From Anthony Rich 4 June 1880
Summary
CD’s portrait at exhibition is praised by critics. CD and the Prime Minister may boast of having been in their day "the best abused men in England".
| Author: | Anthony Rich |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 June 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 142 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12620 |
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- … laws (LLD) awarded to him by the University of Cambridge in 1877; see Correspondence vol. …
- … hangs in the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge. See Correspondence vol. 27, …
To W. E. Gladstone June 1880
Summary
Supporting the abolition of clerical headships and fellowships at Oxford and Cambridge.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Ewart Gladstone |
| Date: | June 1880 |
| Classmark: | Roundell 1880, pp. 10–11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12647F |
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- … the professorship of Hebrew in the University of Cambridge. ” When the Universities Tests …
- … in any College of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. ” And that they will also …
- … to make Statutes for the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and the Colleges therein, …
- … Universities Tests Act of 1871 should be fully recognized by the Commissioners. We are also of opinion that no sufficient reason can be advanced why the Chairs of Hebrew and of Ecclesiastical History at Oxford, and of Hebrew at Cambridge, …
From Anton Dohrn 21 February 1880
Summary
Thanks CD for his offer. Suggests it be used to start a fund to pay travel expenses of English naturalists who want to come to the Station.
| Author: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Feb 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 219 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12497 |
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- … of funds ( Heuss 1991 , p. 211). The University of Cambridge and the British Association …
To James Dixon 8 May 1880
Summary
Thanks for information.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Dixon |
| Date: | 8 May 1880 |
| Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 6604: 17) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12599 |
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- … Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 6604: 17) Charles Robert Darwin Down 8 May 1880 …
To Sophy Wedgwood 8 October [1880]
Summary
Asks her to look for worm-castings in heath. Thinks heath conditions may be unfavourable. CD is sure Lucy would look with her, from her well-known affection for worms. Asks what sort of lantern Lucy used.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Katherine Elizabeth Sophy (Sophy) Wedgwood |
| Date: | 8 Oct [1880] |
| Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add 4251: 335) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12745 |
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- … Cambridge University Library (MS Add 4251: 335) Charles Robert Darwin Down 8 Oct [1880] …
To G. H. Darwin 23 November [1880]
Summary
Discusses GHD’s ripple theory. Asks him how they are formed.
Delighted to hear that light is dawning in GHD’s eyes on the planetary system.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Nov [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 99 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12844 |
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- … George Howard. 1907–16. Scientific papers. 5 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. …
From Francis Darwin [25–7 May 1880]
Summary
Hopes CD got telegram about Convolvulus. Is measuring plants every four hours. Will go to Brittany by boat from Southampton on Monday night.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [25–7 May 1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 65 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12616F |
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- … Hamilton. 1894. Practical physiology of plants . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. …
From W. R. Browne 16 December 1880
Summary
Writes on behalf of the Archbishop of Canterbury to invite CD to a private conference organised in an attempt to reconcile science and religion. [Enclosed is a printed two-page memorial calling for such a conference.]
| Author: | Walter Raleigh Browne |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Dec 1880 |
| Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Microfilm10682); DAR 202: 17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12918 |
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- … Cambridge University Library (MS Microfilm10682); DAR 202: 17 Walter Raleigh Browne …
From G. H. Darwin 27 July 1880
Summary
Asks CD’s advice on how to answer a letter requesting his endorsement of Wrigley, his former teacher at Clapham School.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 July 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 64.2: 94; DAR 210.2: 85 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12668 |
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- … Cavendish Laboratory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Thompson, Silvanus P. 1910. …
- … Cambridge School of Physiology: the scientific enterprise in late Victorian society. Princeton: Princeton University …
From T. H. Farrer 6 March 1880
Summary
Suggests Torbitt make a report on his progress so far.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Mar 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 97 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12522 |
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- … Salaman, Redcliffe Nathan. 1926. Potato varieties . Cambridge: University Press. …
From Ebenezer Turnbull 17 June 1880
Summary
Information about the death of John Scott, his nephew.
| Author: | Ebenezer Turnbull |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 June 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 198: 209 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12638F |
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- … Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. …
To G. H. Darwin 30 May [1880]
Summary
Discusses GHD’s genealogical researches
and his health.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 30 May [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 93 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12619 |
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- … Scientific papers. 5 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Erasmus Darwin. By Ernst …
From Ernst Krause 22 March 1880
Summary
German edition of Erasmus Darwin delayed because Murray has not sent phototypes and galvanographs.
Two of CD’s articles from Nature to appear in April Kosmos ["Sexual colours in butterflies", Collected papers 2: 220–2, Kosmos 7 (1880): 72–4;
"Fertility of hybrids from the Chinese goose", Collected papers 2: 219–20, Kosmos 7 (1880): 77–8].
Moritz Wagner will begin a series criticising natural selection.
| Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Mar 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: B57 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12542 |
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- … et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Erasmus Darwin. By …
From G. H. Darwin 4 March 1880
Summary
Writes on family matters and researches.
Mentions construction of a pendulum
and completion of a paper he will send to the Royal Society.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Mar 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 82 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12510 |
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- … Scientific papers. 5 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ODNB : Oxford dictionary …
From C.-F. Reinwald 7 October 1880
Summary
Edmond Barbier is dead and his widow needs support.
| Author: | Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Oct 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 111 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12741 |
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- … information. 11th edition. 29 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1910–11. …
To George King 29 September 1880
Summary
Grieved to hear of John Scott’s death.
Could GK visit Down?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George King |
| Date: | 29 Sept 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 249: 89 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12730 |
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- … et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Earthworms : The …
From S. T. Preston 5 August 1880
Summary
Sends his paper on "Natural science and morality", notwithstanding CD’s disinclination for the subject. This work parallels H. Spencer’s in the Data of ethics [1879].
Clerk Maxwell and William Thomson have encouraged his work in physics; STP looks for CD’s support on evolution.
| Author: | Samuel Tolver Preston |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Aug 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 174: 62 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12678 |
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- … Clerk Maxwell . 3 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. LeSueur, William Dawson. …
To ? 23 October 1880
Summary
Answers correspondent’s questions on his birth date and when he began work on origin of species.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 23 Oct 1880 |
| Classmark: | Jeremy Norman (dealer) (catalogue 69, item 15) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12771 |
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- … by Paul H. Barrett et al. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press for the British Museum ( …
To T. M. Reade 9 December 1880
Summary
Comments on TMR’s "Oceanic islands" [Geol. Mag. 8 (1881): 75–7]. Fact that oceanic islands are all volcanic argues for view that no continent ever occupied the oceans. Chalk seemed best evidence of ocean having existed where continent now stands. CD leans to view that continents have occupied present positions since Cambrian.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Mellard Reade |
| Date: | 9 Dec 1880 |
| Classmark: | University of Liverpool Library (TMR1.D.7.7) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12901 |
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- … by Richard Darwin Keynes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1988. Murray, John. 1876. …
From Wallis Nash 4 January 1880
Summary
Reports on the comfortable life of an immigrant in Oregon.
| Author: | Wallis Nash |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12400 |
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- … information. 11th edition. 29 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1910–11. …
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| Darwin, G. H. | (3) |
| Buckley, A. B. | (1) |
| Candolle, Alphonse de | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (42) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (6) |
| Gray, Asa | (4) |
| Darwin, Francis | (2) |
| Dohrn, Anton | (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
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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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- … < 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
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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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- … 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
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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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- … 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 …
