To W. D. Fox [15 October 1829]
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The Music Meeting was "glorious"; Malibran outshone all others.
Missed Hope in London.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [15 Oct 1829] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 23) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-73 |
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'Re: Design' dramatisation
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A dramatisation of the correspondence between Charles Darwin and Asa Gray was commissioned by the Darwin Project, and written by Cambridge playwright, Craig Baxter. It was developed for the stage by director Paul Bourne of the Menagerie Theatre Company,…
4.35 Frederick Sem, caricature
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< Back to Introduction A caricature drawing of Darwin by Frederick Sem was one of a series of his portrait caricatures acquired by Queen Alexandra for her scrapbook or album, which has been preserved in the Royal Collection. Darwin is shown leaning…
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- … Some of the Folger’s series of caricatures of writers and theatre people are signed by the sitters, …
4.55 Harry Furniss caricature
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< Back to Introduction Harry Furniss’s caricature of Darwin is in a set of seventy-two pen and ink drawings by this artist now in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London. They were acquired in 1947-8 from Theodore Cluse, who, acting…
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- … large sketches with a brush and black ink in front of the theatre audience. His own exuberant acting …
Darwin’s student booklist
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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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- … I also attended on two occasions the operating theatre in the hospital at Edinburgh, and saw two …
4.37 'Mosquito' satire
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< Back to Introduction The Buenos Aires satirical journal Mosquito published this cartoon in May 1882, shortly after Darwin’s death, with the title ‘El Homenage a Darwin en el Teatro Nacional’ (The tribute to Darwin in the National Theatre). A…
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- … el Teatro Nacional’ (The tribute to Darwin in the National Theatre). A politician, perhaps …
Results of the Darwin Online Emotions Experiment
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Thanks to all who took part in our online emotions experiment – over 18,000 of you! The formal stage of the experiment is now over, but it will be staying online as an activity, so if you don’t want to know the results, look away now. If you’d like to…
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- … stylised depictions from their experiences of Victorian theatre. For us, the interest in the …
Darwin’s first love
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Darwin’s long marriage to Emma Wedgwood is well documented, but was there an earlier romance in his life? How was his departure on the Beagle entangled with his first love? The answers are revealed in a series of flirtatious letters that Darwin was…
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- … sooner, were followed by her description of going to the theatre in Oswestry the evening before, her …
