin [24 July 1862]

Summary

Discusses dimorphic plants, valerian and Erythraea. Would like to look at them; suggests WED draw up a paper on them.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	William Erasmus Darwin
Date:	[24 July 1862]
Classmark:	DAR 210.6: 101
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-3632

Matches: 11 hits

… Darwin, [after 14 July 1862] . See letter from W. E. …
… Darwin, 14 July 1862 . See letter from W. E. Darwin, 14 July 1862 . There is a series of …
… Dated by the relationship to the letter from W. E. …
… Darwin, 14 July 1862 , and to the letter to W. E. Darwin, [after 14 July 1862] , and by …
… with William in Southampton from 2 August (see letter from G. H. Darwin, [after 5 …
… August 1862] and n. 3). The letter was written on a Thursday; 24 July was the Thursday …
… from scarlet fever ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242); see also letter to Asa Gray, …
… 23[–4] July [1862] , letters to W. E. …
… 9 July [1862] , and [after 14 July 1862] , and letter to Asa Gray, 14 July [1862] ). …
… See letter from W. E. …
… Darwin, 14 July 1862 , and letter to W. E. …

From W. E. Darwin to F. E. Abbot 13 June [1880]

Summary

CD has asked him to express appreciation for the Index and regret that FEA will no longer be running it. CD wishes FEA to stop the weekly advertisement of his appreciation of the Index.

Author:	William Erasmus Darwin
Addressee:	Francis Ellingwood Abbot
Date:	13 June [1880]
Classmark:	Harvard University Archives (Papers of F. E. Abbot, 1841–1904. Named Correspondence, 1857–1903. Letter, W. E. Darwin to F. E. Abbot (13 June [1880]), in folder Darwin, Charles and W. E. Darwin (son), 1871–1883, box 44. HUG 1101)
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-12633

Matches: 10 hits

… CD’s permission, see Correspondence vol. 19, letter to F. E. Abbot, 16 November [1871] . …
… 1841–1904. Named Correspondence, 1857–1903. Letter, W. E. Darwin to F. E. Abbot (13 June [ …
… The year is established by the relationship between this letter and …
… the letter from F. E. …
… Abbot, 15 May 1880 . See letter from F. E. Abbot, 15 May 1880 . Abbot had been editor of …
… diary (DAR 242) and Correspondence vol. 26, letter to B. J. Sulivan, 5 November [1878] ). …
… me to acknowledge with sincere thanks your letter, and the most kind expression of your …
… with the Index ( Abbot [1870] ) in his letter to Abbot of 27 May [1871] ( Correspondence …
… 2002 , pp. 391–2. Abbot added a note to the bottom of the letter: ‘Mr. Darwin forgets that …
… authorized me to print his “endorsement”, in his letter of Nov. 16, 1871. F.E.A. ’ …

From W. E. Darwin 30 November [1876]

Summary

Pleased to hear about GHD’s paper at the Royal Society.

Author:	William Erasmus Darwin
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	30 Nov [1876]
Classmark:	Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 65)
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-11260F

Matches: 12 hits

… Purchase’. See also Correspondence vol. 24, letter to W. E. Darwin, 29 September [1876] . …
… The year is established by the relationship between this letter and …
… the letter from Emma Darwin to Leonard Darwin, [5? ] …
… December [1876] (DAR 239.23: 1.54), which quotes from this letter. …
… See this volume, Supplement, letter to W. E. Darwin, [before 30 November 1876] and n. 3. …
… on Pulmonaria officinalis (lungwort). See Correspondence vol. 24, letter to James Geikie, …
… 16 November 1876 , and letter to W. E. Darwin, [after 20 November 1876] . George Howard …
… see him F.R.S. say in 3 years. I return his letter as I could not quite read Mother’s …
… the envelope. Please thank Bessy for her letter You will not have to pay for the land till …
… Saturn ( G. H. Darwin 1876b ). See Correspondence vol. 24, letter from G. H. Darwin, [27? …
… Darwin ’s notes would probably have been directions about how to circulate the letter. …
… Elizabeth Darwin ’s letter to William has not been found. William refers to land that CD …

To W. E. Darwin [10 May 1863]

Summary

Thanks WED for his botanical specimens and observations.

Discusses Corydalis and the fertilisation of Fumariaceae.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	William Erasmus Darwin
Date:	[10 May 1863]
Classmark:	DAR 210.6: 111
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4151

Matches: 14 hits

… Darwin, 17 [October 1861] , and letter from W. E. Darwin, [17 November 1861] ). Bates …
… The date is established by the relationship between this letter and …
… the letter from W. E. Darwin, 8 May [1863] , and by the address. According to Emma …
… 6 and 13 May 1863. In 1863, 10 May fell on a Sunday. See letter from W. E. Darwin, 8 …
… identified as Pulmonaria angustifolia (see letter from W. E. Darwin, 4 May [1863] , n. …
… and in Lathyrus grandiflorus in the letter to the Gardeners’ Chronicle , 18 October [ …
… 1857] ( Correspondence vol. 6), and in the letter to the Gardeners’ Chronicle , [before …
… William when he joined the bank in 1861 (see Correspondence vol. 9, letter to W. E. …
… form (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter to Asa Gray, 9 August [1862] , n. 8). CD …
… conditions. See also Correspondence vol. 12, letter to W. E. Darwin, 14 May [1864] . …
… see Forms of flowers , pp. 105– 10. See letter from W. E. Darwin, 8 May [1863] and n. …
… of the Fumariaceae, is evident in his letters to Daniel Oliver of 12 [April 1862] and 15 …
… the Fumariaceae until 1874, in a short letter to Nature , 6 April [1874] ( Calendar no. …
… occurred (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter to Daniel Oliver, 12 [April 1862] and nn. …

From W. E. Darwin [28 January 1880]

Summary

Thanks CD for giving money to the children. Is going to give money to Bessy, but not invest it until she is really rich. Returns Butler’s letter. Thinks Butler is looking for a grievance to write an article about.

Author:	William Erasmus Darwin
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	[28 Jan 1880]
Classmark:	Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 80)
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-12440G

Matches: 9 hits

… to have a good balance in the bank’ (see letter to the Darwin children, 10 January 1880 ). …
… she is really rich. Returns Butler’s letter. Thinks Butler is looking for a grievance to …
… The date is established by the relationship between this letter and …
… the letter from Samuel Butler, 21 January 1880 ; in 1880, the Wednesday following 21 …
… be deposited in the bank by William (see letter to the Darwin children, 10 January 1880 ). …
… Sara Darwin , William’s wife. See letter from Samuel Butler, …
… 21 January 1880 , and letter to H. E. Litchfield, 1 February [1880] , enclosure 1. …
… us so grand a surplus division. I returned Butler’s letter; there was something of the …
… viper in the tone of the letter, I fancy he wants a grievance to hang an article upon. …

To William Erasmus Darwin 14 February [1862]

Summary

Discusses WED’s growing interest in botany; would be grateful for certain observations.

Is much concerned about Horace’s illness.

