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Darwin in letters, 1861: Gaining allies
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The year 1861 marked an important change in the direction of Darwin’s work. He had weathered the storm that followed the publication of Origin, and felt cautiously optimistic about the ultimate acceptance of his ideas. The letters from this year provide an…
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- … of the horse was interrupted by the outbreak of the Civil War. Undoubtedly, the news that …
- … [1861] , and 15 November [1861] ). The American Civil War It was not France, …
- … a Federal base in South Carolina, sparked off the American Civil War. In Britain, events were …
- … the close of the year, the two nations stood on the brink of war. Darwin wrote, almost …
Dramatisation script
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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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- … I say, I flounder hopelessly in the mud. BEGINNING OF WAR IN AMERICA: 1861-1862 In …
- … and Darwin gently critical, while hoping openly that the war may result in an end to slavery in the …
- … GRAY: 113 April 1861. We are now opening a war, upon the determination of which our very …
- … the rebels and scoundrels persevere, I go for carrying the war so far as to liberate every negro. …
- … at the outset. The only allusion I had then made to the war was to the effect that it would clear …
- … Gray, I think the less said, the sooner mended about the war and your slightly animated! …
- … loses a daughter, Gray wishes he had a son to send off to war and Darwin reflects that a scientist …
- … of family life. DARWIN: 138 This war of yours… has produced wide spread feeling …
- … one might as well write to a madman as to him about the war. 150 He tells me… GRAY: …
- … Which I regret only [in] that I have no son to send to the war. DARWIN: Did you ever hear …
- … and cancels The Times; and the Yankees win the American Civil War. DARWIN: 157 …
- … possible. 166 We are getting on quietly with our war… Now that we are used to it, we can …
- … we welcomed back our Harvard men who had been in the war. Over 500 of them. And remembered those who …
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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- … to be in the same boat with all … my friends ie at open war; but at same time I rejoice not to be …
- … Correspondence was established in 1863 with Roland Trimen, a civil servant in Cape Town, whose work …
- … the suffering of slaves’ (LL 3: 199). The American Civil War Darwin’s aversion to …
- … At the start of the year, Darwin displayed an interest in war-related issues, particularly after …
- … However, his tolerance of Gray’s fervent approach to the war declined in 1863. In April, he …
- … that he wished he had a son so that he could send him to the war ( see letter from Asa Gray, 7 July …
- … had long since ceased to discuss politics or the American Civil War in his correspondence with Gray: …
Darwin in letters, 1862: A multiplicity of experiments
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1862 was a particularly productive year for Darwin. This was not only the case in his published output (two botanical papers and a book on the pollination mechanisms of orchids), but more particularly in the extent and breadth of the botanical experiments…
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4.52 'Wasp' caricature
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< Back to Introduction Less than a fortnight after Darwin’s death, an irreverent portrayal of him appeared on the cover of a Californian satirical magazine. The Wasp, based in San Francisco, resembled the better-known New York magazine Puck in its…
Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments
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The year was marked by three deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend and supporter; Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and father of Darwin’s friend…
Darwin’s reading notebooks
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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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- … Greece [Grote 1846–56] Napiers Hist. of Peninsular War [W. F. P. Napier 1828–40] …
- … [Liebig 1851]. Sir John Davies. China during the War and Peace [J. F. Davis 1852]. read …
- … d . [Fox 1808] June 23 d Guizot’s History of Civil War [Guizot 1838] July 16. Sir …
- … [G. C. Mundy 1852] Davies China since & during the war [J. F. Davis 1852].— Lieut. …
- … in Siam [Neale 1851] 22 Sir J. Davis China during War and Peace [J. F. Davis 1852] …
- … [F. B. Head 1852b]. Ap. 30. Napier’s Peninsular War [W. F. P. Napier 1828–40] Vol. I. (poor) …
- … 119: 4a Davis, John Francis. 1852. China, during war and since the peace . 2 vols. …
- … 23b Edwards, Bryan. 1793–1801. The history, civil and commercial, of the British …
- … of Clarendon. 1704. The history of the rebellion and civil wars in England, begun in 1641, …
- … Dirk Hendrick. 1840. Voyages of the Dutch brig of war Dourga, through the southern and little …
- … head-quarters of Lord Wellington during the Peninsular War from 1812 to its close. Edited …
- … Compendio de la historia geografica, natural y civil del reyno de Chile . Translated into …
- … William Francis Patrick. 1828–40. History of the war in the Peninsula and in the south of …
- … Letters on Iceland: containing observations on the civil, literary, ecclesiastical, and …
- … Philipp. Sketches of German life, and scenes from the war of liberation in Germany . Selected …
Darwin in letters, 1880: Sensitivity and worms
