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Capturing Darwin’s voice: audio of selected letters

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On a sunny Wednesday in June 2011 in a makeshift recording studio somewhere in Cambridge, we were very pleased to welcome Terry Molloy back to the Darwin Correspondence Project for a special recording session. Terry, known for his portrayal of Davros in Dr…

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  • … making observations, as exemplified by the letters to his Wedgwood nieces, Lucy ( [before 25 …
  • … exuberance of the Beagle letters (e.g. letter to Caroline Darwin, 29 April 1836 ) to the more …

Darwin’s reading notebooks

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In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…

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  • … Hist. [Jenyns 1838] Prichard; a 3 d . vol [Prichard 1836–47] Lawrence [W. Lawrence 1819] …
  • … 1829] Prostitution of Paris [Parent-Duchâtelet 1836]. about licentiousness destroying their …
  • … has pub. in 1 st  vol of Annals of Vienna [Endlicher 1836]. sketch of S. sea Botany R. …
  • … Col. le Couteur has written on wheat [Le Couteur 1836] Bechstein on Caged Birds. 10 s  6 d …
  • … [?Heisch 1842] Coleridge. Literary Remains [Coleridge 1836–9] Inconsistency of Human …
  • … and Duméril 1821] Encyclop of Anat & Phys [Todd ed. 1836–59] [DAR *119: 14] …
  • … 36s.— Wiegmann. Archif fur Naturgeschicte. 33  1836. Meyen on distrib of plants in …
  • … race-horse during past & present century. Hookham” [Anon. 1836]: worth looking at. Low has …
  • … Königlichen Akad: der Wissen: Aus dem Jahre 1834.— Berlin 1836.— “Vergleich: Anat der Myxinoiden”. …
  • … (Read) Buckland Bridgewater Treatise [Buckland 1836] [DAR *119: 19v.] …
  • … Cattle, &c.) [Jardine 1835–6] 15. Parrots [Selby 1836]. 26. Honey Bees [Jardine ed …
  • … Life of L d . Clive. by Malcolm [Malcolm 1836] H. Dixon Life of Pen [W. H. Dixon 1851].— …
  • … Sir J. Sebright’s Pamphlets [Sebright 1809 and 1836]— } not abstracted …
  • … [DAR 119: 4a] Lessings Laocoon [Lessing 1836] Whewell inductive History [Whewell …
  • … 1835] Mackintosh’s Ethical Philosophy [Mackintosh 1836] Bell on the Hand [C. Bell 1833 …
  • … Sept. 25 th . Prichard. Physical Researches [Prichard 1836–47]. Volumes II with references at end …
  • … [Bell 1806]. Bucklands Bridgewater Treatise [Buckland 1836] Read half through Swedish …
  • … Cyprinidae from the vol 19. Asiatic Researches [McClelland 1836].— References at end.—— …
  • … 1823] & first 2 d 71  vol of Wordsworth [Wordsworth 1836–7] 26 th . Carlyle. Hero …
  • … prolix —— 3 d  vol of Wordsworth [Wordsworth 1836–7]. Giaour [Byron 1813] —— Some …
  • … —— Col. le-Couteur on Wheat [Le Couteur 1836]. marked.— 25 Youatt on Sheep [Youatt 1837] d …
  • … & Letters [Shelley 1840].— Some Wordsworth [Wordsworth 1836–7]. —— Part of Waltons lives …
  • … Mahons Hist. Peace of Utrecht to La Chapelle [Stanhope 1836–54] III Vols. —— 17 th  Laing …
  • … 1842] —— Finished Wordsworth 6 vols. [Wordsworth 1836–7] [DAR 119: 12a] …
  • … [Drury 1729] —— 20 Astoria.— by Irving [Irving 1836]   1844 Jan 7 th …
  • … Lay 1839] —— B. Hall’s Schloss Hainfell [Hall 1836]. April 26 th : Martin Chuzzlewit …
  • … Yarrell does not compare British with N. American [Yarrell 1836].— March I. G. St. Hilaire …
  • … London. [Other eds.] 119: 22b Gray, Elizabeth Caroline. 1840.  Tour to the sepulchres of …

