From Arthur Mostyn-Owen 28 May 1873
Summary
He will keep the portrait of CD.
| Author: | Arthur Mostyn Owen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 May 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 173: 43 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8926 |
From Henry Holland to Erasmus Alvey Darwin 24 February [1869]
Summary
References to works on probability;
statistics on proportion of sexes in births in England and Wales.
| Author: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Feb [1869] |
| Classmark: | DAR 86: A79–80 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6632 |
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- … Bibliography Babbage, Charles. 1829. A letter to the Right Hon. T. P. Courtenay, on the …
- … and pencil Verso of letter: ‘Babbage Edinburgh Journal of Science I. 1829. p85–104 on …
- … letter to W. D. Fox, 4 September [1850] ). Holland refers to Sylvestre François Lacroix and Lacroix 1816 , and to Pierre Simon Marquis de Laplace and Laplace 1814 . Holland may refer to Quetelet 1835 . CD refers to Charles Babbage and Babbage 1829 . …
From V. O. Kovalevsky 10 May 1871
Summary
Paris is in the hands of "brigands and socialists", but one grows accustomed to sporadic bombardment,
and VOK is peacefully studying invertebrate palaeontology collections.
Reports on Paul Gervais’ successful cross between a Triton and an axolotl.
| Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 May 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 89 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7752 |
To James Crichton-Browne 12 April 1871
Summary
Discusses blushing. CD believes confusion of mind alone can account for it. Sends MS for JC-B’s comments and corrections.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
| Date: | 12 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 338 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7678 |
To V. O. Kovalevsky 2 June [1871]
Summary
Thanks VOK for sending F. Körte’s book [Die Streich-, Zug- oder Wander-Heuschrecke (1828)]. The passage CD wrote about [see 7735] must occur in the second edition. If VOK ever comes upon the 1829 edition, it would be of use to him.
Agrees that the Versailles army has been savagely brutal [in siege of Paris], but thinks the "Communists [Communards] have made themselves everlastingly infamous".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Date: | 2 June [1871] |
| Classmark: | Institut Mittag-Leffler |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7796 |
To W. D. Fox 7 June [1829]
Summary
Has shipped a portmanteau and box of WDF’s things. Lists bills paid from funds sent.
"My success has been very splendid in the science" [entomology].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 7 June [1829] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 16) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-66 |
To W. D. Fox [15 March 1829]
Summary
His routine days at Cambridge.
Entomology stopped for the present.
His reading, gambling, and parties. News of Cambridge friends.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [15 Mar 1829] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 10) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-59 |
To W. D. Fox 12 [June 1828]
Summary
Account of insects he has collected, with figures drawn by sister.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 12 [June 1828] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-42 |
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- … undergraduate at Queens’ College 1826–30. Letters to W. D. Fox, [7 January 1829] and [25– …
- … 1829] give support to this possibility. In both, CD asks to be remembered to ‘Hore’. Possibly Lewes (or Lewis) Garland . Stephens 1827–46 . Clivina collaris is listed in Mandibulata 1: 40, plate iii, fig. 3. On Cardigan Bay, Gwynedd, North Wales. CD spent the summer on a reading tour with some undergraduate friends and George Ash Butterton , of St John’s College, a private tutor in mathematics (see LL 1: 166, which quotes a letter …
From Arthur Mostyn-Owen 21 May 1873
Summary
Offers to exchange a water-colour portrait of CD, done, he believes, by Fanny Biddulph, for a copy of Descent.
There has been a decrease of game-birds in the area.
| Author: | Arthur Mostyn Owen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 May 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 173: 42 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8917 |
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- … a copper cap (see Correspondence vol. 1, letter to W. D. Fox, [25–9 January 1829] ). …
- … letter from Fanny Owen, 1 March 1832 ). Mostyn-Owen probably refers to the portrait of CD that appeared in the Illustrated London News , 11 March 1871, p. 244 (see Correspondence vol. 19, p. 168). Mostyn-Owen refers to Descent . On a visit to Woodhouse in 1829, …
To Edward Holland [after 12 July 1843]
Summary
Discusses fossil bones found in Australia by Mr Isaac. Suggests they be sent to Richard Owen.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Holland |
| Date: | [after 12 July 1843] |
| Classmark: | John L. McDonald (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-970 |
To John William Lubbock 6 September [1853]
Summary
Will give his support to a school for the poor to be a memorial to the late Sir John Lubbock.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John William Lubbock, 3d baronet |
| Date: | 6 Sept [1853] |
| Classmark: | The Royal Society (LUB: D18) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1530 |
To W. D. Fox [1 April 1830]
Summary
CD will remain in Cambridge during the whole vacation.
J. F. Stephens has been ill; hence no recent publications.
Has seen a good deal of J. S. Henslow.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [1 Apr 1830] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 28) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-79 |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle [before 13 November 1858]
Summary
Reports the decreased yield of pods resulting from excluding bees from the flowers of the kidney bean. Gives other observations suggesting the importance of bees in the fertilisation of papilionaceous flowers.
Cites cases of crosses between varieties of bean grown close together and requests observations from readers on the subject. States his belief "that is a law of nature that every organic being should occasionally be crossed with a different individual of the same species".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
| Date: | [before 13 Nov 1858] |
| Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, 13 November 1858, pp. 828–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2359 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 28 May [1871]
Summary
Reports on the wholesale murder in Paris.
His wife, Sofya Kovalevsky, is working for her examinations.
