From A. G. Dew-Smith 21 February [1882]
Summary
F. M. Balfour slept well; doctors think he is improving.
| Author: | Albert George Dew-Smith |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Feb [1882] |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 175 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13695 |
To Maurice Alberts [after 13 February 1862]
Summary
Acknowledges receipt of a diploma for Doctor’s degree from the University of Breslau and expresses his thanks.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Maurice Alberts |
| Date: | [after 13 Feb 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 2r |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3446 |
From S. M. Herzfeld 2 April 1880
Summary
Impoverished German doctor asks for money.
| Author: | S. M. Herzfeld |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Apr 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 191 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12560 |
To G. H. Darwin 21 October [1876]
Summary
Refers him to Nature [14 (1876): 553] in which a Russian doctor [Prof. Poplavsky] contradicts GHD on deaf mutes not being closely interrelated.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Oct [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 57 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10647 |
From C. H. Tindal 1 January 1880
Summary
Encloses extracts from the correspondence of [the Ven. Robert] Clive concerning Erasmus Darwin.
| Author: | Charles Harrison Tindal |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 227.7: 11–13, 16, 18, 25, 128 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12392F |
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- … pharmacopolae’): ‘A band of flute girls, quack doctors …’. The source is Horace , Satires …
- … of Thousands”— Thus far y e ingenious Doctor, whose observations stand upon facts which …
- … to find by your last papers to y e . Doctor & his letter to you, that matters are likely …
- … Dec: 12. 1768. ‘Dear Sir— I am desired by Doctor Darwin to let you know, that his pig & M …
- … book upon y e material world—for y e Doctor tells me he has been writing a chapter to …
- … spend two or three days with y e . Doctor, which I think we shall pass very agreeably—. …
- … Pray bring Berkeleys book with you as ye Doctor may not have it. ’— R. Clive to R Gifford …
- … with which you & I & all who know y e . good Doctor are so much charmed. R. Clive to R. …
From George Busk 28 April 1865
Summary
Has heard from Hooker that CD is very ill and asking for suggestion of a doctor to consult. Recommends A. B. Garrod as specialist in gouty complaints.
| Author: | George Busk |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Apr 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 381 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4820 |
From G. H. Darwin [before 28 May 1877]
Summary
Cambridge University will offer CD an honorary degree.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 28 May 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 58 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10958 |
From Eduard Schulte 30 October 1879
Summary
Asks for reference to article on butterfly [see CD’s "Sexual colours of certain butterflies", Collected papers 2: 220–2].
| Author: | Eduard Schulte |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Oct 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 65 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12278 |
From T. H. Huxley 25 March 1882
Summary
Concern over CD’s health. Advises him to get one of the cleverer young London doctors to communicate with Andrew Clark. Only way out of difficulties with Clark.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Mar 1882 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 292 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13740 |
To J. S. Henslow [20 September 1837]
Summary
Doctors have urged him to knock off all work and go to the country. Arranges proof-reading with JSH, while he is at Shrewsbury.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | [20 Sept 1837] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 40 DAR/1/1/40) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-378 |
From Fulvio Martinelli 21 May 1872
Summary
[MS of a short paper on pigeon breeding by an Italian doctor.]
| Author: | Fulvio Martinelli |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 May 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 59 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8343 |
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- … MS of a short paper on pigeon breeding by an Italian doctor. ] …
To J. D. Hooker 13 [May 1860]
Summary
J. S. Henslow’s defence of CD;
[Thomas?] Thomson’s opposition to Origin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 13 [May 1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 54 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2798 |
To Roland Trimen 25 November [1863]
Summary
CD’s doctor [J. M. Gully] has ordered him to do nothing for six months.
Thanks RT for orchid specimen.
Dares not look at Oxalis flowers.
Regrets RT cannot get seed, especially from his trimorphic flowers.
Asks for bulbs of two or three forms.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Roland Trimen |
| Date: | 25 Nov [1863] |
| Classmark: | Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 58) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4347 |
From J. D. Hooker 5 June 1868
Summary
Horrified to find he has forgotten to announce birth of daughter.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 June 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 214–15 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6231 |
From John Michels 2 March 1878
Summary
Describes a post-mortem dissection of a chimpanzee’s brain. The several doctors who observed it were struck by its resemblance to the human brain.
| Author: | John Michels |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Mar 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 177 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11393 |
To Richard Owen [24 February 1849]
Summary
Thanks RO for his note on Conchoderma hunteri [see Living Cirripedia 1: 153].
Has been very unwell; has lost four-fifths of his time. Will go to Malvern to try the water-cure for his vomiting, which regular doctors cannot cure.
