Tegetmeier, William Bernhard. 1854. Profitable poultry; their management in health and disease. 2d ed. London: Darton and Co.
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- … Profitable poultry; their management in health and disease. 2d ed. London: Darton and Co. …
Walsh, John Henry (‘Stonehenge’). 1859. The dog in health and disease. London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts.
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- … John Henry (‘Stonehenge’). 1859. The dog in health and disease. London: Longman, Green, …
Winslow, Forbes. 1842. On the preservation of the health of body and mind. London: Renshaw.
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- … Forbes. 1842. On the preservation of the health of body and mind. London: Renshaw. …
Wood, Neville. 1912. Health resorts of the British Islands. London: Hodder & Stoughton for University of London Press.
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- … Wood, Neville. 1912. Health resorts of the British Islands. London: Hodder & Stoughton for …
To J. D. Hooker 20 [February 1861]
Summary
Asa Gray’s pamphlet.
Ill health.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 20 [Feb 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115.2: 88 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3065 |
From J. B. Innes 17 December [1863]
Summary
Suggests a new school for CD’s son [Horace].
| Author: | John Brodie Innes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Dec [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 167: 13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4357 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … University Press. 1985–. Cresy, Edward. 1850. Public Health Act, 11 & 12 Vict. , cap. …
- … 63. Report to the General Board of Health on a preliminary inquiry into the sewerage, …
- … town of Worthing. London: General Board of Health. Crockford’s clerical directory : The …
- … University Press. Wood, Neville. 1912. Health resorts of the British Islands. London: …
- … 3. The reference is to Horace Darwin , whose ill health had led to the interruption of his …
- … Cresy’s report to the General Board of Health on the sanitary condition of Worthing ( …
- … superintending inspector to the General Board of Health in 1848 (see Correspondence vol. …
To Emma Darwin [17 April 1851]
Summary
Reports the state of Anne Darwin’s health.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [17 Apr 1851] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.13: 8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1399 |
From Max Steffen 12 February 1882
Summary
Seven German students drink to CD’s health on his 75th [sic] birthday.
| Author: | Maximilian Alexander (Max) Steffen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Feb 1882 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 253 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13678 |
To the President and Council of the Geological Society of London 24 March 1840
Summary
Regrets that state of his health forces him to resign as one of the Secretaries of the Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Geological Society of London |
| Date: | 24 Mar 1840 |
| Classmark: | Geological Society of London (GSL/L/R/5/8 ) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-561 |
To G. M. Humphry 14 March 1873
Summary
Sorry that his health prevents him attending a meeting to honour Adam Sedgwick.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Murray Humphry |
| Date: | 14 Mar 1873 |
| Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (13 December 2016) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8810F |
To Emma Darwin [25 May 1848]
Summary
Anxiety about R. W. Darwin’s health.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [25 May 1848] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 30 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1179 |
To W. D. Fox 23 May [1863]
Summary
Health has been poor but eczema is improved.
A "squib" about Owen and Huxley on the brain has appeared in Public Opinion [3 (1863): 497–8].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 23 May [1863] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 139) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4181 |
To James Dwight Dana 15 June [1851]
Summary
Thanks for note of 13 May and tracings of the "curious Bopyrid".
Is astonished at amount of work JDD does and frightened it will cause ill-health, such as CD has experienced.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Dwight Dana |
| Date: | 15 June [1851] |
| Classmark: | Gilman 1899, p. 310 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2107 |
To Robert Monsey Rolfe? 15 August [1860]
Summary
Declines his Lordship’s invitation to dinner for reasons of health.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Monsey Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth of Cranworth |
| Date: | 15 Aug [1860] |
| Classmark: | Paul C. Richards Autographs (dealer) (7 November 1992) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2897A |
To ? 11 June [1861–8]
Summary
CD regrets he has to turn down an invitation because of his ill health.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 11 June [1861-8] |
| Classmark: | Christie’s, London (dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3179F |
To W. D. Fox 24 [October 1852]
Summary
News of his health; has been well of late, but cannot stand excitement. Hereditary weakness is another of his bugbears.