VOK is studying embryology.
Alexander has left Suez and is now in Jaffa.
| Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 May [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 63 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7775 |
To W. D. Fox [25–9 January 1829]
Summary
Congratulates WDF on finishing at Cambridge; he regards his place as a very good one, and comments on how others did.
Father much pleased by gift of a swan.
Adds some entomological news.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [25–9 Jan 1829] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 8) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-56 |
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- … the following March (see letter to W. D. Fox, [26 February 1829] ). Henry Philpott . CD’ …
- … 1829, p. 169). Of the works CD was studying, Locke’s An essay concerning human understanding appeared in the B.A. examination for those who were not candidates for honours. No work by Adam Smith appeared on the list of examination subjects for either the ‘Little Go’ or B.A. CD refers to Arthur Mostyn Owen (see letters …
From V. O. Kovalevsky 23 May [1871]
Summary
Will translate passages as CD requests [see 7735].
Bitter at Prussian militarism.
| Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 May [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 62 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7766 |
From Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya and V. O. Kovalevsky 1 September 1870
Summary
Accepts CD’s offer to order books from the Royal Society Library.
VOK asks for information about W. B. Carpenter’s dredging expedition in the Porcupine.
| Author: | Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya (Софья Васильевна Ковалевская) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Sept 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 53 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7314 |
To S. H. Haliburton 22 November 1880
Summary
Thanks SH for her kind letter; would like to see her again.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Sarah Harriet Mostyn Owen; Sarah Harriet Williams; Sarah Harriet Haliburton |
| Date: | 22 Nov 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 24 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12839 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 5 September [1870]
Summary
Will order the first set of casts from Murray.
Thanks CD for a book for his wife from the Royal Society Library.
His brother [Alexander] is delighted at being referred to in CD’s work [Descent 1: 205].
| Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Sept [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 80 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7317 |
To Emma Darwin [20–1 May 1848]
Summary
Reports on his father’s health, and Catherine’s. CD, himself, has been a little sick.
Hensleigh [Wedgwood] thinks he has settled the free-will question – "we have none whatsoever".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [20–1 May 1848] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 27 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1176 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (33) |
| Blyth, Edward | (4) |
| Kovalevsky, V. O. | (4) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Mostyn Owen, Arthur | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (31) |
| Fox, W. D. | (7) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Kovalevsky, V. O. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (64) |
| Fox, W. D. | (7) |
| Kovalevsky, V. O. | (6) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
| Blyth, Edward | (4) |
Darwin's health
Summary
On 28 March 1849, ten years before Origin was published, Darwin wrote to his good friend Joseph Hooker from Great Malvern in Worcestershire, where Dr James Manby Gully ran a fashionable water-cure establishment. Darwin apologised for his delayed reply to…
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- … On 28 March 1849, ten years before Origin was published, Darwin wrote to his good friend …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
Summary
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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- … In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to …
Early Days
Summary
Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment The young Charles Darwin From an early age, Darwin exhibited a keen interest in the natural world. His boyish fascination with naturalist pursuits deepened as he entered college and started to interact with…
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- … Sources | Discussion Questions | Experiment The young Charles Darwin …
Hermann Müller
Summary
Hermann (Heinrich Ludwig Hermann) Müller, was born in Mühlberg near Erfurt in 1829. He was the younger brother of Fritz Müller (1822–97). Following the completion of his secondary education at Erfurt in 1848, he studied natural sciences at Halle and Berlin…
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- … Hermann (Heinrich Ludwig Hermann) Müller, was born in Mühlberg near Erfurt in 1829. He was the …
Robert FitzRoy
Summary
Robert FitzRoy was captain of HMS Beagle when Darwin was aboard. From 1831 to 1836 the two men lived in the closest proximity, their relationship revealed by the letters they exchanged while Darwin left the ship to explore the countries visited during the…
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- … Robert FitzRoy was captain of HMS Beagle when Darwin was aboard. From 1831 to 1836 the two men …
Science: A Man’s World?
Summary
Discussion Questions|Letters Darwin's correspondence show that many nineteenth-century women participated in the world of science, be it as experimenters, observers, editors, critics, producers, or consumers. Despite this, much of the…
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- … Discussion Questions | Letters Darwin's correspondence show that many nineteenth …
Books on the Beagle
Summary
The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.
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- … ‘Considering the limited disposable space in so very small a ship, we contrived to carry more …
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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- … Darwin’s long marriage to Emma Wedgwood is well documented, but was there an earlier romance in …
Race, Civilization, and Progress
Summary
Darwin's first reflections on human progress were prompted by his experiences in the slave-owning colony of Brazil, and by his encounters with the Yahgan peoples of Tierra del Fuego. Harsh conditions, privation, poor climate, bondage and servitude,…
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- … Letters | Selected Readings Darwin's first reflections on human progress were …
Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson
Summary
[f.146r Title page] Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle Supplement / to the 2nd 3rd and Appendix Volumes of the First / Edition Written / for and in the name of the Author of those / Volumes By J.C. Ross. / Sometime Master of a…
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- … [ f.146r Title page ] Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle …
Introduction to the Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle
Summary
'a humble toadyish follower…': Not all pictures of Darwin during the Beagle voyage are flattering. Published here for the first time is a complete transcript of a satirical account of the Beagle’s brief visit in 1836 to the Cocos Keeling islands…
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- … I naturally wished to have a savant at my elbow – in the position of a humble toadyish …
