To G. M. Humphry 14 March 1873
Summary
Sorry that his health prevents him attending a meeting to honour Adam Sedgwick.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Murray Humphry |
| Date: | 14 Mar 1873 |
| Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (13 December 2016) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8810F |
To Rifle Volunteer Corps 23 April 1872
Summary
Regrets that his health will prevent his attending concerts in aid of the Rifle Corps Fund.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Rifle Volunteer Corps |
| Date: | 23 Apr 1872 |
| Classmark: | Bonhams (dealers) (22 November 2011, lot 223) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8299F |
To ? 1 July 1871
Summary
Regrets ill health will prevent his attending the BAAS meeting at Edinburgh.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 1 July 1871 |
| Classmark: | Historical Society of Pennsylvania |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7844 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Regrets ill health will prevent his attending the BAAS meeting at Edinburgh. …
To Casimir de Candolle 1 August [1866]
Summary
Thanks CdeC for his Mémoire sur la famille de Piperacées [1866]. Regrets he has not sufficient knowledge of botany to understand all the points discussed.
Sorry his health prevented his attending [Botanical] Congress and meeting CdeC’s father.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Anne Casimir Pyramus (Casimir) de Candolle |
| Date: | 1 Aug [1866] |
| Classmark: | Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5169 |
To William Jenner 20 March [1882]
Summary
Much regrets the state of his health will prevent his attending the [Science Defence] Association meeting.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Jenner |
| Date: | 20 Mar [1882] |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 82 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13731 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … state of his health will prevent his attending the [Science Defence] Association meeting. …
To W. B. Tegetmeier 19 November [1856]
Summary
Emma’s illness prevents his attending Philoperisteron [pigeon fanciers’ club].
Expects larger collection of skins from West Africa.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 19 Nov [1856] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1992 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Emma’s illness prevents his attending Philoperisteron [pigeon fanciers’ club]. Expects …
To Leonard Jenyns [November 1841]
Summary
Details regarding volume on Fish.
Sends notes on Diodon.
Must give up attending Geological Society evening meetings; knocks him up.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
| Date: | [Nov 1841] |
| Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-611 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Sends notes on Diodon . Must give up attending Geological Society evening meetings; knocks …
From Albert Günther 26 February 1874
Summary
Comments on several points in Descent,
doubts facts about Monacanthus brushes
and the two Cyprinidae males attending the female when spawning.
| Author: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 89: 26–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9316 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … about Monacanthus brushes and the two Cyprinidae males attending the female when spawning. …
From Albert Günther 23 September 1869
Summary
Mr Ford is attending to CD’s drawings [for Descent].
Death of AG’s wife.
| Author: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Sept 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 243 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6906 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Mr Ford is attending to CD’s drawings [for Descent ]. Death of AG’s wife. …
To King’s College, London 22 February [1867]
Summary
Asks for information concerning study at King’s College.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | King’s College London |
| Date: | 22 Feb [1867] |
| Classmark: | King’s College London Archives (KA/IC/D45) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5412 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … to Leonard Darwin , who was 17 years old and attending Clapham Grammar School. No further …
From J. T. Rothrock 25 November 1872
Summary
Thanks for Expression, which he received through Asa Gray.
Relates some personal experiences of unconscious sympathy.
| Author: | Joseph Trimble Rothrock |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Nov 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 220 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8647 |
To G. H. Darwin [24 March 1868]
Summary
CD relays the advice of Sir W. R. Grove on the dismal prospects of a law career.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | [24 Mar 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6044 |
To W. D. Fox [27 March 1851]
Summary
Sends condolences to WDF on the death of his father. Has brought his daughter [Anne] to J. M. Gully for the water-cure.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [27 Mar 1851] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 78a) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1396 |
To ? [28 February 1849]
Summary
Thanks correspondent for lecture tickets, but regrets he will be unable to attend.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [28 Feb 1849] |
| Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 40/20) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1230 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … I am unable to do myself the pleasure of attending them & in compliance with your request …
To Down School Board 16 November 1874
Summary
Must resign because of his health.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Down School Board |
| Date: | 16 Nov 1874 |
| Classmark: | Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (P/123/25/10/1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9720 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1873, ill health had prevented CD from attending the board to argue in person for the use …
To William Bowman [after 21 December 1872]
Summary
Exceptional cases of frowning by children born blind have been reported to CD by R. H. Blair [see 8615]; CD asks WB for information and observations on the use of the muscles around the eye by those blind from birth.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bowman, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [after 21 Dec 1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 152 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8588 |
To Joseph Henry Gilbert 3 June [1869]
Summary
Declines invitation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Henry Gilbert |
| Date: | 3 June [1869] |
| Classmark: | Rothamsted Research (GIL9.6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6773 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … the state of my health prevents me ever attending so pleasant an excursion as you propose. …
From G. S. Ffinden to Emma Darwin 24 December 1873
Summary
Answers Emma Darwin’s request that the school room be used in the winter as a Reading Room. Protests the Darwins approaching the Education Department directly.
| Author: | George Sketchley Ffinden |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Dec 1873 |
| Classmark: | Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (P/123/25/3/5) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9189F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 19 December 1873 . CD had written in lieu of attending the meeting. Hannah Laslett was the …
From G. H. Darwin [after 6 April 1864?]
