From B. D. Walsh 7 November 1864
Author: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Nov 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4663 |
From John Lubbock 3 November 1864
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Nov 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 48 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4653 |
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- … am sure you know that no one of all your friends will rejoice more than I do. You know …
To John Lubbock 21 December [1864]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 21 Dec [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 60 (EH 88206504) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4721 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … was just like him to defend an absent friend; but I suppose his real motive was to blame …
From Daniel Oliver 16 December 1864
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Dec 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 29 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4718 |
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- … sure leave a widow. He was an intimate friend of M r . G. P. Wall—a near relative of my …
To J. D. Hooker [5 August 1864]
Summary
JDH’s visit stimulates CD’s interest in his own work. Encloses list of queries on climbing plants. [Missing]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [5 Aug 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 242a, 242c |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4576 |
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- … Down] Friday Evening My dear old Friend. — Your visit did me no harm; on the contrary it …
To William Erasmus Darwin [1 May 1864]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [1 May 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 122 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5127 |
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- … at Clapham Grammar School. Ruck was a ‘great friend’ of Francis’s at school ( B. Darwin …
From W. E. Darwin 18 June [1864]
Summary
Doesn't think will be able to find Buckthorn. Sends reference from Revue de Deux Mondes. Is settled at the Bank.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 June [1864] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 19) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4538F |
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- … I think, I will have a look on Monday. My friend on the Isle of Wight sent me this morning …
To J. D. Hooker 12 July [1864]
Summary
Ernst Haeckel writes that young German scientists are enthusiastic for natural selection.
Did JDH write the article in Natural History Review on trees not producing flowers ["Botanical lesson books", (1864): 355–69]?
Encourages Harvey to publish on his "disagreeable" monster plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 12 July [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 241 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4561 |
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- … Bromley. | Kent. S.E. July 12 th My dear old friend— I write merely to thank you for your …
To J. D. Hooker [15 May 1864]
Summary
CD finishing Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31].
Pleased at Bates’s appointment
and Wallace’s paper.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [15 May 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 233 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4496 |
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- … a little with old pursuits & read a little. Farewell my dear old friend | C. Darwin …
From Roderick Impey Murchison 19 August 1864
Summary
Is sending CD an article which he hopes will make him see that there are more causes than ice to account for the structure and wearing away of rocks. [Possibly "On the relative powers of glaciers and floating ice-bergs in modifying the surface of the earth", Can. Nat. 2 (1865): 21–33.] [J. of R. Geog. Soc. London 34 (1864)]
Author: | Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Aug 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 320 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4596 |
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- … heard that you are a supporter of my good friend Ramsay’s rock-excavating theory by ice, I …
To T. H. Huxley 5 November [1864]
Summary
Appreciates THH’s note more than Medal.
Encourages THH to write a popular treatise on zoology.
Sends Mrs Huxley a quotation from Tennyson, with sarcastic comment.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 5 Nov [1864] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 207) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4661 |
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- … a Photographic Carte of yourself— I have set up a Book for my Scientific friends, | C. D. …
To John Lubbock 19 November [1864]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 19 Nov [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 62 (EH 88206506) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4674 |
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- … extra bad times. Cordial thanks my kind friend, for your note congratulating me about the …
From T. H. Huxley 4 November 1864
Summary
His pleasure at Royal Society Copley Medal for CD. Recounts meeting of Royal Society Council.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Nov 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 303 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4655 |
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- … the award has given to your troop of friends to none more than my wife (whom I woke up …
From E. A. Darwin 27 June [1864]
Summary
CD will be proposed for the Copley Medal. Hugh Falconer wants information: list of all CD’s papers, dates of the voyage, things not judicious to mention, when his sickness came on, etc.
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 June [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B28–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4546 |
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- … offer was made to CD by George Peacock , a friend of Beaufort’s, on the recommendation of …
From E. A. Darwin [before 30 November 1864]
Summary
Gives Lyell’s report of conversation with Sabine about the grounds for the award of CD’s [Copley] Medal.
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 30 Nov 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B33 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4688 |
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- … 186[4] , Hugh Falconer said that CD’s friends on the Council had not failed to stand up …
From Charles Lyell 4 November 1864
Summary
Delighted to hear that CD was awarded Copley Medal. Important because award by chartered institution acts on outsiders and helps increase stock of moral courage.
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Nov 1864 |
Classmark: | K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 383–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4658 |
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- … in their hesitation, I sympathised with a friend who has long held that these medals do …
From W. H. Harvey 10 November 1864
Summary
Identifies South African species of plants that are normally non-climbers in the wild but climb freely when grown from seed at Glasnevin. Thinks there is probably a gradation in the wild between climbing and non-climbing varieties related to the degree of exposure each particular plant faces.