Has sent Orchids MS to printers

and will work a little at dimorphism.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	William Erasmus Darwin
Date:	14 Feb [1862]
Classmark:	DAR 210.6: 95
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-3447

Matches: 16 hits

… of Orchids and by the relationship to the letter from John Lubbock, 13 February 1862 (see …
… Post Office London directory 1861). See the letter from W. E. Darwin, 12 February [1862] . …
… George and Ellen Busk had been invited (see letter from John Lubbock, 13 February 1862 ). …
… and CD’s niece, Mary Susan Parker . See letter to John Murray, 9 [February 1862] . Orchids …
… a jolly dissipated life, & that was a jolly letter, which George forwarded to us. You seem …
… Lychnis dioica seeded without pollen’ ( letter to John Scott, 19 November [1862] ; see …
… also Correspondence vol. 9, letter to Daniel Oliver, 7 December [1861] and n. 5). In …
… rudimentary sexual organs found in flowers of this plant (see ibid. , letter to J. D. …
… Hooker, 25 November [ 1861] ). No letter from Oliver containing the information referred …
… but CD acknowledged Oliver’s reply in the letter to Daniel Oliver, 30 November [1861] ( …
… CD concluded that Oliver was mistaken (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 30 May [1862] ). In …
… School, near London ( Darwin 1916 ). The letter has not been found. Lindley 1853 , p. …
… Vegetable kingdom (see Correspondence vol. 9, letter to J. D. Hooker, 19 June [1861] ). …
… Office London directory 1861). For other letters concerning CD’s attempts to stimulate …
… in botany, see Correspondence vol. 7, letter to W. E. Darwin, [3 May 1858] , and …
… in 1860 (see Correspondence vol. 8, letter to J. D. Hooker, [22 January 1860] ). Emma …

To W. E. Darwin [19 May 1864]

Summary

Mentions WED’s extraordinary discovery of some pollen-grains of different sizes. The observations must be followed up.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	William Erasmus Darwin
Date:	[19 May 1864]
Classmark:	DAR 210.6: 186
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-5333

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… The date is established by the relationship between this letter and …
… the letters from W. E. Darwin, 18 May [1864] and [20 May 1864] ( …
… vol. 12). See Correspondence vol. 12, letter from W. E. Darwin, 18 May [1864] . …
… angustifolia (blue cowslip); see also letter from W. E. Darwin, [20 May 1864] and n. …
… some time (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from H. E. Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [18 …
… me most unexpected discovery. I return your letter (which keep most safely) & it may be of …
… CD’s annotations, see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from W. E. Darwin, 18 May [1864] . …
… buckbean or marsh trefoil), see the letter from Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [17 May …
… in Rhamnus (buckthorn), see ibid. , letter from H. E. Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [18 May …

From W. E. Darwin [15? December 1875]

Summary

Asks CD whether it is worth sending money to prop up the Index.

Author:	William Erasmus Darwin
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	[15? Dec 1875]
Classmark:	Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 56)
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-10297F

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… Norman Moore Your affect: Son | W. E. Darwin Top of letter : ‘Erasmus— | Malta’ pencil …
… in Southampton (see Correspondence vol. 9, letter to W. E. Darwin, 17 [October 1861] ). …
… The month and year are established by the relationship between this letter and …
… the letter from W. E. Darwin to F. E. Abbot, 20 December 1875 ; the day was probably the …
… Abbot was the editor of the Index . His letter has not been found. There is no record in …
… it mere waste of money judging from Abbotts letter I shall not send £10 & will return you …
… had served (see Correspondence vol. 22, letter from W. H. M. Christie, 12 October 1874 and …
… Down in 1873 ( Correspondence vol. 21, letter from Francis Darwin, [1–15 March 1873] and …
… time, but CD evidently agreed to make a donation (see letter from W. E. Darwin to F. E. …
… with the Royal Engineers in Malta (see letter to C. E. Norton, 7 October 1875 and n. 6). …

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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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… Observers Women: Letter 1194 - Darwin to Whitby, M. A. T., [12 August …
… silkworm breeds, or peculiarities in inheritance. Letter 3787 - Darwin, H. E. to …
… observations of cats’ instinctive behaviour. Letter 4258 - Becker, L. E. to Darwin, …
… to artificially fertilise plants in her garden. Letter 4523 - Wedgwood, L. C. to …
… be made on seeds of Pulmonaria officinalis . Letter 5745 - Barber, M. E. to …
… Expression from her home in South Africa. Letter 6736 - Gray, A. & J. L …
… Expression during a trip to Egypt. Letter 7223 - Darwin to Wedgwood, L. C., …
… expression of emotion in her pet dog and birds. Letter 5817 - Darwin to Huxley, T. …
… is making similar observations for him. Letter 6535 - Vaughan Williams , M. S. …
… of a crying baby to Darwin's daughter, Henrietta. Letter 7179 - Wedgwood, …
… briefly on her ongoing observations of wormholes. Letter 8611 - Cupples, A. J. …
… expression of emotion in dogs with Emma Darwin. Letter 8676 - Treat, M. to Darwin, …
… birds, insects or plants on Darwin’s behalf. Letter 8683 - Roberts, D. to …
… of an angry pig and her niece’s ears. Letter 8701 - Lubbock, E. F . to Darwin, …
… that she make observations of her pet cats. Letter 8989 - Treat, M. to Darwin, [28 …
… on her experiments with fly-catching Drosera . Letter 9426 - Story …
… without the birds attacking the buds and flowers. Letter 9616 - Marshall, T. to …
… and her father of plants and insects. Men: Letter 2221 - Blyth, E. to Darwin …
… specimens and bird observations from Calcutta. Letter 3634 - Darwin to Gray, A., [1 …
… “enthusiasm and indomitable patience”. Letter 4242 - Hildebrand, F. H. G. to Darwin …
… contained in “a little treatise”. Letter 4436 - Darwin to Hooker, J. D., [26-27 …
… he has moved one or two of them into his bedroom. Letter 5602 - Sutton, S. to …
… expression of emotion in chimpanzees and orangs. Letter 5705 - Haast, J. F. J. von …
… to show in his museum in Canterbury, New Zealand. Letter 6453 - Langton, E. to …
… to be attracted to dark spots on the wallpaper. Letter 5756 - Langton, E. & C. …
… the black letters in a marble tablet”. Letter 6815 - Scott, J. to Darwin, [2 July …
… Fieldwork Women: Letter 1701 - Morris, M. H. to Prior, R. C. A., [17 June …
… on the shores of mountain lakes in Pennsylvania. Letter 3681 - Wedgwood, M. S. to …
… and her sisters while on holiday in Llandudno. Letter 4823 - Wedgwood, L. C. to …
… the fields around her home at Leith Hill Place. Letter 6139 - Doubleday, H. to …

