From Herbert Spencer 12 June 1872
Summary
HS hopes in the future to show more fully "absolute emptiness" of James Martineau’s propositions; is glad CD approved of his article dealing with JM’s arguments. [J. Martineau, "The place of mind in nature", Contemp. Rev. 19 (1872): 606–23; H. Spencer, "Mr Martineau on evolution", Contemp. Rev. 20 (1872): 141–54.]
| Author: | Herbert Spencer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 June 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 230 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8384 |
To J. D. Hooker 1 February [1871]
Summary
Returns pamphlets.
B. T. Lowne’s observation [Mon. Microsc. J. 4 (1870): 326–30] that boiling does not kill certain moulds is curious, but then how account for absence of all living things in Pasteur’s experiment?
Always delighted to see a word in favour of Pangenesis.
Thiselton-Dyer’s paper ["On spontaneous generation and evolution", Q. J. Microsc. Sci. 10 (1870): 333–54] is Spencerian.
The chemical conditions for first production of life are said to exist at present, but in some warm little pond today such matter would be absorbed or devoured, which would not have been the case before living creatures were formed.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 1 Feb [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 188–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7471 |
From J. J. Moulinié 7 July 1871
Summary
JJM’s Origin translation is being held up so that it can conform to the 6th English edition.
| Author: | Jean Jacques Moulinié |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 July 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 276 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7853 |
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From V. O. Kovalevsky 23 May [1871]
Summary
Will translate passages as CD requests [see 7735].
Bitter at Prussian militarism.
| Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 May [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 62 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7766 |
From George Warde Norman 20 September 1866
Summary
Sends a paper, by the wife of the local curate, on the habits of animals.
| Author: | George Warde Norman |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Sept 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 74 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5215 |
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- … 1870). Richard George Holland became curate of Holy Trinity Church, Bromley Common, in 1866 ( Crockford’s clerical directory 1868). His wife was Cecilia Faithfull Holland . Evidently, the paper reported the case of a cat adopting a squirrel. CD’s health had generally improved in 1866 (see, for example, letter to Robert Swinhoe, [September 1866] and n. 3). Emma Darwin’ …
From George Howard Darwin [1 February 1870 or earlier]
Summary
Discusses buying a horse [for CD].
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1 Feb 1870 or earlier] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7090 |
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- … Darwin, [3 February 1870 or earlier] , and on the assumption that this letter could not have been written on a Wednesday (2 February 1870 was a Wednesday). Fourteen Arlington Street, Piccadilly. George was trying to find a new horse for CD to replace Tommy, who had thrown CD in April 1869 ( letter from G. H. Darwin to H. E. Darwin, [21–2 February 1870] (DAR 251: 2243); Emma …
From J. D. Hooker to Emma Darwin 15 September 1871
Summary
His mother very ill.
Mrs Hooker back from Bavaria.
Hopes marriage [of Henrietta] went well. Is accused of saying he would rather go to two burials than one marriage.
Has heard from Huxley who is threatening to "thin out" Mivart. Huxley is reading Francisco Suarez and finds Mivart misquotes or misunderstands him.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Sept 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 83–84 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7945 |
From W. E. Darwin 10 February [1880]
Summary
"Dia" [as a prefix] means "through, across".
WED’s wife would like to meet the Huxleys.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Feb [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 209.7: 159 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11352 |
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- … Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Diabainō : transliteration of Greek διαβαίνω (cross, pass through); diaballō : transliteration of Greek διαβάλλω (throw across). CD used the term ‘diaheliotropism’ to refer to a movement more or less transverse to the light and induced by it ( Movement in plants , p. 5). The term was probably chosen by CD to replace the German term ‘Transversal-Heliotropismus’, which had been introduced by Albert Bernhard Frank (see Frank 1870 , …
To F. P. Cobbe [14 January 1875]
Summary
Explains why he cannot sign Miss Cobbe’s anti-vivisection petition.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frances Power Cobbe |
| Date: | [14 Jan 1875] |
| Classmark: | Hull University Archives, Hull History Centre (British Union for Anti-Vivisection archives: U DBV/25/1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9814F |
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- … Emma Darwin to F. P. Cobbe, 14 January 1875 . Cobbe had written two pamphlets describing experiments on animals without the use of anaesthetics, and calling for the regulation of vivisection (see letter to T. H. Huxley, 14 January 1875 and n. 5). A committee was appointed to report on animal experimentation at the 1870 …
To Francis Darwin 30 August [1867–70]
Summary
Asks FD to check whether a Latin sentence is correct.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Aug [1867-70] |
| Classmark: | DAR 271.3: 1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7312 |
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- … Darwin’s being at Cambridge (see n. 3, below). The enclosure has not been found. It may have been the text of Descent 2: 345, n. 53, an account of steatopygia that CD had translated into Latin in order to disguise content considered indelicate (see letter from John Murray, 10 October [1870] and n. 3). Francis went up to Cambridge on 12 October 1866 and was admitted as a student at Trinity College, Cambridge on 29 September 1866; he graduated in December 1870 ( Emma …
To Armand de Quatrefages 20 July [1870]
Summary
Sends list of his publications.
