To Richard Kippist 13 May [1863 or 1868]
Summary
Asks to borrow J. J. Audubon [Ornithological biography (1831–9)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Kippist |
Date: | 13 May [1863 or 1868] |
Classmark: | Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University (Vault MSS 2, Box 12, Darwin) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4159 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … 3) appears to have been purchased after 1868 (see letter from Williams & Norgate, 2 June …
- … to purchase the book at the end of May 1868 (see letter from Williams & Norgate, 2 June …
- … letter is written was in use between 1861 and 1869 (see Carroll ed. 1976, p. xxiii); 13 May fell on a Wednesday in only two years in that period, 1863 and 1868. …
From Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker 26 December [1863]
Summary
CD would be pleased to sit for a bust by Thomas Woolner for JDH, but he is too ill now.
Emma’s views on slavery and the Civil War.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 26 Dec [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 214 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4359 |
From Asa Gray 13 April 1863
Summary
Hopes CD will finish and bring out his book on variation.
AG will publish extracts of H. W. Bates’s paper on mimetic analogy [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 36 (1863): 279–94].
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Apr 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 133 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4089 |
To Armand de Quatrefages [14 April 1863]
Summary
The niata is a very good case because the race is well established and must originate in South America. There is a description of the head by [Richard] Owen in the Descriptive catalogue of the osteological collection of the College of Surgeons.
Has observed modifications in the skeletons of rabbits, ducks, poultry, and pigeons. There is an extract about modifications in pigeons in the first chapter of Origin. Encloses a woodcut of crested or polish fowls; there is a change in the brain as well as in the exterior bones.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau |
Date: | [14 Apr 1863] |
Classmark: | Bulletins de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris 4 (1863): 378–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4094F |
To George Maw 12 May [1863]
Summary
Believes GM’s human bones from Gibraltar must be of very doubtful age. Lyell agrees, but feels any skull found should be forwarded to George Busk or Hugh Falconer.
Suggests GM look carefully for shells in the drift.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Maw |
Date: | 12 May [1863] |
Classmark: | Royal Horticultural Society, Lindley Library (MAW/1/10) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4157 |
From Henry Farncombe Billinghurst [21 July 1863 – August 1870?]
Author: | Henry Farncombe Billinghurst |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [21 July 1863 – Aug 1870?] |
Classmark: | DAR 80: B18v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5765 |
From H. E. Darwin to Thomas Warner 14 October [1863]
Summary
On behalf of her father, she asks that his name be put down for James Buckman’s testimonial. His cheque for £2.2.0 is enclosed.
Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
Addressee: | Thomas Warner |
Date: | 14 Oct [1863] |
Classmark: | Mrs Carole Cockett (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4320A |
To John Scott 24 March [1863]
Summary
Enthusiastic about JS’s work on Passiflora self-incompatibility.
CD quotes JS on rostellar pollen germination [in "Fertilisation of orchids", Collected papers 2: 77–8]. H. Crüger attributes it to ants’ carrying stigmatic secretion to pollen.
Homomorphic cowslip seedlings are, sadly, showing variation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 24 Mar [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: B72–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4060 |
To Julius von Haast 18 July [1863]
Summary
Acknowledges receipt of JvH’s letters and report of his expedition. Congratulates him on its success.
Has sent Origin.
There is hardly a place in the world as interesting as New Zealand with respect to geographical distribution.
Will quote the case of the ducks that nest in trees.
Is working hard on Variation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast |
Date: | 18 July [1863] |
Classmark: | Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Haast family papers, MS-Papers-0037-051-3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4245 |
From Charles Lyell 11 March 1863
Summary
Defends position he takes on species [in Antiquity of man]. CD overestimates CL’s capacity to influence public. Will not dogmatise on descent of man; prepared to accept it, but it "takes away much of the charm from my speculations on the past". Cannot go to Huxley’s length with regard to natural selection. Responds to CD’s comments on Antiquity of man.
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Mar 1863 |
Classmark: | K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 362–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4035 |
To H. B. Dobell 21 April [1863]
Summary
CD thinks HBD’s tables would be a considerable gain because "the importance of hereditary transmission can hardly be exaggerated from every point of view". Makes suggestions.