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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… that he was ‘unwell & must write briefly’ ( letter to John Scott, 31 May [1863] ), and in a …
… persevered with his work on Variation until 20 July, his letter-writing dwindled considerably. The …
… from ‘some Quadrumanum animal’, as he put it in a letter to J. D. Hooker of 24[–5] February [1863] …
… ‘I declare I never in my life read anything grander’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 26 [February 1863] …
… than Origin had (see Correspondence vol. 8, letter to Charles Lyell, 10 January [1860] ). …
… from animals like the woolly mammoth and cave bear ( see letter from Jacques Boucher de Perthes, 23 …
… leap from that of inferior animals made him ‘groan’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 6 March [1863] ). …
… out that species were not separately created’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 17 March [1863] ). Public …
… book he wished his one-time mentor had not said a word ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 24[–5] February …
… I respect you, as my old honoured guide & master’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 6 March [1863] ). …
… against stronger statements regarding species change ( letter from Charles Lyell, 11 March 1863 ). …
… thinking, while Huxley’s book would scare them off ( see letter from Asa Gray, 20 April 1863 ). In …
… change of species by descent put him ‘into despair’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 11 May [1863] ). In the …
… disaffected towards Lyell and his book. In a February letter to the Athenæum , a weekly review of …
… find great difficulty in answering Owen unaided ’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [23 February 1863] …
… of so much of Lyell’s book being written by others’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [23 February 1863] …
… is wretched to see men fighting so for a little fame’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 17 March [1863] ). …
… overt act, and I shall watch for a fitting opportunity’ ( letter to Hugh Falconer, 5 [and 6] …
… God demented Owen, as a punishment for his crimes… ?’ ( letter from Hugh Falconer, 3 January [1863] …
… Darwin’, a transitional form between reptiles and birds ( letter from Hugh Falconer, 3 January …
… a significant gap had been filled in the fossil record ( letter to Hugh Falconer, 5 [and 6] January …
… continued to capture his and others’ attention ( see letter to J. D. Dana, 20 February [1863] , …
… or origin of species’, Darwin considered writing a letter to the Athenæum in response ( letter …

Darwin in letters, 1874: A turbulent year

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The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early months working on second editions of Coral reefs and Descent of man; the rest of the year was mostly devoted to further research on insectivorous plants. A…

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… be done by observation during prolonged intervals’ ( letter to D. T. Gardner, [ c . 27 August …
… pleasures of shooting and collecting beetles ( letter from W. D. Fox, 8 May [1874] ). Such …
… And … one looks backwards much more than forwards’ ( letter to W. D. Fox, 11 May [1874] ). …
… was an illusory hope.— I feel very old & helpless’ ( letter to B. J. Sulivan, 6 January [1874] …
… inferred that he was well from his silence on the matter ( letter from Ernst Haeckel, 26 October …
… in such rubbish’, he confided to Joseph Dalton Hooker ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 18 January [1874] …
… that Mr Williams was ‘a cheat and an imposter’ ( letter from T. H. Huxley, 27 January 1874 ). …
… his, ‘& that he was thus free to perform his antics’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 29 January [1874 …
… Darwin had allowed ‘a spirit séance’ at his home ( letter from T. G. Appleton, 2 April 1874 ). …
… edition, published in 1842 ( Correspondence vol. 21, letter to Smith, Elder & Co., 17 …
… Hooker, and finally borrowed one from Charles Lyell ( letter to Smith, Elder & Co., 8 January …
… to take so sweetly all the horrid bother of correction’ ( letter to H. E. Litchfield, 21 [March …
… sent an apology for misinterpreting Darwin on this point ( letter from J. D. Dana, 21 July 1874 ); …
… numbers and sex ratios among the Pitcairn islanders ( letter from William Dealtry, 16 January 1874 …
… will say that I have pounded the enemy into a jelly’ ( letter from T. H. Huxley, 14 April 1874 ). …
… by none but anatomists; and never mind where it goes’ ( letter from T. H. Huxley, 16 April 1874 ). …
… the return on subsequent print runs would be very good ( letter from R. F. Cooke, 12 November 1874 …
… by the conciseness & clearness of your thought’ ( letter from G. H. Darwin, 20 April 1874 ). …
… legal action over the ‘scurrilous libel’ on his son ( letter to G. H. Darwin, [27 July 1874] ). …
… false, scurrilous accusation of [a] lying scoundrel’ ( letter to G. H. Darwin, 1 August [1874] ). …
… as father and son agonised over the wording of both the letter to the editor and the letter to …
… relationship with Murray on the outcome ( enclosure to letter from G. H. Darwin, 6 [August] 1874 ) …
… is refused I’m really no worse off than if I had sent my letter direct to the Editor & it had …
… previous publications to review me in a hostile spirit’ ( letter to John Murray, 11 August 1874 ). …

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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… but really I do think you have a good right to be so’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [15 and] 20 …
… species. Darwin attempted to dissuade him from this view ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 14 [January 1862 …
… partially sterile together. He failed. Huxley replied ( letter from T. H. Huxley, 20 January 1862 …
… and pronounced them ‘simply perfect’, but continued ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 18 December [1862] ) …
… resigned to their difference of opinion, but complained ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 28 December [1862 …
… letters, Darwin, impressed, gave him the commission ( see letter to John Scott, 11 December [1862] …
… protégé, telling Hooker: ‘he is no common man’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 [December 1862] ). …
… Towards the end of the year, he wrote to Hooker ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 [December 1862] ): …
… and added, ‘new cases are tumbling in almost daily’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 22 January [1862] ). In …
… hopeful, became increasingly frustrated, telling Hooker ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 March [1862] ) …
… on the problem: ‘the labour is great’, he told Gray ( letter to Asa Gray, 10–20 June [1862] ), ‘I …
… resulted from his ‘ enormous labour over them’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 14 [October 1862] ; …
… Oliver: ‘I can see at least 3 classes of dimorphism’ ( letter to Daniel Oliver, 12 [April 1862] ), …
… result once out of four or five sets of experiments’ ( letter to M. T. Masters, 24 July [1862] ). …
… one species may be said to be generically distinct’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 14 July [1862] ). The …
… and determined to publish on Linum ‘at once’ ( letter to John Scott, 11 December [1862] ), …
… d . like to make out this wonderfully complex case—’ ( letter to Daniel Oliver, 29 [July 1862] ). …
… The case clearly excited Darwin, who exclaimed to Gray ( letter to Asa Gray, 9 August [1862] ), ‘I …
… that the case warranted a paper for the Linnean Society ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 6 October [1862] …
… that had given him ‘great pleasure to ride’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 22 January [1862] ). But he …
… know not in the least , whether the Book will sell’ ( letter to John Murray, 9 [February 1862] …
… govern the structure of almost every flower’ ( letter to Daniel Oliver, 8 June [1862] ). …
… so doubtful about anything I published’, he told Hooker ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 15 [May 1862] ). …
… May, and George Bentham pronounced it ‘most valuable’ (letter from George Bentham, 15 May 1862). …
… in writing the book, it was, after all, ‘a success’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 30 [June 1862] ). …
… power of natural selection. He made the point to Hooker ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 14 March [1862] …
… the truth of natural selection through the back door ( letter to Asa Gray, 23[–4] July [1862] ). …
… ‘nearly overcome his opposition to the Origin ’ ( letter from Asa Gray, 2–3 July 1862 ). …
… with ‘good dashes of original reflexions’ ( letter to H. W. Bates, 13 January [1862] ). He warmly …
… sent Darwin a few of their letters; Darwin remarked ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 26 [March 1862] ): …

John Murray

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Darwin's most famous book On the origin of species by means of natural selection (Origin) was published on 22 November 1859. The publisher was John Murray, who specialised in non-fiction, particularly politics, travel and science, and had published…