Is grateful for interest QdeB has taken in his election [to Académie Française].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau |
| Date: | 20 July [1870] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.377); University Archives (dealers) (14 April 2021, lot 74) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7285 |
Wedgwood, F. J. (1833–1913)
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- … 1870. Helped CD with translations of Linnaeus in the 1870s. Further Information: Though Charles Darwin’s readership largely consisted of other well-educated Victorian men, a few women did read, review and respond to his work. One of the foremost was his niece, Julia Wedgwood. She was the eldest child of Emma …
From Anthony Rich 26 October 1880
Summary
The Philadelphus CD sent is flourishing and appears to attract a particular kind of fly.
Science and the law as professions. Lawyers in politics.
| Author: | Anthony Rich |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Oct 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 143 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12778 |
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- … 1870, but after losing the seat in 1880, he was elected MP for the University of London ( ODNB). The Tory prime minister Benjamin Disraeli had been defeated in the April 1880 election by the Liberal William Ewart Gladstone . Disraeli, who was of Jewish descent, looked to the ‘Orient’ and eastern philosophy as a source of wisdom ( Kalmar 2005 ). Rich had commented on Disraeli’s ‘orientalism’ in his letter of 7 March 1880 . Emma Darwin …
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 3 May 1875
Summary
Encloses the bill with its corrected preamble. How many copies would he like?
Hopes JSBS can attend the meeting of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals on 5 May 1875.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 3 May 1875 |
| Classmark: | University of the Witwatersrand, Historical Papers Research Archive (A237f, letters to Sir John Burdon Sanderson) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9966F |
From A. R. Wallace 11 March 1871
Summary
Admiration for vol. 2 of Descent, and plans for his review of it for the Academy [2 (1871): 177–82].
News of his new residence.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Mar 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B98–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7569 |
To T. H. Huxley 14 January 1875
Summary
Is alarmed by the petitions against vivisection that are being circulated. Believes there is scope for reasonable legislation and would like to see eminent physiologists prepare a petition so that the science could be protected and animals saved from needless suffering.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 14 Jan 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 97: C37–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9817 |
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From Francis Darwin 27 May 1876
Summary
Has had a cold. Salvia hasn't come yet. Will look for orchids tomorrow. Will send off bull's-horn acacia on Monday or Tuesday.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 May 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 25 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10515G |
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- … Darwin, [31 May 1876] ). Julius Wiesner had been professor of plant physiology at the Forestry Institute of Mariabrunn from 1870 to 1873; he published his microscopic researches on wood and other economically valuable plant materials in Die Rohstoffe des Pflanzenreiches ( Wiesner 1873 ). CD and Emma …
From J. D. Hooker [26 or 27 April 1864]
Summary
JDH on John Scott.
Curious about the rationale of pollen prepotence.
Working on variation in New Zealand flora.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [26 or 27] Apr 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 214–17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4472 |
From J. D. Hooker 7 September 1869
Summary
Reports on events at Exeter [BAAS] meeting. G. G. Stokes made a first-rate President.
Huxley "poured boiling oil" over James McCann in answer to his "conceited dogmatic sermon".
F. A. W. Miquel is coming to stay.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Sept 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 30–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6879 |
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- … 1870 British Association meeting. In the event, the meeting was held in Liverpool ( Report of the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, held at Exeter in 1869 , p. lxxxviii). Hooker refers to Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel ; his daughters have not been identified. Hooker refers to Elizabeth Anne Wheler and Lucy Elizabeth Wheler . According to Emma Darwin’ …
From Thomas Woolner 6 December 1867
Summary
Will have to delay starting on the bust of CD.
| Author: | Thomas Woolner |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Dec 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 160 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5707 |
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- … Emma Darwin, 11 December 1867 . On 11 December 1867, Hooker wrote to Woolner inviting him to Kew to recover from influenza ( Woolner 1917 , pp. 280–1). The reference is probably to Henry Woolner (see Woolner 1917 , p. 70). CD finally sat for Woolner in November 1868 ( Correspondence vol. 16, letter to J. D. Hooker, 26 November [1868] ). Woolner finished his marble bust of CD in 1870 ( …
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