To Francis Galton 24 July [1853]
Summary
FG’s volume on his African expedition [Narrative of an explorer in tropical South Africa (1853)] stimulates CD to express his admiration and to hope their acquaintance can be renewed.
Describes his health and life at Down.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Galton |
| Date: | 24 July [1853] |
| Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1525 |
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- … al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Galton, Francis. 1853. …
- … and labours of Francis Galton. 3 vols. in 4. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. …
- … author’s best regards’, is in the Cambridge University Library. Galton had been travelling …
To Albany Hancock 10 January [1853]
Summary
Grateful for AH’s long letter and suggestions. Delighted at what he says about "complemental males". CD feared no one would believe in them but now that Owen, Dana, and AH accept them, he is content.
Agrees with AH on cross-impregnation; has collected facts on this head but has done nothing with them.
AH’s paper on Alcippe [Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 2d ser. 4 (1849): 305–14] caused him to lose sleep over its anomalous structure.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Albany Hancock |
| Date: | 10 Jan [1853] |
| Classmark: | Historical Society of Pennsylvania |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1497 |
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- … Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Living Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the sub-class …
- … by Paul H. Barrett et al. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press for the British Museum ( …
- … University of Chicago Press. 1977. Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: …
To Charles Lyell 7 June [1853]
Summary
Describes meeting of Geological Society [1 June 1853].
Mentions his criticism of Murchison’s lecture on flints.
Describes Robert Chambers’ "On the glacial phenomena in Scotland" [Edinburgh New Philos. J. 54 (1853): 229–82].
Mentions controversial election of members to the Royal Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 7 June [1853] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.107) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1518 |
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- … Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Darwin, Bernard. 1955. The world that Fred made: an …
- … Cambridge: privately printed by Cambridge University Press. 1904. Emma Darwin (1915): Emma …
- … in the nineteenth century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Raverat, Gwendolen Mary. …
- … University of Chicago Press. 1977. Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: …
To Charles Lyell 15 February [1853]
Summary
Returns Lake Superior [1850], which he already has received from Agassiz. Thanks for pamphlets by C. B. Adams [on Mollusca, Contrib. Conchol. 10 (1851): 189–206; 11 (1852): 207–15].
Describes his dissection of an unusual cirripede [Alcippe lampas] with 12 males attached [see Living Cirripedia 2: 556, 558].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 15 Feb [1853] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.103) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1502 |
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- … et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Living Cirripedia ( …
- … from 1856 to 1858. Edited by R. C. Stauffer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1975. …
From J. D. Hooker [4 November 1853]
Summary
Royal Society votes its Royal Medal for 1853 to CD. JDH reports the debate and vote at the Royal Society Council.
Honoured for Coral reefs
and Cirripedia.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [4 Nov 1853] |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 186–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1539 |
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- … et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. DNB : Dictionary of …
- … Cambridge University Press. Living Cirripedia (1851): A monograph of the sub-class …
- … University Press. 1927–96. Fossil Cirripedia (1851): A monograph on the fossil Lepadidæ, or, pedunculated cirripedes of Great Britain. By Charles Darwin. London: Palaeontographical Society. 1851. Hall, Marie Boas. 1984. All scientists now: the Royal Society in the nineteenth century. Cambridge: …
To T. H. Huxley 23 April [1853]
Summary
On THH’s paper on cephalous Mollusca [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 143 (1853) pt 1: 29–66]. Discovery of the type or "idea" (in THH’s sense, not Owen’s or Agassiz’s) is one of the highest ends of natural history.
Discusses anamorphism;
position of heart in Cleodora.
Variability within species;
cementing process in cirripedes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 23 Apr [1853] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1480 |
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- … Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Desmond, Adrian. 1982. Archetypes and ancestors: …
- … Edited by R. C. Stauffer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1975. Waterhouse, George …
- … University of Chicago Press. 1977. Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: …
To Albany Hancock 29 January [1853]
Summary
Discusses Alcippe. Asks to borrow specimens. Would like to hire fishermen to collect specimens.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Albany Hancock |
| Date: | 29 Jan [1853] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1498 |
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- … Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Living Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the sub-class …
- … University of Chicago Press. 1977. Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: …
To W. D. Fox 10 August [1853]
Summary
Thanks WDF for writing so soon after his misfortunes, and again expresses sympathy.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 10 Aug [1853] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 85) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1527 |
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- … Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. …
To J. A. H. de Bosquet 13 October [1853]
Summary
Discusses publication of Fossil Cirripedia.
