To ? 18 July 1881
Summary
Asks what to do with [unspecified] receipt.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 18 July 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 94 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13248 |
To Hugo de Vries [18 October 1881]
Summary
Delighted to hear that HdeV intends working on the causes of variation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hugo de Vries |
| Date: | [18 Oct 1881] |
| Classmark: | Artis Library (De Vries 8) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13415F |
From Alphons Engelhardt 15 April [1881?]
Summary
A student and an admirer of CD wishes to have a few lines from him.
| Author: | Alphons Sigismund (Alphons) von Engelhardt, Baron von Engelhardt-Schnellenstein |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Apr [1881?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 100 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13161 |
To Hugo de Vries [December 1881?]
Summary
Thanks for HdeV’s letter, which is a great relief to him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hugo de Vries |
| Date: | [Dec 1881?] |
| Classmark: | Artis Library (De Vries 10) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13523F |
From Francisco de Arruda Furtado 21 November 1881
Summary
The statues on which the egg-cases were found were perfectly clean and had never been painted.
Reports on fossilised leaf-prints he has found on the island. Found no seeds or land shells at the site.
| Author: | Francisco de Arruda Furtado |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Nov 1881 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 181/39) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13500 |
To Francis Darwin 9 November [1881]
Summary
Comments on two letters received from W. F. P. Pfeffer [13425, 13464] who thinks Julius Wiesner’s view that light, etc. acts directly on plants is wrong.
Is frantic over the number of letters received about worms; feels the enthusiasm of the reception of Earthworms is laughable.
Is confounded by Euphorbia rootlets and has re-examined the effect of carbonate of ammonia.
Has thought of three good experiments to oppose Wiesner.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Nov [1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 70, DAR 211: 89 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13476 |
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- … letter is written on four sides of a standard sheet of folded notepaper, and on two sides of a torn loose sheet. The bottom of the loose sheet has been cut off, presumably to remove the signature, and the text cut off on the other side of the page (‘De Bary’s … I shall’) has been added in the margin by an unknown …
From B. J. Sulivan 18 March 1881
Summary
Reports the observations of Thomas Bridges on the Fuegian natives. Discusses especially the languages of the area.
| Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Mar 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 314 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13089 |
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- … unknown ( EB 15th ed. ) Bridges’s wife was Mary Ann Bridges ; his children were Mary Ann Varder Bridges , Thomas Despard Bridges , Stephen Lucas Bridges , William Samuel Bridges , and Bertha Milman Bridges . ‘Our boy’ was Cooshaipunjiz (James FitzRoy Button), the orphaned grandson of Orundellico (Jemmy Button), who had been on the Beagle with CD and Sulivan. CD was part of a scheme by Sulivan to adopt the boy (see Correspondence vol. 27, letter …
| letter | (7) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Vries, Hugo de | (2) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Unidentified | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Vries, Hugo de | (2) |
| Arruda Furtado, Francisco de | (1) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Engelhardt, Alphons von | (1) |
1.13 Louisa Nash, drawing
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< Back to Introduction This sketch portrait of Darwin was drawn by Louisa A‘hmuty Nash as a memento of her friendship with the Darwin family and a token of her unbounded admiration and affection for Darwin himself. She and her husband, the lawyer…
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Darwin in letters, 1877: Flowers and honours
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Ever since the publication of Expression, Darwin’s research had centred firmly on botany. The year 1877 was no exception. The spring and early summer were spent completing Forms of flowers, his fifth book on a botanical topic. He then turned to the…
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- … no little discovery of mine ever gave me so much pleasure as the making out the …
3.9 Leonard Darwin, photo on horseback
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< Back to Introduction It is so rare to encounter an image of Darwin in a specific locale that a family photograph of him riding his horse Tommy takes on a special interest. He is at the front of Down House, the door of which is open; it seems as…
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- … < Back to Introduction It is so rare to encounter an image of Darwin in a specific …
4.16 Joseph Simms, physiognomy
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< Back to Introduction In September 1874, the American doctor Joseph Simms, then on a three-year lecture tour of Britain, sent Darwin a copy of his book, Nature’s Revelations of Character; Or, Physiognomy Illustrated. He was seeking a public…
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- … < Back to Introduction In September 1874, the American doctor Joseph Simms, then on a …
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 …
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 …
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 in letters, 1858-1859: Origin
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The years 1858 and 1859 were, without doubt, the most momentous of Darwin’s life. From a quiet rural existence filled with steady work on his ‘big book’ on species, he was jolted into action by the arrival of an unexpected letter from Alfred Russel Wallace…
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- … The years 1858 and 1859 were, without doubt, the most momentous of Darwin’s life. From a quiet …
Darwin’s study of the Cirripedia
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Darwin’s work on barnacles, conducted between 1846 and 1854, has long posed problems for historians. Coming between his transmutation notebooks and the Origin of species, it has frequently been interpreted as a digression from Darwin’s species work. Yet…
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- … Darwin’s work on barnacles, conducted between 1846 and 1854, has long posed problems for …
Editing a Letter
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Alison Pearn describes the difficult task of editing a letter with an unknown correspondent and no date.
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- … Alison Pearn describes the difficult task of editing a letter with an unknown correspondent and no …
John Lort Stokes
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John Lort Stokes, naval officer, was Charles Darwin’s cabinmate on the Beagle voyage – not always an enviable position. After Darwin’s death, Stokes penned a description of their evenings spent working at the large table at the centre, Stokes at his…
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- … John Lort Stokes, naval officer, was Charles Darwin’s cabinmate on the Beagle voyage – not …
3.12 Edwards, second group of photos
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< Back to Introduction Despite the prior difficulties experienced by both photographer and sitter, it is evident that Ernest Edwards portrayed Darwin again in the late 1860s; but exactly when and in what circumstances is not known. There are strong…
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- … < Back to Introduction Despite the prior difficulties experienced by both …
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 …
What did Darwin believe?
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What did Darwin really believe about God? the Christian revelation? the implications of his theory of evolution for religious faith? These questions were asked again and again in the years following the publication of Origin of species (1859). They are…
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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 …
Alfred Russel Wallace
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Wallace was a leading Victorian naturalist, with wide-ranging interests from biogeography and evolutionary theory to spiritualism and politics. He was born in 1823 in Usk, a small town in south-east Wales, and attended a grammar school in Hertford. At the…
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- … Wallace was a leading Victorian naturalist, with wide-ranging interests from biogeography and …
Lydia Becker
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Becker was a leading member of the suffrage movement, perhaps best known for publishing the Women’s Suffrage Journal. She was also a successful biologist, astronomer and botanist and, between 1863 and 1877, an occasional correspondent of Charles Darwin. …
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- … Becker was a leading member of the suffrage movement, perhaps best known for publishing the …
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 …
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 …
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 …
