From John Innes [24 December 1861]
Summary
Arrangements for sending Quiz.
| Author: | John Brodie Innes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [24 Dec 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 167: 6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3349 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1862 he shall go by the South Eastern train hence at 9.50. He will arrive at the London …
From Charles and Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin [13 January 1861]
Summary
Two letters for WED at E. A. Darwin's. G. H. Darwin has been to dentist. Please collect and pay for GHD’s skates.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [13 Jan 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 117 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3046F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Postman Bromley. — Remember carrige will meet Train at Bromley which leaves London. B. at …
To J. D. Hooker 11 March [1861]
Summary
Invitation to Down for weekend with Huxley and W. B. Carpenter.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 11 Mar [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115.2: 89 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3085 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … to come on next Saturday for the Sunday. A train leaves the new Victoria Station at 5 o …
To Frances Julia Wedgwood 11 July [1861]
Summary
Admires FJW’s article ["The boundaries of science", Macmillan’s Mag. 4 (1861): 237–47]. Thinks she understands his book [Origin] perfectly.
On design in nature: the more CD thinks on the subject the less he can see proof of it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frances Julia (Snow) Wedgwood |
| Date: | 11 July [1861] |
| Classmark: | LL 1: 313–14; Christie’s (dealers) (3 March 2004) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3206 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … being at all accustomed to metaphysical trains of thought. I think that you understand my …
To Charles Lyell [1 August 1861]
Summary
Mentions Dutch translation [of Origin].
Discusses evolutionary origin of sexuality.
Asa Gray’s suggestion that variation was directed by a higher power and Herschel’s view of providential arrangement in nature.
Compares variation in domestic and wild species.
Asks CL for introductions for his son William in Southampton, where he has joined a bank.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [1 Aug 1861] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.259) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3223 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … but I have already begun to put things in train for information on this latter head, on …
From Bernard Peirce Brent 29 May 1861
Summary
Sexual behaviour of fowls.
| Author: | Bernard Peirce Brent |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 May 1861 |
| Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 1–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3167 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Pea fowls but I believe the expanding of the train is a sexual ask, In turkeys the cock or …
| letter | (6) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Brent, B. P. | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Innes, J. B. | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Wedgwood, F. J. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Brent, B. P. | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
What is an experiment?
Summary
Darwin is not usually regarded as an experimenter, but rather as an astute observer and a grand theorist. His early career seems to confirm this. He began with detailed note-taking, collecting and cataloguing on the Beagle, and edited a descriptive zoology…
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- … his shoulder and eyes gazing intently, as if following a train of thought. This portrait fits nicely …
Darwin on marriage
Summary
On 11 November 1838 Darwin wrote in his journal ‘The day of days!’. He had proposed to his cousin, Emma Wedgwood, and been accepted; they were married on 29 January 1839. Darwin appears to have written these two notes weighing up the pros and cons of…
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- … as Lyell does, correcting & adding up new information to old train & I do not see what line …
Visiting the Darwins
Summary
'As for Mr Darwin, he is entirely fascinating…' In October 1868 Jane Gray and her husband spent several days as guests of the Darwins, and Jane wrote a charming account of the visit in a sixteen-page letter to her sister. She described Charles…
Darwin in letters, 1879: Tracing roots
Summary
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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- … [before 31 July 1879] ). Darwin advised travelling by train, although it took eight hours, assuring …
Darwin in letters, 1876: In the midst of life
Summary
1876 was the year in which the Darwins became grandparents for the first time. And tragically lost their daughter-in-law, Amy, who died just days after her son's birth. All the letters from 1876 are now published in volume 24 of The Correspondence…
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- … 1876 ). By the time the Darwins were organising a special train carriage to get Caroline home, they …
