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1.13 Louisa Nash, drawing

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< Back to Introduction This sketch portrait of Darwin was drawn by Louisa A‘hmuty Nash as a memento of her friendship with the Darwin family and a token of her unbounded admiration and affection for Darwin himself. She and her husband, the lawyer…

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… charitable involvement in local community projects. A letter from Emma Darwin to Revd John Brodie …
… that prompted the couple to emigrate to Oregon in 1878. In a letter to Wallis Nash deploring their …
… indian ink washes   references and bibliography letter from Emma Darwin to Revd. Innes, 24 …
… and Back in 1877 (London: Macmillan, 1878) to Darwin; the letter is in the possession of Patricia …
… A’hmuty Nash (her middle name is wrongly given as Ann). Letter of 26 April 1978 from Freeman to the …
… of Nash’s drawing of Darwin, and the Registrar’s letter of thanks; both are kept in registered …

Dramatisation script

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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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… his University) and is much less his own man. A letter from England catches his attention …
… 11 My dear Hooker… What a remarkably nice and kind letter Dr A. Gray has sent me in answer to my …
… be of any the least use to you? If so I would copy it… His letter does strike me as most uncommonly …
… on the geographical distribution of the US plants; and if my letter caused you to do this some year …
… a brace of letters 25 I send enclosed [a letter for you from Asa Gray], received …
… might like to see it; please be sure [to] return it. If your letter is Botanical and has nothing …
… Atlantic. HOOKER: 28 Thanks for your letter and its enclosure from A. Gray which …
… notions of natural Selection and would see whether it or my letter bears any date, I should be very …
… 55 My good dear friend, forgive me. This is a trumpery letter influenced by trumpery feelings. …
… Canon fire. Military drums. GRAY: 113 April 1861. We are now opening a war, …
… do a good deal to secure it. Darwin passes Gray’s letter to Hooker with a cringe. …
… full relief from all anxiety. Darwin shows Gray’s letter to Hooker. DARWIN: …
… back. JANE GRAY: 189 [Jane Gray. Letter to her sister. Fall, 1868.] Mr Darwin …
… DARWIN: 192 My dear Gray. When I look over your letter[s] … and see all the things you …
… me, and yet was most anxious till two days ago, when I got a letter from him in excellent spirits. …
… 112 C DARWIN TO A GRAY, 17 FEBRUARY 1861 113 A GRAY TO DE CANDOLLE, 26 APRIL 1861 …
… TO GRAY AT THIS TIME 189 JANE LORING GRAY, LETTER TO HER SISTER, 1868 or 1869 …

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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… species such as the mammoth ( Correspondence vol. 8, letter to Charles Lyell, 4 May [1860] and n. …
… Galton. In February 1863, Lubbock received a letter from Lyell, evidently in response …
… about Lyell’s failure to support him. In April 1863, in a letter to the Athenæum , he discussed a …
… transmutation; he also wrote to Lyell telling him about the letter to the Athenæum . 9 …
… 1863b, p. 213). In May 1864, Lubbock received a letter from Falconer, who reiterated his …
… and went on to say that he intended to make a copy of his letter to show to friends. 18 In …
… wrote to Darwin to ask what he thought of the affair ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [2 June 1865] ). …
… he reiterated his admiration for Lubbock’s book ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [4 June 1865] ). A week …
… in the dispute. When Hooker pressed him for an opinion ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 13 July 1865 ), …
… with Huxley in June and July and had seen Huxley’s letter to Hooker about the affair, 24 he …
… reluctantly agreed to delete his own note. In his last letter to Huxley dealing with the affair, he …
… 30 However, two weeks later, in his last letter to Hooker on the matter, Lubbock’s tone was …
… analysis of the situation was succinct. In his letter to Hooker of [4 June 1865] he warned that …
… third edition of Antiquity of man (C. Lyell 1863c; see letter from J. D. Hooker, [15 June 1865 …
… written in Swedish, he gave me an abstract for my use, in a letter dated December 1859. He referred …
… 1983, Stocking 1987, and Van Riper 1993. 2. Letter from Charles Lyell to John Lubbock, 20 …
… pp. 154–9. 7. See Correspondence vol. 11, letter to J. D. Hooker, 24[–5] February …
… 1973. 8. See Correspondence vol. 11, letter to Charles Lyell, 6 March [1863] and …
… ([Lubbock] 1863b, p. 214). 12. Letter from Hugh Falconer to John Lubbock, 24 May [1864], …
… what you have seen is milk & water’ (see enclosure to letter from J. D. Hooker, [15 June 1865] …
… Lyell, 13 March 1865 (University of Edinburgh, Lyell 1, Gen. 113: 3644–5). 17. Rough …