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‘My heart & soul care for worms & nothing else in this world,’ Darwin wrote to his old Shrewsbury friend Henry Johnson on 14 November 1880. Darwin became fully devoted to earthworms in the spring of the year, just after finishing the manuscript of…
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- … science was a recurring issue, as Darwin tried to secure a Civil List pension for Alfred Russel …
- … the top of Butler’s letter, Emma Darwin wrote: ‘it means war we think’. William agreed: ‘there was …
- … consulted Joseph Dalton Hooker about the possibility of a Civil List pension, but Hooker was against …
- … about Wallace’s prospects for a government pension. Civil List pensions had been established in 1834 …
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
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Here is a list of people that appeared in the photograph album Darwin received for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from scientific admirers in the Netherlands. Many thanks to Hester Loeff for identifying and researching them. No. …
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- … (Adriaan) Retired Lieutenant General, ex-Minister of War Amsterdam …
- … Schenkenberg van Mierop P. (Pieter) Civil Engineer Dordrecht …
- … 166 Roorda van Eijsinga S.E.W. Civil Engineer Rolle (Lake …
- … J.H.L.A. (Johan Hendrik Louis Anne) Civil Engineer, Lecturer at the Zalt- Bommel High …
- … Sleijden Ph. W. van der (Phillippe Willem) Civil Engineer. Arnhem …
- … (August Willem Philip) Major General, ex-Minister of War. 6 …
Darwin and religion in America
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Thomas Dixon, 'America’s Difficulty with Darwin', History Today (2009), reproduced by permission. Darwin has not been forgotten. But he has, in some respects, been misremembered. That has certainly been true when it comes to the relationship…
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- … United States of America since the end of the Second World War. But before we examine the peculiarly …
- … volunteered to take part in a test case that the American Civil Liberties Union hoped would result …
- … which had come into existence in the wake of the First World War, to protect America’s Christian …
- … which took off in America in the wake of the First World War, never became a popular movement in …
Darwin's notes for his physician, 1865
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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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- … On 20 May 1865, Emma Darwin recorded in her diary that John Chapman, a prominent London publisher …
Darwin on race and gender
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Darwin’s views on race and gender are intertwined, and mingled also with those of class. In Descent of man, he tried to explain the origin of human races, and many of the differences between the sexes, with a single theory: sexual selection. Sexual…
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
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List of people appearing in the photograph album Darwin received from scientific admirers in the Netherlands for his birthday on 12 February 1877. We are grateful to Hester Loeff for providing this list and for permission to make her research available.…
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- … (Adriaan) Retired Lieutenant General, ex-Minister of War Amsterdam …
- … Schenkenberg van Mierop P. (Pieter) Civil Engineer Dordrecht …
- … 166 Roorda van Eijsinga S.E.W. Civil Engineer Rolle (Lake …
- … J.H.L.A. (Johan Hendrik Louis Anne) Civil Engineer, Lecturer at the Zalt- Bommel High …
- … Sleijden Ph. W. van der (Phillippe Willem) Civil Engineer. Arnhem …
- … (August Willem Philip) Major General, ex-Minister of War. 6 …
Emma Darwin
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Emma Darwin, Charles Darwin's wife and first cousin, was born Emma Wedgwood, the eighth and youngest child of Josiah Wedgwood II and Bessy Allen. Her father was the eldest son of the famous pottery manufacturer, Josiah Wedgwood I. Her mother was one…
Joseph Dalton Hooker
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The 1400 letters exchanged between Darwin and Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911) account for around 10% of Darwin’s surviving correspondence and provide a structure within which all the other letters can be explored. They are a connecting thread that spans…
Darwin in letters, 1878: Movement and sleep
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In 1878, Darwin devoted most of his attention to the movements of plants. He investigated the growth pattern of roots and shoots, studying the function of specific organs in this process. Working closely with his son Francis, Darwin devised a series of…
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- … be ruined by spending hundreds of millions on a disastrous war long before we should get hundreds to …
- … the likelihood of British involvement in the Russo-Turkish War, with the prime minister, Benjamin …
- … to R. A. T. Gascoyne-Cecil, 18 May 1878 ). The issue of war was raised again in November, as …
- … has been condemned by a great majority of the highest civil and military authorities of Indian …
Essay: Evolutionary teleology
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—by Asa Gray EVOLUTIONARY TELEOLOGY When Cuvier spoke of the ‘combination of organs in such order that they may be in consistence with the part which the animal has to play in Nature,’ his opponent, Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, rejoined, ‘I know nothing of…