At work on cirripedes – "I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 24 [Oct 1852] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 81) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1489 |
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- … News of his health; has been well of late, but cannot stand excitement. Hereditary …
- … Hall, the Fox family home near Derby. CD’s Health diary (Down House MS) indicates that he …
- … London [£]4 17[ s . ]’ CD’s entry in his Health diary (Down House MS) indicates that the …
- … except M rs . Parker, who is much out of health; & so is Erasmus at his poor average: he …
- … not think last Treatment did me much good. —’ The Health diary shows that CD was unusually …
- … well during October 1852: this good health continued to the end of the year. See CD’s …
To J. B. Innes 26 January [1871]
Summary
CD’s health has been poor.
Appreciates JBI’s letter and his expression of friendship.
In the opinion of a Q.C., Horsman has no case.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
| Date: | 26 Jan [1871] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7455 |
To J. D. Hooker 26 November [1874]
Summary
Quite agrees with JDH on inadvisability of Huxley’s taking on the Edinburgh lectures.
Is awaiting JDH’s memorial to the Board [of Works?] on his burdensome duties.
Glad to hear JDH finds ease in his work.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 26 Nov [1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 345–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9734 |
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- … when he suffered a serious breakdown in health in early 1872 owing to overwork (L. Huxley …
- … Smith , president of the American Public Health Association, on sanitary studies in …
- … the effects of recent epidemics (‘The Health congress: meeting of the American Association …
- … address of the president–papers on infant mortality–hereditary defects upon the health of …
- … the people–health of tenement populations, &c. ’, New York Times , 11 November 1874, pp. …
To Grant Allen 17 February 1881
Summary
Thanks for Evolutionist at large [1881]. Envies GA’s power of writing. Some statements are too bold, but several of the views are new to CD and seem "extremely probable".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Grant Blairfindie (Grant) Allen |
| Date: | 17 Feb 1881 |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13055 |
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Darwin's health
Summary
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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- … letter which he put down to his exceptionally poor health: Indeed all this winter, I …
- … up to its name. Darwin experienced chronic episodes of ill health, which increased in severity in …
- … treatment. In April 1864, Darwin attributed his improved health to Dr Jenner’s advice: ‘ drinking …
- … very least, it seems clear that Darwin’s periods of ill health were quite useful. Citing a troubled …
- … letter to Robert FitzRoy, [20 February 1840] . Darwin’s health diary (Down House MS), which he …
- … Darwin had sometimes noted the acidity of his vomit in his health diary (Down House MS; see Colp …
Darwin in letters, 1864: Failing health
Summary
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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- … had plagued him since the spring of 1863. Because of poor health, Darwin corresponded little during …
- … and having scientific papers read to him. In March, his health improved enough for him to make some …
- … he could work (presumably at writing) for two hours. As his health grew worse during the last two …
- … flower-peduncle, petiole, leaf, and aerial roots. When his health deteriorated in 1863, he found …
- … forms of the trimorphic Lythrum , and when his health permitted in 1864 he drew up the results …
- … Sabine, 4 December [1864] ). Struggling with ill-health Darwin received news of …
- … form of letters during 1864; because of his fragile state of health, he saw few people outside the …
- … scientific colleagues, and he continued writing even as his health worsened again in November and …
Darwin's notes for his physician, 1865
Summary
On 20 May 1865, Emma Darwin recorded in her diary that John Chapman, a prominent London publisher who had studied medicine in London and Paris in the early 1840s, visited Down to consult with Darwin about his ill health. In 1863 Chapman started to treat…
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- … 1840s, visited Down to consult with Darwin about his ill health. In 1863 Chapman started to treat …
- … Jenner. In November and December of 1864, however, his health grew worse. In his ‘Journal’, Darwin …
- … for references to the extensive literature on CD’s health, see Colp 1977 and 1998, and Bowlby 1990. …
