To John Higgins 12 December [1846]
Summary
Thanks JH for draft. Glad to hear account of farmhouse.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Higgins |
Date: | 12 Dec [1846] |
Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1037 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … To John Higgins 12 December [1846] …
- … Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/2) Charles Robert Darwin Down 12 Dec [1846] John Higgins …
- … Beesby school. See CD’s Account Book (Down House MS) entries for 9 and 12 December 1846. …
- … Down Farnborough Kent Dec 12 th My dear Sir I am much obliged for your note & the draft of …
To J. D. Hooker [12 November 1846]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [12 Nov 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 71 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1022 |
To Richard Owen 21 [June 1846]
Summary
B. J. Sulivan has just arrived with fossil bones from Patagonia. Wants to arrange meeting.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Owen |
Date: | 21 [June 1846] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/204) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-984 |
To John William Lubbock [16 January 1846]
Summary
Thanks JWL for having acceded to CD’s wish to acquire a piece of land to provide a sheltered walk at Down.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John William Lubbock, 3d baronet |
Date: | [16 Jan 1846] |
Classmark: | The Royal Society (LUB: D16) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-942 |
To the Admiralty 9 [May 1846]
Summary
Encloses letter and paper to be forwarded to B. J. Sulivan.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Admiralty |
Date: | 9 [May 1846] |
Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-694 |
To Smith, Elder & Co. 6 June [1846]
Summary
Arrangements for publishing [South America].
Author: | Smith, Elder & Co |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 June [1846] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections DC AL 1/3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-983F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 10 s. 6 d. ; and South America (1846), original price 12 s. See Freeman 1977 , pp. 58–9. …
To J. D. Hooker [8? February 1846]
Summary
Will visit JDH in spring.
Will JDH ask Gay what birds, reptiles, or mammifers inhabit Juan Fernández [Island]?
Has JDH seen William Herbert’s paper ["Local habitation and wants of plants", J. Hortic. Soc. Lond. 1 (1846): 44–9]?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [8? Feb 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 52 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-950 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … See letter to J. D. Hooker, [5 or 12 November 1845] , n. 6. Maria Hooker , J. D. …
To J. D. Hooker [2 October 1846]
Summary
Hopes to start looking over his species notes in about a year.
Very much enjoyed Southampton [meeting of BAAS, 9–12 Sept].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [2 Oct 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 65 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1003 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … species notes in about a year. Very much enjoyed Southampton [meeting of BAAS, 9–12 Sept]. …
From J. F. Stephens to Robert Peel 8 June 1846
Summary
Petitions for a Civil Pension.
Author: | James Francis Stephens |
Addressee: | Robert Peel, 2d baronet |
Date: | 8 June 1846 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 40593: 187–91 Papers of Sir Robert Peel) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-983G |
To Robert FitzRoy 1 October 1846
Summary
Has just heard of RF’s return [from New Zealand]. Hopes to see him.
CD and family are well, but he is a different man in strength and energy from when he was "Flycatcher" in the Beagle.
Has just finished his book [South America].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert FitzRoy |
Date: | 1 Oct 1846 |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 119 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1002 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … see letter from B. J. Sulivan, 13 January – 12 February 1845) . The Beagle barnacles are …
From G. B. Sowerby 17 January 1846
Summary
Describes his reasoning in classifying CD’s Turritella ambulacrum specimens into two sorts. GBS holds that distinguishing characters, whether of species or varieties, should always be noticed. [See South America, appendix, pl. III, fig. 49.]
Author: | George Brettingham Sowerby |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Jan 1846 |
Classmark: | DAR 43.1: 1c–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-943 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1845. See CD’s letter to G. B. Sowerby, 12 [November 1845] , and intervening letters. CD …
From G. B. Sowerby [1846]
Summary
Note on editorial details concerning names of fossil shells [for South America, appendix]. The Latin for "Darwin" is "Darvinius".
