From J. D. Hooker [26 January 1865]
Summary
John Scott has arrived in Calcutta and has been given an appointment by Thomas Anderson.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [26 Jan 1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4754 |
From Ernst Haeckel 11 January 1866
Summary
Comments on CD’s health.
Discusses origin of life and differentiation of principal classes of plants and animals.
Discusses Generelle Morphologie and its chapter on embryological development.
His lectures on CD’s theory.
Asks CD for larger portrait of himself and for several copies of the small photograph. Will send photographs of German scientists in exchange.
| Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Jan 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 41 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4973 |
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- … Anna Sethe (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from Ernst Haeckel, 10 August 1864 ; see …
- … on this book (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from Ernst Haeckel, 26 October 1864 and …
- … translation; see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from Ernst Haeckel, 9 [July 1864] ; see …
- … frontispiece to Correspondence vol. 12. See ibid. , letter to Ernst Haeckel, 19 July [ …
- … vol. 13, letter from Ernst Haeckel, 11 November 1865 and nn. 11 and 12); a protoplasmic …
From George Henslow [13 or 14 June 1866]
Summary
Thanks for criticism of proofs of his paper [see 5117].
Not sure whether CD believes in reversion and would like a positive statement as this is the one point C. V. Naudin especially observed. Naudin offers his remarks on ovules as a matter to be proved ["Nouvelles recherches sur l’hybridité", Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. 1 (1865): 25–176].
| Author: | George Henslow |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [13 or 14] June 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 158 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5120 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … and n. 11, and Correspondence vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, 22 [May 1864] ), and for …
- … between this letter and the letters to George Henslow , 12 June [1866] and 15 [June …
- … for Henslow 1866b ; see letter to George Henslow, 12 June [1866] . In a brief discussion …
- … pp. 1–9 (see Henslow 1866b , pp. 310–11). See letter to George Henslow, 12 June [1866] . …
- … See letter to George Henslow, 12 June [1866] , and n. 4. …
From William Erasmus Darwin [late February–May 1865]
Summary
[Outline sketches of pollen from short-styled yellow primrose and from long-styled yellow and red primroses.]
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [late Feb–May 1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 108: 89a |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4729 |
From George Henslow 17 March [1866]
Summary
Forgot to thank CD for his praise of tendril paper [see 4944].
| Author: | George Henslow |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Mar [1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 155 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5036 |
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- … Henslow refers to his letter of 12 March 1866 and his summary of ‘Climbing plants’ ( …
- … the relationship between this letter and the letter from George Henslow, 12 March 1866 . …
- … a letter that has not been found. See letter from George Henslow, 12 March 1866 and n. …
- … 2. See letter from George Henslow, 12 March 1866 and n. 3. …
From George Stacey Gibson 7 July 1866
Summary
Asks CD if he can explain the results of an experiment that produced barley from oats that had been cut down to prevent their flowering.
| Author: | George Stacey Gibson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 July 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 40 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5151 |
From Emma Darwin to Alfred Newton 4 November [1863]
Summary
CD thanks AN for the note and remarks on the partridge’s leg. CD is too ill to write a note, but will send [for] the specimen as soon as he can. [See 4326.]
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
| Date: | 4 Nov [1863] |
| Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/65) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4330F |
From John Beck 15 May 1869
Summary
Sends his MS "The real presence" [on transubstantiation] for CD’s comments.
| Author: | John Beck |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 May 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 104 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6747 |
From John Lubbock 22 and 26 March 1865
Summary
JL’s MS at printer’s [Prehistoric times (1865)].
Apologises for failure to post letter.
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 and 26 Mar 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 50 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4791 |
To George Fraser 14 April [1871]
Summary
Cannot provide comment on GF’s paper for publication. Hopes GF will publish in Nature. Will consider his remarks when revising book [Descent].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Rae Thomson (George) Fraser |
| Date: | 14 Apr [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 297 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7684 |
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- … the observations he recorded in his letter of 12 April 1871 in Nature , 20 April 1871 ( …
- … by the relationship between this letter and the letter from George Fraser, 12 April 1871 . …
- … See letter from George Fraser, 12 April 1871 . …
- … 1871 in Descent 2d ed. ; see letter from George Fraser, 12 April 1871 and n. 14. See …
From Lucy Caroline Wedgwood [April–May 1865?]