Darwin's illness
Summary
Was Darwin an invalid? In many photographs he looks wearied by age, wrapped in a great coat to protect him from cold. In a letter to his cousin William Fox, he wrote: "Long and continued ill health has much changed me, & I very often think with…
Climbing plants
Summary
Darwin’s book Climbing plants was published in 1865, but its gestation began much earlier. The start of Darwin’s work on the topic lay in his need, owing to severe bouts of illness in himself and his family, for diversions away from his much harder book on…
Darwin soundbites
Summary
From atheistical cats to old fogies in Cambridge, we've collected some of Darwin's pithier remarks - some funny, some serious - but all quotes from letters you can read in full here. We particularly like this one: Will you be so kind as…
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- … Where's it from? On sickness, health, and bananas …you began your …
Dining at Down House
Summary
Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Dining, Digestion, and Darwin's Domestic Life While Darwin is best remembered for his scientific accomplishments, he greatly valued and was strongly influenced by his domestic life. Darwin's…
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- … One of Darwin's defining characteristics was his poor health. The letters provide insight into …
- … to Caroline Darwin, 13 October 1834 Darwin’s ill health began on his Beagle voyage. In …
- … to their marriage, Emma expresses her concern for Darwin’s health, her sympathy for the frustration …
- … spiritualism. Darwin expresses his regrets that his own ill health prevents him from visiting the …
- … his own aches and pains, Lenny reports on their father’s health, noting that Darwin’s frustration …
- … of Darwin's personal life? 2. How did Darwin's health affect his scientific …
- … married. In it Emma expressed her concern for Darwin’s health, her sympathy for the frustration he …
Insectivorous plants
Summary
Darwin’s work on insectivorous plants began by accident. While on holiday in the summer of 1860, staying with his wife’s relatives in Hartfield, Sussex, he went for long walks on the heathland and became curious about the large number of insects caught by…
Darwin in letters, 1847-1850: Microscopes and barnacles
Summary
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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- … friends and relatives, Darwin felt sufficiently restored in health to work for two or three hours a …
- … keeping up the battle, he gave up only from fatigue and ill health ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 9 …
- … that it was a success, and there is no doubt that his health improved, at least temporarily. This is …
- … a methodical mind keen to establish order: he chronicled his health, his daily and household …
Darwin in letters, 1837–1843: The London years to 'natural selection'
Summary
The seven-year period following Darwin's return to England from the Beagle voyage was one of extraordinary activity and productivity in which he became recognised as a naturalist of outstanding ability, as an author and editor, and as a professional…
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Dramatisation script
Summary
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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- … and here, attended by every blessing except that of vigorous health… DARWIN: 4 My …
- … In truth there is nothing which I should enjoy more; but my health is not, and will, I suppose, …
- … able to suppress his anger. He is in his 70s and in poor health. SEDGWICK: 69 …
- … They are enjoying the furore. Darwin is more earnest, his health – mental and physical – is …
- … In which Drwin struggles more than usual with his health, grows a beard, and cancels The Times; and …
- … to cross over to England in two months… Mrs Gray’s health makes me anxious to avoid another winter …
- … if he had had a good laugh. Then, Darwin’s health dictates that he and his American guests …
Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
Summary
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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- … dropped markedly, reflecting a decline in his already weak health. Darwin then began punctuating …
- … is the mother of fine children all over the world’. Health worries Despite his …
- … no reason why he should not recover his previous state of health. Brinton’s words must have …
- … to J. D. Hooker, 26 December [1863] ) that Darwin’s health fluctuated and showed little improvement …
- … from his sons. She was pessimistic about his prospects of health over the next few months: ‘When not …
List of correspondents
Summary
Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. Click on a name to see the letters Darwin exchanged with that correspondent. "A child of God" (1) Abberley,…
