To W. B. Cheadle 31 January 1879
Summary
Declines to sign petition concerning Professorship of Pathology at Cambridge.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Walter Butler Cheadle |
| Date: | 31 Jan 1879 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.559) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11852 |
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- … Bibliography Clark, John Willis. 1904. Endowments of the University of Cambridge. …
- … a professorship of pathology at the University of Cambridge (a professor of pathology was …
- … signed by ‘graduates of the University of Cambridge, engaged in the study or practice of …
- … Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. …
- … University Archives, CUL. CD did not sign it. Probably either George Howard Darwin , who had been a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, …
To Ernst Krause 27 May 1879
Summary
CD’s preface [for Erasmus Darwin] is delayed by his sitting for a portrait.
Explains to EK why he feels unable to contribute articles to Kosmos.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
| Date: | 27 May 1879 |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36185) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12063 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … in the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge. See frontispiece. In his letter of …
- … to a Painter for my portrait for the University of Cambridge. With respect to Kosmos I can …
- … of laws (LLD) awarded to CD by the University of Cambridge in 1877; the portrait showed CD …
From J. D. Hooker 13 March 1879
Summary
Urges Frank to reconsider his refusal of Cambridge Examinership.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Mar 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 125–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11938 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … and holders of office at the University of Cambridge, from the earliest times to 1900. …
- … natural sciences tripos at the University of Cambridge. Horace Darwin also wanted Francis …
- … J. A. Venn. 10 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1922–54. Walters, Stuart Max. …
- … from the time of Ray into the present century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. …
- … was an examiner from 1879 to 1881 ( Cambridge University Reporter , 25 March 1879, p. 475; …
To John Fiske 10 June 1879
Summary
Invitation to Down for the 18th. W. B. Richmond, who is painting CD’s portrait, will also be there.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Fiske |
| Date: | 10 June 1879 |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 8265) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12098 |
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- … laws (LLD) awarded to CD by the University of Cambridge in 1877; it showed CD in his red …
- … University College, London ( J. S. Clark 1917 , 2: 115, 126). The portrait had been commissioned from William Blake Richmond by the Cambridge …
To J. D. Hooker 16 March [1879]
Summary
Frank’s reasons for not accepting the Cambridge Examinership.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 16 Mar [1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 481–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11939 |
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- … the natural sciences tripos at the University of Cambridge has not been found, but see the …
- … the the examiners announced in the Cambridge University Reporter , 25 March 1879, pp. 474– …
- … Francis became an examiner in 1884 ( Cambridge University Reporter , 4 December 1883, p. …
- … including Francis Maitland Balfour ( Cambridge University Reporter , 25 March 1879, pp. …
To G. H. Darwin [31 July 1879]
Summary
Asks GHD to send name and address of tailor from whom he got the [LL.D.] gown to W. B. Richmond.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | [31 July 1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 88 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12206 |
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- … laws (LLD) awarded to CD by the University of Cambridge in 1877 (see letter to John Fiske, …
To Elliott Coues [after 2 April 1879]
Summary
Memorial in support of EC travelling to Europe to research his bibliography of ornithology.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Elliott Coues |
| Date: | [after 2 Apr 1879] |
| Classmark: | Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club 4: 176–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11970F |
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- … Professor of Zoology in the University of Cambridge. H. B. T ristram , F.R.S. O sbert S …
From W. B. Cheadle 17 February 1879
Summary
Second request that CD sign a Cambridge memorial [i.e., petition]. The heading has been amended to include graduates who have formerly studied medicine.
| Author: | Walter Butler Cheadle |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Feb 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 136 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11887 |
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- … a professorship of pathology at the University of Cambridge on the grounds that he was not …
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 13 March 1879
Summary
Thanks for seeds and for kindness to Frank Darwin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 13 Mar 1879 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: f. 165) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11929 |
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- … natural sciences tripos at the University of Cambridge. See also letter from J. D. Hooker, …
- … place was, he had telegraphed Cambridge University refusing it. After thanking Thiselton- …
To Alfred Newton 2 April [1879]
Summary
"I have signed the enclosed with pleasure."
