To ? 31 July [1881?]
Summary
Thanks for note and plant specimen. Will take care of it for his own sake and Kew’s.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 31 July [1881?] |
| Classmark: | David Schulson (dealer) (January 1997?) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13267 |
To ? 18 August [1880?]
Summary
Thanks correspondent for information on a plant. It is too late for his present work.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 18 Aug [1880?] |
| Classmark: | Harvard University, Department of Psychology |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13289A |
To ? 20 August 1881
Summary
Fly adheres to ceiling by viscid matter on feet. Refers correspondent to B. T. Lowne, Anatomy and physiology of the blow-fly (1870).
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 20 Aug 1881 |
| Classmark: | Duke University, Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library (RL.10387) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13292 |
To ? 21 August 1881
Summary
Encloses a letter from his son G. H. Darwin and another from his son Francis Darwin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 21 Aug 1881 |
| Classmark: | C. G. Boerner in Leipzig (dealer) (4–6 December 1911) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13294G |
To ? 21 August 1881
Summary
Declines an invitation to write for an unidentified periodical. "I am unable to write short articles in an interesting manner, & they would consume much of my time."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 21 Aug 1881 |
| Classmark: | Profiles in History (dealers) (March 2006) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13296A |
To ? 5 September 1881
Summary
Asks him to deliver two or three feet of linoleum.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 5 Sept 1881 |
| Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (21–2 July 1988) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13317A |
To ? 5 October 1881
Summary
Has resolved never to write for periodicals.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 5 Oct 1881 |
| Classmark: | Rick Northwood (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13373F |
To ? 23 November 1881
Summary
Sends copies of Variation, Descent, and Journal of researches from "the library of my late brother".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 23 Nov 1881 |
| Classmark: | Charles Hamilton (dealer) (29 January 1970) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13507 |
To ? 12 March 1882
Summary
Thanks for letter and promise to send pamphlet.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 12 Mar 1882 |
| Classmark: | Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13725 |
To ? 29 March 1882
Summary
"Earthworms are hermaphrodite, but two must unite & both produce eggs.–– I have seen hundreds coupled, early in the morning & occasionally during the night.––"
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 29 Mar 1882 |
| Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (no date) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13748A |
To ? 19 March [1860–1?]
Summary
Recommends papers on Styrian Cave insects and American cave animals.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 19 Mar [1860–1] |
| Classmark: | King’s College London Archives (TH/PP MISC) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13770G |
To ? 8 December [1861–8]
Summary
Thanks for information on inheritance of mental peculiarities in cats.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 8 Dec [1861-8] |
| Classmark: | Dr Jeremy J. C. Mallinson (private collection): sold at Sotheby’s (dealers), 11 December 2017, lot 50 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13770J |
From Emma Darwin to ? [October 1874 – April 1882]
Summary
CD cannot come to London to sit for photograph. Sends one taken by son [Leonard], which family considers the best likeness. CD would be glad to give a sitting at Down.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [Oct 1874 – Apr 1882] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University (bMs 62.10.1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13792 |
To ? [after 1836?]
Summary
[Excised fragment only.] "I am greedy for facts.—"
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [after 1836?] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.626) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13858 |
To? [1870–82]
Summary
Printed acknowledgment of the receipt of a letter.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [1870–82] |
| Classmark: | DAR 133: 1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13859 |
To ? [February 1838 – February 1841?]
Summary
Asks correspondent if he would prefer the President’s signature alone or with those of other scientific men.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [Feb 1838 – Feb 1841?] |
| Classmark: | B. Altman (dealer) (3 October 1982) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13864 |
To [?] [?]
Summary
Last page of a letter with a P.S. "I am getting together a few points to investigate".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [?] |
| Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (18 December 1995) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13864G |
To ? [?]
Summary
[Signature cut from a letter; the reverse contains the words "you must … that I know nothing of your private".]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [?] |
| Classmark: | Eric Korn (dealer) (no date) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13864H |
To ? 1 March [1843–82]
Summary
Regrets not having a duplicate of one of his books to give away. "You will before long no doubt be able to borrow a copy."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 1 Mar [1843-82] |
| Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (12 November 1963) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13865 |
To ? 28 April [1863?]