Darwin in letters, 1864: Failing health

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On receiving a photograph from Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July 1864: ‘the venerable beard gives the look of your having suffered, and … of having grown older’. Because of poor health, Because of poor health, Darwin…

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… of the five physicians Darwin had consulted in 1863. In a letter of 26[–7] March [1864] , Darwin …
… and he received more letters of advice from Jenner. In a letter of 15 December [1864] to the …
… As Darwin explained to his cousin William Darwin Fox in a letter of 30 November [1864] , ‘the …
… observations indoors ( Correspondence vol. 11). In a letter of [27 January 1864] , Darwin …
… gradation by which leaves produce tendrils’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [8 February 1864] ). …
… fearfully for it is a leaf climber & therefore sacred’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 2 June [1864] …
… matters which routinists regard in the light of axioms’ ( letter from Daniel Oliver, [17 March 1864 …
… long series of changes . . .’ When he told Asa Gray in a letter of 29 October [1864] that he was …
… paper was published, Darwin remarked to Hooker in a letter of 26 November [1864] that nothing …
… of the two species with the common oxlip. In a letter of 22 October [1864] , Darwin triumphantly …
… the ‘splendid case of Dimorphism’ in Menyanthes ( letter from Emma and Charles Darwin to W. E. …
… this interest. At the start of the year, he received a letter, insect specimens, and an article on …
… that it was ‘the best medicine for my stomach’ ( letter to Daniel Oliver, 17 February [1864] ). …
… at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, in 1862 with a letter regarding the fertilisation of the …
… two years, with his stipend being paid by Darwin himself ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [1 April 1864] …
… is difficult enough to play your part over them’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [2 April 1864] ). …
… troublesome … they do require very careful treatment’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 8 April 1864 ). …
… the conclusion that in giving I am hastening the fall’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 20 April 1864 ) …
… his indomitable perseverance, and his knowledge’ ( letter to John Scott, 10 June 1864 ). Hooker …
… basis he recommended a first-class cabin for the journey ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [15 August …
… and curators at a great distance. Gray forwarded a letter from Charles Wright, a plant collector in …
… to the materialist philosophy of Ludwig Buchner ( letter from Hermann Kindt, 5 September 1864 ). …
… himself. Haeckel’s scientific life, he reported in a letter of 9 [July 1864] , had been …
… often called me her German “Darwin–Mann” ’ ( letter from Ernst Haeckel, 10 August 1864 ). Haeckel …
… to listen to any thing from him except á la Darwin!’ ( letter from Hugh Falconer, 3 November 186[4] …
… 1864a, p. 567). In 1864, Darwin received his first letter from Benjamin Dann Walsh, a new …
… widely throughout the eastern and mid-western states. In his letter to Darwin of 7 November 1864, …
… manner in which you have bearded this lion in his den’ ( letter to B. D. Walsh, 4 December [1864] …
… & clearly’ he spoke out on the modification of species ( letter to B. D. Walsh, 21 October …

3.5 William Darwin, photo 2

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< Back to Introduction Darwin’s son William, who had become a banker in Southampton, took the opportunity of a short visit home to Down House in April 1864 to photograph his father afresh. This half-length portrait was the first to show Darwin with a…