Thanks AN for his kind expression about Frank [Darwin].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
| Date: | 2 Apr [1879] |
| Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/64) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11970 |
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- … Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/64) Charles Robert Darwin Down 2 Apr [1879] …
- … nominated as an examiner in botany at Cambridge University (see letter from Alfred Newton, …
From Richard Okes to G. H. Darwin 29 April 1879
Summary
Thinks King’s College Library may have the letters of his grandfather [Thomas Okes of Exeter]. [See Erasmus Darwin, p. 14.]
| Author: | Richard Okes |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Apr 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 192–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12016 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Edward Daniel Clarke was librarian of Cambridge University Library from 1817 to 1822 ( …
- … Mead died. Henry Bradshaw . Thomas Okes’s letters are not in Cambridge University Library. …
To G. H. Darwin 3 May [1879]
Summary
Asks GHD to look in Cambridge University Library for Monthly Magazine articles containing a malicious calumny concerning Dr [Erasmus] D[arwin] [see Erasmus Darwin, pp. 65–70].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 3 May [1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 78 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12028 |
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- … Asks GHD to look in Cambridge University Library for Monthly Magazine articles containing …
- … Life of Erasmus Darwin’. First unabridged edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. …
From G. H. Darwin 10 May 1879
Summary
Sends abstracts of more articles [on Dr Erasmus Darwin] from Monthly Magazine.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 May 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 76 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12048 |
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- … on natural philosophy. New edition. 2 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. …
- … and Tait 1879–83 , published by Cambridge University Press, had been sent to Down, rather …
To Reginald Darwin 4 April 1879
Summary
Has been "deeply interested by the great book" [see 11966]. Asks permission to publish extracts.
Did Dr Darwin go to Edinburgh when his son, Charles, died? Asks whether RD has ever heard a story about Dr Darwin that had been told to CD by the Galtons.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Reginald Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Apr 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 153: 97 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11977 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … letters of Erasmus Darwin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. King-Hele, Desmond, ed. …
- … Life of Erasmus Darwin’. First unabridged edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. …
From G. H. Darwin 3 March 1879
Summary
Thanks CD [for his increased allowance?].
Writes of his tour [in Algeria].
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Mar 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 73 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11914 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 16. Scientific papers. 5 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Maupassant, Guy de. …
To Ernst Krause 7 July 1879
Summary
Sends proofs of his preface [to EK’s Erasmus Darwin], with which he is disappointed. Suggests additions and improvements he would like to make.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
| Date: | 7 July 1879 |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36188) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12136 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … unabridged edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Krause, Ernst. 1879a. Erasmus …
To Francis Galton [1 March 1879?]
Summary
Can FG come to lunch on Monday?
Sorry FG has not been well and is soon going abroad.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Galton |
| Date: | [1 Mar 1879?] |
| Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/3/2/1/26) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11911 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … and labours of Francis Galton. 3 vols. in 4. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. …
From Reginald Darwin 18 April 1879
Summary
Thanks CD for sending some old family letters of RD’s father’s [Francis Sacheverel Darwin (1786–1859)].
| Author: | Reginald Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Apr 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 154–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11987 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … East, 1808–1810 . Edited by Francis Swift Darwin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. …
To Reginald Darwin 16 April 1879
Summary
Sends letters from RD’s father to R. W. Darwin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Reginald Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Apr 1879 |
| Classmark: | University of California Santa Barbara, Davidson Library, Special Collections |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11997 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … East, 1808–1810 . Edited by Francis Swift Darwin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. …
To K. P. von Kaufman 4 June 1879
Summary
Thanks for letter of 27 April (Julian calendar; 9 May Gregorian calendar), and promised gift of wheat varieties. Will probably send them to Alexander Stephen Wilson.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Konstantin Petrovich von Kaufman (Константин Петрович фон Кауфман) |
| Date: | 4 June 1879 |
| Classmark: | National Library of Russia (Collection of P. Waxell (F. 965): no 636) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12081F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. …
| letter | (42) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (20) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (5) |
| Darwin, Reginald | (3) |
| Darwin, Francis | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (21) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (5) |
| Darwin, Reginald | (2) |
| Galton, Francis | (2) |
| Krause, Ernst | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (41) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (10) |
| Darwin, Reginald | (5) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Cheadle, W. B. | (2) |
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
Summary
< 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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- … < Back to Introduction In June 1909 the University of Cambridge, Darwin’s alma mater, …
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 was a photography enthusiast. This is evident not only in his use of photography for the …
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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- … The album was sent to Darwin to mark his birthday on 12 February 1877 by the civil servant Emil …
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’…
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- … < Back to Introduction Punch often ridiculed Darwin by showing him as a …
1.21 window at Christ's College Cambridge
Summary
< 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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- … Many people have contributed to the Darwin Correspondence Project since it was first founded in …
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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- … The Darwin Correspondence Project was co-sponsor of Biodiversity and its Histories , which …
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
Summary
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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- … There is an extensive secondary literature on Darwin's life and work. Here are some suggested …
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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- … < Back to Introduction Despite the difficulties that arose in relation to Maull and …
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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- … A shorter version of this film is available on the Cambridge University Press video …
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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- … < Back to Introduction This chalk sketch of Darwin by Samuel Laurence is (as Francis …
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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- … < Back to Introduction It is so rare to encounter an image of Darwin in a specific …
