To Bromley Rural Sanitary Authority [1873?]
Summary
Gives opinion on the merits of Mr [Stephen P. J.] Eng[leheart (Darwin family doctor)]. Believes he would make an excellent county officer if elected to the district office of health.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Bromley Rural Sanitary Authority |
| Date: | [1873?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 165 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8704 |
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- … Stephen P. J. ] Eng[leheart (Darwin family doctor)]. Believes he would make an excellent …
To William Ogle 9 November 1870
Summary
Has read WO’s paper [see 7361] with great interest. If WO’s views are confirmed he will be able to explain many odd little details about the colouring of animals.
Can WO observe if the platysma myoides is brought into strong action in people suffering from severe dyspnoea?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Ogle |
| Date: | 9 Nov 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 147: 193 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7364 |
From Hermann Brehmer 4 May 1876
Summary
Encloses article on local immunity to tuberculosis. Has he interpreted CD’s views correctly? Believes the immunity notable in areas like Iceland or mountain areas is due to local conditions, not natural selection. Describes his sanatorium in mountains of Silesia and medical criticism of his work.
| Author: | Hermann Brehmer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 May 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 287–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10496 |
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- … ing method
〈 i〉 ntroduced〈 〉 wards doctors is〈 〉 There〈 〉 Particularly〈 〉 Peru … - … as mine. As there were often not even doctors present, therefore the influence of a …
- … to keep their children alive. We, the doctors, therefore can often trace phthisis through …
- … order to keep their children alive. — We doctors can therefore often in consumptive people …
From the University of Breslau 4 August 1861
Summary
CD awarded honorary doctorate of medicine and surgery by the University of Breslau. [See 3194a.]
| Author: | University of Breslau |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Aug 1861 |
| Classmark: | DAR 230: 9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3226A |
To John Phillips 8 February [1859]
Summary
His doctor urges CD most strongly not to expose himself to the excitement and fatigue of receiving the [Wollaston] Medal. He will ask Lyell to receive it on his behalf.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Phillips |
| Date: | 8 Feb [1859] |
| Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History Archive Collections (John Phillips collection)) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2410 |
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- … His doctor urges CD most strongly not to expose himself to the excitement and fatigue of …
From Francis Darwin [1 August 1880]
Summary
Thanks for letter and journals. Sends information on earthworms and also information from Mr Ruck. Describes his fishing and his success finding sea shore plants that are new to him.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1 Aug 1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 63 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12675F |
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- … Anglo- Afghan war ( Richards 1990 , pp. 79–81). The ‘Doctor’ has not been identified. …
To J. D. Hooker 12 [December 1862]
Summary
Maintains his view on crossing. Thinks practical breeders would agree with him; doubts that variability and domestication are at all necessarily correlative.
Identical plants in different conditions a heavy argument against "direct action" [of physical conditions].
His 1000-pigeon case is altered if long-beaked are in least degree sterile with short-beaked.
His work on dimorphism inclines him to believe that sterility is at first a selected quality to keep incipient species distinct.
Case of easy modification of Lythrum pollen to favour or prevent crossing.
Monsters.
Has just finished chapter on variations of cultivated plants.
Edinburgh doctors have sent him Diploma of Medical Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 12 [Dec 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 176 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3855 |
To J. D. Hooker [6 April 1873]
Summary
Wants to discuss raising a testimonial fund for Huxley and whether Huxley would stand this.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [6 Apr 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 261–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8843 |
To J. D. Hooker [23 October 1859]
Summary
Congratulates JDH on finishing his introductory essay [to Flora Tasmaniae].
Lyell’s position on mutability appears more positive in his letters to JDH than in those to CD. Considers JDH a convert.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [23 Oct 1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 24 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2509 |
From John Simon 25 February 1878
Summary
Has sent CD a paper partly relating to Dr Creighton’s curious observations ["Some points of science and practice concerning cancer", Br. Med. J. (1878) pt 1: 219–24].
| Author: | John Simon |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Feb 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 166 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11374 |
From Edmund Alexander Parkes 8 April 1862
Summary
Suggests CD use a tabular form for Army doctors to write their observations on, and suggests it be limited to malaria, yellow fever, and dysentery.
| Author: | Edmund Alexander Parkes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Apr 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 174.1: 23 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3498 |
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- … Suggests CD use a tabular form for Army doctors to write their observations on, and …
To ? 7 August [1843–68?]