Summary
Observations for CD on oxlips, which she finds never grow near cowslips or primroses.
| Author: | Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [Apr–May 1865?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 108: 171–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4370 |
From F. H. Hooker 6 September [1865]
Summary
They have left Kew to improve J. D. Hooker’s health.
| Author: | Frances Harriet Henslow; Frances Harriet Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Sept [1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 239–40 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4890 |
To H. G. H. Norman [after 30 November 1866]
Summary
Thanks his correspondent for remembering to send him a woodcock’s leg and informing him that "from a ball of earth attached to the leg of a Red Partridge no less than 82 plants germinated". [See 5287.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Herbert George Henry Norman |
| Date: | [after 30 Nov 1866] |
| Classmark: | Christie’s (dealers) (20 June 1990) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5287A |
To Asa Gray 3 June [1874]
Summary
CD is deeply pleased by AG’s article on him in Nature [10 (1874): 79–81].
Is preparing book on "Drosera and Co." for the printers. Reports observations on digestion in Drosera and Pinguicula.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 3 June [1874] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (103) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9480 |
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- … from Ogden Nicholas Rood with his own letter of 12 May 1874 ; no letter from Gray dated 4 …
- … World , 28 April 1874, p. 7, with his letter of 12 May 1874 ; the copy has not been …
- … between this letter and the letter from Asa Gray, 12 May 1874 . Gray had enclosed a …
- … the second enclosure to the letter from Asa Gray, 12 May 1874 . CD had discussed vestigial …
- … by his initials only in the second part. See letter from Asa Gray, 12 May 1874 and nn. …
- … 2 and 3. See letter from Asa Gray, 12 May 1874 and n. 4. CD was particularly interested …
- … has not been identified; see also annotations to letter from Asa Gray, 12 May 1874 . For …
To J. D. Hooker 9 February [1865]
Summary
Falconer’s death haunts him. Personal annihilation not so horrifying to him as sun cooling some day and human race ending.
His health has been wretched.
Masters has written his agreement with CD’s "Climbing plants".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 9 Feb [1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 260 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4769 |
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- … 1863] ; see also Correspondence vol. 12, letter to F. T. Buckland, 15 December [ …
- … feel more alert ( Correspondence vol. 12, letter from Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker, 17 …
- … letters to J. D. Hooker, 14 July [1863] and [27 January 1864] ( Correspondence vols. 11 and 12). …
- … 1865 and n. 12). See ‘Climbing plants’ , pp. 115–18. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 19 …
- … 12). CD had raised seedling Lathyrus nissolia in 1857 (see Correspondence vol. 6, letter …
To James Torbitt [1]4 December 1878
Summary
Congratulates JT on success in breeding potato varieties.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Torbitt |
| Date: | [1]4 Dec 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 106 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11772 |
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- … James Torbitt, 1 March 1878 ). See letter from James Torbitt, 12 December 1878 and n. 3. …
- … for example, ibid. , pp. 74–5). In his letter of 12 December 1878 , Torbitt had asked CD …
- … between this letter and the letter from James Torbitt, 12 December 1878 . The day on the …
- … disease-resistant varieties of potato; see letter from James Torbitt, 12 December 1878 . …
- … See letter from James Torbitt, 12 December 1878 . In Cross and self fertilisation , CD had …
From J. D. Hooker 3 February 1865
Summary
Falconer’s illness and suffering. His great ability and knowledge.
CD’s paper ["Climbing plants"] went extremely well [at Linnean Society]. M. T. Masters and Bentham commented.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Feb 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 8–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4765 |
To Patrick Matthew 15 March [1871]
Summary
PM’s letter and newspaper article [see 7576] show him to be still vigorous. CD doubts that he himself will be good for much more.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Patrick Matthew |
| Date: | 15 Mar [1871] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (Acc.10963) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7585 |
From John Scott 21 September [1863]
Summary
Sends Primula MS, which CD has promised to communicate to Linnean Society [see 4213].
