To Dear Friend 1 January 1822
Summary
Erasmus Alvey Darwin has rheumatism; his sisters complain of his bad temper but CD thinks him very good tempered. CD has received a new cabinet. [This is the first of six entries written in a "Memorandum book" comprising four sheets folded into a gather and sewn together in book form. The entries are in the style of letters addressed to an unnamed friend and are dated between 1 and 12 January 1822, shortly before CD’s thirteenth birthday. As they were written straight into the memorandum book, it is clear that they were never sent through the post, but were either to an imaginary recipient, or intended to be read by someone in the household, possibly CD’s youngest sister, Emily Catherine Darwin (Catherine).]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Friend |
| Date: | 1 Jan 1822 |
| Classmark: | DAR 271/1/1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1F |
To Dear Friend 2 January 1822
Summary
Erasmus Alvey Darwin is good tempered and their sisters have "not abused at all". Hopes the recipient will help "in looking out and washing the fossils out of the plate closet".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Friend |
| Date: | 2 Jan 1822 |
| Classmark: | DAR 271/1/1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1G |
To Dear Friend 3 January 1822
Summary
"Monseur Beodoes" is inquisitive and impertinent; Mr Bayly "was formerly a devlish boor". Asks who his sisters have been talking about.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Friend |
| Date: | 3 Jan 1822 |
| Classmark: | DAR 271/1/1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1H |
To Dear Friend 4 January 1822
Summary
Likes Mariane who is very good to Miss Jones; CD bought cakes in town while Mariane visited Miss Jones; he was embarrassed to be shown into her bedroom when he returned. Miss Clare has had an accident.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Friend |
| Date: | 4 Jan 1822 |
| Classmark: | DAR 271/1/1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1J |
To Dear Friend 4 January 1822
Summary
Caroline disapproves of his not washing.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Friend |
| Date: | 4 Jan 1822 |
| Classmark: | DAR 271/1/1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1K |
To Dear Friend 12 January 1822
Summary
Was joined by Colonel Burgh Leighton when walking in the quarry. Plans to make caves next summer to store "warlike instruments" and "relicks". Sketches a design for a signalling device. May go with his father to visit the Earl of Powys at Walcot; visited Mrs and Miss Reynolds and William Pemberton Cludde.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Friend |
| Date: | 12 Jan 1822 |
| Classmark: | DAR 271.1.1: 6v |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1M |
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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- … in Geolog. Soc. F. Cuvier on Instinct [F. G. Cuvier 1822] read Flourens Edit [Flourens 1845] …
- … of Zoology [Smellie 1790–9]. Fleming Ditto [Fleming 1822] Falconers remark on the …
- … [Azara 1801] Dobrizhoffer’s Abipones [Dobrizhoffer 1822] Edinburgh New Philosoph. …
- … Harold [Byron 1819]. Manfred [Byron 1817]. Cain [Byron 1822] 18 th . Bossu & Loefflings …
- … 68 June 6 th Doblado’s letters on Spain [Doblado 1822] excellent November Three vols. of …
- … Dec. 15 th . Flemings Philosoph of Zoology [Fleming 1822]— Well read— references at end.— …
- … th Skimmed through Encyclopædia of Gardening [Loudon 1822]. ref. at end.— Sept 16 th …
- … April 5 th . Simond’s Travels [?Simond 1822].— May 6 th Several volumes of Belsham …
- … History of cultivated Vegetables 2. Vols. [H. Phillips 1822] (very poor) [DAR 119: 13b] …
- … —— 10 Johnson’s Field Sports of India [D. Johnson 1822] (nothing) Sept: Acerbis Travels …
- … Mem. Acad. Scien. lu Feb. 19/21/ 82 [A. von Humboldt 1822] 19 th Couch Illustrations of …
- … D. Brewster’s Natural Magic [Brewster 1834] —— Friend & Aids of Reflexion [Coleridge 1812 …
- … [Warren 1832–8] De Quincy Opium Eater [De Quincey 1822] The Devereux. Earls of Essex …
- … edition) —— 25 Quincey Opium Eater [De Quincey 1822] (very poor) —— Diary of a …
- … Sur la Distrib. Geograph from Journal de Physique Feb. 1822 [Desmoulins 1822] London Journal …
- … as assistant secretary to the Horticultural Society from 1822 to 1841 then vice-secretary from 1841 …
- … . 2 vols. London. [Other eds.] 119: 7a ——. 1822. Cain; a mystery . London. [Other eds. …
- … *128: 172 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. 1812. The friend; a series of essays . London. …
- … . London. *119: 23 Cuvier, Frédéric Georges. 1822. Instinct. In vol. 23, pp. 528–44, of …
- … 119: 6a ——. 1855. The angler and his friend; or, piscatory colloquies and fishing …
- … [Darwin Library.] 128: 10 De Quincey, Thomas. 1822. Confessions of an English opium …
- … Doblado, Leucadio, pseud . (Joseph Blanco White). 1822. Letters from Spain . London. [Other …
- … de Sa Majesté, La Coquille, pendant les années 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825 . 7 vols. Paris. …
- … Fitz-Roy .) London. 119: 5a Fleming, John. 1822. The philosophy of zoology; or, a …
- … of the Polar Sea, in the years 1819, 1820, 1821, and 1822 . London. [Other eds.] 119: 16b …
- … classique d’histoire naturelle . 17 vols. Paris. 1822–31. *119: 14v. ——. 1832–7. …
- … classique d’histoire naturelle . 17 vols. Paris. 1822–31. 119: 10a Guizot, François …
- … [Darwin Library.] *119: 1v.; 119: 10a ——. 1822. Nouvelles recherches sur les lois que l …
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
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List of people appearing in the photograph album Darwin received from scientific admirers in the Netherlands for his birthday on 12 February 1877. We are grateful to Hester Loeff for providing this list and for permission to make her research available.…
Fritz Müller
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Fritz Müller, a German who spent most of his life in political exile in Brazil, described Darwin as his second father, and Darwin's son, Francis, wrote that, although they never met 'the correspondence with Müller, which continued to the close of…
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- … born in the small Thuringian town of Windischholzhausen in 1822, the eldest son of a natural history …
- … received a copy of the German edition in 1861 from his good friend, Max Schlultze, formerly a fellow …
- … so much new information that after consulting his friend Joseph Dalton Hooker, Darwin sent …
The full edition is now online!
Summary
For nearly fifty years successive teams of researchers on both sides of the Atlantic have been working to track down all surviving letters written by or to Charles Darwin, research their content, and publish the complete texts. The thirtieth and final…
John Stevens Henslow
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The letters Darwin exchanged with John Stevens Henslow, professor of Botany and Mineralogy at Cambridge University, were among the most significant of his life. It was a letter from Henslow that brought Darwin the invitation to sail round the world as…
Interview with Pietro Corsi
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Pietro Corsi is Professor of the History of Science at the University of Oxford. His book Evolution Before Darwin is due to be published in 2010 by Oxford University Press. Date of interview: 17 July 2009 Transcription 1: Introduction …
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- … like John Fleming , the Scottish minister and naturalist, friend of Charles Lyell, the debate I …
- … know much more about him. By the way, Rafinesque was a close friend of Bory de Saint-Vincent and …
- … collections in Paris, and becomes a very good friend of a paleontologist who is openly Lamarckian, …