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… ‘Insane’ and ‘Idiotic’. Darwin himself, in a letter of 1848, had jested that an acquaintance with a …
… (but this was a cause of later confusion). According to a letter from Darwin’s daughter Henrietta to …
… accession or collection number DAR 225.112-113   copyright holder Syndics of …
… vol. 2, Clark-Green, call no. gra00084. Darwin’s letter to Joseph Hooker, who was then in Calcutta, …
… and Gray’s reply, 11 July 1864 (DCP-LETT-4558). Darwin’s letter to Hooker, 10 June [1864], enclosing …
… accessed Feb. 2020. J. van Wyhe, ‘Iconography’, pp. 113, 163.   …

1879 Letters now online

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In 1879, Darwin continued his research on movement in plants and researched, wrote, and published a short biography of his grandfather Erasmus Darwin as an introduction to a translation of an essay by Ernst Krause on Erasmus’s scientific work. Darwin’s son…

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… myself a perfect fool to have undertaken such a job. ( Letter to J. D. Hooker, 1 December [1879] ) …
… to common sense & not to professional advisors . ( Letter to the Darwin children, 21 …
… a specialised centre for receiving certain irritations ( Letter t o Francis Darwin, 2 July …
… other to attend to the real interests of the country . ( Letter to T. H. Farrer, 23 October 1879 …
… or distinction, & more even than strong health . ( Letter to T. H. Farrer, 13 October 1879 ) …

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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… [Reimarius 1760] The Highlands & Western Isl ds letter to Sir W Scott [MacCulloch 1824 …
… 1834–40]: In Portfolio of “abstracts” 34 —letter from Skuckard of books on Silk Worm …
… M rs Fry’s Life [Fry 1847] Horace Walpoles letter to C t . of Ossory [Walpole 1848] …
… Asiatic Society ]—contains very little Macleay’s letter to D r Fleming [Macleay 1830] …
… [ London Journal of Botany ]. Vol II. p 1 to 56 (& p. 113 to 168 Bought) (& p. 341 to …
… [Heer 1854].— Hooker has it.— Very important Hookers letter Jan. 1859 Yules Ava [Yule 1858] …
… of the material from these portfolios is in DAR 205, the letter from William Edward Shuckard to …
… ( Notebooks , pp. 319–28). 55 The letter was addressed to Nicholas Aylward Vigors …
… to William Jackson Hooker. See Correspondence vol. 3, letter to J. D. Hooker, [5 or 12 November …
… CD marked this entry with ‘O’ in pencil. 113 The Cottage Gardener ceased …
… 119: 21b Broughton, William Grant. 1832. A letter in vindication of the principles of …
… by Bekhur to Garoo and the Lake Manasarowara: with a letter from … J. G. Gerard, Esq. …
… 1830. On the dying struggle of the dichotomous sytem. In a letter to N. A. Vigors. Philosophical …
… *119: 8v., 22v.; *128: 165 ——. 1850a. Letter to the Rev. John Bachman, on the question of …
… art of improving the breeds of domestic animals. In a letter addressed to the Right Hon. Sir …
… 1820. Remarks on the improvement of cattle, &c. in a letter to Sir John Saunders Sebright, …

Darwin in letters, 1844–1846: Building a scientific network

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The scientific results of the Beagle voyage still dominated Darwin's working life, but he broadened his continuing investigations into the nature and origin of species. Far from being a recluse, Darwin was at the heart of British scientific society,…

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… Government grant was exhausted ( Correspondence vol. 2, letter to A. Y. Spearman, 9 October 1843, …
… are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [11 January 1844] ). …
… to read a manuscript essay on his species theory (DAR 113; Foundations , pp. 57–255), an expanded …
… the essay of 1844 to read (see Correspondence vol. 4, letter to J. D. Hooker, 8 [February 1847]) …
… himself: as he told his cousin William Darwin Fox in a letter of [24 April 1845] , he felt he …
… Natural selection Perhaps the most interesting letter relating to Darwin’s species theory, …
… Darwin not only used his personal notes and records but, by letter, marshalled the resources of …
… of the laws of creation, Geographical Distribution’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [10 February 1845] ) …