Author: | George Brettingham Sowerby |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 43.1: 5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-939 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … addition to Struthiolaria ornata App. p. 12. I see no objection to this addition being …
To J. D. Hooker [6 November 1846]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [6 Nov 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1018 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … relationship to the letter to J. D. Hooker, [12 November 1846] , and on CD’s implication …
To Georgina Tollet 1 October [1846?–71]
Summary
Describes results of experiments on cobwebs, "neither spider or anything else had caused a line to disappear". Apologises for having to draw this conclusion as she had cheered him so in his work on species.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Georgina Tollet |
Date: | 1 Oct [1846-71] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 140 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2499 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … more. — I marked 13 with red worsted. At 12 I passed down the Hedge, & having forgotten …
To J. D. Hooker [10 February 1846]
Summary
Thinks JDH’s explanation of polymorphism on volcanic islands is probably correct.
Proposes experimental test to see whether alpine form of a plant is inherited like a true variety.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [10 Feb 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 54 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-951 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Down House MS) there is an entry dated 12 February: ‘Subscription for Duncan of Africa per …
To Robert FitzRoy 28 October [1846]
Summary
Has read RF’s pamphlet on New Zealand [Remarks on New Zealand (1846)]. Sympathises with his difficulties as Governor.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert FitzRoy |
Date: | 28 Oct [1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 120 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1014 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … October – 24 November [1832] and 30 March – 12 April 1833 . Stokes 1846 . Arthrobalanus , …
To Catherine Darwin [22 November 1846]
Summary
Concerned about Father’s health.
Forwards a letter from FitzRoy.
Dr Erasmus Darwin’s scientific prophecies are the talk of London.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
Date: | [22 Nov 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 92: A1–A2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1029 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , no. 12, 21 March 1846, p. 179 had quoted Erasmus …
To Smith, Elder & Co. 30 March [1846]
Summary
Discusses publication of his book [South America].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Smith, Elder & Co |
Date: | 30 Mar [1846] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-967 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … with Henry Colburn see letter to John Murray, 12 April [1845] . Despite CD’s reference to …
To Robert Mallet 26 August [1846]
Summary
Thanks RM for "Dynamics of earthquakes" [Trans. R. Irish Acad. 21 (1848): 50–106]. It has cleared up his ideas on undulations. Now wishes he had said nothing about them in Journal of researches. Sends his paper ["Certain volcanic phenomena in S. America", Collected papers 1: 53–86]. Wishes RM would investigate Chile. Speculates whether earthquakes coincide with moon or tides.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Mallet |
Date: | 26 Aug [1846] |
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-992 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … researches , pp. 368–81, and 2d ed. , pp. 301–12. However, Mallet explained the twisting …
From William Hopkins 27 April 1846
Summary
Writes concerning CD’s "geometrico-geological problem". Attempts to square some of CD’s observations with certain geometrical theories concerning geological elevation.
Author: | William Hopkins |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Apr 1846 |
Classmark: | DAR 39: 54–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-975 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … any considerable distance. Now if we take 12 o as a mean of your observed dips of the …
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Lost in translation: From Auguste Forel, 12 November 1874
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You receive a gift from your scientific hero Charles Darwin. It is a book that contains sections on your favourite topic—ants. If only you had paid attention when your mother tried to teach you English you might be able to read it. But you didn’t, and you…
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- … barely understand a word. Writing in French on 12 November 1874 to thank Darwin for the …
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Darwin’s hothouse and lists of hothouse plants
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Darwin became increasingly involved in botanical experiments in the years after the publication of Origin. The building of a small hothouse - a heated greenhouse - early in 1863 greatly increased the range of plants that he could keep for scientific…