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… end of 1845, Darwin was not happy with Colburn’s terms ( Letter 856 ). Instead he asked his friend …
… John Murray, to open negotiations with his own publisher ( Letter 824 ). Lyell’s talk with Murray …
… have transacted the business with me’ (27 August [1845] Letter 908 ). Thus began the business …
… copies some pages in Darwin’s chapter were transposed ( Letter 1244 ). Darwin was anxious lest an …
… & make the poor workman some present’ (12 June [1849] Letter 1245 ). Darwin’s next …
… his ‘big species book’; on 18 June 1858, he received a letter from Alfred Russel Wallace with the …
… asked Lyell to act as his intermediary with John Murray ( Letter 2437 ), who, without even reading …
… not repent of having undertaken it’ (15 October [1859] Letter 2506 ). Murray decided on a retail …
… proud at the appearance of my child’ ([3 November 1859] Letter 2514 ). In the event, all Murray’s …
… – and a second edition was immediately called for ( Letter 2549 ). In the end Murray paid Darwin …
… (Variation ), but work progressed slowly ( Letter 3078 ); meanwhile in 1862 Murray published On …
… Murray only offered Darwin half profits for this title ( Letter 3261 ); it was never a best-seller …
… ‘I fear it can never pay’ (3 January [1867] Letter 5346 ). In the end Murray decided to print …
… to Brazil, the beginning of a life-long correspondence ( Letter 4881 ). Subsequently Darwin …
… the risk himself. Murray suggested printing 750 copies ( Letter 6597 ), but Darwin decided on 1000 …
… fail, I think, to be much read’ (28 September [1870] Letter 7329 ). Murray decided to print 2500 …
… hope to Heaven book will sell well’ (12 January [1871] Letter 7438 ). A second printing was …
… America, of St George Mivart‘s Genesis of species ( Letter 7907 ) ; this was Darwin’s …
… By November of that year, fourteen copies had been sold ( Letter 8044 ). Meanwhile, Darwin was …
… Darwin chose to print the photographic illustrations ( Letter 7773 ), proved to be expensive ( …

Women as a scientific audience

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Target audience? | Female readership | Reading Variation Darwin's letters, in particular those exchanged with his editors and publisher, reveal a lot about his intended audience. Regardless of whether or not women were deliberately targeted as a…

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… Were women a target audience? Letter 2447 - Darwin to Murray, J., [5 April 1859] …
… Tollet for proofreading and criticisms of style. Letter 2461 - Darwin to Hooker, J. …
… her to read to check that she can understand it. Letter 7312 - Darwin to Darwin, F. …
… from all but educated, typically-male readers. Letter 7124 - Darwin to Darwin, H. E …
… he seeks her help with tone and style. Letter 7329 - Murray , J. to Darwin, [28 …
… in order to minimise impeding general perusal. Letter 7331 - Darwin to Murray, …
… he uses to avoid ownership of indelicate content. Letter 8335 - Reade, W. W. to …
… so as not to lose the interest of women. Letter 8341 - Reade, W. W. to Darwin, …
… which will make it more appealing to women. Letter 8611 - Cupples, A. J. to …
… Darwin’s female readership Letter 5391 - Becker, L. E. to Darwin, [6 February …
… of the Manchester Ladies Literary Society . Letter 6551 - Becker, L. E . to …
… the chapter on pangenesis, which is a revelation. Letter 6976 - Darwin to Blackwell, A. …
… Darwin assumes that 'A. B. Blackwell' is a man. Letter 7177 - Cupples, G. to …
… him to the psychology of Herbert Spencer. Letter 7624 - Bathoe, M . B. to Darwin …
… his statements on a lack of reasoning in animals. Letter 7644 - Barnard, A. to …
… during a visit to an asylum with her father. Letter 7651 - Wedgwood, F. J. to …
… on any comments that she feels might be suitable. Letter 7411 - Pfeiffer, E. J. to …
… and beauty in the process of sexual selection. Letter 8055 - Hennell, S. S. to Darwin, …
… of a woman’s natural thinking”. Letter 8778 - Forster, L. M . to Darwin, H. …
… and the showing of teeth in Expression . Letter 10072 - Pape, C. to …
… and hopes Darwin will complete her questionnaire. Letter 10390 - Herrick, S. M. B. …
… of questions which she hopes aren’t too silly. Letter 10415 - Darwin to Herrick, S. …
… and is pleased that his work has interested her. Letter 10508 - Treat, M. to Darwin …
… it nearly all night before she could lay it down. Letter 13547 - Tanner, M. H. …
… involving worms which occurred in her garden. Letter 13650 Kennard, C. A. to Darwin …
… Reading Variation Letter 5712 - Dallas, W. S. to Darwin, [8 December 1867] …
… array of facts” contained in the work. Letter 5861 - Blyth, E. to Darwin, [11 …
… are a few things which must be altered”. Letter 5928 - Gray, A. to Darwin, [25 …
… to be made to the text for the second edition. Letter 6040 - Haeckel, E. P. A. to …
… Darwin’s rich knowledge, patience and care. Letter 6110 - Samuelson, J. to Darwin, …

Religion

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Design|Personal Belief|Beauty|The Church Perhaps the most notorious realm of controversy over evolution in Darwin's day was religion. The same can be said of the evolution controversy today; however the nature of the disputes and the manner in…

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… of departure reviews of Origin . The second is a single letter from naturalist A. R. Wallace to …
… everything is the result of “brute force”. Letter 2855 — Darwin, C. R. to Gray, Asa, 3 …
… nature, as he is in a “muddle” on this issue. Letter 3256 — Darwin, C. R. to Gray, Asa, …
… shares a witty thought experiment about an angel. Letter 3342 — Darwin, C. R. to Gray, …
… He asks Gray some questions about design. Letter 6167 — Darwin, C. R. to Gray, Asa, 8 …
… of my precipice”. Darwin and Wallace Letter 5140 — Wallace, A. R. to Darwin, …
… of variations. Darwin and Graham Letter 13230 — Darwin, C. R. to Graham, …
… of people, including members of his own family. Letter 441 — Wedgwood, Emma to Darwin, …
… about his “honest & conscientious doubts”. Letter 471 — Darwin, Emma to Darwin, C. …
… there is a danger in giving up revelation”. Letter 2534 — Kingsley, Charles to Darwin, …
… need of an act of intervention to bring change. Letter 2548 — Sedgwick, Adam to Darwin, …
… with that knowledge which only He can give me.” Letter 5303 — Boole, M. E. to Darwin, C …
… that his theory be compatible with her faith. Letter 5307 — Darwin, C. R. to Boole, M. …
… and science should each run its own course. Letter 8070 — Darwin, C. R. to Abbot, F. E. …
… “with qualifications”, if he wishes. Letter 8837 — Darwin, C. R. to Doedes, N. D., 2 …
… man’s intellect, “but man can do his duty”. Letter 12041 — Darwin, C. R. to Fordyce, …
… most correct description of my state of mind”. Letter 12757 — Darwin, C. R. to Aveling, …
… as examples to illustrate his ideas on beauty. Letter 4752 — Darwin, C. R. to Lyell, …
… discusses humming birds and orchids as examples. Letter 4939 — Shaw, James to Darwin, C …
… a long discussion on beauty in the natural world. Letter 4943 — Darwin, C. R. to Shaw, …
… beauty of flowers is solely to attract insects. Letter 5003f — Shaw, James to Darwin, C …
… Beauty against the Duke of Argyll’s criticisms. Letter 5004 — Darwin, C. R. to Shaw, …
… of beauty being displayed in conspicuous parts. Letter 5060 — Shaw, James to Darwin, C. …