Author: | William Henry Harvey |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Nov 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 157.2: 112 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4668 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Barber , a botanist in South Africa, was a friend of Harvey’s ( DSAB ). Kaffirland or …
From John Scott [13 January 1864]
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [13 Jan 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 99 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4385 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Garden, Edinburgh, and was staying with friends at Denholm, Scotland, his birthplace (see …
From John Scott 29 July [1864]
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 July [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 112 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4578 |
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- … I have been of late led to hope that a friend of mine here would advance a sum of money on …
From William Bennett 25 May 1864
Author: | William Bennett |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 May 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 147 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4509 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … nr Reigate, 25/5 th mo. 1864 My dear friend, The inclosed I can have no doubt is the …
letter | (93) |
Darwin, C. R. | (59) |
Hooker, J. D. | (14) |
Gray, Asa | (4) |
Lubbock, John | (3) |
Darwin, Emma | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (86) |
Hooker, J. D. | (27) |
Gray, Asa | (8) |
Scott, John | (7) |
Darwin, E. A. | (5) |
Darwin in letters, 1871: An emptying nest
Summary
The year 1871 was an extremely busy and productive one for Darwin, with the publication in February of his long-awaited book on human evolution, Descent of man. The other main preoccupation of the year was the preparation of his manuscript on expression.…
William Yarrell
Summary
William Yarrell was a London businessman, a stationer and bookseller, who became an expert on British birds and fish, writing standard reference works on both. He was a member of several science and natural history societies, including the Linnean Society…
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- … hearing of Yarrell's death, lamenting ' our old & excellent friend '. …
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Summary
The 1400 letters exchanged between Darwin and Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911) account for around 10% of Darwin’s surviving correspondence and provide a structure within which all the other letters can be explored. They are a connecting thread that spans…
Matches: 5 hits
- … important to Darwin than those exchanged with his closest friend, the botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker. …
- … of his six year-old daughter, Maria, knowing that his friend, who had lost both a ten year-old …
- … appearance: he addressed one letter to his “ Glorified Friend ” after receiving a photograph of …
- … British economic interests and fell out with their mutual friend, the Harvard botanist Asa Gray (see …
- … about the aristocracy, is rude about Darwin’s one-time friend and bitter opponent, the …
List of correspondents
Summary
Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. Click on a name to see the letters Darwin exchanged with that correspondent. "A child of God" (1) Abberley,…
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…
Darwin in letters, 1875: Pulling strings
Summary
‘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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- … Yet on 15 January 1875 , Darwin confessed to his close friend Joseph Dalton Hooker, ‘I am getting …
- … also greatly honoured George. You have indeed been a true friend.’ Hooker was hampered by his …
- … in the form of a poem: From the Insects to their friend, Charles Darwin We are …
- … fellows. But Thiselton-Dyer had apparently jeopardised his friend’s chances by suggesting to the …
4.5 William Beard, comic painting
Summary
< Back to Introduction In June 1872, Darwin’s friend Asa Gray, the Harvard Professor of Botany, sent him a print or photograph of a comic painting by the American artist William Holbrook Beard. Titled The Youthful Darwin Expounding His Theories, it…
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- … < Back to Introduction In June 1872, Darwin’s friend Asa Gray, the Harvard Professor …
Darwin in letters, 1874: A turbulent year
Summary
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: 7 hits
- … [ c . 27 August 1874] ). The death of a Cambridge friend, Albert Way, caused Darwin’s cousin, …
- … sent back his own to the publishers, he applied first to his friend Joseph Dalton Hooker, and …
- … this case you would I feel sure, no longer treat me as your friend, and you would free yourself at …
- … through William Walter Roberts, a Catholic priest and friend of Mivart’s, who was attending Huxley’s …
- … third son Francis married Amy Ruck, the sister of a friend of Leonard Darwin’s in the Royal …
- … ; letter from Michael Foster, 17 June [1874] ). Friend and patron Darwin championed …
- … on a more personal level, Darwin took care of his close friend Hooker, who stayed at Down after his …
Living and fossil cirripedia
Summary
Darwin published four volumes on barnacles, the crustacean sub-class Cirripedia, between 1851 and 1854, two on living species and two on fossil species. Written for a specialist audience, they are among the most challenging and least read of Darwin’s works…
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- … discussions about species in the autumn of 1845, his close friend Joseph Dalton Hooker had been …
