From Francis Beaufort to C. S. Darwin 29 June [1832]
Summary
Cancelled. Third party letter quoted in . See Correspondence 1: 253. Forwards letters, adding that Capt. FitzRoy expresses "unqualified satisfaction in Mr. Darwin’s society" and says "D is equally liked and respected by every person in the ship".
| Author: | Francis Beaufort |
| Addressee: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
| Date: | 29 June [1832] |
| Classmark: | DAR 223: 12a |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-174 |
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- … Cancelled. Third party letter quoted in . See Correspondence 1: 253. Forwards letters, …
From Charlotte Wedgwood 12 January – 1 February 1832
Summary
Writes about Hensleigh Wedgwood’s marriage to Frances Mackintosh and her own engagement to Charles Langton. Also gives news of other relatives and friends.
| Author: | Charlotte Wedgwood; Charlotte Langton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 and 29 Jan 1832 and 1 Feb 1832 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 116 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-155 |
From Susan Darwin 12–18 November 1832
Summary
Family news.
| Author: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 & 18 Nov 1832 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 98 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-191 |
From J. M. Herbert 15–17 April 1832
Summary
Writes news of Cambridge friends, professors, music, the Reform Bill, and cholera. Expresses belief that CD will take his place with Cuvier and Humboldt.
| Author: | John Maurice Herbert |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15–17 Apr 1832 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 113 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-165 |
To Catherine Darwin May–June [1832]
Summary
Lists letters received and those sent; comments on family happenings.
The Beagle is back [from Bahia]; two sailors and "little [Charles] Musters" died of fever. In 14 days they sail for Montevideo, then to Rio Negro, then on to where no man is known to have been before.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
| Date: | May–June [1832] |
| Classmark: | DAR 223 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-169 |
From Susan Darwin 15[–18] August 1832
Summary
News of family and friends.
| Author: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15[–18] Aug 1832 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 97 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-180 |
From Caroline Darwin (with postscript by Marianne Parker) 12[–31] March [1832]
Summary
Describes the gathering at Maer and the events culminating in Charlotte Wedgwood’s marriage to Charles Langton.
| Author: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12–[31] Mar [1832] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 71 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-163 |
From Caroline Darwin 12–28 June [1832]
Summary
Brings CD up to date on family and many friends. Describes the wedding of Fanny Owen and R. M. Biddulph. Sedgwick called on return from Wales. W. D. Fox has been very ill.
| Author: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12–28 June [1832] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 72 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-173 |
From W. D. Fox 29 August – 28 September 1832
Summary
He is staying on the Isle of Wight because he has been unwell. He is thought to be in danger of contracting consumption, and the climate is beneficial. He is convalescent now, but will spend the winter there.
Offers to forward any natural history stores CD may want.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Aug & 28 Sept 1832 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 107 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-184 |
To Caroline Darwin 25–6 April [1832]
Summary
His trip to the interior was full of interest, but exhausting physically. Expects to stay at least a fortnight at Botofogo, because the Beagle returns to Bahia to correct a difference in the longitude measurements. Writes of his companions, of FitzRoy, and of his journal – which he has sent home.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
| Date: | 25–6 Apr [1832] |
| Classmark: | DAR 223: 11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-166 |
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- … as the ship is turned inside out, a large party of the officers have gone up the river in …
From Susan Darwin 12 May [– 2 June] 1832
Summary
News from Maer and Shrewsbury of family, friends, and reports of reactions to CD’s first letters.
Sedgwick suggests he look for fossils in gravel banks of rivers.
Fanny Owen is married to R. M. Biddulph. Reform Bill prospects.