Comments on paper by JAHdeB ["Les crustacés fossiles du terrain Crétacé du Limbourg", Verh. Uitg. Comm. Geol. Beschrijving & Kaart Ned. 2 (1854): 11–137].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet |
| Date: | 13 Oct [1853] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 128 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1537 |
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- … et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Fossil Cirripedia ( …
To Syms Covington 21 October 1853
Summary
Comments on SC’s trip to the gold diggings. CD is most interested in Australia and reads every book about it that he can find. Sends news of former Beagle shipmates FitzRoy, Sulivan, Mellersh, and of Fuegia [Basket].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Syms Covington |
| Date: | 21 Oct 1853 |
| Classmark: | Sydney Mail, 9 August 1884, p. 254 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1538 |
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- … al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Ferguson, B. J. 1971. …
To G. R. Waterhouse 18 January [1853]
Summary
Thanks GRW for his sympathy on his ill health. Feels better lately.
Sends thanks to G. P. Deshayes for his advice.
Asks what "original work" GRW has begun so his name will become better known.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Robert Waterhouse |
| Date: | 18 Jan [1853] |
| Classmark: | McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-944 |
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- … Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. …
To Andrew Crombie Ramsay 9 April [1853]
Summary
Discusses geological foliation and cleavage. Urges ACR to read CD’s remarks on subject in his South America before ACR publishes his paper ["On the lower Palaeozoic rocks", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 9 (1853): 161–79].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
| Date: | 9 Apr [1853] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.106) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1512 |
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- … al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Ramsay, Andrew Crombie. …
From E. A. Darwin 26 April 1853
Summary
Acknowledges the receipt of some securities.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Apr 1853 |
| Classmark: | DAR 262.11: 13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1516 |
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- … et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Post Office London …
To Josiah Wedgwood III 25 [April 1853]
Summary
Discusses the [CD/Emma] marriage trust.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Josiah Wedgwood, III |
| Date: | 25 [Apr 1853] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.10: 21 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1379 |
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- … Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. …
To E. A. Darwin 26 [April 1853]
Summary
Writes concerning marriage trust.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Date: | 26 [Apr 1853] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.10: 19, 22 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1380 |
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- … Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. …
To Edward Cresy 29 April [1853]
Summary
Discusses installation of watering system. Sent question to Gardeners’ Chronicle but, through EC’s kindness, superfluously.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
| Date: | 29 Apr [1853] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 310 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1677 |
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- … et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Post Office London …
To J. D. Dana 27 September [1853]
Summary
Admires JDD’s work on Crustacea, corals, and geology.
Commends young John Lubbock to his attention. Hopes JDD can give him encouragement; if he can resist his "great wealth, business, and rank, he may do good work in Natural History".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Dwight Dana |
| Date: | 27 Sept [1853] |
| Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 43) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1533 |
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- … et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Fossil Cirripedia ( …
To J. A. H. de Bosquet 17 July 1853
Summary
Discusses valves in Scalpellum. Comments on JAHdeB’s research on cirripedes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet |
| Date: | 17 July 1853 |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 127 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1523 |
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- … al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Dixon, Frederick. 1850. …
To J. D. Hooker [9 October 1853]
Summary
Detailed response to MS of introductory essay to [The botany of the Antarctic voyage, pt II] Flora Novae-Zelandiae [1853–5]. CD will curse JDH when, in a year or two, he is at his species book, for "having put so many hostile facts so confoundedly well".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [9 Oct 1853] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 149 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1529 |
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- … et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Geikie, Archibald. …
To J. D. Dana 6 December [1853]
Summary
Responds to JDD’s objections to his views on the three pairs of appendages in larvae of cirripedes. Reports observations which confirm his views.
Gives his confidential opinion of A. White, C. S. Bate, T. Bell, and W. Baird.
Interested in JDD’s observation that Crustacea are not most developed in the tropics. If JDD ever works it out either in number of species or rank, CD would be glad to have result.