Darwin in letters, 1882: Nothing too great or too small

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In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and for the first time in decades he was not working on another book. He remained active in botanical research, however. Building on his recent studies in plant…

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  • … offers, and this was no exception. Another American, Caroline Kennard, had written on 26 …
  • … letter from Emma Wedgwood to F. E. E. Wedgwood, [28 October 1836] , letter from Emma Wedgwood and …

Darwin in letters, 1837–1843: The London years to 'natural selection'

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The seven-year period following Darwin's return to England from the Beagle voyage was one of extraordinary activity and productivity in which he became recognised as a naturalist of outstanding ability, as an author and editor, and as a professional…

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  • … by Darwin from a suggestion made by his uncle, Josiah Wedgwood II, during one of Darwin’s visits to …
  • … Henslow 1837a and 1838; W. J. Hooker and G. A. W. Arnott 1836, 1841; J. D. Hooker 1844–7, 1845, 1846 …
  • … to the views of his master. Their correspondence began in 1836 and from the start Lyell accepted …
  • … 1961, p. 53). Marriage Darwin married Emma Wedgwood in January 1839. His hopes and …
  • … several months (See  Correspondence  vol. 1, letter to Caroline Darwin, 13 October 1834 , and …

Journal of researches

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Within two months of the Beagle’s arrival back in England in October 1836, Darwin, although busy with distributing his specimens among specialists for description, and more interested in working on his geological research, turned his mind to the task of…

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  • … Ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836, describing their examination of the …
  • … months of the Beagle’s arrival back in England in October 1836, Darwin, although busy with …
  • … ’. In contrast, when Darwin’s cousin Hensleigh Wedgwood and his wife Fanny read the …
  • … quite difficult to stop to criticize ’. By the end of 1836, the matter of whether Darwin’s journal …
  • … length of the journal kept during the voyage, while another Wedgwood cousin continued to encourage …
  • … attending the renowned Birmingham Music Festival with his Wedgwood cousins. ‘ To write a book, I do …
  • … Deluge Chapter’, Darwin wrote to his sister Caroline, adding that Charles Lyell ‘ says it beats all …

About Darwin

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To many of us, Darwin’s name is synonymous with his theory of evolution by natural selection.  But even before the publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859, he was publicly known through his popular book about the voyage of the Beagle, and he was…

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  • up in Shrewsbury along with three older sistersMarianneCaroline and Susan, an older brother, …
  • to be a devoted family manHe married his cousin Emma Wedgwood in 1839 and they had ten children.  …
  • of life at seaBy the time he returned to England in 1836, Darwin had unearthed enormous mammalian

About Darwin

Summary

To many of us, Darwin’s name is synonymous with his theory of evolution by natural selection.  But even before the publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859, he was publicly known through his popular book about the voyage of the Beagle, and he was…

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  • up in Shrewsbury along with three older sistersMarianneCaroline and Susan, an older brother, …
  • to be a devoted family manHe married his cousin Emma Wedgwood in 1839 and they had ten children.  …
  • of life at seaBy the time he returned to England in 1836, Darwin had unearthed enormous mammalian

Darwin’s first love

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Darwin’s long marriage to Emma Wedgwood is well documented, but was there an earlier romance in his life? How was his departure on the Beagle entangled with his first love? The answers are revealed in a series of flirtatious letters that Darwin was…

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  • … Darwin’s long marriage to Emma Wedgwood is well documented, but was there an earlier romance in his …
  • … do not know what Darwin thought when he met her in late 1836, but Fanny was touched by his visit …
  • … Although Fanny seemed ‘happy & attached to M r.  B’, Caroline Darwin couldn’t help thinking, …