From Otto Hahn 1 September 1879
Summary
Sends copy of Die Urzelle [1879].
Clerical party in Germany rejoicing because science cannot explain all facts at once.
| Author: | Otto Hahn |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Sept 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 82 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12211 |
From B. J. Sulivan 9 June 1879
Summary
Reports on his family’s illnesses and other domestic matters.
| Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 June 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 309 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12097 |
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- … to M rs . Darwin & yourself and all your party. I hope your dear little grandchild that I …
- … and since then at one time our whole party, of four, were unable to walk. I have had …
- … months on crutches: so we have been a lame party: though now I trust all right again. You …
- … I have not heard from any of our old party for some months. Mellersh was very unwell and …
From Hermann Müller 14 February 1879
Summary
HM’s teaching methods and his ideas are under attack in Germany along with the works of Ernst Krause.
| Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Feb 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 313 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11883 |
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- … Mr. Dodel is as follows: In this moment the party of bigot obscurants is favoured by our …
- … balancing position. Now some weeks ago this party in our “Abgeordnetenhaus” had chosen my …
- … Falk was minister of culture; ‘this Party’ refers to the Ultramontanists, Catholics who …
- … as representants some members of this party covered me during three sessions with …
From W. D. Fox to G. H. Darwin 21 April [1879]
Summary
Has no letters or papers [of Erasmus Darwin].
Suggests CD cite some of Erasmus Darwin’s poems to answer the charge of atheism [see Erasmus Darwin, p. 44].
Recounts a story of a remarkable cure by Dr Darwin, showing his sagacity and daring.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Apr [1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 177–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12006 |
From Anthony Rich 28 December 1879
Summary
New Year greetings.
| Author: | Anthony Rich |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Dec 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 140 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12374 |
From W. M. Hacon 7 November 1879
Summary
Reports bargaining with William Farrer on Horace’s marriage-settlement.
| Author: | William Mackmurdo Hacon |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Nov 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 24 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12299 |
From H. G. Zeuthen 5 April 1879
Summary
CD made an ordinary member of the Royal Danish Academy. [See 11984.]
| Author: | Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Apr 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 230: 74 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11978A |
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- … et assidues recherches sur toutes les parties de l’Histoire Naturelle, et pour le jour …
To the Darwin children 21 February 1879
Summary
Circular about the distribution of the overplus of his income and advice on investment.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin; Francis Darwin; George Howard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Leonard Darwin; William Erasmus Darwin; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | 21 Feb 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 153 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11896 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … dated 8 October 1863, between three parties: herself, her husband Charles Langton , and CD …
From Ernst Krause 15 May 1879
Summary
Thanks for answers to questions [in 12032].
Has ordered the new book by Butler [Evolution, old and new (1879)]. It may make EK’s own essay superfluous.
| Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 May 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: B26 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12053 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … said more forthrightly and candidly by a third party e.g. discrediting the reports by Miss …
To C. M. C. Darwin 6 April 1879
Summary
Sends details of the progress of his researches for Erasmus Darwin.
His son Leonard will photograph Elston and Cleatham. He has found an early drawing of Elston.
Asks for a letter of introduction for Leonard Darwin to CMCD’s tenant at Elston.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charlotte Maria Cooper Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Apr 1879 |
| Classmark: | The late Mrs Vivien Kindersley (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11978F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Photographic department; & he often takes a party of Sappers & miners to different parts …
To T. H. Farrer 31 October 1879
Summary
Discusses financial and other arrangements for marriage of Horace Darwin and Ida Farrer. Mentions anticipated inheritance of children.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Date: | 31 Oct 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12280 |
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- … that he w d advise what is best for all parties under all contingencies. Your suggestion …
From K. P. von Kaufman 9 May 1879
Summary
Sends a collection of wheat varieties from Turkestan in response to a newspaper notice of CD’s interest.
| Author: | Konstantin Petrovich von Kaufman (Константин Петрович фон Кауфман) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 May 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12046 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … de graines de froment dans différentes parties du Turkestan, notamment à Tachkent , …
From Anthony Rich 27 July 1879
Summary
Best wishes for CD’s trip to Cumberland.
| Author: | Anthony Rich |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 July 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 137 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12175 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … that M r . G. D. may make one of your party. Should that be so please to give him my …
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The Lyell–Lubbock dispute
Summary
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)
Summary
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…
Matches: 1 hits
- … it became positively dangerous to attend Bennington cocktail parties, for even the slightest hint of …
Darwin in letters, 1877: Flowers and honours
Summary
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…
Matches: 1 hits
- … composed specially for the occasion. He avoided dinner parties and used his spare time to scout …
St George Jackson Mivart
Summary
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,…
Matches: 1 hits
- … 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
Summary
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
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…
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- … visiting Brighton in January 1828 and attending balls and parties almost every night. They show how …
Darwin and vivisection
Summary
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
Summary
‘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
Summary
[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…
Matches: 6 hits
- … 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
Summary
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
Summary
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?
Summary
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
Summary
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…
Matches: 1 hits
- … . In Castelnau, Francis de, Expédition dans les parties centrales de l’Amérique du Sud … …
Darwin in letters, 1878: Movement and sleep
Summary
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 …