Referencing women’s work

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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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… earthworms . Selected letters Letter 1113 - Darwin to Whitby, M. …
… work are referenced throughout Variation . Letter 2395 - Darwin to Holland, …
… her identity is both anonymised and masculinised. Letter 3316 - Darwin to Nevill, D …
… Darwin’s Fertilisation of Orchids . Letter 4038 - Darwin to Lyell, C., …
… being acknowledged publicly as a science critic. Letter 4370 - Wedgwood, L. C. to …
… are identified only as “friends in Surrey”. Letter 4794 - Darwin to Lyell, C., [25 …
… Sir C. Lyell” or received from “Miss. B”. Letter 7060 - Wedgwood, F. J. to …
… was referenced in the final publication. Letter 7223 - Darwin to Wedgwood, L. C …
… are not cited in Expression . Letter 5817 - Darwin to Huxley, T. H., …
… description of a crying baby in Mary Barton. Letter 8321 - Darwin to …
… he would “feel the public humming” at him. Letter 7345 - Wedgwood, L. C. to Darwin, …
… lady, on whose accuracy I can implicitly rely”. Letter 8427 - Darwin to Litchfield H …
… of Henrietta’s considerable editorial input. Letter 8719 - Darwin to Treat, M., [1 …
… Letters relating to Earthworms Letter 7428 - Wedgwood, F. to Darwin, [4 …
… depth of furrows in an old field near his house. Letter 8168 - Ruck, A. R. to …
… activity in the fields of North Wales. Letter 8193 - Ruck, A. R. to Darwin, H …
… published discussion of earthworm activity . Letter 8224 - Darwin to Ruck, A. …
… discussion of turf-based worm castings . Letter 7345 - Wedgwood, L. C. to Darwin, …
… lady, on whose accuracy I can implicitly rely”. Letter 11221 - Darwin to Darwin …
… are referenced in Vegetable Mould . Letter 12742 - Darwin, H. to Darwin, …
… "My son Horace" in Vegetable Mould . Letter 12745 - Darwin to …
… anonymously in Vegetable Mould . Letter 12760 - Wedgwood, K. E. S. to …
… but does not identify the workers in question. Letter 13037 - Darwin to Darwin, …

Scientific Networks

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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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… and colonial authorities. In the nineteenth-century, letter writing was one of the most important …
… in times of uncertainty, controversy, or personal loss. Letter writing was not only a means of …
… botanist Asa Gray. Darwin and Hooker Letter 714 — Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. D. …
… and he is curious about Hooker’s thoughts. Letter 729 — Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. D., …
… to Hooker “it is like confessing a murder”. Letter 736 — Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. D. …
… wide-ranging genera. Darwin and Gray Letter 1674 — Darwin, C. R. to Gray, …
… and asks him to append the ranges of the species. Letter 1685 — Gray, Asa to Darwin, C. …
… and relationships of alpine flora in the USA. Letter 2125 — Darwin, C. R. to Gray, Asa, …
… and their approach to information exchange. Letter 1202 — Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. D …
… first describer’s name to specific name. Letter 1220 — Hooker, J. D. to Darwin, C. R., …
… perpetuity of names in species descriptions. Letter 1260 — Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. …
… ends with a discussion of lamination of gneiss. Letter 1319 — Hooker, J. D. to Darwin, …
… up his doubts about Darwin’s doctrines. In his second letter he talks about his visit with Falconer. …
… was on the Beagle voyage and afterwards. Letter 152 — Darwin, C. R. to Henslow, J. …
… is Henslow’s “bounden duty to lecture me”. Letter 196 — Henslow, J. S. to Darwin, C. R. …
… sends home a copy of his notes on the specimens. Letter 249 — Henslow, J. S. to Darwin, …
… sends news of Cambridge and mutual friends. Letter 251 — Darwin, C. R. to Henslow, J. S …
… illness and specimens are sent to Henslow. Letter 272 — Darwin, C. R. to Henslow, J. S. …
… collection and plans to cross the Cordilleras. Letter 1189 — Darwin, C. R. to Henslow, …
… Hermann Müller. Darwin and Lubbock Letter 1585 — Darwin, C. R. to Lubbock, John, …
… and it has reawakened his passion for entomology. Letter 1720 — Darwin, C. R. to …
… 147 (1857): 79–100]. Darwin and Müller Letter 5457 — Müller, H. L. H. to Darwin, …
… of the floral anatomy of Lopezia miniata . Letter 5471 — Darwin, C. R. to Müller, H. …
… Fritz Müller is Hermann Müller’s brother. Letter 5481 — Müller, H. L. H. to Darwin, C. …
… that Subularia does not grow in Westphalia. Letter 5657 — Müller, H. L. H. to …

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…

Matches: 29 hits

… his publishers, he warned that it was ‘dry as dust’ ( letter to R. F. Cooke, 9 September 1879 ). …
… turned out, alas, very dull & has disappointed me much’ ( letter to Francis Galton, 15 [June …
… home again’, he fretted, just days before his departure ( letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, [after 26 …
… many blessings, was finding old age ‘a dismal time’ ( letter to Henry Johnson, 24 September 1879 ) …
… wrinkles one all over like a baked pear’ ( enclosure in letter from R. W. Dixon, 20 December 1879 …
… itself, or gone some other way round?’ At least the last letter of 1879 contained a warmer note and …
… office to complete Horace’s marriage settlement ( letter from W. M. Hacon, 31 December 1879 ). …
… but they were ‘as nice and good as could be’ ( letter from Karl Beger, [ c. 12 February 1879] ) …
… on your life’s work, which is crowned with glory’ ( letter from Ernst Haeckel, 9 February 1879 ). …
… to wish Darwin a ‘long and serene evening of life’. This letter crossed with one from Darwin, …
… the statement ‘In the beginning was carbon’ ( letter from Hermann Müller, 14 February 1879 ). …
… as the ‘organ of “uncultivated materialism”’ ( letter from Francis Darwin, [after 2 June 1879 ]). …
… up the glory & would please Francis’, he pointed out ( letter from E. A. Darwin, 13 March [1879 …
… wholly & shamefully ignorant of my grandfathers life’ ( letter to Ernst Krause, 14 March 1879 …
… known philosopher and poet’ ( Correspondence vol. 1, letter from Francis Beaufort to Robert …
… these things with the when & the where, & the who—’ ( letter from V. H. Darwin, 28 May …
… paternal grandparents thought ‘perfect in every way’ ( letter from E. A. Wheler, 25 March 1879 ). …
… heard of him ‘constantly, & always with pride’ ( letter from Reginald Darwin, 29 March 1879 ). …
… essay might end up ‘interfering with each other’ ( letter to Ernst Krause, 27 March 1879 ). Darwin …
… made such an introduction ‘almost indispensable’ ( letter from Ernst Krause, 7 June 1879 ). Darwin …
… everything into ridicule. He hates scientific men’ ( letter to Ernst Krause, 14 May 1879 ). …
… must be ‘in some degree interesting to the public’ ( letter to Reginald Darwin, 10 April [1879] ). …
… ‘very tastefully and well, and with little fatigue’ ( letter to G. H. Darwin, 12 July 1879 , and …
… ‘more perplexed than ever about life of D r . D’ ( letter to Francis Darwin, 12 July [1879] ). …
… telling, and he regretted going beyond his ‘tether’ ( letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 5 June 1879 …
… never again to be tempted out of his ‘proper work’ ( letter to James Paget, 14 July 1879 ). At …
… of the tips of radicles, the embryonic roots of seedlings ( letter to Francis Darwin, 16 June [1879 …
… experienced obstacles from the start, as he reported in a letter of 29 May . Sachs had changed …
… that he had rooms in a house that was ‘disreputable’ ( letter from Francis Darwin, [after 16 June …

Darwin in letters, 1872: Job done?