Summary
Declines invitation to ride because he is "so very subject to headache".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 7 Aug [1843-68] |
| Classmark: | Daniel V. Grossman (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13867 |
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- … Stanhope, see ‘Recollections’, p. 361. CD’s doctor ordered him to ride daily in 1866 ( …
To J. D. Hooker 8 [February 1861]
Summary
Henrietta’s continuing poor health. JDH’s suggestion to rub her with cod-liver oil.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 8 [Feb 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115.2: 86 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3060 |
To A. E. J. Modderman 3 June 1875
Summary
Thanks for the diploma conferring on him an honorary doctorate of medicine from Leiden University.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Antony Ewoud Jan Modderman |
| Date: | 3 June 1875 |
| Classmark: | Leiden University Libraries (shelfmark ASF inv.nr. 327 document 86) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10007G |
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- … vol. 23, Appendix III. It conferred the honorary degree of doctor of medicine. …
From L. H. Morgan 8 June 1871
Summary
Will call tomorrow.
| Author: | Lewis Henry Morgan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 June 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 239 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7812 |
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- … that your health is so delicate Yours Respectfully | L H. Morgan Doctor Charles Darwin …
To J. D. Hooker [12 May 1866]
Summary
Caspary wants to visit Down. CD would like to see him but dreads the exertion.
Pleased that JDH will get D.C.L. at Oxford.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [12 May 1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 288 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5088 |
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- … Hooker received the honorary degree of doctor of civil law from Oxford University on 13 …
To T. L. Brunton 25 April 1879
Summary
Asks for information about his grandfather’s influence on medical practice, to be used in his preface to Erasmus Darwin [1879, p. 107].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 25 Apr 1879 |
| Classmark: | McGill University Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Manuscript Collection: Folio A.L.S. Charles Darwin) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12011 |
To W. D. Fox [May 1850]
Summary
Details of his continuing water-cure regimen.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [May 1850] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 76) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1323 |
To the Down Friendly Society 31 December [1877?]
Summary
Reports, as treasurer, on the financial position of the Club.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Down Friendly Society |
| Date: | 31 Dec [1877?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 42 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11300 |
From Eduard Schulte 23 October 1879
Summary
Sends drawing and description of butterfly discovered in Celebes. It is noteworthy for its colour, which plays a role in mating.
| Author: | Eduard Schulte |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Oct 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 64 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12254 |
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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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- … photographers competed for sittings with Darwin, a doctor called George Charles Wallich approached …
4.16 Joseph Simms, physiognomy
Summary
< Back to Introduction In September 1874, the American doctor Joseph Simms, then on a three-year lecture tour of Britain, sent Darwin a copy of his book, Nature’s Revelations of Character; Or, Physiognomy Illustrated. He was seeking a public…
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- … to Introduction In September 1874, the American doctor Joseph Simms, then on a three-year …
Darwin’s student booklist
Summary
In October 1825 Charles Darwin and his older brother, Erasmus, went to study medicine in Edinburgh, where their father, Robert Waring Darwin, had trained as a doctor in the 1780’s. Erasmus had already graduated from Cambridge and was continuing his studies…
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- … where their father, Robert Waring Darwin, had trained as a doctor in the 1780’s. Erasmus had already …
- … physiology was an influential work; John Ayrton Paris, a doctor from Cambridge, published the …
- … was written by Darwin’s grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, a doctor at Lichfield; Anna Seward wrote a …
- … but the writer left for London about twenty years before the doctor arrived to set up his medical …
4.25 'Punch' 1877 re. Cambridge doctorate
Summary
< Back to Introduction Punch often ridiculed Darwin by showing him as a monkey or in other animalistic forms, but in 1877, when he at last received an honorary degree from Cambridge University, it paid its tribute to ‘wisdom’. ‘Punch to Dr. Darwin’…
Joseph Simms
Summary
The American doctor and author of works on physiognomy Joseph Simms wrote to Darwin on 14 September 1874, while he was staying in London. He enclosed a copy of his book Nature’s revelations of character (Simms 1873). He hoped it might 'prove…
