To ? 3 February [1875–82?]
Summary
Asks that enclosed letter be posted for him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 3 Feb [1875-82] |
| Classmark: | DAR 249: 124 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13889B |
To ? [1839–82]
Summary
Is glad addressee’s lectures are going well.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [1839–82] |
| Classmark: | Raptis Rare Books (dealers) (June 2018 item 69022) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13925F |
To ? 19 December [1852 or 1854]
Summary
Ray Society has given CD 22 copies [of Living Cirripedia, vol. 1].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 19 Dec [1852 or 1854] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.100) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1464 |
To ? 16 August [1854–8]
Summary
Should like to examine the correspondent’s Madeira cirripedes but is too much occupied with other subjects of natural history.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 16 Aug [1854-8] |
| Classmark: | DAR 224 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1578A |
CD memorandum [December 1855]
Summary
Requests skins of domestic breeds or races of poultry, pigeons, rabbits, cats, and dogs from any unfrequented region. [Attached is a list of people to whom CD has written for pigeon and poultry skins.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [Dec 1855] |
| Classmark: | DAR 206: 34–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1812 |
To ? 9 October [1856]
Summary
Thanks for offer of Helix for experiment. Asks for assistance. Mentions failure of his own experiment involving Helix pomatia.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 9 Oct [1856] |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1972 |
To ? 26 March [1858?]
Summary
Returns the Greenland catalogue, which he has kept too long.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 26 Mar [1858?] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.34) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2246 |
CD memorandum 24 April 1859
Summary
Questions about stripes on mules.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 24 Apr 1859 |
| Classmark: | DAR 206 (Letters) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2454 |
To ? [after 2 November 1859]
Summary
Origin will be published 22 Nov. Fears correspondent will find the conclusions "abominable".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [after 2 Nov 1859] |
| Classmark: | Michael S. Hollander (dealer) (Catalogue 15) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2541 |
To ? [1860 or later]
Summary
Asserts that if his views [in the Origin] are in the main right, palaeontology does not give a fair picture of the forms that have peopled the earth, and [fossil] collections are a mere chance gathering of a few forms.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [1860 or later] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2625 |
To ? 25 [April 1860?]
Summary
August Laugel has sent him a copy of his review [of Origin] in Revue des Deux-Mondes [26 (1860): 644–71].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 25 [Apr 1860?] |
| Classmark: | Quaritch (dealers) (July 1977) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2768 |
To ? 14 June [1860]
Summary
He has sent the list of seeds to J. H. Hooker at Kew. There has been no agreement about a French edition [of Origin]. There is little chance of his being at the BAAS meeting at Oxford.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 14 June [1860] |
| Classmark: | University of South Carolina Libraries, Hollings Special Collections Library (C. Warren Irvin, Jr., Collection of Darwin and Darwiniana) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2832F |
To a bookseller 9 September [1860]
Summary
Orders one copy of the issue of the Atlantic Monthly for last August (but not worth sending to America for) and two copies of the issue for next October.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 9 Sept [1860] |
| Classmark: | International Autograph Auctions (dealers) (14 December 2013, lot 403) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2908F |
To ? [1860–82?]
Summary
Sends photograph in case recipient collects them.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [1860–82?] |
| Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 681, 28 and 29 June 2005) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3052F |
To William Samuel Symonds 26 March [1861]
Summary
Thanks correspondent for book on old bones.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 26 Mar [1861] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.242) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3099 |
To ? 7 May [1861–8?]
Summary
CD is obliged for the offer, but he is "too much occupied to contribute to any periodicals".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 7 May [1861-8] |
| Classmark: | DAR 249: 122 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3141 |
To ? 11 June [1861–8]
Summary
CD regrets he has to turn down an invitation because of his ill health.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 11 June [1861-8] |
| Classmark: | Christie’s, London (dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3179F |
To a member of Downing College, Cambridge [19 January 1837]
Summary
Declines invitation to dine at Downing College because of influenza.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [19 Jan 1837] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 142v |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-342 |
To ? 21 August [1862]
Summary
Thanks for monstrous floral specimen, but it is a common one.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 21 Aug [1862] |
| Classmark: | Lawrences Auctioneers (dealers) (2009) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3693F |
To Pickard & Stoneman 1 December [1862]
Summary
Asks for information about cases for stove-plants. [Answers recorded in another hand.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 1 Dec [1862] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.283) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3839 |
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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. …
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 …
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 …
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. …