Darwin's health

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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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… Darwin apologised for his delayed reply to Hooker’s letter which he put down to his exceptionally …
… I was rapidly going the way of all flesh. See the letter At various periods in his …
… months while he took Dr Gully’s water cure. In Darwin’s letter to Hooker, he described Dr Gully’s …
… certain that the Water Cure is no quackery.— See the letter After returning from …
… in the years around 1848, 1852, 1859, and 1863. In a letter to Hooker in April of 1861, for example, …
… as my retching is apt to be extremely loud.— See the letter Besides experimenting …
… the vomiting wonderfully & I am gaining vigour .’ (letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 April [1864] ) …
… these grounds (see, for example, Correspondence vol. 2, letter to J. S. Henslow, 14 October …
… first mentioned attacks of ‘periodical vomiting’ in a letter to W. D. Fox, [7 June 1840] ( …
… sickness in 1849, describing ‘incessant vomiting’ in his letter to Richard Owen, [24 February 1849 …
… he was sick almost daily (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, [6 …
… before Darwin’s decision to consult John Chapman. In a letter to J. D. Hooker, [20-] 22 February …
… after eating, and that he seldom threw up food. In his letter to Chapman of 16 May [1865] , …
… and care see, for example, Correspondence vol. 4, letter to Emma Darwin, [27-8 May 1848] . …
… at intervals during the day and in the evening (see LL 1: 113, 118-19, 121-5, and A. Desmond and …
… had suffered from gout (see Correspondence vol. 1, letter to W. D. Fox, [25-9 January 1829] , …
… see King-Hele 1999, pp. 161-2). Erasmus also wrote a letter to Darwin’s father, in which he claimed …
… are discussed in Colp 1977, pp. 31-2, 47, 98. In his letter to J. D. Hooker, 5 March [1863] ( …
… feel a little alive’. See also Correspondence vol. 12, letter from Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker, …
… the treatment (see, for example, Correspondence vol. 4, letter to W. D. Fox, 24 [March 1849] …
… at Down for several years (see Correspondence vol. 4, letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 October 1849 …
… September and October 1863 (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, …
… checked his chronic vomiting ( Correspondence vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 April [1864] …

Darwin in letters, 1882: Nothing too great or too small

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In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and for the first time in decades he was not working on another book. He remained active in botanical research, however. Building on his recent studies in plant…

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… ‘I feel a very old man, & my course is nearly run’ ( letter to Lawson Tait, 13 February 1882 ) …
… fertility of crosses between differently styled plants ( letter from Fritz Müller, 1 January 1882 …
… François Marie Glaziou (see Correspondence vol. 28, letter from Arthur de Souza Corrêa, 20 …
… quite untirable & I am glad to shirk any extra labour’ ( letter to G. J. Romanes, 6 January …
… probably intending to test its effects on chlorophyll ( letter to Joseph Fayrer, 30 March 1882 ). …
… we know about the life of any one plant or animal!’ ( letter to Henry Groves, 3 April 1882 ). He …
… of seeing the flowers & experimentising on them’ ( letter to J. E. Todd, 10 April 1882 ). …
… find stooping over the microscope affects my heart’ ( letter to Henry Groves, 3 April 1882 ). …
… sooner or later write differently about evolution’ ( letter to John Murray, 21 January 1882 ). The …
… leaves into their burrows ( Correspondence vol. 29, letter from J. F. Simpson, 8 November 1881 …
… on the summit, whence it rolls down the sides’ ( letter from J. F. Simpson, 7 January 1882 ). The …
… light on it, which would have pleased me greatly’ ( letter from J. H. Gilbert, 9 January 1882, …
… annelid seemed to have rather the best of the fight’ ( letter from G. F. Crawte, 11 March 1882 ). …
… by the American educator Emily Talbot (Talbot ed. 1882). His letter to Talbot written the previous …
… by the flippant witlings of the newspaper press’ ( letter from A. T. Rice, 4 February 1882 ). Rice …
… men, and their role as providers for the family. In his letter, he conceded that there was ‘some …
… of our homes, would in this case greatly suffer’ ( letter to C. A. Kennard, 9 January 1882 ). …
… she be fairly judged, intellectually his inferior, please ( letter from C. A. Kennard, 28 January …
… he has allied himself to so dreadful a man, as Huxley’ ( letter to John Collier, 16 February 1882 …
… Would my actions be the same without my consciousness?’ ( letter from John Collier, 22 February …
… a solid scientific foundation cannot be overestimated’ ( letter to William Jenner, 20 March [1882] …
… to delight in his children’s accomplishments. In a letter to Anthony Rich, he shared several of his …
… to take a long trip to Jamaica ‘for complete rest’ ( letter to Anthony Rich, 4 February 1882 ). …
… me more than anything else. I am now 73 years old’ ( letter to A. A. Reade, 13 February 1882 ). …