Matches: 9 hits
- … Correspondence vol. 10, letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 [December 1862] and n. 13). Initially, …
- … Stove [that is, cool hothouse]’ ( Correspondence vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, 26[–7] March …
- … of different temperatures’ (letter to W. C. Tait, 12 and 16 March [1869] , Calendar no. 6661) …
- … 100 yards’ to the greenhouses ( Correspondence vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, [25 January …
- … in mid-February (see letter from L. C. Treviranus, 12 February 1863 ). The second list is …
- … Anoectochilus argenteus 12 5 s . …
- … punctatum. 11. Mormodes aurantiaca 12. ‘Anoectochilus argenteus 5 s .’ deleted in …
- … Bolbophyllum barbigerum 12 major …
- … Ampelidae. 11. Alloplectus chrysanthus. 12. Bulbophyllum barbigerum. 13. …
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Darwin in letters, 1879: Tracing roots
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Darwin spent a considerable part of 1879 in the eighteenth century. His journey back in time started when he decided to publish a biographical account of his grandfather Erasmus Darwin to accompany a translation of an essay on Erasmus’s evolutionary ideas…
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- … Seventy years old Darwin’s seventieth birthday on 12 February was a cause for international …
- … and good as could be’ ( letter from Karl Beger, [ c. 12 February 1879] ). The masters of …
- … ). The botanist and schoolteacher Hermann Müller wrote on 12 February to wish Darwin a ‘long and …
- … well, and with little fatigue’ ( letter to G. H. Darwin, 12 July 1879 , and letter from Leonard …
- … ever about life of D r . D’ ( letter to Francis Darwin, 12 July [1879] ). It was little …
- … Thiselton-Dyer, 5 June 1879 , and letter to G. H. Darwin, 12 July 1879 ). Darwin’s final task …
- … inn ‘ very comfortable’, but told Leonard Darwin on 12 August that there were ‘too many human …
- … not to have come up when the Darwins lunched with him on 12 August (Darwin’s ‘Journal’). Nor did …
- … the world. At the end of the year he was awarded a prize of 12,000 francs by the Turin Academy of …
- … which greatly pleased Darwin ( letter from Grant Allen, 12 February 1879 ). One of Allen’s targets …
- … engagement being made public ( letter from T. H. Farrer, 12 October 1879 ). Darwin’s response not …
- … accurate in its treatment’ ( letter from Francis Galton, 12 November 1879 ). The comment that …
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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…
Matches: 11 hits
- … (letters from George Cupples, 21 February 1874 and 12 March 1874 ); the material was …
- … the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii; letters from T. N. Staley, 12 February 1874 and 20 February 1874 …
- … was published in November 1874 ( letter from R. F. Cooke, 12 November 1874 ). Though containing …
- … print runs would be very good ( letter from R. F. Cooke, 12 November 1874 ). Darwin's …
- … Review & in the same type’ ( letter from John Murray, 12 August 1874 ). George’s letter …
- … he finally wrote a polite, very formal letter to Mivart on 12 January 1875 , refusing to hold any …
- … & snugness’ ( letter from Emma Darwin to J. B. Innes, 12 October [1874] ). More …
- … vicar of Deptford ( letter from Emma Darwin to J. B. Innes, 12 October [1874] ), but to her …
- … mechanism that Darwin agreed with ( letter to F. J. Cohn, 12 October 1874 ). Darwin’s American …
- … bank with enormous tips to his ears ( letter from Asa Gray, 12 May 1874 ). The Manchester …
- … excellent, & as clear as light’ ( letter to John Tyndall, 12 August [1874] ). Hooker …
1.2 George Richmond, marriage portrait
Summary
< Back to Introduction Few likenesses of Darwin in his youth survive, although more may once have existed. In a letter of 1873 an old Shrewsbury friend, Arthur Mostyn Owen, offered to send Darwin a watercolour sketch of him, painted many years…
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- … < Back to Introduction Few likenesses of Darwin in his youth survive, although more …
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Darwin in letters, 1881: Old friends and new admirers
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In May 1881, Darwin, one of the best-known celebrities in England if not the world, began writing about all the eminent men he had met. He embarked on this task, which formed an addition to his autobiography, because he had nothing else to do. He had…
Matches: 6 hits
- … made a small omission ’. Stephen’s reply on 12 January was flattering, reassuring, and …
- … books being ‘a game of chance’ ( letter to R. F. Cooke, 12 April 1881 ). On 18 May he described …
- … Darwin had difficulty in obtaining mature plants. On 12 April, he reported to Müller , ‘I have …
- … to make me happy & contented,’ he told Wallace on 12 July , ‘but life has become very …
- … fight’ (letters to J. D. Hooker, 6 August 1881 and 12 August 1881 ). Darwin may have …
- … else’s judgment on the subject ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 12 July 1881 ). However, some requests …
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Darwin's in letters, 1873: Animal or vegetable?