- … wrote a rather reflective letter to his former professor and friend, John Stevens Henslow, musing …
- … evidently did not satisfy Darwin, who hired his old school friend John Price to correct the work …
- … finally appear. It was no doubt a great relief to tell his friend Thomas Henry Huxley in early …
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: 7 hits
- … , to Thomas Henry Huxley for evaluation, and persuaded his friend Joseph Dalton Hooker to comment on …
- … deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend of Darwin’s and prominent …
- … all kinds has perished with him. He was always a most kind friend to me. So the world goes.—’ ( …
- … Society on 2 February, and in April Darwin wrote to his friend Asa Gray, a botanist in the United …
- … July 1865 ). This may have been unwise: Thomas Thomson, a friend of Hooker’s, described by him as a …
- … expect from their private communications; Lubbock, a younger friend, had been encouraged and …
- … Darwin was consulting, or encouraging George to consult, a friend, the civil engineer Edward Cresy, …
Dramatisation script
Summary
Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
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- … Hooker, Hugh Falconer, Louis Agassiz, Adam Sedgwick, A Friend of John Stuart Mill, Emma Darwin, …
- … original and dangerous theory of natural selection to his friend, the botanist, Joseph D Hooker …
- … To give one example, the last time I saw my dear old friend Falconer, he attacked me most vigorously …
- … DARWIN: Now when I see such strong feeling in my oldest friend, you need not wonder that I always …
- … myself mistaken and punished; 55 My good dear friend, forgive me. This is a trumpery letter …
- … highest authority on such subjects, and he said lately to a friend, who wrote to me, as follows. …
- … with this population, I see not. 121 Your cordial friend and true Yankee, Asa Gray. …
- … Hooker is pale. HOOKER: 153 Dear dear friend. My darling little second girl …
- … hernia. DARWIN: 154 My dear old friend… HOOKER: 155 I tried …
Darwin in letters, 1881: Old friends and new admirers
Summary
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…
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- … added, ‘when I look back, however, especially my beloved friend to the days I have spent in …
- … been worse.’ Recollections of the earlier loss of a close friend were prompted by the publication of …
- … having read a page of it, but relieved that Carlyle’s friend Erasmus Alvey Darwin, Darwin’s brother, …
- … was made public. On 1 September, an old Shrewsbury School friend, Lamplugh Dykes , wrote to …
- … our children’, Darwin told his old Cambridge University friend John Price on 27 December . As …
Descent
Summary
There are more than five hundred letters associated with the research and writing of Darwin’s book, Descent of man and selection in relation to sex (Descent). They trace not only the tortuous route to eventual publication, but the development of Darwin’s…
Darwin’s first love
Summary
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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- … of the attraction of Woodhouse for Darwin, but more as a friend and confidante , the difference …
Insectivorous plants
Summary
Darwin’s work on insectivorous plants began by accident. While on holiday in the summer of 1860, staying with his wife’s relatives in Hartfield, Sussex, he went for long walks on the heathland and became curious about the large number of insects caught by…
Darwin & coral reefs
Summary
The central idea of Darwin's theory of coral reef formation, as it was later formulated, was that the islands were formed by the upward growth of coral as the Pacific Ocean floor gradually subsided. It overturned previous ideas and would in itself…
Scientific Networks
Summary
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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- … two sets of letters. The first is between Darwin and his friend Kew botanist J. D. Hooker. The …
- … has sent some of Darwin’s South American plants to his friend Kew botanist J. D. Hooker for …
- … J. D., 19 [Apr 1864] Darwin makes another plea to his friend Kew botanist J. D. Hooker to take …
- … C. R. to Hooker, J. D., 25 Apr [1864] Darwin thinks his friend Kew botanist J. D. Hooker takes …
- … spent preceding day with Henslow; much had to be done. His friend, Alexander Charles Wood, has …
Alexander von Humboldt
Summary
The phases of Charles Darwin’s career have often been defined by the books that he read, from Lyell’s Principles of Geology during the Beagle voyage to Malthus’s Essay on the Principle of Population during his London years. The book that encouraged him to…
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- … and life that he called ‘Physique générale’. He was a friend and collaborator of Goethe and his …
- … Narrative , a gift from Henslow inscribed ‘to his friend C. Darwin on his departure from England. …
- … scientific traveller who ever lived,’ Darwin told his friend Joseph Hooker. ‘You might truly call …
Henrietta Huxley
Summary
A colourful and insightful exchange occurred in 1865 in a light-hearted conversation between Darwin and Henrietta Huxley, the wife of Darwin’s friend and colleague, Thomas Henry Huxley. Like her husband, Henrietta was a close friend and great champion of…
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- … Darwin and Henrietta Huxley , the wife of Darwin’s friend and colleague, Thomas Henry Huxley . …
That monstrous stain: To J. M. Herbert, 2 June 1833
Summary
Darwin did not consider himself to be a particularly good writer, but many of his letters contain not just a wealth of information, but also beautifully expressed descriptions and impressions that would be the envy of any essayist or novelist. Such is the…