Asks him to send any remarkable cases of inheritance to him and, as well, any case of regrowth of amputated additional digit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Horace Benge Dobell |
Date: | 21 Apr [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 221.5: 6 (photocopy); Legends (dealers) (catalogue 2, 1990) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4117 |
From W. F. Kirby 8 September [1863]
Summary
Describes some cases of geographical distribution of butterflies. Raises the perplexing question of the distribution of Pyrameis atalanta in Europe and P. calliroe in the Canaries.
Author: | William Forsell Kirby |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Sept [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.3 (Letters): 280 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4297 |
From Hugh Falconer 10 September 1863
Author: | Hugh Falconer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Sept 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 18 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4298 |
To Charles Turner [1 April – 16 June 1863?]
Summary
Asks correspondent whether, when growing hollyhocks, he finds it necessary to space out the different varieties to prevent crossing and thus to obtain true seed [see Variation 2: 108].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Turner |
Date: | [1 Apr – 16 June 1863?] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3886 |
To J. D. Dana 20 February [1863]
Summary
Received JDD’s book [Manual of geology (1862)]
and pamphlet on man ["On the higher subdivisions in the classification of mammals", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 35 (1863): 65–71].
Fully admits JDD’s objections are valid. But is convinced of the general truth of his own views (with much incidental error), because they embrace so many phenomena and explain them.
Discusses some mistakes Owen has made;
Falconer’s disagreement with Owen ["On the mammalian genus Plagiaulax", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 18 (1862): 348–69].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Dwight Dana |
Date: | 20 Feb [1863] |
Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 44) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4000 |
To John Scott 25 and 28 May [1863]
Summary
CD does not think he could be wrong about the stigma of Bolbophyllum.
Will not write up Drosera for years.
Praises JS’s experiments. Invites him to send a paper to Linnean Society.
L. C. Treviranus says all species of Primula present two forms except P. longiflora.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 25 and 28 May 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 93: B41–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4185 |
To F. T. Buckland 1 February [1863]
Summary
CD sends thanks for information; will write about the fins.
His health is weak and he is "almost smothered" with facts and inquiries, so is trying to restrict the scope of his present work, on variation under domestication.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland |
Date: | 1 Feb [1863] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3961 |
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- … letters to the Field , [before 27 April 1861], [before 4 May 1861], [before 25 May 1861], and [before 15 June 1861]). CD cited the information he received from the Field in Variation 1: 58, 253. The variation of animals and plants under domestication , eventually published in two volumes in 1868, …
To J. D. Hooker 30 January [1863]
Summary
Naudin has not answered CD’s letter.
Reactions of Candolle, Naudin, Decaisne, and Gaston de Saporta to Origin.
CD’s new hothouse.
CD’s Linum paper.
JDH’s work on Welwitschia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 30 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 180 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3953 |
To Isaac Anderson-Henry 20 January [1863]
Summary
Discusses hybrid strawberry–raspberry
and his research on Primula and Linum.
Suggests breeding experiments.
Doubtful about Donald Beaton’s statement about Pelargonium.
Mentions experiments on peloric flowers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry |
Date: | 20 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 145: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3929 |
To James Dwight Dana 7 January [1863]
Summary
Responds to JDD’s letter [3845].
Discusses his own poor health.
"Man is our great subject at present."
Lyell’s book [Antiquity of man (1863)] sold 4000 copies on day of sale.