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Having laboured for nearly five years on human evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of emotions, Darwin was able to devote 1873 almost exclusively to his beloved plants. He resumed work on the digestive powers of sundews and Venus fly traps, and…
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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…
Matches: 6 hits
- … Hooker: ‘he is no common man’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 [December 1862] ). Two sexual …
- … of the year, he wrote to Hooker ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 [December 1862] ): ‘my notions on …
- … least 3 classes of dimorphism’ ( letter to Daniel Oliver, 12 [April 1862] ), and experimenting to …
- … passed so miserable a nine months’ ( letter to W. D. Fox, 12 September [1862] ). A family …
- … ‘Botany is a new subject to me’ ( letter to John Scott, 12 November [1862] ), but, impressed by …
- … into Tyndall’s ears’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 10–12 November [1862] ). Another of Darwin’s …
German and Dutch photograph albums
Summary
Darwin Day 2018: To celebrate Darwin's 209th birthday, we present two lavishly produced albums of portrait photographs which Darwin received from continental admirers 141 years ago. These unusual gifts from Germany and the Netherlands are made…
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- … their generous sympathy. ( Letter to A. A. van Bemmelen, 12 February 1877 ) View the …
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Darwin in letters, 1875: Pulling strings
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‘I am getting sick of insectivorous plants’, Darwin confessed in January 1875. He had worked on the subject intermittently since 1859, and had been steadily engaged on a book manuscript for nine months; January also saw the conclusion of a bitter dispute…
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- … than insectivorous plants. As he confessed to Hooker on 12 December , ‘I have not felt so angry …
- … from his family, he sent a curt note to Mivart on 12 January , breaking off all future …
- … of a bill that was presented to the House of Commons on 12 May, one week after a rival bill based on …
- … The author, Fritz Schultze, contacted Darwin himself on 12 June , describing the aims of his book …
- … scientific Socy. has done in my time,’ he told Hooker on 12 December . ‘I wish that I knew what …
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Darwin in letters, 1878: Movement and sleep
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In 1878, Darwin devoted most of his attention to the movements of plants. He investigated the growth pattern of roots and shoots, studying the function of specific organs in this process. Working closely with his son Francis, Darwin devised a series of…
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Diagrams and drawings in letters
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Over 850 illustrations from the printed volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin have been added to the online transcripts of the letters. The contents include maps, diagrams, drawings, sketches and photographs, covering geological, botanical,…
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- … Rubiaceae with enclosures containing bud samples, 12 May 1878 G. H. Darwin's …
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Darwin in letters, 1869: Forward on all fronts
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At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of Origin. He may have resented the interruption to his work on sexual selection and human evolution, but he spent forty-six days on the task. Much of the…
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The Lyell–Lubbock dispute
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In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book Prehistoric times, accused Lyell of plagiarism. The dispute caused great dismay among many of their mutual scientific friends, some of whom took immediate action…
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Darwin’s queries on expression
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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…
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Darwin in letters, 1847-1850: Microscopes and barnacles
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Darwin's study of barnacles, begun in 1844, took him eight years to complete. The correspondence reveals how his interest in a species found during the Beagle voyage developed into an investigation of the comparative anatomy of other cirripedes and…
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Cross and self fertilisation
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The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom, published on 10 November 1876, was the result of a decade-long project to provide evidence for Darwin’s belief that ‘‘Nature thus tells us, in the most emphatic manner, that she abhors…
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Henrietta Darwin's diary
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Darwin's daughter Henrietta kept a diary for a few momentous weeks in 1871. This was the year in which Descent of Man, the most controversial of her father's books after Origin itself, appeared, a book which she had helped him write. The small…
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Darwin in letters, 1856-1857: the 'Big Book'
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In May 1856, Darwin began writing up his 'species sketch’ in earnest. During this period, his working life was completely dominated by the preparation of his 'Big Book', which was to be called Natural selection. Using letters are the main…
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Darwin & Glen Roy
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Although Darwin was best known for his geological work in South America and other remote Beagle destinations, he made one noteworthy attempt to explain a puzzling feature of British geology. In 1838, two years after returning from the voyage, he travelled…