Has done some pretty homological work with cirripedes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | [24 Feb 1849] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1228 |
From Ferdinand von Mueller 8 October 1867
Summary
Forwards answers from Charles Walter to some of CD’s queries about expression.
| Author: | Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich (Ferdinand) von Mueller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Oct 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5626 |
To George Bentham 1 October 1866
Summary
Invites GB and wife to luncheon.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Bentham |
| Date: | 1 Oct 1866 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 707) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5225 |
From A. G. Dew-Smith 25 February 1882
Summary
F. M. Balfour getting on better in hospital.
| Author: | Albert George Dew-Smith |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Feb 1882 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 176 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13706 |
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- … satisfactorily indeed. The fever has abated the Doctors say, & altogether he is very much …
To M. T. Masters 29 September [1873]
Summary
CD refuses an interview because of a severe headache, but wishes all success to the Gardeners’ Chronicle.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
| Date: | 29 Sept [1873] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9077 |
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3.15 George Charles Wallich, photo
Summary
< Back to Introduction In the years around 1868–1871, when professional photographers competed for sittings with Darwin, a doctor called George Charles Wallich approached him with a similar request. Wallich was planning to publish a set of his own…
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- … photographers competed for sittings with Darwin, a doctor called George Charles Wallich approached …
4.16 Joseph Simms, physiognomy
Summary
< Back to Introduction In September 1874, the American doctor Joseph Simms, then on a three-year lecture tour of Britain, sent Darwin a copy of his book, Nature’s Revelations of Character; Or, Physiognomy Illustrated. He was seeking a public…
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- … to Introduction In September 1874, the American doctor Joseph Simms, then on a three-year …
Darwin’s student booklist
Summary
In October 1825 Charles Darwin and his older brother, Erasmus, went to study medicine in Edinburgh, where their father, Robert Waring Darwin, had trained as a doctor in the 1780’s. Erasmus had already graduated from Cambridge and was continuing his studies…
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- … where their father, Robert Waring Darwin, had trained as a doctor in the 1780’s. Erasmus had already …
- … physiology was an influential work; John Ayrton Paris, a doctor from Cambridge, published the …
- … was written by Darwin’s grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, a doctor at Lichfield; Anna Seward wrote a …
- … but the writer left for London about twenty years before the doctor arrived to set up his medical …
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’…
Joseph Simms
Summary
The American doctor and author of works on physiognomy Joseph Simms wrote to Darwin on 14 September 1874, while he was staying in London. He enclosed a copy of his book Nature’s revelations of character (Simms 1873). He hoped it might 'prove…
1.14 William Richmond, oil
Summary
< 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…
Life of Erasmus Darwin
Summary
The Life of Erasmus Darwin (1879) was a curious departure for Darwin. It was intended as a biographical note to accompany an essay on Erasmus's scientific work by the German writer Ernst Krause. But Darwin became immersed in his grandfather's…
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Dramatisation script
Summary
Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
Summary
List of people appearing in the photograph album Darwin received from scientific admirers in the Netherlands for his birthday on 12 February 1877. We are grateful to Hester Loeff for providing this list and for permission to make her research available.…
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- … Nijmegen 08 June 1904 Nijmegen Doctor. In the list it says J.R. van Beemen …
John Beddoe
Summary
In 1869, when gathering data on sexual selection in humans, Darwin exchanged a short series of letters with John Beddoe, a doctor in Bristol. He was looking for evidence that racial differences that appear to have no benefit in terms of survival - and…
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- … exchanged a short series of letters with a John Beddoe, a doctor in Bristol who had also published …
4.34 'Punch', Sambourne cartoon 1
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< Back to Introduction Linley Sambourne’s cartoon in Punch, a ‘Suggested Illustration’ for Darwin’s forthcoming book on The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants (1875) is another playful transformation of the author into an ape or monkey. However,…
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- … those of the author, not of the plants themselves: the ‘Doctor’ is evidently ‘ready to avow his …
Asa Gray
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Darwin’s longest running and most significant exchange of correspondence dealing with the subjects of design in nature and religious belief was with the Harvard botanist Asa Gray. Gray was one of Darwin’s leading supporters in America. He was also a…
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- … Gray was born in New York State in 1810. He qualified as a doctor, but gave up medical practice …
Charles Darwin born
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Charles Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, the fifth of six children of Robert Waring Darwin, a doctor, and his wife Susannah, daughter of Josiah Wedgwood I.
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- … the fifth of six children of Robert Waring Darwin, a doctor, and his wife Susannah, daughter of …
Charles Harrison Blackley
Summary
You may not have heard of Charles Harrison Blackley (1820–1900), but if you are one of the 15 million people in the UK who suffer from hay fever, you are indebted to him. For it was he who identified pollen as the cause of the allergy. Darwin was…
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- … seems to me an astonishing fact’. Blackley was a doctor, practicing in Hulme, Manchester, who …
Titus Coan
Summary
In 1874, when Darwin was preparing the second edition of Descent of Man, he received letters from all over the world in reply to his queries about human behaviour; one in particular would have stirred up unexpected memories of his own time among the native…
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- … South America. Titus Munson Coan , an American doctor, passed on a message to Darwin from …
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…
Darwin's illness
Summary
Was Darwin an invalid? In many photographs he looks wearied by age, wrapped in a great coat to protect him from cold. In a letter to his cousin William Fox, he wrote: "Long and continued ill health has much changed me, & I very often think with…
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- … At the age of 57, he summarized all his ailments for a new doctor. The note makes painful reading: …
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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- … history, and he is shown wearing the academic robes of a Doctor of Laws, in reference to the …
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…
Descent
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There are more than five hundred letters associated with the research and writing of Darwin’s book, Descent of man and selection in relation to sex (Descent). They trace not only the tortuous route to eventual publication, but the development of Darwin’s…
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- … , sparking one of the testier passages in Descent;* a doctor’s promising research on the …