Comments on article by Henri Milne-Edwards ["Crustacés", Ann. Sci. Nat. (Zool.) 18 (1852): 109–66].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Dwight Dana |
| Date: | 6 Dec [1853] |
| Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 43) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1542 |
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- … Cambridge University Press. 1985–. DNB : Dictionary of national biography. Edited by …
- … Living Cirripedia (1854) in the Cambridge University Library). Dana had earlier reviewed …
- … University Press. Baird, William. 1850. The natural history of the British Entomostraca. London. Bell, Thomas. 1853. A history of the British stalk-eyed crustacea. London: John Van Voorst. Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: …
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The correspondence 1821-60: anniversary paperback set
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General Editor Frederick Burkhardt, and the editors of the Darwin Correspondence Project (Cambridge University Press 2009) These eight award-winning volumes, reprinted for the first time in paperback, present the definitive text of all known letters to…
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- … General Editor Frederick Burkhardt, and the editors of the Darwin Correspondence Project …
Oxford and Cambridge University Club
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Intrigue at Cambridge
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- … Darwin's friend John Maurice Herbert writes with news of charges of corruption and …
2.28 Couper bust in Cambridge
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< Back to Introduction In June 1909 the University of Cambridge, Darwin’s alma mater, staged an international event to mark the centenary of his birth and the fifty years’ anniversary of the publication of Origin of Species. Over four hundred…
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Darwin’s Photographic Portraits
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Darwin was a photography enthusiast. This is evident not only in his use of photography for the study of Expression and Emotions in Man and Animal, but can be witnessed in his many photographic portraits and in the extensive portrait correspondence that…
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Darwin on marriage
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On 11 November 1838 Darwin wrote in his journal ‘The day of days!’. He had proposed to his cousin, Emma Wedgwood, and been accepted; they were married on 29 January 1839. Darwin appears to have written these two notes weighing up the pros and cons of…
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- … On 11 November 1838 Darwin wrote in his journal ‘The day of days!’. He had proposed to his cousin, …
Photograph album of Dutch admirers
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Darwin received the photograph album for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from his scientific admirers in the Netherlands. He wrote to the Dutch zoologist Pieter Harting, An account of your countrymen’s generous sympathy in having sent me on my…
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- … Darwin received the photograph album for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from his scientific …
Photograph album of German and Austrian scientists
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The album was sent to Darwin to mark his birthday on 12 February 1877 by the civil servant Emil Rade, and contained 165 portraits of German and Austrian scientists. The work was lavishly produced and bound in blue velvet with metal embossing. Its ornate…
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4.25 'Punch' 1877 re. Cambridge doctorate
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< 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’…
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- … < Back to Introduction Punch often ridiculed Darwin by showing him as a …
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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- … < Back to Introduction Among the many posthumous commemorations of Darwin is a …
Who we were
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Many people have contributed to the Darwin Correspondence Project since it was first founded in 1974. Some names are now lost to us, and we would appreciate hearing from anyone who has contributed in the past and is not listed here. The final staff of…
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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…
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- … < Back to Introduction William Blake Richmond’s portrait of Darwin, dating from 1879, …
Biodiversity and its histories
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The Darwin Correspondence Project was co-sponsor of Biodiversity and its Histories, which brought together scholars and researchers in ecology, politics, geography, anthropology, cultural history, and history and philosophy of science, to explore how…
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John Murray
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Darwin's most famous book On the origin of species by means of natural selection (Origin) was published on 22 November 1859. The publisher was John Murray, who specialised in non-fiction, particularly politics, travel and science, and had published…
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- … Darwin's most famous book On the origin of species by means of natural selection (Origin) was …
Cambridge
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Preparation and specimens
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- … Letters about leaving Cambridge, preparing for the voyage, sending specimens, and news from Darwin …
Suggested reading
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There is an extensive secondary literature on Darwin's life and work. Here are some suggested titles that focus Darwin’s correspondence, as well as scientific correspondence and letter-writing more generally. Collections of Darwin’s letters …
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Darwin in letters, 1879: Tracing roots
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Darwin spent a considerable part of 1879 in the eighteenth century. His journey back in time started when he decided to publish a biographical account of his grandfather Erasmus Darwin to accompany a translation of an essay on Erasmus’s evolutionary ideas…
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- … There are summaries of all Darwin's letters from the year 1879 on this website. The full texts of …
3.3 Maull and Polyblank photo 2
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< Back to Introduction Despite the difficulties that arose in relation to Maull and Polyblank’s first photograph of Darwin, another one was produced, this time showing him in three-quarter view. It was evidently not taken at the same session as the…
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Darwin and women: a selection of letters
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A shorter version of this film is available on the Cambridge University Press video stream. Darwin and Women focusses on Darwin's correspondence with women and on the lives of the women he knew and wrote to. It includes a large number of…
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1.5 Samuel Laurence drawing 2
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< Back to Introduction This chalk sketch of Darwin by Samuel Laurence is (as Francis Darwin surmised) likely to have been done in 1853, at the same sitting as the portrait in three-quarter view which is now at Down House. It is inscribed on the back…
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3.9 Leonard Darwin, photo on horseback
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< Back to Introduction It is so rare to encounter an image of Darwin in a specific locale that a family photograph of him riding his horse Tommy takes on a special interest. He is at the front of Down House, the door of which is open; it seems as…
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