To John Tyndall 2 [May] 1873
Summary
Hopes JT does not think him over-cautious in requesting the return of the copies [of Huxley’s letter]. Has sent Huxley a list of the subscribers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Tyndall |
| Date: | 2 [May] 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 19 (EH 88205957) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8894 |
From J. A. Gammie 16 February 1874
Summary
Sends his observations on the fertilisation of Hedychium gardnerianum by sphinx moths. Did not look for pollen on the wing tips.
| Author: | James Alexander Gammie |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 157a: 98 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9296A |
From Robert Swinhoe 14 April 1863
Summary
Difference in plumage of Ardeola, a species of heron, in summer and winter. [See Descent 2: 190.]
| Author: | Robert Swinhoe |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Apr 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 18–19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4094 |
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- … letters from CD have been found. CD discussed Squacco herons as an example of sexual selection in Descent 2: 190–2, citing Swinhoe (see n. 2, below). Pieter Boddaert named Ardeola leucoptera , but the species classification for Ardeola was under contention (see Blyth 1849 , p. 281 and Swinhoe 1863d , p. 421); Thomas Horsfield named A. speciosa in 1821 ( …
From Francis Darwin [before 22 April 1871?]
Summary
Expressions in attitudes of prayer and adoration.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 22 Apr 1871?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 55 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7420 |
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- … letter to Francis Darwin, 22 April [1871? ] . CD was interested in shrugging as an indication of helplessness (see Queries about expression, Appendix VII). Francis refers to the antiquarian Charles William King . CD discussed the attitude of prayer in Expression , p. 221; he said the Romans did not join their hands. In Expression , p. 287, CD referred to Emil Huschke and Huschke 1821 , …
To John Murray 16 October [1866]
Summary
Arrangements for woodcuts [in Variation]. Hopes to be ready to print early in 1867.
Encloses letter from Asa Gray [5160] about Appleton’s refusal to alter their plates for a new edition of Origin.
CD asks JM to consider Gray’s plan to have the English edition compete with the American.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 16 Oct [1866] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 147–148) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5245 |
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- … 1821–1882. With supplement. 2d edition. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1994. Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. LL : The life and letters …
To Augustus Addison Gould 3 September [1848]
Summary
Describes his research on cirripedes. Asks to borrow specimens. Comments on previous work on the subject.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Augustus Addison Gould |
| Date: | 3 Sept [1848] |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Augustus A. Gould papers, 1831–66 MS Am 1210: 224) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1200 |
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- … letter to Louis Agassiz, 22 October 1848 . Gould’s Report on the invertebrata of Massachusetts ( Gould 1841 ) is still the definitive text on New England molluscs ( DSB ). Gould also described the Mollusca and shells from the United States Exploring Expedition ( Gould 1852–6 ), which included Cirripedia. Thomas Say , a self-taught entomologist and conchologist, described a Coronula dentulata found on the clypeus of Limulus polyphemus in Say 1821 , …
Douglas, Donald (1821–83)
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- … 1821–83 Army officer. Brother of Lynedoch (or Lynedock) Douglas. Captain in the Royal North Down Rifles from 8 February 1855. Army list 1855 BMD ( Death index ) Census returns of England and Wales 1851 (The National Archives: Public Record Office HO107/1633/428/8), 1861 (RG9/1747/132/16), 1881 (RG11/1011/50/59 England & Wales, national probate calendar ( index of wills and administrations ), 1858–1966, 1973–95 (Ancestry.com, accessed 4 July 2019) UK and Ireland, Find A Grave index, 1300s–current (Ancestry.com, accessed 4 July 2019) see also Correspondence vol. 13, Supplement, letter …
From W. D. Fox 29 November [1877]
Summary
Congratulates W. E. Darwin, who is about to be married,
and CD for the LL.D. conferred upon him by Cambridge.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Nov [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 201 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11261 |
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- … 1821–1882. With supplement. 2d edition. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1994. Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Emma Darwin (1915): Emma Darwin: a century of family letters, …
From John Lubbock to W. E. Gladstone 20 June 1872
Summary
Encloses a memorial concerning the Botanical Gardens at Kew signed by ‘some of our most eminent scientific men’ (including CD).
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | William Ewart Gladstone |
| Date: | 20 June 1872 |
| Classmark: | Parliamentary Papers 1872 (335) XLVII.527, pp. 41–9. |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8403F |
From J. D. Hooker 16 February 1864
Summary
CD’s climbing plant experiments make it impossible to deny nerve force in plants.
Has discussed Frankland’s new glacial theory with Lyell.
Bishop Colenso’s trial.
Possibility of Scott’s coming to Kew as a curator.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Feb 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 183–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4408 |
From Mary Congreve 27 October [1821]
Summary
Writes about London plays; wishes CD had been of the party.
| Author: | Mary Congreve |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Oct [1821] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 186 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1 |
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From James Paget 25 July 1879
Summary
Regrets that he cannot send the promised volume [Biographie médicale, 7 vols, 1820–5, biographical appendix to Dictionaire des sciences medicales]. Offers to have his son make an abstract of the biography [of Erasmus Darwin].
| Author: | James Paget, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 July 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 194 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12172 |
To J. D. Hooker 15 [May 1860]
Summary
Lyell, de facto, first to stress importance of geological changes for geographical distribution.
Asa Gray has given CD too much credit for theories of geographical distribution.
Reaction to hostile criticism
and debt to Lyell, Huxley, JDH, and W. B. Carpenter.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 15 [May 1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 56 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2802 |
To T. H. Huxley 26 September [1857]
Summary
Agassiz’s superficiality and wretched reasoning powers. But he stirred up Europe on glaciers. Lyell has been working on their effects – testing work of others.