"The fossil bird [Archaeopteryx] … is a grand case for me." Wishes a skeleton could be found in the "so-called red sandstone foot-step beds".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Dwight Dana |
Date: | 7 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 44) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3905 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (20) |
Gray, Asa | (2) |
Billinghurst, H. F. | (1) |
Crocker, C. W. | (1) |
Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (28) |
Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
Gray, Asa | (4) |
Dana, J. D. | (2) |
Darwin, Emma | (2) |
Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex
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The quantity of Darwin’s correspondence increased dramatically in 1868 due largely to his ever-widening research on human evolution and sexual selection.Darwin’s theory of sexual selection as applied to human descent led him to investigate aspects of the…
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- … On 6 March 1868, Darwin wrote to the entomologist and accountant John Jenner Weir, ‘If …
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 …
6430_10256
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From Sven Nilsson to J. D. Hookerf1 25 October 1868Lund (Suède)25 Okt. 1868.Monsieur le Professeur! J’ai écrit à deux de mes amis qui ont des connaissances personnelles à la Lapponie, pour avoir les…
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- … From Sven Nilsson to J. D. Hooker f1 25 October 1868 …
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 …
Cross and self fertilisation
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The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom, published on 10 November 1876, was the result of a decade-long project to provide evidence for Darwin’s belief that ‘‘Nature thus tells us, in the most emphatic manner, that she abhors…
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- … The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom , published on 10 November …
5935_4582
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From J. D. Hooker 26[–7] February 1868KewFeby 26th/68Dear Darwin I have been bursting with impatience to hear what you would say of the Athenæum Review & who wrote it— I could not conceive who…
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- … From J. D. Hooker 26[–7] February 1868 Kew Feby 26 …
Reading my roommate’s illustrious ancestor: To T. H. Huxley, 10 June 1868
Summary
My roommate at Harvard College was Tom Baum, now a Hollywood screenwriter. Tom’s full name is Thomas Henle Baum, his middle name a reference to a German physician ancestor for whom the ‘Loop of Henle’ in the kidney had been named. Other than this iconic…
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- … My roommate at Harvard College was Tom Baum, now a Hollywood screenwriter. Tom’s full name is …
5873_1488
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From B. J. Sulivan 13 February [1868]f1 Bournemouth Feby. 13. My dear Darwin As Mr Stirling has sent me the recpt. you may as well have it with the Photo of the four Fuegian boys which he wishes me to send you in case you have not seen it. He…
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- … From B. J. Sulivan 13 February [1868] f1 Bournemouth Feby. 13. My dear …
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 …
Women as a scientific audience
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Target audience? | Female readership | Reading Variation Darwin's letters, in particular those exchanged with his editors and publisher, reveal a lot about his intended audience. Regardless of whether or not women were deliberately targeted as a…
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- … Target audience? | Female readership | Reading Variation Darwin's …
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 …
Religion
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Design|Personal Belief|Beauty|The Church Perhaps the most notorious realm of controversy over evolution in Darwin's day was religion. The same can be said of the evolution controversy today; however the nature of the disputes and the manner in…
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- … Design | Personal Belief | Beauty | The Church Perhaps the most notorious …
Inheritance
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It was crucial to Darwin’s theories of species change that naturally occurring variations could be inherited. But at the time when he wrote Origin, he had no explanation for how inheritance worked – it was just obvious that it did. Darwin’s attempt to…
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- … 'Hypotheses may often be of service to science, when they involve a certain portion of …
Descent
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There are more than five hundred letters associated with the research and writing of Darwin’s book, Descent of man and selection in relation to sex (Descent). They trace not only the tortuous route to eventual publication, but the development of Darwin’s…
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- … ‘ Our ancestor was an animal which breathed water, had a swim-bladder, a great swimming …
Natural Science and Femininity
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Discussion Questions|Letters A conflation of masculine intellect and feminine thoughts, habits and feelings, male naturalists like Darwin inhabited an uncertain gendered identity. Working from the private domestic comfort of their homes and exercising…
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- … Discussion Questions | Letters A conflation of masculine intellect and feminine …
Controversy
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The best-known controversies over Darwinian theory took place in public or in printed reviews. Many of these were highly polemical, presenting an over-simplified picture of the disputes. Letters, however, show that the responses to Darwin were extremely…
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- … Disagreement & Respect | Conduct of Debate | Darwin & Wallace The best-known …
Darwin and the Church
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The story of Charles Darwin’s involvement with the church is one that is told far too rarely. It shows another side of the man who is more often remembered for his personal struggles with faith, or for his role in large-scale controversies over the…
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- … The story of Charles Darwin’s involvement with the church is one that is told far too rarely. It …
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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- … The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the …
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 …
Referencing women’s work
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Darwin's correspondence shows that women made significant contributions to Darwin's work, but whether and how they were acknowledged in print involved complex considerations of social standing, professional standing, and personal preference.…
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- … Darwin's correspondence shows that women made significant contributions to Darwin's work, but …