Summary
Calculates the relationship between grains and milligrams; asks his mother for a fruit tart and twelve napkins.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 6 Apr 1864?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 157.2: 100 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4453F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … sons, Leonard or Francis, who were also attending Clapham school. In his discussion of …
From C. M. C. Darwin 21 April [1879]
Summary
Thanks CD for the engraving, which has arrived.
| Author: | Charlotte Maria Cooper Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Apr [1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 144–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12005 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Cheltenham, or whose wedding they were attending. Her sister was Sarah Gay Forbes Noel . …
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Joseph Dalton Hooker
Summary
The 1400 letters exchanged between Darwin and Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911) account for around 10% of Darwin’s surviving correspondence and provide a structure within which all the other letters can be explored. They are a connecting thread that spans…
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…
School Visits
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BOOK NOW FOR OUR SCHOOLS WORKSHOPS The Darwin Correspondence Project are inviting schools to book onto a series of exciting educational workshops starting in September, to coincide with our ‘Darwin in Conversation’ exhibition. Each school session…
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- … Risk Assessment . If your school is interested in attending then book using the calendar …
Darwin & coral reefs
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The central idea of Darwin's theory of coral reef formation, as it was later formulated, was that the islands were formed by the upward growth of coral as the Pacific Ocean floor gradually subsided. It overturned previous ideas and would in itself…
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- … that I had during the two previous years been incessantly attending to the effects on the shores of …
Adam Sedgwick
Summary
One of the early leaders of geology in Britain, Adam Sedgwick was born in the Yorkshire village of Dent in 1785. Attending Trinity College Cambridge, he was ordained as clergyman and in 1818 was appointed to the Woodwardian Chair of Geology, which offered…
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- … was born in the Yorkshire village of Dent in 1785. Attending Trinity College Cambridge, he was …
Orundellico (Jemmy Button)
Summary
Orundellico was one of the Yahgan, or canoe people of the southern part of Tierra del Fuego. He was the fourth hostage taken by Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, in 1830 following the theft of the small surveying boat. This fourteen-year old boy was…
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- … teenager was taunted by the others, but by the time he was attending Walthamstow infants’ school, …
Jane Gray
Summary
Jane Loring Gray, the daughter of a Boston lawyer, married the Harvard botanist Asa Gray in 1848 and evidence suggests that she took an active interest in the scientific pursuits of her husband and his friends. Although she is only known to have…
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- … Darwin thanked ‘Professor and Mrs. Asa Gray’ for attending to ‘some points in the expressions of the …
Dining at Down House
Summary
Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Dining, Digestion, and Darwin's Domestic Life While Darwin is best remembered for his scientific accomplishments, he greatly valued and was strongly influenced by his domestic life. Darwin's…
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- … Emma describes Darwin’s difficulties with one of his many attending physicians. Charles has taken to …
Darwin and Fatherhood
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Charles Darwin married Emma Wedgwood in 1839 and over the next seventeen years the couple had ten children. It is often assumed that Darwin was an exceptional Victorian father. But how extraordinary was he? The Correspondence Project allows an unusually…
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- … tutor at a preparatory school for a couple of terms, before attending a boarding school from around …
Journal of researches
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Within two months of the Beagle’s arrival back in England in October 1836, Darwin, although busy with distributing his specimens among specialists for description, and more interested in working on his geological research, turned his mind to the task of…
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- … weeks .’ He found it ‘grievous’ to have to forego attending the renowned Birmingham Music Festival …
Darwin in letters,1866: Survival of the fittest
Summary
The year 1866 began well for Charles Darwin, as his health, after several years of illness, was now considerably improved. In February, Darwin received a request from his publisher, John Murray, for a new edition of Origin. Darwin got the fourth…
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- … He also astonished the metropolitan scientific community by attending a reception at the Royal …
Darwin in letters, 1874: A turbulent year
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The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early months working on second editions of Coral reefs and Descent of man; the rest of the year was mostly devoted to further research on insectivorous plants. A…
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- … Roberts, a Catholic priest and friend of Mivart’s, who was attending Huxley’s lectures. Father …
Darwin in letters, 1862: A multiplicity of experiments
Summary
1862 was a particularly productive year for Darwin. This was not only the case in his published output (two botanical papers and a book on the pollination mechanisms of orchids), but more particularly in the extent and breadth of the botanical experiments…
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- … An ‘accursed attack’ of the condition prevented him from attending the Cambridge meeting of the …
Darwin in letters, 1872: Job done?
Summary
'My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, 'is so nearly closed. . . What little more I can do, shall be chiefly new work’, and the tenor of his correspondence throughout the year is one of wistful reminiscence, coupled with a keen eye…
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- … the unconscious contraction of his own muscles when attending women in labour ( letter from J. T. …
Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments
Summary
The year was marked by three deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend and supporter; Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and father of Darwin’s friend…
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- … Wedgwoods for the summer, and Elizabeth was evidently attending school, and spent some time …
Darwin in letters,1870: Human evolution
Summary
The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the year at work on the Descent of Man & Selection in relation to Sex’. Descent was the culmination of over three decades of observations and reflections on…
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- … tutor at Trinity to request that he be excused from attending college lectures for the time being ( …
Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson
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[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…
