To Caroline Darwin 8 April [1826]
Summary
CD is studying the Bible, likes the gospels best.
Glad he stayed for T. C. Hope’s lectures on electricity.
Is running short of funds.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
| Date: | 8 Apr [1826] |
| Classmark: | DAR 154: 29 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-30 |
From Sarah Owen 18 February [1828]
Summary
Writes of the last part of their lively stay at Brighton and three days in London.
None of CD’s sisters can come to enliven the "truly awful" tranquillity at the Forest [Woodhouse].
| Author: | Sarah Harriet Mostyn Owen; Sarah Harriet Williams; Sarah Harriet Haliburton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Feb [1828] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 59 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-39 |
To W. D. Fox 14 February 1878
Summary
CD and Frank Darwin hard at work on physiology of plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 14 Feb 1878 |
| Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Pearce/Darwin Fox collection RBSC-ARC-1721-1-74) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11358 |
From Sarah Williams 26[–31] August 1832
Summary
Gives CD an "account of my life and adventures since we parted" and news of her family.
| Author: | Sarah Harriet Mostyn Owen; Sarah Harriet Williams; Sarah Harriet Haliburton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26[–31] Aug 1832 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 117 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-183 |
From Fanny Owen [26 October 1828]
Summary
Woodhouse news, including going to a play.
She has been spending much time painting.
| Author: | Frances (Fanny) Mostyn Owen; Frances (Fanny) Myddelton Biddulph |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [26 Oct 1828] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 46 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-51 |
From Charles Whitley 13 September 1831
Summary
Congratulates CD on Beagle appointment as an "opportunity … of studying all the natural sciences at once, after your own taste".
| Author: | Charles Thomas Whitley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Sept 1831 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 69 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-125 |
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From Arthur Mostyn-Owen 21 May 1873
Summary
Offers to exchange a water-colour portrait of CD, done, he believes, by Fanny Biddulph, for a copy of Descent.
There has been a decrease of game-birds in the area.
| Author: | Arthur Mostyn Owen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 May 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 173: 42 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8917 |
From S. H. Haliburton 21 November [1880]
Summary
A laudatory reference in the Times [19 Nov 1880, p. 4] impels her to write after many years. Hopes to see him.
| Author: | Sarah Harriet Mostyn Owen; Sarah Harriet Williams; Sarah Harriet Haliburton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Nov [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 211–12 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12834 |
To W. D. Fox 10 April [1859]
Summary
Sympathises with family on death of WDF’s mother [Anne Fox née Darwin].
Sends details of fees at Moor Park hydropathic establishment.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 10 Apr [1859] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 121) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2451 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … family. CD had spent three weeks there in 1828 (see Correspondence vol. 1, letter to W. …
- … 1828] ). Edward Wickstead Lane was the proprietor of the Moor Park hydropathic establishment. For the two weeks CD stayed at Moor Park in February 1859, he recorded having paid £9. 6 s . (Account book (Down House MS)). Fox visited CD at Moor Park in April 1858 (see letter …
To V. O. Kovalevsky 2 June [1871]
Summary
Thanks VOK for sending F. Körte’s book [Die Streich-, Zug- oder Wander-Heuschrecke (1828)]. The passage CD wrote about [see 7735] must occur in the second edition. If VOK ever comes upon the 1829 edition, it would be of use to him.
Agrees that the Versailles army has been savagely brutal [in siege of Paris], but thinks the "Communists [Communards] have made themselves everlastingly infamous".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Date: | 2 June [1871] |
| Classmark: | Institut Mittag-Leffler |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7796 |
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- … Körte 1828 ) from a library in Berlin and forwarded it to CD (see letter from V. O. …
- … 1828 , but a different work. In Köppen 1866, p. 11, Friedrich Theodor Köppen referred to the second part of Körte 1829 as the official report of the Prussian district administrator, Sydow, who has not been further identified. See letter …
From J. Knightly Ince [1857–61?]
Summary
Translates some German terms describing colour of horses.
| Author: | J. Knightly Ince |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1857–61?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.11: 20 (EH 88206072) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6538 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 1828 in his discussion of inheritance of colour in horses in Variation 1: 59, and in a letter …
- … letters on this subject were written between 1857 and 1861. Châtaine : chestnut-brown (French). CD had presumably asked Ince about German words for the colours of horses. He may have been reading Hofacker 1828 , …
To J. D. Hooker 14 [November 1857]
Summary
Rule that species vary most in larger genera seems universal.
Response to Gardeners’ Chronicle note on "Bees and kidney beans" [Collected papers 1: 275–7].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 14 [Nov 1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 215 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2170 |
To Edward Atkinson 9 June 1877
Summary
Pleased that a Grace has been submitted to confer on CD an honorary LL.D.; hopes his health will permit him to attend the ceremony.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Atkinson |
| Date: | 9 June 1877 |
| Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 6582: 377) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10993 |
To W. E. Darwin [30 October 1858]
Summary
Glad WED has begun under George Henslow in the way that he has. CD wishes he had had such practice under J. S. Henslow.
Has had luck in his search for striped horses.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [30 Oct 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: A29–30 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2350 |
From Henry Doubleday 5 February 1857
Summary
The variations of Peronea caused A. H. Haworth and J. F. Stephens to create 30 or 40 species based on colour and markings. HD was first to be convinced these would be reduced to two.
Discusses species that closely resemble one another;
cites species that differ in variation in different localities;
in some double-brooded species the broods differ markedly in size and colour.
Encloses his list of varieties of Peronea.
| Author: | Henry Doubleday |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Feb 1857 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 236 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2047 |
To John Maurice Herbert 2 January [1856]
Summary
Thanks JMH for book of poems.
Recalls early days together. He cannot visit due to health.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Maurice Herbert |
| Date: | 2 Jan [1856] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.121) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1814 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 28 May [1871]
Summary
Reports on the wholesale murder in Paris.
His wife, Sofya Kovalevsky, is working for her examinations.
VOK is studying embryology.
Alexander has left Suez and is now in Jaffa.
| Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 May [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 63 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7775 |
From Samuel Butler 1 October 1865
Summary
Autobiographical letter describing how, when he could not conscientiously take orders, he went to New Zealand and has now returned to England to study art.
Fascinated and delighted by Origin
and is pleased that his pamphlet [Evidence for the resurrection of Jesus Christ] pleases CD.
| Author: | Samuel Butler |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Oct 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: A1–2; Butler 1923, pp. 198–201 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4904 |
From John Farr 10 July 1873
Summary
Thanks for photograph.
| Author: | John Farr |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 July 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 28 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8973 |
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Edinburgh in Commentary
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 …