| Author: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 May [– 2 June] 1832 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 96 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-170 |
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- … irreparable! & Frank being gone too, makes the party appear much smaller. — Uncle Jos …
From W. D. Fox 30 June 1832
Summary
Has been away from parish because of a three-month illness. Refers briefly to events in England since the Beagle sailed.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 June 1832 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 106 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-175 |
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- … of the abuses of Church and state. — Party Spirit runs now very high indeed— The Tories …
To Susan Darwin 14 July – 7 August [1832]
Summary
Regrets leaving the tropics, despite interest in a land where Europeans have never been. They have experienced political turmoil at Montevideo. Natural history going well.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
| Date: | 14 July – 7 Aug [1832] |
| Classmark: | DAR 223 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-177 |
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- … the river & I trust I shall be of the party. — I cannot imagine anything more interesting: …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Darwin, S. E. | (3) |
| Darwin, Caroline | (2) |
| Fox, W. D. | (2) |
| Wedgwood, Caroline | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
| Darwin, Caroline | (2) |
| Wedgwood, Caroline | (2) |
| Darwin, Catherine | (1) |
| Darwin, S. E. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (12) |
| Darwin, Caroline | (4) |
| Darwin, S. E. | (4) |
| Wedgwood, Caroline | (4) |
| Fox, W. D. | (2) |
The Lyell–Lubbock dispute
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In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book Prehistoric times, accused Lyell of plagiarism. The dispute caused great dismay among many of their mutual scientific friends, some of whom took immediate action…
Anne Schlabach Burkhardt (1916–2012)
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Anne Burkhardt was associated with the Darwin Correspondence Project from its beginning in 1974, and her contribution to its work helped ensure the regular publication of the volumes of correspondence. Anne was born in La Crosse, Wisconsin, and studied…
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- … it became positively dangerous to attend Bennington cocktail parties, for even the slightest hint of …
Darwin in letters, 1877: Flowers and honours
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Ever since the publication of Expression, Darwin’s research had centred firmly on botany. The year 1877 was no exception. The spring and early summer were spent completing Forms of flowers, his fifth book on a botanical topic. He then turned to the…
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- … composed specially for the occasion. He avoided dinner parties and used his spare time to scout …
St George Jackson Mivart
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In the second half of 1874, Darwin’s peace was disturbed by an anonymous article in the Quarterly Review suggesting that his son George was opposed to the institution of marriage and in favour of ‘unrestrained licentiousness’. Darwin suspected, correctly,…
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- … be attended to by requiring a clean bill of health in both parties before marriage, and ultimately …
Darwin in letters, 1821-1836: Childhood to the Beagle voyage
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Darwin's first known letters were written when he was twelve. They continue through school-days at Shrewsbury, two years as a medical student at Edinburgh University, the undergraduate years at Cambridge, and the of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle.…
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- … at the botanical lectures, excursions, and undergraduate parties organised by the professor of …
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…
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- … visiting Brighton in January 1828 and attending balls and parties almost every night. They show how …
Darwin and vivisection
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Darwin played an important role in the controversy over vivisection that broke out in late 1874. Public debate was sparked when the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals brought an unsuccessful prosecution against a French physiologist who…
Darwin in letters, 1875: Pulling strings
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‘I am getting sick of insectivorous plants’, Darwin confessed in January 1875. He had worked on the subject intermittently since 1859, and had been steadily engaged on a book manuscript for nine months; January also saw the conclusion of a bitter dispute…
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…
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- … that time – the frequent predatory excursions of minor parties of Indians have prevented the …
- … was settled in full independence of Mr H’s dictation – parties of them resorted to him with …
- … as many as might come to him to beg for it – as the former parties had done – [ f.184v p.76 ] …
- … by any other designation than “Excursions” of picnic ^parties^ “on pleasure bent” &c. …
- … been drawn up for us – by able and disinterested third parties – than draw these for one another – …
- … ] Arbitrator between both parties – but felt disposed to lean to the …
Animals, ethics, and the progress of science
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Darwin’s view on the kinship between humans and animals had important ethical implications. In Descent, he argued that some animals exhibited moral behaviour and had evolved mental powers analogous to conscience. He gave examples of cooperation, even…
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- … teaching under certain conditions, but the Bill left many parties unsatisfied and the controversy …
Fake Darwin: myths and misconceptions
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Many myths have persisted about Darwin's life and work. Here are a few of the more pervasive ones, with full debunking below...
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- … Many myths have persisted about Darwin's life and work. Here are a few of the more pervasive ones, …
Was Darwin an ecologist?
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One of the most fascinating aspects of Charles Darwin’s correspondence is the extent to which the experiments he performed at his home in Down, in the English county of Kent, seem to prefigure modern scientific work in ecology.
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- … an earlier passage, describes it as a race from which both parties benefit. Nowadays, we are …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
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In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
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- … . In Castelnau, Francis de, Expédition dans les parties centrales de l’Amérique du Sud … …
Darwin in letters, 1878: Movement and sleep
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In 1878, Darwin devoted most of his attention to the movements of plants. He investigated the growth pattern of roots and shoots, studying the function of specific organs in this process. Working closely with his son Francis, Darwin devised a series of…
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- … Darwin spent over a month corresponding with the various parties, repeatedly revising his own letter …