Summary

'My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, 'is so nearly closed. . . What little more I can do, shall be chiefly new work’, and the tenor of his correspondence throughout the year is one of wistful reminiscence, coupled with a keen eye…

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… What little more I can do, shall be chiefly new work’ ( letter to Francis Galton, 8 November [1872] …
… anything more on 'so difficult a subject, as evolution’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 27 July …
… best efforts, set the final price at 7 s. 6 d. ( letter from R. F. Cooke, 12 February 1872 ) …
… condition as I can make it’, he wrote to the translator ( letter to J. J. Moulinié, 23 September …
… translation remained unpublished at the end of the year ( letter from C.-F. Reinwald, 23 November …
… to the comparative anatomist St George Jackson Mivart ( letter to St G. J. Mivart, 11 January …
… comparison of Whale & duck most beautiful’ ( letter from A. R. Wallace, 3 March 1872 ) …
… a person as I am made to appear’, complained Darwin ( letter to St G. J. Mivart, 5 January 1872 ). …
… Darwin would renounce `fundamental intellectual errors’ ( letter from St G. J. Mivart, 6 January …
… was silly enough to think he felt friendly towards me’ ( letter to St G. J. Mivart, 8 January [1872 …
… hoping for reconciliation, if only `in another world’ ( letter from St G. J. Mivart, 10 January …
… have been ungracious in him not to thank Mivart for his letter. He promised to send a copy of the …
… partly in mind, `chiefly perhaps because I do it badly’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 3 August [1872] …
… Darwinism is to be the theme. Surely the world moves!’ ( letter from Mary Treat, 13 December 1872 …
… to find that Weismann accepted it at least in part ( letter to August Weismann, 5 April 1872 ). ‘I …
… few naturalists in England seem inclined to believe it’ ( letter to Herman Müller, [before 5 May …
… reached the buzzing place where I myself was standing’ ( letter to Hermann Müller, [before 5 May …
… ‘as for myself it is dreadful doing nothing’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 22 October [1872] ). He was …
… to stand closer (a serried mass) and to be more erect’ ( letter to Briton Riviere, 19 May [1872] ) …
… and amused rather than offended by `that clever book’ ( letter to J. M. Herbert, 21 November 1872 …
… wrote offering Arthur May’s drawings shortly afterwards ( letter from Samuel Butler to Francis …
… 'exactly where, from his ignorance, he feels no doubts’ ( letter to F. C. Donders, 17 June …
… music provided by her husband, Richard Buckley Litchfield ( letter to H. E. Litchfield, 13 May 1872 …
… to Henrietta; 'I know that I am half-killed myself’ ( letter to H. E. Litchfield, 25 July 1872 …
… fellow’ was Darwin’s wholeheartedly partisan reply ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 14 May 1872 ). On 13 …
… was delivered to Gladstone a week later ( enclosure to letter from John Lubbock to W. E. Gladstone, …
… was `enough to make one turn into an old honest Tory’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 July [1872] ). …
… hypothesis of Mr. Darwin , and Darwin wrote a cutting letter to Nature in Wallace’s defence …

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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… ‘I feel a very old man, & my course is nearly run’ ( letter to Lawson Tait, 13 February 1882 ) …
… fertility of crosses between differently styled plants ( letter from Fritz Müller, 1 January 1882 …
… François Marie Glaziou (see Correspondence vol. 28, letter from Arthur de Souza Corrêa, 20 …
… quite untirable & I am glad to shirk any extra labour’ ( letter to G. J. Romanes, 6 January …
… probably intending to test its effects on chlorophyll ( letter to Joseph Fayrer, 30 March 1882 ). …
… we know about the life of any one plant or animal!’ ( letter to Henry Groves, 3 April 1882 ). He …
… of seeing the flowers & experimentising on them’ ( letter to J. E. Todd, 10 April 1882 ). …
… find stooping over the microscope affects my heart’ ( letter to Henry Groves, 3 April 1882 ). …
… sooner or later write differently about evolution’ ( letter to John Murray, 21 January 1882 ). The …
… leaves into their burrows ( Correspondence vol. 29, letter from J. F. Simpson, 8 November 1881 …
… on the summit, whence it rolls down the sides’ ( letter from J. F. Simpson, 7 January 1882 ). The …
… light on it, which would have pleased me greatly’ ( letter from J. H. Gilbert, 9 January 1882, …
… annelid seemed to have rather the best of the fight’ ( letter from G. F. Crawte, 11 March 1882 ). …
… by the American educator Emily Talbot (Talbot ed. 1882). His letter to Talbot written the previous …
… by the flippant witlings of the newspaper press’ ( letter from A. T. Rice, 4 February 1882 ). Rice …
… men, and their role as providers for the family. In his letter, he conceded that there was ‘some …
… of our homes, would in this case greatly suffer’ ( letter to C. A. Kennard, 9 January 1882 ). …
… she be fairly judged, intellectually his inferior, please ( letter from C. A. Kennard, 28 January …
… he has allied himself to so dreadful a man, as Huxley’ ( letter to John Collier, 16 February 1882 …
… Would my actions be the same without my consciousness?’ ( letter from John Collier, 22 February …
… a solid scientific foundation cannot be overestimated’ ( letter to William Jenner, 20 March [1882] …
… to delight in his children’s accomplishments. In a letter to Anthony Rich, he shared several of his …
… to take a long trip to Jamaica ‘for complete rest’ ( letter to Anthony Rich, 4 February 1882 ). …
… me more than anything else. I am now 73 years old’ ( letter to A. A. Reade, 13 February 1882 ). …
… on the chest pain. Short of this walk about gently’ ( letter from Andrew Clark, 17 March 1882 ). …

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…

Matches: 31 hits

… The death of Hugh Falconer Darwin’s first letter to Hooker of 1865 suggests that the family …
… having all the Boys at home: they make the house jolly’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 January [1865] …
… had failed to include among the grounds of the award ( see letter from Hugh Falconer to Erasmus …
… his letters to Darwin, and Darwin responded warmly: ‘Your letter is by far the grandest eulogium …
… may well rest content that I have not laboured in vain’ ( letter to Hugh Falconer, 6 January [1865] …
… always a most kind friend to me. So the world goes.—’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 2 February [1865] …
… for our griefs & pains: these alone are unalloyed’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 3 February 1865 …
… gas.— Sic transit gloria mundi, with a vengeance’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 9 February [1865] ). …
… added, ‘I know it is folly & nonsense to try anyone’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 January [1865] …
… ineffective, and Darwin had given it up by early July ( see letter to J. D. Hooker, [10 July 1865] …
… of anything, & that almost exclusively bread & meat’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 15 August [1865] …
… better, attributing the improvement to Jones’s diet ( see letter to T. H. Huxley, 4 October [1865] …
… he was ‘able to write about an hour on most days’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 22 December [1865] ). …
… others very forward, except the last & concluding one’ ( letter to John Murray, 31 March [1865] …
… my book will be ready for the press in the autumn’ ( letter to John Murray, 4 April [1865] ). In …
… however, ‘I am never idle when I can do anything’ ( letter to John Murray, 2 June [1865] ). It was …
… might be more willing to bear the expense of the woodcuts ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 January [1865 …
… & I loathe the whole subject like tartar emetic’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 19 January [1865] ) …
… you will be an unnatural parent, for it is your child’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 19 April 1865 ; …
… needed for references, probably from the Linnean Society ( letter to [Richard Kippist], 4 June …
… in or before November 1864 ( Correspondence vol. 12, letter to Ernst Haeckel, 21 November [1864 …
… 1865 that he had just finished hearing it read aloud ( letter to Fritz Müller, 10 August [1865] ). …
… Linnean Society for publication in Müller’s name ( see letter from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, …
… so weak that I am not able to do any scientific work’ ( letter to Fritz Müller, 20 September [1865] …
… coloured varieties (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter to John Scott, 19 November [1862] ). …
… species arising’ ( Correspondence vol. 9, letter to J. D. Hooker, 28 September [1861] ). …
… experiments in 1863 (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter from John Scott, 21 September [1863] …
… India in late 1864, despite suffering from sea-sickness ( letter from John Scott, 21 July 1865 ). …
… though he praised Scott’s ‘industry & ability’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [10 March 1865] ). …
… that he would take up the work again when he had time ( letter from John Scott, 21 July 1865 ); at …
… mind, & I can hang on it a good many groups of facts.’ ( Letter to T. H. Huxley, 27 May [1865] …