CD believes "Natural Systems" ought to be simply genealogical. "Time will come when we shall have true genealogical trees of each great kingdom of nature."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 26 Sept [1857] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 54) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2143 |
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- … letter to T. H. Huxley, 3 October [1857] . CD explained his views on classification in chapter 13 of Origin , where he stated that ‘the natural system is founded on descent with modification; that the characters which naturalists consider as showing true affinity between any two or more species, are those which have been inherited from a common parent, and, in so far, all true classification is genealogical’ ( Origin , p. 420). Hummel 1821, …
From Asa Gray 26 May 1863
Summary
Discusses recent correspondence in the Athenæum: the disagreement between Lyell and Hugh Falconer and Owen’s remarks on heterogeny [see 4110].
Briefly discusses orchids and some problems in phyllotaxy.
Mentions the political situation and the quarrelsome behaviour of the English.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 May 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 135 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4186 |
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- … 1821 Baron Stowell, was a judge of the high court of admiralty between 1798 and 1828, and on many maritime points his judgments were the only source of law; they were often unfavourable to and unpopular with Americans ( DNB ). From 1861, the lawyer and statesman William Vernon Harcourt wrote numerous letters …
To Thomas Rivers 11 January [1863]
Summary
Thanks for "rich and valuable" letter [missing].
Has read TR’s paper in Gardeners’ Chronicle ["Seedling fruits – plums", (1863): 27] – "a treasure to me".
Questions about seedling peaches that approach almonds.
Asks whether TR has ever observed varieties of plants growing close to other varieties for several generations without being affected by crossing.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Rivers |
| Date: | 11 Jan [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 82 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3910 |
From John Fiske 23 October 1871
Summary
JF’s indebtedness to Herbert Spencer. [Published version complete.]
| Author: | John Fiske |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Oct 1871 |
| Classmark: | J. S. Clark 1917, 1: 389–91; DAR 164: 124 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8030 |
To J. S. Henslow 9 [September 1831]
Summary
All is settled – nothing can now alter CD’s determination. Details of plan and arrangements. Beaufort believes CD’s collections should be presented to some public body. CD thinks a large central collection best for natural history. Is busy getting advice and information from Yarrell and Capt. P. P. King for the voyage.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | 9 [Sept 1831] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 5 DAR/1/1/5) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-123 |
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- … letter to Susan Darwin, [4 September 1831] , n. 6. Susan had apparently failed to locate the articles. Poole 1825 , a popular farce. Syme 1814 . The work contains plates of different tints for identifying the colours of specimens when they are taken by collectors. A copy of the second edition (1821) …
To Dear Friend 12 January 1822
Summary
Was joined by Colonel Burgh Leighton when walking in the quarry. Plans to make caves next summer to store "warlike instruments" and "relicks". Sketches a design for a signalling device. May go with his father to visit the Earl of Powys at Walcot; visited Mrs and Miss Reynolds and William Pemberton Cludde.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Friend |
| Date: | 12 Jan 1822 |
| Classmark: | DAR 271.1.1: 6v |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1M |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 28 [June 1874]
Summary
Must stop work on "bloom" and leaf movements if he is ever to get anything published on Drosera, etc.
Sends thanks for seeds. Encloses memorandum in case WTT-D wishes to communicate information to Royal Horticultural Society. Has not time to prepare article.
Discusses condition of plants borrowed from Kew.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 28 [June 1874] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 19–22) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9571 |
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- … 1821–1882. With supplement. 2d edition. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1994. Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Insectivorous plants. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875. ML : More letters …
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| Congreve, Mary | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (35) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (7) |
| Rivers, Thomas | (2) |
| Darwin, Caroline | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (57) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (27) |
| Blyth, Edward | (2) |
| Rivers, Thomas | (2) |
| Scott, John | (2) |
Darwin’s reading notebooks
Summary
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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- … In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to …
Books on the Beagle
Summary
The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.
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- … ‘Considering the limited disposable space in so very small a ship, we contrived to carry more …
Darwin in letters, 1821-1836: Childhood to the Beagle voyage
Summary
Darwin's first known letters were written when he was twelve. They continue through school-days at Shrewsbury, two years as a medical student at Edinburgh University, the undergraduate years at Cambridge, and the of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle.…
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- … Darwin's first known letters were written when he was twelve. They continue through his school …
Edward Lumb
Summary
Edward Lumb was born in Yorkshire. According to the memoirs of his daughter Anne, Lady Macdonell, he travelled to Buenos Aires aged sixteen with his merchant uncle, Charles Poynton, and after some fortunate enterprises set up in business there. In 1833…
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- … Edward Lumb was born in Yorkshire. According to the memoirs of his daughter Anne, Lady Macdonell, …
John Stevens Henslow
Summary
The letters Darwin exchanged with John Stevens Henslow, professor of Botany and Mineralogy at Cambridge University, were among the most significant of his life. It was a letter from Henslow that brought Darwin the invitation to sail round the world as…
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- … The letters Darwin exchanged with John Stevens Henslow, professor of Botany and Mineralogy at …
Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition
Summary
Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn. That lost list is recreated here.
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- … In March 1862, Heinrich Georg Bronn wrote to Darwin stating his intention to prepare a second …
The death of Anne Elizabeth Darwin
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Charles and Emma Darwin’s eldest daughter, Annie, died at the age of ten in 1851. Emma was heavily pregnant with their fifth son, Horace, at the time and could not go with Charles when he took Annie to Malvern to consult the hydrotherapist, Dr Gully.…
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- … We have lost the joy of the Household Charles and Emma Darwin’s eldest daughter, …
