From H. E. Litchfield to Charles and Emma Darwin [5 November 1871]
Summary
Describes the wedding party given for herself and Richard Buckley Litchfield at the Working Men’s College in London.
| Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [5 Nov 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 245: 2, 9, 252 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8053F |
To J. J. Weir 16 October 1871
Summary
Cannot accept JJW’s invitation to a party. His health has been worse than usual for some months – can see no one nor can he go anywhere.
Is preparing a cheap edition of the Origin [6th] and will answer Mivart’s objections.
CD is pleased JJW likes C. Wright’s "Darwinism" [see 7940]. Huxley will publish a splendid review of it in Contemporary Review [Nov 1871].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Jenner Weir |
| Date: | 16 Oct 1871 |
| Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1349) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8013 |
To S. R. S. Norton 23 November [1871]
Summary
Reports how his sons enjoyed their trip to America.
Is glad SRSN is settled in Dresden.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Susan Ridley Sedgwick Norton |
| Date: | 23 Nov [1871] |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Charles Eliot Norton Papers, MS Am 1088.14: 1594) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8083 |
From Francis Wedgwood to Emma Darwin [before 4 January 1871]
Summary
Will observe old furrowed fields for CD in the early spring. Suggests locations in Scotland and Rugby with ridge and furrowing in old pastures.
| Author: | Francis (Frank) Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [before 4 Jan 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 49 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7426 |
From J. B. Innes 26 May 1871
Summary
Has finished Descent, which charmed but did not convert him.
Sends examples of dogs’ reasoning.
Has given up his farm.
| Author: | John Brodie Innes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 May 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 167: 29 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7768 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … regards to M rs . Darwin and all your party | Believe me Dear Darwin | Yours faithfully | …
To J. D. Hooker 5 July [1871]
Summary
Lady Lyell’s anxiety over Lyell’s health.
Preparing new edition of Origin.
Asks whether anything was observed [in Morocco] on expressions.
Did JDH notice whether pollen-masses in Ophrys apifera in N. Africa fall on the stigma, as in England?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 5 July [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 197–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7850 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Essay. By the way I suppose none of your party observed anything for me on this Head? Also …
From J. L. A. Hope 4 October 1871
Summary
Anecdote about a gathering of kangaroos.
| Author: | James Louis Alexander Hope |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Oct 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 88: 112–13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7985 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Plains District in New South Wales; a party consisting of another gentleman, myself, a …
From J. D. Hooker 19 March 1871
Summary
Describes plans for travel in Morocco with George Maw and John Ball.
Has not yet read Descent.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Mar 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 63–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7600 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Ball has all but thrust himself into our party, & though I had rather have been alone with …
From John Coghlan 13 July 1871
Summary
JC offers to collect information under CD’s guidance.
Gives some notes on the colours of different horse breeds.
Mentions a wild duck that appears to be polygamous
and his observations on male ostriches with broods of young.
| Author: | John Coghlan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 July 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 88: 164 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7864 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Argentina; he had sent CD, through a third party, specimens from artesian wells in Buenos …
From J. M. Fleming 29 March 1871
Summary
Discusses breeding fancy pigeons from the wild blue rock-dove.
| Author: | James Murray Fleming |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Mar 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 134 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7642 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … the question, as it stands at present among parties who seem really deeply learned in the …
From Karl Scherzer 28 May 1871
Summary
Craniological part of Novara voyage report is done.
Expresses his satisfaction at CD’s election as a Foreign Honorary Member of the Academy of Sciences, Vienna.
| Author: | Karl von Scherzer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 May 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 51 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9998 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … but when I learned the fact the lively party had gone. — The whole winter I was very much …
From W. R. Greg 14 March [1871]
Summary
Comments on various points in Descent: proportion of sexes, moral sentiments in animals, etc. Encloses "packet of data" [missing].
| Author: | William Rathbone Greg |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Mar [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 90: 127–30 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7581 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … to the degree of consanguinity of the parties ( OED s.v. ‘degree’ I, 3a). In Descent 2: …
From Napoleon de la Fleurière 8 April [1871]
Summary
Believes CD should answer the critical article [review of Descent] in the Times [of 7 and 8 Apr].
