To J. de C. Sowerby [8] June [1850]
Summary
CD is pleased with the drawings for Fossil Cirripedia but wants a few corrections which he would like very soon.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James de Carle Sowerby |
| Date: | [8] June [1850] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1338 |
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- … for the care shown, & to you for attending to my wish regarding greater hardness. — I have …
To Adam Sedgwick 24 August [1859]
Summary
Sorry to hear of AS’s poor health.
Would like to attend Aberdeen meeting [BAAS, 1859] but is unfit for so great an exertion. Has been told he has "suppressed gout".
Pleased that AS remembers their 1831 geological trip, which made CD appreciate the noble science of geology.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Adam Sedgwick |
| Date: | 24 Aug [1859] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2482 |
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- … I am pleased that you remember my attending you in your excursion in 1831. To me, it was a …
To Francis Trevelyan Buckland 12 February [1868]
Summary
CD is much interested in FB’s remarks in Land and Water on the apparent excess of male trout over females and asks for further information on other fish, birds, and domestic quadrupeds.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland |
| Date: | 12 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5866 |
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- … happens to be a subject to which I am now attending. Can you obtain for me & yourself any …
To Thomas Meehan 9 October 1874
Summary
Doubts whether sudden and great variations often occur.
Comments on colours of flowers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Meehan |
| Date: | 9 Oct 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 146: 353 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9672 |
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- … long propagated. I am glad that you are attending to colours of diœcious flowers, but it …
To William Saville-Kent 28 March [1877]
Summary
Regrets he cannot permit his name to be used to support WSK’s aquarium project. If WSK decides to set up an aquarium solely for scientific purposes he would consider subscribing.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Saville-Kent |
| Date: | 28 Mar [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10917 |
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- … much service to natural science; but without attending more to the subject & learning more …
To Alfred Wrigley [after 12 March 1868]
Summary
Assures AW he has not hurt Horace’s feelings. CD has always been doubtful about a private tutor for Horace. Fears a letter [giving notice of removal] was lost in the post.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Wrigley |
| Date: | [after 12 Mar 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 182v |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6008 |
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- … said that you had been very kind in attending to him & had brought him on much in [ …
From Ellen Frances Lubbock [before 31 August 1868]
Summary
Sven Nilsson may visit John Lubbock.
Norwich [BAAS] meeting was most successful.
| Author: | Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 31 Aug 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 12 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6338 |
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- … to his home, High Elms, some of the people attending the Norwich meetings of the British …
To J. W. Lubbock 11 October [1853]
Summary
Gives his opinion on some difficulties that have arisen in connection with the establishment of the school for the poor at Down.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John William Lubbock, 3d baronet |
| Date: | 11 Oct [1853] |
| Classmark: | The Royal Society (LUB: D19) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1536 |
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- … the curriculum. Children of Nonconformists attending schools of the National Society were …
To J. D. Hooker 18 January [1874]
Summary
Reports on a séance. "The Lord have mercy on us all if we have to believe in such rubbish."
Asks JDH to vote for his nephew, Henry Parker, for Athenaeum membership.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 18 Jan [1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 311–12 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9247 |
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- … had started investigating mediums and attending séances in 1872 (see Correspondence vol. …
To H. A. Pitman 17 June 1879
Summary
Asks for directions on how to behave at ceremony conferring the Baly Medal.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Alfred Pitman; Royal College of Physicians |
| Date: | 17 June 1879 |
| Classmark: | Royal College of Physicians of London (ALS/D11) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12112 |
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- … P.S. I may possibly be prevented from attending by giddiness to which I am liable, & …
From M. C. Stanley 4 June 1872
Summary
Sackville Cecil would like to be present with Francis Galton at one of William Crookes’s séances. Can CD arrange it?
| Author: | Mary Catherine Sackville-West, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Stanley, countess of Derby |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 June 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 165 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8369 |
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- … Galton and William Crookes had been attending séances to investigate the powers claimed by …
To G. J. Romanes 15 November 1880
Summary
Comments on GJR’s article on hybridisation.
Recommends his article ["Fertility and hybrids from the Chinese and common goose", Collected papers 2: 219–20].
Discusses crosses of Lythrum.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 15 Nov 1880 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.575) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12820 |
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- … as I have marked with pencil, without attending to style. — I have made one or two small …
To J. D. Hooker [21 May 1867]
Summary
Glad to hear Wallace is contender for Gold Medal. Has highest esteem for his extraordinary talents.
Thanks for H. Barkly’s letter from Mauritius.
Glad to see HB takes same view as CD about bones of deer [see 5395].
Objections to continental extension theory.
Progress [on Variation] very slow.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [21 May 1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 26–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5543 |
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- … from J. D. Hooker, 17 May 1867 ). Hooker was attending the Paris Exhibition as a juror ( …
From Anthony Rich 13 October 1881
Summary
Thanks for Earthworms.
| Author: | Anthony Rich |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Oct 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 152 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13397 |
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- … he had been arrested on 13 October for attending demonstrations of the Land League in …
To George Bentham 17 June [1861]
Summary
Asks for specimen of Orchis pyramidalis for his work on insect fertilisation of orchids.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Bentham |
| Date: | 17 June [1861] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 697) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3186 |
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- … flowers to examine. I have for years been attending to insect fertilisation of Orchids, & …
From J. D. Hooker 4 July 1867
Summary
Has been too busy to write. Is leaving for Switzerland that evening.
A friend, who ran away from home as a boy, has two sons who have done the same several times. Is the case worth investigating for CD?
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 July 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 169–70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5577 |
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- … not been identified. Smith may have been attending the horticultural exhibition at Paris. …
From J. D. Hooker 30 June 1873
Summary
Leaves Wednesday with Huxley for holiday.
Family news.
He too thinks well of Bentham’s address.
Asa Gray elected Foreign F.R.S.
G. J. Allman is being proposed for Royal Medal by JDH and Huxley.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 June 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 157–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8958 |
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- … s eldest child. Charles Paget Hooker was attending the International College at Isleworth, …
To J. S. Dismorr 6 May [1851]
Summary
Congratulates JD on discovery of fossil footsteps near Port Philip, Australia. Richard Owen would be glad to examine them. J. B. Jukes most likely to know geology of Port Philip.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Stewart Dismorr |
| Date: | 6 May [1851] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 385 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1427 |
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- … in the world on Zoology has lately been attending to the subject & I feel sure would be …
To Robert FitzRoy [10 October 1831]
Summary
Has just heard Beagle sailing is delayed so he will remain another week in London. Asks whether RF has a good set of mountain barometers, which geologists tell him are important.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert FitzRoy |
| Date: | [10 Oct 1831] |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 114 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-142 |
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- … some talc. — I read your letter without attending to the name. But I have now procured …
To William Henry Sykes 20 December [1859]
Summary
Urges appointment of Edward Blyth as naturalist on an expedition to China.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Henry Sykes |
| Date: | 20 Dec [1859] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.185) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2588 |
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- … history; & he has lately been specially attending to Chinese productions. — Therefore I …
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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'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
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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
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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…