Scientific Practice

Summary

Specialism|Experiment|Microscopes|Collecting|Theory Letter writing is often seen as a part of scientific communication, rather than as integral to knowledge making. This section shows how correspondence could help to shape the practice of science, from…

Matches: 24 hits

… | Microscopes | Collecting | Theory Letter writing is often seen as a part of …
… with detailed correspondence about barnacles. Letter 1514 — Darwin, C. R. to Huxley, T. …
… of one idea. – cirripedes morning & night.” Letter 1480 — Darwin, C. R. to Huxley, …
… on embryological stages than Huxley thinks. Letter 1592 — Darwin, C. R. to Huxley, T. H …
… and difficulties of botanical experimentation. Letter 4895 — Darwin, C. R. to Müller, J …
… on Anelasma which he thinks seems probable. Letter 5173 — Müller, J. F. T. to …
… and on some plants which seem to be dichogamous. Letter 5429 — Müller, J. F. T. to …
… and crossed with pollen of other species. Letter 5480 — Müller, J. F. T. to Darwin, C. …
… Claus, Die freilebenden Copepoden [1863]. Letter 5551 — Darwin, C. R. to Müller, J. …
… on the use and importance of the microscope. Letter 207 — Darwin, C. R. to Fox, W. D., …
… with a microscope ranks second only to geology. Letter 1018 — Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, …
… “take advantage of your wicked offer of assistance”. The letter is full of observations on barnacles …
… ed., Manual of scientific enquiry (1849)]. Letter 1167 — Darwin, C. R. to Henslow, …
… finds this microscope “wonderfully superior”. Letter 1174 — Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. …
… specimens and information for his barnacle book. Letter 1140 — Darwin, C. R. to Ross, J …
… to the Arctic in search of Sir John Franklin. Letter 1262 — Darwin, C. R. to Hancock, …
… discusses Lithotrya and its burrowing habits. Letter 1495 — Darwin, C. R. to …
… at his collection to check on his suspicions. Letter 1370 — Darwin, C. R. to Covington, …
… only one specimen is known to exist in the world. Letter 1251 — Darwin, C. R. to Gould, …
… between theory and practice in natural history. Letter 1202 — Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, …
… first describer’s name to specific name. Letter 1220 — Hooker, J. D. to Darwin, C. R., …
… perpetuity of names in species descriptions. Letter 1260 — Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. …
… with the former and deferring the species paper. Letter 1319 — Hooker, J. D. to Darwin, …
… have progressed but Hooker is not converted. Letter 1339 — Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. …

Darwin in letters,1870: Human evolution

Summary

The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the year at work on the Descent of Man & Selection in relation to Sex’. Descent was the culmination of over three decades of observations and reflections on…

Matches: 30 hits

… shall be a man again & not a horrid grinding machine’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 25 December …
… anything which has happened to me for some weeks’ ( letter to Albert Günther, 13 January [1870] ) …
… corrections of style, the more grateful I shall be’ ( letter to H. E. Darwin, [8 February 1870] ) …
… who wd ever have thought that I shd. turn parson?’ ( letter to H. E. Darwin, [8 February 1870] ). …
… abt any thing so unimportant as the mind of man!’ ( letter from H. E. Darwin, [after 8 February …
… thro’ apes & savages at the moral sense of mankind’ ( letter to F. P. Cobbe, 23 March [1870?] …
… how metaphysics & physics form one great philosophy?’ ( letter from F. P. Cobbe, 28 March [1870 …
… in thanks for the drawing ( Correspondence vol. 16, letter to J. D. Hooker, 26 November [1868] …
… patients, but it did not confirm Duchenne’s findings ( letter from James Crichton-Browne, 15 March …
… muscle’, he complained, ‘is the bane of existence!’ ( letter to William Ogle, 9 November 1870 ). …
… to their belief that all demons and spirits were white ( letter from W. W. Reade, 9 November 1870 …
… . . Could you make it scream without hurting it much?’ ( letter to A. D. Bartlett, 5 January [1870] …
… or crying badly; but I fear he will not succeed’ ( letter to James Crichton-Browne, 8 June [1870] …
… Lucy Wedgwood, who sent a sketch of a baby’s brows ( letter from L. C. Wedgwood, [5 May 1870] ). …
… is the inclination to finish my note on this subject’ ( letter from F. C. Donders, 17 May 1870 ). …
… the previous year (see Correspondence vol. 17, letter to A. R. Wallace, 14 April 1869 ). His …
… (in retrograde direction) naturalist’ (letter to A. R.Wallace, 26 January [1870]). …
… towards each other, though in one sense rivals’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 20 April [1870] ). …
… version of the theory of descent by natural selection in a letter to Darwin, prompting much anxiety …
… But who is to criticise them? No one but yourself’ ( letter from H. W. Bates, 20 May 1870 ). …
… me to be able to say that I never write reviews’ ( letter to H. W. Bates, [22 May 1870] ). …
… design. Darwin commented on Mivart’s essay in a letter to William Henry Flower: ‘I am glad …
… time wd be wasted if I once began to answer objectors’ ( letter to W. H. Flower, 25 March [1870] ) …
… laborious & valuable labours on the Primates’ ( letter to St G. J. Mivart, 23 April [1870] ). …
… Ape than such an Ape differs from a lump of granite’ ( letter from St G. J. Mivart, 22 April 1870 …
… his “end” whatever may have been his “origin” ( letter from St G. J. Mivart, 25 April 1870 ). In …
… by you in this manner than praised by many others’ ( letter to Armand de Quatrefages, 28 May [1870 …
… us which are stronger than the causes of discord’ ( letter from Armand de Quatrefages, 30 March …
… that you had called on assistants to describe them’ ( letter from Armand de Quatrefages, 18 July …
… years and your immortal work is above all attacks’ ( letter from Edouard van Beneden, 17 December …