1.14 William Richmond, oil
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< Back to Introduction William Blake Richmond’s portrait of Darwin, dating from 1879, celebrated his honorary degree of LL.D (Doctor in Laws), awarded by Cambridge University in 1877. Darwin’s return to his alma mater for the presentation ceremony…
Life of Erasmus Darwin
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The Life of Erasmus Darwin (1879) was a curious departure for Darwin. It was intended as a biographical note to accompany an essay on Erasmus's scientific work by the German writer Ernst Krause. But Darwin became immersed in his grandfather's…
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Dramatisation script
Summary
Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
Summary
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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- … Nijmegen 08 June 1904 Nijmegen Doctor. In the list it says J.R. van Beemen …
John Beddoe
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In 1869, when gathering data on sexual selection in humans, Darwin exchanged a short series of letters with John Beddoe, a doctor in Bristol. He was looking for evidence that racial differences that appear to have no benefit in terms of survival - and…
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- … exchanged a short series of letters with a John Beddoe, a doctor in Bristol who had also published …
4.34 'Punch', Sambourne cartoon 1
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< Back to Introduction Linley Sambourne’s cartoon in Punch, a ‘Suggested Illustration’ for Darwin’s forthcoming book on The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants (1875) is another playful transformation of the author into an ape or monkey. However,…
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- … those of the author, not of the plants themselves: the ‘Doctor’ is evidently ‘ready to avow his …
Asa Gray
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Darwin’s longest running and most significant exchange of correspondence dealing with the subjects of design in nature and religious belief was with the Harvard botanist Asa Gray. Gray was one of Darwin’s leading supporters in America. He was also a…
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- … Gray was born in New York State in 1810. He qualified as a doctor, but gave up medical practice …
Charles Darwin born
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Charles Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, the fifth of six children of Robert Waring Darwin, a doctor, and his wife Susannah, daughter of Josiah Wedgwood I.
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- … the fifth of six children of Robert Waring Darwin, a doctor, and his wife Susannah, daughter of …
Charles Harrison Blackley
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You may not have heard of Charles Harrison Blackley (1820–1900), but if you are one of the 15 million people in the UK who suffer from hay fever, you are indebted to him. For it was he who identified pollen as the cause of the allergy. Darwin was…
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- … seems to me an astonishing fact’. Blackley was a doctor, practicing in Hulme, Manchester, who …
Titus Coan
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In 1874, when Darwin was preparing the second edition of Descent of Man, he received letters from all over the world in reply to his queries about human behaviour; one in particular would have stirred up unexpected memories of his own time among the native…
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- … South America. Titus Munson Coan , an American doctor, passed on a message to Darwin from …
Darwin in letters, 1874: A turbulent year
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The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early months working on second editions of Coral reefs and Descent of man; the rest of the year was mostly devoted to further research on insectivorous plants. A…
Darwin's illness
Summary
Was Darwin an invalid? In many photographs he looks wearied by age, wrapped in a great coat to protect him from cold. In a letter to his cousin William Fox, he wrote: "Long and continued ill health has much changed me, & I very often think with…
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- … At the age of 57, he summarized all his ailments for a new doctor. The note makes painful reading: …
1.21 window at Christ's College Cambridge
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< Back to Introduction Among the many posthumous commemorations of Darwin is a portrayal of him in stained glass. It is in the oriel window of the Hall at his alma mater, Christ’s College Cambridge – in a bay looking onto the First Court of the…
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- … history, and he is shown wearing the academic robes of a Doctor of Laws, in reference to the …
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…
Descent
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There are more than five hundred letters associated with the research and writing of Darwin’s book, Descent of man and selection in relation to sex (Descent). They trace not only the tortuous route to eventual publication, but the development of Darwin’s…
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- … , sparking one of the testier passages in Descent;* a doctor’s promising research on the …
