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 E. A. Wheler 25 March 1879
Summary
Regrets she has none of Dr Erasmus Darwin’s letters. Relates some anecdotes concerning her grandfather.
| Author: | Elizabeth Anne Galton; Elizabeth Anne Wheler |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Mar 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.14: 16 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11953 |
To T. L. Brunton 25 April 1879
Summary
Asks for information about his grandfather’s influence on medical practice, to be used in his preface to Erasmus Darwin [1879, p. 107].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 25 Apr 1879 |
| Classmark: | McGill University Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Manuscript Collection: Folio A.L.S. Charles Darwin) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12011 |
From Eduard Schulte 23 October 1879
Summary
Sends drawing and description of butterfly discovered in Celebes. It is noteworthy for its colour, which plays a role in mating.
| Author: | Eduard Schulte |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Oct 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 64 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12254 |
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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- … Cambridge in 1877; it showed CD in his red doctor’s robes (for more on the portrait, see …
From R. A. Vance 10 November 1879
Summary
Sends his article ["Diseases of the rectum", Cincinnati Lancet & Obs. 21 (1878): 224–41] through his friend, Dr Letcher.
| Author: | Reuben Aleshire Vance |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Nov 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 180: 2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12306 |
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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- … The portrait, showing CD in his red doctor’s robes, commemorated the honorary doctorate of …
From Newman Marks 15 November 1879
Summary
Thanks CD for signing a memorial.
| Author: | Thomas Newman (Newman) Marks |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Nov 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 40 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12321 |
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- … and had received an honorary LLD (doctor of laws) from Cambridge in 1877 (Freeman 1878, p. …
From E. S. Galton 12 November 1879
Summary
Thanks CD on behalf of herself and sister [E. A. Wheler] for the gift of Erasmus Darwin. Comments to amplify parts of it.
| Author: | Emma Sophia Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Nov 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.14: 34 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12314 |
From W. S. Dallas 14 November 1879
Summary
Thanks CD for a copy of Erasmus Darwin.
| Author: | William Sweetland Dallas |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Nov 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 131–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12319 |
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- … is a very natural one,— I presume the Doctor was what was called in those days & earlier a …
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 |
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- … in 1877; the portrait showed CD in his red doctor’s robes (see also Browne 2002 , p. 451). …
To E. A. Wheler 12 April 1879
Summary
Thanks EAW for assistance. Describes plans for writing preliminary sketch [for Ernst Krause’s Erasmus Darwin].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Elizabeth Anne Galton; Elizabeth Anne Wheler |
| Date: | 12 Apr 1879 |
| Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/1/1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11990 |
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- … III, and the most sought-after society doctor in London. When suffering from a terminal …
From C. M. C. Darwin 14 April 1879
Summary
Answers CD’s query about Robert Darwin of Lincoln’s Inn.
Sends an introduction for Leonard Darwin to their tenants at Elston Hall.
| Author: | Charlotte Maria Cooper Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Apr 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 138–41 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11994 |
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- … looking, according to CD, like a ‘dignified doctor of divinity’ ( Erasmus Darwin , p. 4). …
From Albin Gaertner 27 May 1879
Summary
CD’s works have opened a new world for him.
Sends a case of inheritance: a fingernail biting habit has persisted for four generations in a Viennese lawyer’s family.
| Author: | Albin Gaertner |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 May 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12064 |
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- … nibbles on her fingertips, so that their doctor had to be consulted and no one doubts that …
To E. A. Wheler 31 March [1879]
Summary
Requests information about a travel route used by their grandfather, Erasmus Darwin. Thanks FG for his help.
CD is "now trying to find out how far the Zoonomia influenced medical practice in England".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Elizabeth Anne Galton; Elizabeth Anne Wheler |
| Date: | 31 Mar [1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 105 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11963A |
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- … be intelligible. But it seems odd that a Doctor sh d have chosen even short sea transit …
From E. S. Galton 31 March 1879
Summary
Sends drawings of several of Dr Erasmus Darwin’s residences, together with suggestions of sources of other material.
| Author: | Emma Sophia Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Mar 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 181–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11962 |
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- … III , and the most sought-after society doctor in London. When suffering from a terminal …
From Michele Lessona 28 December 1879
Summary
The Academy of Sciences of Turin has awarded CD a 12000 franc prize for his work during the past four years.
| Author: | Michele Lessona |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Dec 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12373 |
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- … award of 12000 francs (the Bressa prize, a doctor of [ Pavia ] who was the founder of it) …
To C. H. Tindal 29 December 1879
Summary
Thanks for MS as it shows many of Erasmus Darwin’s ideas were formed 20 years before he published Zoonomia. Would like to publish last letter if there is a second edition of his little book. MS will be returned registered post.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Harrison Tindal |
| Date: | 29 Dec 1879 |
| Classmark: | Bonhams, New York (dealers) (19 October 2009) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12375F |
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- … to Shrewsbury tomorrow, where the young Doctor is going to see if D r Owens death will …
From V. H. Darwin 9 April 1879
Summary
Gives some examples of Dr Erasmus Darwin’s benevolence; will forward some books that may interest CD.
| Author: | Violetta Harriot Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Apr 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.14: 22 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11985 |
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- … expands on his regard for the poor as a doctor. CD evidently cut out the lines from the …
From E. S. Galton 19 November 1879
Summary
Her brother-in-law, Edward Wheler, died on Sunday.
Sends some corrections for Erasmus Darwin.
| Author: | Emma Sophia Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Nov 1879 |
| Classmark: | Private collection |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12337F |
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- … thought the risk greater, as she was in a Doctor’s House where so many Patients came— 64. …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Galton, E. S. | (3) |
| Schulte, Eduard | (2) |
| Dallas, W. S. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. M. C. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (16) |
| Galton, E. A. | (2) |
| Wheler, E. A. | (2) |
| Abney, W. de W. | (1) |
| Brunton, T. L. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (23) |
| Galton, E. A. | (3) |
| Galton, E. S. | (3) |
| Wheler, E. A. | (3) |
| Krause, Ernst | (2) |
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
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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
Summary
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
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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 …