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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… of both sexes. Selected letters Letter 2234 - Darwin to Unidentified, [5 …
… sweeping conclusions on insufficient grounds. Letter 3934 - Darwin to Scott, J., [21 …
… how to make the material worthy of publication. Letter 4185 - Darwin to Scott, J., [25 …
… indefatigable worker you are!”. Letter 7605 - Darwin to Darwin, H. E., [20 March …
… memorial” in memory of the book. Letter 8140 - Darwin to Darwin, W. E., [3 …
… how he made so many observations without aid. Letter 8146 - Darwin to Treat, M., [5 …
… “in some well-known scientific journal”. Letter 8171 - Darwin to Wedgwood, L., [21 …
… that Lucy is worth her weight in gold. Letter 9005b - Darwin to Treat, M., [12 …
… flies until he had repeated the experiment. Letter 9580 - Darwin to Darwin, G. H. D., …
… should not yet be submitted to the publisher. Letter 9613 - Darwin to Hooker, J. D., …
… and thinks that it ought to be published. Letter 10523 - Darwin to Treat, M., [1 June …
… in the pursuit of her “admirable work”. Letter 11096 - Darwin to Romanes, G. J., [9 …
… her manuscript to Nature for publication. Letter 13414 - Darwin to Harrison, L., …

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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… Britain? Letters Letter 109 - Wedgwood, J. to Darwin, …
… pursuit of real, professional work on his return. Letter 158 - Darwin to Darwin, R. W., …
… colour and “beauty” of tropical vegetation. Letter 542 - Darwin to Wedgwood, C. S., [27 …
… meals, family time and walks into town with Emma. Letter 555 - Darwin to FitzRoy, R., …
… ‘ A Biographical Sketch of an Infant ’. Letter 2781 - Doubleday, H. to Darwin, [3 May …
… them in the north-facing borders of his garden. Letter 2864 - Darwin to Hooker, J. D., …
… and “never saw anything so beautiful”. Letter 4230 - Darwin to Gardeners’ Chronicle, [2 …
… linked with his domestic family life. Letter 4377 - Haeckel, E. P. A. to Darwin, [2 …
… at least provide Darwin with aesthetic pleasure. Letter 4436 - Darwin to Hooker, J. D., …
… he has moved one or two of them into his bedroom. Letter 4469 - Hooker, J. D. to Darwin …
… before expecting to dedicate his life to science. Letter 4472 - Hooker, J. D. to Darwin …
… duty to the public to contribute more than this. Letter 6044 - Darwin to Darwin, G. H., …
… and influence to help shape his sons’ fortunes. Letter 6046 - Weir, J. J. to Darwin, …
… from the comfort of his “ pretty garden ”. Letter 6139 - Doubleday, H. to Darwin, [22 …
… moths all of which were conducted in his home. Letter 6453 - Langton, E. to Wedgwood, S …
… attracted to dark spots on the bedroom wallpaper. Letter 10821 - Graham C. C. to Darwin …

Darwin in letters, 1880: Sensitivity and worms

Summary

‘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…

Matches: 24 hits

… my grandfather’s character is of much value to me’ ( letter to C. H. Tindal, 5 January 1880 ). …
… have influenced the whole Kingdom, & even the world’ ( letter from J. L. Chester, 3 March 1880 …
… delighted to find an ordinary mortal who could laugh’ ( letter from W. E. Darwin to Charles and …
… much powder & shot’ ( Correspondence vol. 27, letter from Ernst Krause, 7 June 1879 , and …
… modified; but now I much regret that I did not do so’ ( letter to Samuel Butler, 3 January 1880 ). …
… and ‘decided on laying the matter before the public’ ( letter from Samuel Butler, 21 January 1880 …
… and uncertain about what to do. He drafted two versions of a letter to the Athen æum , sending …
… in which he will have the last word’, she warned ( letter from H. E. Litchfield, [1 February 1880] …
… who will fight to the end’, added her husband Richard ( letter from R. B. Litchfield, 1 February …
… him & given him Darwinophobia? It is a horrid disease’ ( letter from T. H. Huxley, 3 February …
… squashing the ‘mosquito inflated to an elephant’ ( letter from Ernst Krause, 9 December 1880 ). …
… inches of soil as a protection against enemies.’ ‘Your letter … made me open my eyes’, Gray replied …
… his original description. Darwin was puzzled: ‘If my letter opened your eyes, yours has opened mine …
… to the same species, should behave so differently.’ ( Letter to Asa Gray, 17 February 1880 .) But …
… of the plant in its native habitat. He forwarded a letter from a botanist and schoolteacher in …
… ‘Where is the profit for Author or publisher?’ ( letter from R. F. Cooke, 20 July 1880 ). ‘I must …
… money by science, I must now lose some for science’ ( letter to R. F. Cooke, 21 July 1880 ). The …
… without any corresponding structural differentiations’ ( letter from F. M. Balfour, [22 November …
… In former years I was, also, rarely fit to see anybody’ ( letter to S. H. Haliburton, 13 December …
… he pretended, ‘but the subject has amused me’ ( letter to W. C. McIntosh, 18 June 1880 ). Members …
… back. Then we saw a steam tram—imagine my excitement’ ( letter from Horace Darwin to Emma Darwin, …
… at the worms. We find that the light frightens them’ ( letter to Sophy Wedgwood, 8 October [1880] …
… it elsewhere, and thus one looks to prevent its return’ ( letter from J.-H. Fabre, 18 February 1880 …
… country, and letting them out of their respective bags ( letter from G. J. Romanes, [6, 13, or 20] …

Controversy

Summary

The best-known controversies over Darwinian theory took place in public or in printed reviews. Many of these were highly polemical, presenting an over-simplified picture of the disputes. Letters, however, show that the responses to Darwin were extremely…

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… him as a bitter enemy. Darwin and Sedgwick Letter 2525 — Darwin, C. R. to …
… of a spirit of bravado, but a want of respect. Letter 2548 — Sedgwick, Adam to Darwin, …
… of brotherly love and as his true-hearted friend. Letter 2555 — Darwin, C. R. to …
… classes of facts”. Darwin and Owen Letter 2526 — Owen, Richard to Darwin, C. …
… the nature of such influences as “heterodox”. Letter 2575 — Darwin, C. R. to Lyell, …
… his book “the law of higgledy-piggledy”. Letter 2580 — Darwin, C. R. to Owen, Richard, …
… his views now depends on men eminent in science. Letter 2767 — Darwin, C. R. to Gray, …
… prevail without such aggressive tactics. Letter 5500 — Darwin, C. R. to Haeckel, E. P. …
… reader to take the side of the attacked person. Letter 5533 — Haeckel, E. P. A. to …
… of the matter, a vigorous attack is essential. Letter 5544 — Darwin, C. R. to Haeckel, …
… political, and religious differences. Letter 2285 — Darwin, C. R. to Lyell, Charles, 18 …
… MS, but Darwin will offer to send it to journal. Letter 2294 — Darwin, C. R. to Lyell, …
… his views from anything Darwin wrote to him. Letter 2295 — Darwin, C. R. to Lyell, …
… he does not feel this alters the justice of case. Letter 2299 — Hooker, J. D. & …
… reasons for arranging the joint presentation. Letter 2306 — Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. …
… is now planning a 30-page abstract for a journal. Letter 2337 — Wallace, A. R. to …
… paper public unaccompanied by his own views. Letter 6024 — Wallace, A. R. to Darwin, C. …
… of minute variations and sexual selection. Letter 6033 — Darwin, C. R. to Wallace, …
… George Darwin’s notes on Wallace’s argument. Letter 6045 — Wallace, A. R. to Darwin, C. …
… and form new species without being isolated. Letter 6058 — Darwin, C. R. to Wallace, A. …
… relating to sterility that they will never agree. Letter 6095 — Darwin, C. R. to …
… cannot be increased through natural selection. Letter 6104 — Wallace, A. R. to Darwin, …

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