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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… hurrah for my species-work’ ( Correspondence vol. 3, letter to J. D. Hooker, [5 or 12 November …
… William Herschel, to write the chapter on geology ( letter to J. F. W. Herschel, 4 February [1848] …
… by Darwin on the use of microscopes on board ship ( see letter to Richard Owen, [26 March 1848] ). …
… to Milne directly, he sent a long rejoinder in the form of a letter for publication in the Scotsman. …
… asked for it to be destroyed. Only the draft of Darwin’s letter remains ( letter to the Scotsman …
… that his original fieldwork was ‘time thrown away’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 8 [September 1847] ) …
… that it would be a ‘thorn in the side of É de B.’ (letter to Charles Lyell, 3 January 1850 ). …
… marine invertebrates himself (see Correspondence vol. 2, letter to Leonard Jenyns, 10 April [1837]) …
… drawings of which are preserved in DAR 29.3 (Plate 20, figs 1–13) and reproduced in Correspondence …
… opinion that such a monograph was a ‘desideratum’ ( letter to J. L. R. Agassiz, 22 October 1848 ), …
… abortive stamens or pistils ( Correspondence vol. 2, letter from J. S. Henslow, 21 November …
… care what you say, my species theory is all gospel.—’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 May 1848 ). …
… sacrifice the rule of priority for the sake of expedience ( letter to H. E. Strickland, [4 February …
… it as ‘the greatest curse to natural History’ ( letter to H. E. Strickland, 29 January [1849] ). …
… Museum of Zoology, has been transcribed with Darwin’s letter to H. E. Strickland, 29 January [1849 …
… the battle, he gave up only from fatigue and ill health ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 9 April 1849 ). …

Darwin in letters,1870: Human evolution

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The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the year at work on the Descent of Man & Selection in relation to Sex’. Descent was the culmination of over three decades of observations and reflections on…