Summary
Discusses exchange of photographs with Édouard Claparède, "for whom I feel the highest respect".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 28 Apr [1863?] |
| Classmark: | Christie’s (dealers) (6 August 1975, lot 176) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13866 |
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Darwin as mentor
Summary
Darwin provided advice, encouragement and praise to his fellow scientific 'labourers' of both sexes. Selected letters Letter 2234 - Darwin to Unidentified, [5 March 1858] Darwin advises that Professor C. P. Smyth’s observations are not…
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- … Selected letters Letter 2234 - Darwin to Unidentified, [5 March 1858] Darwin …
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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- … Linnean Society (1) Unidentified (204) …
3.8 Leonard Darwin, interior photo
Summary
< Back to Introduction Leonard Darwin, who created the distinctive image of his father sitting on the verandah at Down House, also portrayed him as a melancholy philosopher. His head, brightly lit from above, emerges from the enveloping darkness; he…
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- … Leonard Darwin’s letter to his father, enclosing unidentified photographs, 25 April 1878. …
Proteus
Summary
Proteus is a bit of an Unidentified Film Object. A work that mixes documentary with animation, its subject is a scientist who walked a tight line between arts and sciences. Is the film a documentary or an artistic vision? As our guest speaker Nick Hopwood…
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- … Proteus is a bit of an Unidentified Film Object. A work that mixes documentary with animation, its …
4.17 'Figaro', unidentifiable 1871
Summary
< Back to Introduction Yet another portrayal of Darwin as a tree-dwelling ape was published in The Figaro in October 1871, and titled ‘A Darwinian hypothesis’. The image survives in a torn page in the Darwin archive, but it has so far proved…
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- … University Library originator of image unidentified date of creation …
2.5 Wedgwood medallions, 2nd type
Summary
< Back to Introduction Two identical oval medallions in green jasper in the Wedgwood Museum, portraying Darwin’s head in profile, are different from the rest. The portrayal was apparently taken not from Woolner’s model of 1869, but from the Royal…
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- … originator of image Allan Wyon, interpreted by an unidentified ceramicist date …
3.15 George Charles Wallich, photo
Summary
< Back to Introduction In the years around 1868–1871, when professional photographers competed for sittings with Darwin, a doctor called George Charles Wallich approached him with a similar request. Wallich was planning to publish a set of his own…
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- … Library, which carries the Downeys’ label. A previous unidentified owner wrote on it by hand ‘Bought …
4.29 Richard Grant White, 'Fall of man'
Summary
< Back to Introduction At about the same time as The Hornet pictured Darwin as ‘A Venerable Orang-Outang’, a novella by the American journalist and critic Richard Grant White offered a more scurrilous take on The Descent of Man. The Fall of Man: Or,…
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- … signed ‘Stephens’, but it is unclear whether this so-far unidentified artist was the draughtsman or …
Wearing his knowledge lightly: From Fritz Müller, 5 April 1878
Summary
Darwin received letters from so many people and wrote so many fascinating letters himself, that it’s hard to choose from many letters that stand out, but one of this editor’s favourites, that always brings a smile, is a letter from Fritz Müller written 5…
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- … same ‘caterpillar genus’. Müller also found eggs of an unidentified species of the tribe Heliconiini …
Black Venus
Summary
Sadiah Qureshi (University of Birmingham) on the film Vénus Noire (Abdellatif Kechiche, 2010) Sara Baartman has long been characterised as ‘Black Venus’, or ‘Vénus Noire’. The epithet encapsulates how her exploitation and objectification whilst alive…
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- … after birth. Whilst in England she was also married to an unidentified groom. In the film, these …
Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex
Summary
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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- … that had been discovered in a thornbush in Cumberland. An unidentified correspondent offered facts …
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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- … Library–Down. Cook, James. Voyages (editions unidentified; see also Hawkesworth, John). …
Darwin’s observations on his children
Summary
Charles Darwin’s observations on the development of his children, began the research that culminated in his book The Expression of the emotions in man and animals, published in 1872, and his article ‘A biographical sketch of an infant’, published in Mind…
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- … in Emma Darwin’s hand. [81] This sentence is in an unidentified child’s hand. …