Moral sense and moral conduct.
| Author: | Napoleon de la Fleurière |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Apr [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 135 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7669 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … carry conviction to the mind of “the Stupid party” itself, to use Mill’s phrase —a theory …
From H. E. Litchfield [13 November 1871]
Summary
Does not want CD to put his name to any religious movement. Discourages giving money to Abbott or Voysey.
| Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [13 Nov 1871] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 41) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8054F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … inferences if they feel that you have no party spirit will be such an infinitely stronger …
From O. G. Rejlander [1871]
Summary
Observations on expression.
| Author: | Oscar Gustaf Rejlander |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 189: 139 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7418 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … etc When to express that the exulting party puts his thumb to his nose with extended …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (2) |
| Litchfield, H. E. | (2) |
| Coghlan, John | (1) |
| Fleming, J. M. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
| Darwin, Emma | (2) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Norton, S. R. S. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (14) |
| Darwin, Emma | (2) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Litchfield, H. E. | (2) |
The Lyell–Lubbock dispute
Summary
In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book Prehistoric times, accused Lyell of plagiarism. The dispute caused great dismay among many of their mutual scientific friends, some of whom took immediate action…
Anne Schlabach Burkhardt (1916–2012)
Summary
Anne Burkhardt was associated with the Darwin Correspondence Project from its beginning in 1974, and her contribution to its work helped ensure the regular publication of the volumes of correspondence. Anne was born in La Crosse, Wisconsin, and studied…
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- … it became positively dangerous to attend Bennington cocktail parties, for even the slightest hint of …
Darwin in letters, 1877: Flowers and honours
Summary
Ever since the publication of Expression, Darwin’s research had centred firmly on botany. The year 1877 was no exception. The spring and early summer were spent completing Forms of flowers, his fifth book on a botanical topic. He then turned to the…
Matches: 1 hits
- … composed specially for the occasion. He avoided dinner parties and used his spare time to scout …
St George Jackson Mivart
Summary
In the second half of 1874, Darwin’s peace was disturbed by an anonymous article in the Quarterly Review suggesting that his son George was opposed to the institution of marriage and in favour of ‘unrestrained licentiousness’. Darwin suspected, correctly,…
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- … be attended to by requiring a clean bill of health in both parties before marriage, and ultimately …
Darwin in letters, 1821-1836: Childhood to the Beagle voyage
Summary
Darwin's first known letters were written when he was twelve. They continue through school-days at Shrewsbury, two years as a medical student at Edinburgh University, the undergraduate years at Cambridge, and the of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle.…
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- … at the botanical lectures, excursions, and undergraduate parties organised by the professor of …
Darwin’s first love
Summary
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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- … visiting Brighton in January 1828 and attending balls and parties almost every night. They show how …
Darwin and vivisection
Summary
Darwin played an important role in the controversy over vivisection that broke out in late 1874. Public debate was sparked when the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals brought an unsuccessful prosecution against a French physiologist who…
Darwin in letters, 1875: Pulling strings
Summary
‘I am getting sick of insectivorous plants’, Darwin confessed in January 1875. He had worked on the subject intermittently since 1859, and had been steadily engaged on a book manuscript for nine months; January also saw the conclusion of a bitter dispute…
Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson
Summary
[f.146r Title page] Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle Supplement / to the 2nd 3rd and Appendix Volumes of the First / Edition Written / for and in the name of the Author of those / Volumes By J.C. Ross. / Sometime Master of a…
Matches: 6 hits
- … that time – the frequent predatory excursions of minor parties of Indians have prevented the …
- … was settled in full independence of Mr H’s dictation – parties of them resorted to him with …
- … as many as might come to him to beg for it – as the former parties had done – [ f.184v p.76 ] …
- … by any other designation than “Excursions” of picnic ^parties^ “on pleasure bent” &c. …
- … been drawn up for us – by able and disinterested third parties – than draw these for one another – …
- … ] Arbitrator between both parties – but felt disposed to lean to the …
Animals, ethics, and the progress of science
Summary
Darwin’s view on the kinship between humans and animals had important ethical implications. In Descent, he argued that some animals exhibited moral behaviour and had evolved mental powers analogous to conscience. He gave examples of cooperation, even…
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- … teaching under certain conditions, but the Bill left many parties unsatisfied and the controversy …
Fake Darwin: myths and misconceptions
Summary
Many myths have persisted about Darwin's life and work. Here are a few of the more pervasive ones, with full debunking below...
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- … Many myths have persisted about Darwin's life and work. Here are a few of the more pervasive ones, …
Was Darwin an ecologist?
Summary
One of the most fascinating aspects of Charles Darwin’s correspondence is the extent to which the experiments he performed at his home in Down, in the English county of Kent, seem to prefigure modern scientific work in ecology.
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- … an earlier passage, describes it as a race from which both parties benefit. Nowadays, we are …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
Summary
In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
Matches: 1 hits
- … . In Castelnau, Francis de, Expédition dans les parties centrales de l’Amérique du Sud … …
Darwin in letters, 1878: Movement and sleep
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In 1878, Darwin devoted most of his attention to the movements of plants. He investigated the growth pattern of roots and shoots, studying the function of specific organs in this process. Working closely with his son Francis, Darwin devised a series of…
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- … Darwin spent over a month corresponding with the various parties, repeatedly revising his own letter …