Will soon send results on peloric Antirrhinum.
| Author: | John Scott |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Sept [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 96 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4301 |
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Lost in translation: From Auguste Forel, 12 November 1874
Summary
You receive a gift from your scientific hero Charles Darwin. It is a book that contains sections on your favourite topic—ants. If only you had paid attention when your mother tried to teach you English you might be able to read it. But you didn’t, and you…
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- … You receive a gift from your scientific hero Charles Darwin. It is a book that contains sections …
Darwin in letters, 1874: A turbulent year
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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…
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- … The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early …
Darwin in letters, 1879: Tracing roots
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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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- … There are summaries of all Darwin's letters from the year 1879 on this website. The full texts of …
Darwin’s hothouse and lists of hothouse plants
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Darwin became increasingly involved in botanical experiments in the years after the publication of Origin. The building of a small hothouse - a heated greenhouse - early in 1863 greatly increased the range of plants that he could keep for scientific…
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- … Towards the end of 1862, Darwin resolved to build a small hothouse at Down House, for …
1.2 George Richmond, marriage portrait
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< Back to Introduction Few likenesses of Darwin in his youth survive, although more may once have existed. In a letter of 1873 an old Shrewsbury friend, Arthur Mostyn Owen, offered to send Darwin a watercolour sketch of him, painted many years…
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- … < Back to Introduction Few likenesses of Darwin in his youth survive, although more …
Darwin in letters, 1862: A multiplicity of experiments
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1862 was a particularly productive year for Darwin. This was not only the case in his published output (two botanical papers and a book on the pollination mechanisms of orchids), but more particularly in the extent and breadth of the botanical experiments…
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- … As the sheer volume of his correspondence indicates, 1862 was a particularly productive year for …
Darwin's in letters, 1873: Animal or vegetable?
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Having laboured for nearly five years on human evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of emotions, Darwin was able to devote 1873 almost exclusively to his beloved plants. He resumed work on the digestive powers of sundews and Venus fly traps, and…
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- … Having laboured for nearly five years on human evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of …
Darwin in letters, 1881: Old friends and new admirers
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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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- … In May 1881, Darwin, one of the best-known celebrities in England if not the world, began …
Women’s scientific participation
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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
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- … Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants …
German and Dutch photograph albums
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Darwin Day 2018: To celebrate Darwin's 209th birthday, we present two lavishly produced albums of portrait photographs which Darwin received from continental admirers 141 years ago. These unusual gifts from Germany and the Netherlands are made…
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- … In 1877, Charles Darwin was sent some unusual birthday presents: two lavishly …
Darwin in letters, 1875: Pulling strings
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‘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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- … I am merely slaving over the sickening work of preparing new Editions …
Darwin in letters, 1878: Movement and sleep
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In 1878, Darwin devoted most of his attention to the movements of plants. He investigated the growth pattern of roots and shoots, studying the function of specific organs in this process. Working closely with his son Francis, Darwin devised a series of…
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- … I think we have proved that the sleep of plants is to lessen injury to leaves from radiation …
Darwin in letters, 1869: Forward on all fronts
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At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of Origin. He may have resented the interruption to his work on sexual selection and human evolution, but he spent forty-six days on the task. Much of the…
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- … At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of …
Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
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At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…
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- … At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of …
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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- … In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book …
Darwin in letters, 1872: Job done?
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'My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, 'is so nearly closed. . . What little more I can do, shall be chiefly new work’, and the tenor of his correspondence throughout the year is one of wistful reminiscence, coupled with a keen eye…
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- … ‘My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, ‘is so nearly closed. . . What little more I …
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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- … In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and …
Diagrams and drawings in letters
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Over 850 illustrations from the printed volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin have been added to the online transcripts of the letters. The contents include maps, diagrams, drawings, sketches and photographs, covering geological, botanical,…
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- … Over 850 illustrations from the printed volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin have …
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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- … Species theory In November 1845, Charles Darwin wrote to his friend and confidant Joseph …
Darwin’s queries on expression
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When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations more widely and composed a list of queries on human expression. A number of handwritten copies were sent out in 1867 (see, for example, letter to Fritz Muller…
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- … When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations …
