To J. F. W. Herschel 11 November [1859]
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Sends a copy of Origin as a measure of his respect and in recognition of the obligation he feels he owes to JFWH’s book [A preliminary discourse on the study of natural philosophy (1831)]. "Scarcely anything in my life made so deep an impression on me."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Frederick William Herschel, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 11 Nov [1859] |
| Classmark: | Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2517 |
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- … The autobiography of Charles Darwin 1809–1882. With original omissions restored. Edited …
To John Lubbock [22 November 1859]
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CD’s former admiration for Paley’s Natural theology [1802].
Cares not for reviews [of Origin] but for opinions of men like Lubbock, Huxley, Hooker, Lyell.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | [22 Nov 1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 17 (EH 88206466) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2532 |
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- … The autobiography of Charles Darwin 1809–1882. With original omissions restored. Edited …
To W. D. Fox 24 [March 1859]
Summary
Is correcting chapters [of Origin] for press.
Health has been wretched of late.
He values fame to a certain extent, but "if I know myself, I work from a sort of instinct to try to make out truth".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 24 [Mar 1859] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 120) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2436 |
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- … The autobiography of Charles Darwin 1809–1882. With original omissions restored. Edited …
To J. D. Hooker 14 December [1859]
Summary
CD’s great satisfaction with JDH’s approval of Origin. The book has been extremely successful. Reactions of Asa Gray, Lyell, Bentham, and J. E. Gray.
Not one friend has noticed his pet bit in Origin: embryology.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 14 Dec [1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 29 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2583 |
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- … The autobiography of Charles Darwin 1809–1882. With original omissions restored. Edited …
To T. H. Huxley 25 November [1859]
Summary
THH’s letter about the Origin makes CD feel like a Catholic who has received extreme unction. Can now sing nunc dimittis. Had determined to abide by judgment of Lyell, Hooker, and THH.
Problem of how variations arise at all troubles him also.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 25 Nov [1859] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 72) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2553 |
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- … The autobiography of Charles Darwin 1809–1882. With original omissions restored. Edited …
To J. D. Hooker 3 May [1859]
Summary
CD favours occurrence of reversions, although lack of experiments forces one to vague opinions. Reversions oppose only the inheritance not the occurrence of variation. Discusses relation of reversion, direct influence of conditions, and selection.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 3 May [1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2457 |
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- … The autobiography of Charles Darwin 1809–1882. With original omissions restored. Edited …
To John Murray 2 April [1859]
Summary
Accepts JM’s terms for publication of Origin. If, on reading the MS, JM thinks it will not sell, CD frees him from the offer. Will send chapters soon so he can judge. Though some parts are dry and abstruse, CD thinks it will be interesting to "those who care for the curious problem of the origin of all animate forms".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 2 Apr [1859] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42153 ff.18–19) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2445 |
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- … The autobiography of Charles Darwin 1809–1882. With original omissions restored. Edited …
From Richard Owen 12 November 1859
Summary
Will welcome CD’s work [Origin] with a "close & continuous perusal".
Believes in the "operation of existing influences or causes in the ordained becoming and incoming of living species" and so could not regard CD’s attempt to demonstrate the nature of such influences as "heterodox".
| Author: | Richard Owen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Nov 1859 |
| Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2526 |
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- … The autobiography of Charles Darwin 1809–1882. With original omissions restored. Edited …
From William Charles Linnaeus Martin [1859–61]
Summary
MS of a paper called "Comments on Mr Darwin’s grand theory", which generally supports CD but proposes that present flightless birds are primitive. Paper supplemented by a diagram showing the phylogeny of birds.
| Author: | William Charles Linnaeus Martin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1859–61] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 56/1–15 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13827 |
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- … nature described by Georges Cuvier in 1809 ( EB ). On the discovery and subsequent history …
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| Owen, Richard | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Herschel, J. F. W. | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Herschel, J. F. W. | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
1.1 Ellen Sharples pastel
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< Back to Introduction The earliest surviving portrayal of Darwin, who was born on 12 February 1809, is this pastel or chalk drawing by Ellen Wallace Sharples. He is shown kneeling chivalrously before his sister Catherine (born in 1810), in the kind…
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- … surviving portrayal of Darwin, who was born on 12 February 1809, is this pastel or chalk drawing by …
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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- … 1832. 6 s . [Dugés 1832] Azara Voyages [Azara 1809] & Quadrupeds [Azara 1801]— Again— …
- … in Spain [Dillon 1780]: Livingston on Sheep [Livingston 1809]. Communicat to Board of …
- … Patagonia [Falkner 1774] Azara’s Voyage [Azara 1809] & Quadrupeds of Paraguay [Azara 1801 …
- … Sir J. Sebright’s Pamphlets [Sebright 1809 and 1836]— } not abstracted …
- … 65 skimmed Lamarck II Vol Philos. Zoology [Lamarck 1809]— references at end of each Chap. …
- … 25. Cowpers Life & several volumes of letters [Hayley ed. 1809] 30 th Notices on the …
- … *119: 9v.; 119: 1a; 128: 26, 27 ——. 1809. Voyages dans l’Amérique méridionale … …
- … . London. 119: 22b Hayley, William, ed. 1809. The life and letters of W[illiam] …
- … Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de. 1809. Philosophie zoologique; ou, exposition …
- … Neva . London. 119: 2a Livingston, Robert R. 1809. Essay on sheep; their varieties, …
- … London. 119: 14a Sebright, John Saunders. 1809. The art of improving the breeds of …
- … of Wellington … in Portugal, Spain, and France, from 1809 to 1814 . Compiled by J. Gurwood. …
- … for promoting useful knowledge . Philadelphia. 1771–1809. New series, 1818–. 119: 20a …
2.22 L.-J. Chavalliaud statue in Liverpool
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< Back to Introduction At about the time when a statue of Darwin was being commissioned by the Shropshire Horticultural Society for his native town of Shrewsbury, his transformative contributions to the sciences of botany and horticulture were also…
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- … on the plinth reads ‘CHARLES DARWIN Born at Shrewsbury 1809 buried in Westminster Abbey 1882/ …
Charles Darwin born
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Charles Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, the fifth of six children of Robert Waring Darwin, a doctor, and his wife Susannah, daughter of Josiah Wedgwood I.
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- … Charles Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, the fifth of six children of Robert Waring …
George Peacock
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George Peacock was born 9 April 1791 in Denton near Darlington in Yorkshire. He was the son of a clergyman, the Rev. Thomas Peacock, curate of Denton for 50 years and school master. George was educated at Sedbergh School, Cumbria and Richmond School in…
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- … School, Cumbria and Richmond School in Yorkshire. In 1809 he became a student at Trinity …
About Darwin
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To many of us, Darwin’s name is synonymous with his theory of evolution by natural selection. But even before the publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859, he was publicly known through his popular book about the voyage of the Beagle, and he was…
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- … and the discussion of religion. Born on 12 February 1809, Charles Darwin was the son of two …
About Darwin
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To many of us, Darwin’s name is synonymous with his theory of evolution by natural selection. But even before the publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859, he was publicly known through his popular book about the voyage of the Beagle, and he was…
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- … and the discussion of religion. Born on 12 February 1809, Charles Darwin was the son of two …
New material added to the American edition of Origin
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A ‘revised and augmented’ American edition of Origin came on the market in July 1860, and was the only authorised edition available in the US until 1873. It incorporated many of the changes Darwin made to the second English edition, but still contained…
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- … naturalist published his Philosophie Zoologique in 1809, and his Introduction to Hist. Nat. des …
Photograph album of German and Austrian scientists
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The album was sent to Darwin to mark his birthday on 12 February 1877 by the civil servant Emil Rade, and contained 165 portraits of German and Austrian scientists. The work was lavishly produced and bound in blue velvet with metal embossing. Its ornate…
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- … and the birthdate on the front cover is 1808 instead of 1809. The album was intended to commemorate …
3.19 Elliott and Fry photos c.1880-1
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< Back to Introduction In addition to Elliott and Fry’s photographs showing an old and enfeebled Darwin on the verandah of Down House, there are at least two other images of him created by the same firm at this period of his life - perhaps even on…
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- … mirabilis: a year of centenaries: celebrities born in 1809’. In the top tier, Darwin (‘the greatest …
2.16 Horace Montford statue, Shrewsbury
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< Back to Introduction Horace Montford’s statue of Darwin, installed in his birthplace, Shrewsbury, in 1897, is one of the finest of the commemorative portrayals of him. Up to that time, the only memorial to Darwin in the town was a wall tablet of…
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- … granite. Inscribed on the front of the pedestal, ‘DARWIN 1809 1882’; on the right edge of the bronze …
Darwin and barnacles
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In a letter to Henslow in March 1835 Darwin remarked that he had done ‘very little’ in zoology; the ‘only two novelties’ he added, almost as an afterthought, were a new mollusc and a ‘genus in the family Balanidæ’ – a barnacle – but it was an oddity. Who,…
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- … between sedentary ‘Annelides’ and ‘Conchifera’ (1809), but Georges Cuvier, not admitting …
2.27 William Couper bust, New York
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< Back to Introduction In 1909 the centenary of Darwin’s birth and the fifty years anniversary of the publication of Origin of Species coincided. In recognition of this historic milestone, a grand celebration and international colloquium took place…
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- … ANNIVERSARY OF THE PUBLICATION OF THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES. 1809 1859 1909’. The installation …
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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- … In complaining of this to Lyell, he described Lamarck’s 1809 publication as a ‘wretched book’ from …