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- … Benjamin (1) District Health Office (1) …
Expression
Summary
Darwin's interest in emotional expression can be traced as far back as the Beagle voyage. He was fascinated by the different sounds and gestures among the peoples of Tierra del Fuego, and on his return from the voyage he started recording observations…
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- … The exigencies of the public service have already ruined my health, & curtailed my capacities. …
Darwin in letters, 1871: An emptying nest
Summary
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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- … respect for the elder naturalist, inquired after Darwin’s health, and expressed his desire to meet …
- … Galton, 13 September 1871 ). A return to poor health During the summer months, Darwin …
- … ). On 23 September he informed Murray that owing to poor health he had done nothing for six …
- … described the joyous occasion in great detail, her uncertain health requiring her to attend …
- … Murchison, and the earl of Derby. Given his poor state of health for much of the summer, it is …
Darwin on marriage
Summary
On 11 November 1838 Darwin wrote in his journal ‘The day of days!’. He had proposed to his cousin, Emma Wedgwood, and been accepted; they were married on 29 January 1839. Darwin appears to have written these two notes weighing up the pros and cons of…
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- … be exclusively geological United States, Mexico Depend upon health & vigour & how far I …
- … music & female chit-chat.— These things good for one’s health.— [16] but terrible loss of …
- … to gain one’s bread.— (But then it is very bad for ones health[19] to work too much) Perhaps …
- … rather than with the advantages. [19] ‘for ones health’ interl.i [20] The heading …
Darwin in letters,1866: Survival of the fittest
Summary
The year 1866 began well for Charles Darwin, as his health, after several years of illness, was now considerably improved. In February, Darwin received a request from his publisher, John Murray, for a new edition of Origin. Darwin got the fourth…
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- … The year 1866 began well for Charles Darwin, as his health, after several years of illness, was now …
- … consulted Jones in July 1865 and attributed his improved health by the end of that year to the diet …
- … with his brother, Erasmus Alvey Darwin. Owing to improved health, Darwin was able to make a number …
- … she and Emma continued to play in safeguarding Darwin’s health and securing his privacy. Similarly, …
- … waterlilies prevailed over considerations of health in this case. Ernst Haeckel Nor …
- … died in October. On learning of Catherine’s poor state of health, Hooker, who had lost his father …
The full edition is now online!
Summary
For nearly fifty years successive teams of researchers on both sides of the Atlantic have been working to track down all surviving letters written by or to Charles Darwin, research their content, and publish the complete texts. The thirtieth and final…
Darwin and Fatherhood
Summary
Charles Darwin married Emma Wedgwood in 1839 and over the next seventeen years the couple had ten children. It is often assumed that Darwin was an exceptional Victorian father. But how extraordinary was he? The Correspondence Project allows an unusually…
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- … country. Darwin frequently expressed regrets that his ill health (e.g., Darwin to J. D. Hooker, 14 …
- … to hydropathic spas or the seaside to strengthen their health. Although his interest in inheritance …
- … ). In addition to his fears for his children’s health, Darwin’s other principal concern as a …
- … and holidays at the seaside were often necessitated by ill health rather than pleasure. It was …
Darwin in letters, 1872: Job done?
Summary
'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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- … reminiscences, and laments about advancing age and poor health, with family friends from childhood, …
- … operation, combined with Moulinié’s increasingly poor health, led to yet further delay, and the new …
- … to Darwin which he, however, declined on the grounds of ill health. Expression : …
- … usual chemist, William Baxter, were not in this case for his health, but to test their effects when …
- … he repeated to several correspondents. His own health was slightly better than in the …
- … sons spent some time on the continent for the sake of their health ( see letter to W. D. Fox, 16 …
- … over their wills, and he poured out such a litany of ill health to one correspondent that Emma …
- … Darwin gracefully declined on the habitual grounds of ill health ( letter from J. S. Craig, 4 …