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… shall be a man again & not a horrid grinding machine’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 25 December …
… anything which has happened to me for some weeks’ ( letter to Albert Günther, 13 January [1870] ) …
… corrections of style, the more grateful I shall be’ ( letter to H. E. Darwin, [8 February 1870] ) …
… who wd ever have thought that I shd. turn parson?’ ( letter to H. E. Darwin, [8 February 1870] ). …
… abt any thing so unimportant as the mind of man!’ ( letter from H. E. Darwin, [after 8 February …
… thro’ apes & savages at the moral sense of mankind’ ( letter to F. P. Cobbe, 23 March [1870?] …
… how metaphysics & physics form one great philosophy?’ ( letter from F. P. Cobbe, 28 March [1870 …
… in thanks for the drawing ( Correspondence vol. 16, letter to J. D. Hooker, 26 November [1868] …
… patients, but it did not confirm Duchenne’s findings ( letter from James Crichton-Browne, 15 March …
… muscle’, he complained, ‘is the bane of existence!’ ( letter to William Ogle, 9 November 1870 ). …
… to their belief that all demons and spirits were white ( letter from W. W. Reade, 9 November 1870 …
… . . Could you make it scream without hurting it much?’ ( letter to A. D. Bartlett, 5 January [1870] …
… or crying badly; but I fear he will not succeed’ ( letter to James Crichton-Browne, 8 June [1870] …
… Lucy Wedgwood, who sent a sketch of a baby’s brows ( letter from L. C. Wedgwood, [5 May 1870] ). …
… is the inclination to finish my note on this subject’ ( letter from F. C. Donders, 17 May 1870 ). …
… the previous year (see Correspondence vol. 17, letter to A. R. Wallace, 14 April 1869 ). His …
… (in retrograde direction) naturalist’ (letter to A. R.Wallace, 26 January [1870]). …
… towards each other, though in one sense rivals’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 20 April [1870] ). …
… version of the theory of descent by natural selection in a letter to Darwin, prompting much anxiety …
… But who is to criticise them? No one but yourself’ ( letter from H. W. Bates, 20 May 1870 ). …
… me to be able to say that I never write reviews’ ( letter to H. W. Bates, [22 May 1870] ). …
… design. Darwin commented on Mivart’s essay in a letter to William Henry Flower: ‘I am glad …
… time wd be wasted if I once began to answer objectors’ ( letter to W. H. Flower, 25 March [1870] ) …
… laborious & valuable labours on the Primates’ ( letter to St G. J. Mivart, 23 April [1870] ). …
… Ape than such an Ape differs from a lump of granite’ ( letter from St G. J. Mivart, 22 April 1870 …
… his “end” whatever may have been his “origin” ( letter from St G. J. Mivart, 25 April 1870 ). In …
… by you in this manner than praised by many others’ ( letter to Armand de Quatrefages, 28 May [1870 …
… us which are stronger than the causes of discord’ ( letter from Armand de Quatrefages, 30 March …
… that you had called on assistants to describe them’ ( letter from Armand de Quatrefages, 18 July …
… years and your immortal work is above all attacks’ ( letter from Edouard van Beneden, 17 December …

Darwin in letters, 1871: An emptying nest

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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.…

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… do to talk about it, which no doubt promotes the sale’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 26 March 1871 ) …
… to her liking, ‘to keep in memory of the book’ ( letter to H. E. Darwin, 20 March 1871 ). …
… and had forsaken his lunch and dinner in order to read it ( letter from James Crichton-Browne, 19 …
… they believe to be the truth, whether pleasant or not’ (letter from W. W. Reade, 21 February 1871). …
… and Oldham … They club together to buy them’ ( letter from W. B. Dawkins, 23 February 1871 ). …
… one’s n th . ancestor lived between tide-marks!’ ( letter from T. H. Huxley, 20 February 1871 ). …
… habits, furnished with a tail and pointed ears” (letter from Asa Gray, 14 April 1871) …
… ‘will-power’ and the heavy use of their arms and legs ( letter from C. L. Bernays, 25 February 1871 …
… in order to make it darker than the hair on his head ( letter from W. B. Tegetmeier, [before 25 …
… together with an image of an orang-utan foetus ( letter from Hinrich Nitsche, 18 April 1871 ). …
… of himself, adding that it made a ‘very poor return’ ( letter to Hinrich Nitsche, 25 April [1871] …
… each night, returning to its allotted space each morning ( letter from Arthur Nicols, 7 March 1871 …
… without having a high aesthetic appreciation of beauty ( letter from E. J. Pfeiffer, [before 26 …
… endowment of spiritual life’ at some time in the past ( letter from Roland Trimen, 17 and 18 April …
… to the white’. Darwin thanked Innes for his ‘pleasant letter’, but asserted his antipathy to human …
… myself a good way ahead of you, as far as this goes’ ( letter to J. B. Innes, 29 May [1871] ). …
… ‘whereas the baboon is as the Creator made it’ ( letter from George Morrish, 18 March 1871 ). …
… could also redeem the wayward author of Descent ( letter from a child of God, [after 24 …
… with the most deep and tender religious feeling’ ( letter from F. E. Abbot, 20 August 1871 ). The …
… charges of atheism amongst his ‘clerical brethren’ ( letter from George Henslow, 5 December 1871 ) …
… from one and the same catarrhine monkey !’ ( letter from Ernst Haeckel, 21 December 1871 ). …
… review as ‘a windbag full of metaphysics & classics’ ( letter to John Murray, 13 April [1871] …
… law &c’, and transmitted by culture, not biology ( letter from John Morley, 30 March 1871 ). …
… dog when it was confronted by the presence of its master. ( Letter from Hensleigh Wedgwood, [3–9 …
… sense was especially troubling to Emma, as indicated in a letter that she wrote to Cobbe on 25 …
… was emotionally and morally bound. In one particularly long letter to Wedgwood, Darwin alluded to …
… ‘Every point of agreement is a satisfaction to me’ ( letter to Hensleigh Wedgwood, 9 March 1871 ). …
… and found only the ‘most guarded expressions’ ( letter to St G. J. Mivart, 23 January [1871] ). …

Movement in Plants

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The power of movement in plants, published on 7 November 1880, was the final large botanical work that Darwin wrote. It was the only work in which the assistance of one of his children, Francis Darwin, is mentioned on the title page. The research for this…

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… had considered combining the works in a single volume ( letter to J. V. Carus, 7 February 1875 ). …
… , a plant that exhibited all three types of movement ( letter from R. I. Lynch, [before 28 July …
… due to growth. Movement in plants , p. 113. Unlike Sachs, who viewed the …
… the woodblock using photography for scientific accuracy ( letter from J. D. Cooper, 13 December …
… lost colour, withered, and died within a couple of days ( letter from A. F. Batalin, 28 February …
… how their observations could have been so much at odds ( letter to Hugo de Vries 13 February 1879 …
… the botanist Gaetano Durando, to find plants and seeds ( letter to Francis Darwin, [4 February – 8 …
… only the regulator & not cause of movement ’. In the same letter, Darwin discussed terminology, …
… to replace Frank’s ‘Transversal-Heliotropismus’ ( letter from W. E. Darwin, 10 February [1880] ). …
… experiments and devised a new test, which he described in a letter to his mother, ‘ I did some …
… and it appeared in 1880 (F. Darwin 1880b). In the same letter, Francis revealed the frustration of …
… on holiday in the Lake District, Darwin received a long letter from De Vries detailing his latest …
… described as ‘little discs’ and ‘greenish bodies’ ( letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 29 October 1879 …
… of cotton that he had not been able to observe earlier ( letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 20 …
… might have been too weak to lift the weight of the seed ( letter from Asa Gray, 3 February 1880 ). …
… germination occurred, the plant would be killed by frost ( letter from Asa Gray, 4 April 1880 ). …
… Plants’ or ‘The Nature of the Movements of Plants’ ( letter to R. F. Cooke, 23 April [1880] ). …
… Phytographie (A. de Candolle 1880). In his letter of thanks for the book, Darwin promised to send …
… for advice about the number of copies they should print ( letter to John Murray, 10 July 1880 ). …
… works, Murray was willing to publish on the usual terms ( letter from R. F. Cooke, 15 July 1880 ). …
… only suggest printing more copies or raising the price ( letter from R. F. Cooke, 20 July 1880 ). …
… Stahl’s paper with him, for the relevant page numbers ( letter to Francis Darwin, 5 August [1880] …
… publisher, Eduard Koch had already agreed to publish it ( letter from J. V. Carus, 18 September …
… as stereotypes of the text were available from Murray ( letter from D. Appleton & Co., 17 …
… corollas or the reactive movement of pistils and stamens ( letter from Édouard Heckel, 23 September …
… for the translations and asked about the cost of these ( letter to R. F. Cooke, 16 October 1880 ). …
… last chapter & you will know whole contents of book ’. No letter to Balfour survives, but …
… from colleagues at home and abroad. Cohn concluded his letter of praise, remarking, ‘ I don’t know …

Portraits of Charles Darwin: a catalogue

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Compiled by Diana Donald The format of the catalogue Nineteenth-century portraits of Darwin are found in a very wide range of visual media. For the purposes of this catalogue, they have been divided into four broad categories, according to medium.…

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… as Ethical Thinker, Human Reformer and Pessimist, With a Letter to Mr. Spencer (London: John Bale, …

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:	13 Jan [1863]
Classmark:	DAR 115: 179
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-3913

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