To J. D. Hooker [17 June 1847]
Summary
CD will take a room in Magdalen Hall at Oxford; thanks JDH’s aunt for trouble.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [17 June 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 96 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1098 |
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- … I must explain to him how it was I refused him, & his party, would never have suited me. — …
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 Charlotte Wedgwood 22 September [1831]
Summary
Sends congratulations and good wishes; feels the Wedgwoods bear much responsibility, since he would not have accepted the Beagle appointment had he not been at Maer "that 1st. of September".
| Author: | Charlotte Wedgwood; Charlotte Langton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Sept [1831] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 68 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-133 |
From B. J. Sulivan 29 November 1881
Summary
BJS is looking forward to reading the life of Lyell [K. M. Lyell, Life, letters and journals of Sir Charles Lyell, 2 vols. (1881)].
| Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Nov 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 316 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13519 |
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- … regards to M rs . Darwin and all your party | Believe me | very sincerely yours | B. J. …
To Catherine Darwin [22 November 1846]
Summary
Concerned about Father’s health.
Forwards a letter from FitzRoy.
Dr Erasmus Darwin’s scientific prophecies are the talk of London.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
| Date: | [22 Nov 1846] |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: A1–A2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1029 |
From J. D. Hooker [12 December 1866]
Summary
Plants arrived.
Delightful dinner at Lyell’s.
Will be interested in seeds passed through a fowl.
Wedgwood medallions were bought by a Miss W. [Sophy Wedgwood] of Leith Hill.
Lubbock’s account of a new centipede at Linnean Society gave rise to lively discussion by Busk and Huxley.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [12 Dec 1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 118–19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5302 |
From Bartholomew James Sulivan 18 March [1864]
Summary
Has six months’ leave from the Admiralty because of his health; intends going to Europe for four months.
| Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Mar [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 282 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4431 |
From B. J. Sulivan [14–20] April [1878]
Summary
Asks whether CD wishes to join other old "Beagles" in supporting an orphan grandson of Jemmy Button.
| Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [14–20] Apr [1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 304 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11459 |
From B. J. Sulivan 17 December 1870
Summary
Congratulations on Leonard Darwin’s success at Woolwich Academy.
Mentions the current activities of his own sons and of some old acquaintances.
| Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Dec 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 295 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7395 |
From Joanna Baillie Horner 24 September 1863
Summary
News of C. J. F. Bunbury and the Lyells.
| Author: | Joanna Baillie Horner |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Sept 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166.2: 269 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4305 |
To S. R. S. Norton 23 November [1871]
Summary
Reports how his sons enjoyed their trip to America.
Is glad SRSN is settled in Dresden.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Susan Ridley Sedgwick Norton |
| Date: | 23 Nov [1871] |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Charles Eliot Norton Papers, MS Am 1088.14: 1594) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8083 |
From Francis Wedgwood to Emma Darwin [before 4 January 1871]
Summary
Will observe old furrowed fields for CD in the early spring. Suggests locations in Scotland and Rugby with ridge and furrowing in old pastures.
| Author: | Francis (Frank) Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [before 4 Jan 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 49 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7426 |
To Richard Kippist 27 [February or March 1861?]
Summary
Requests a number of books to be sent by the carrier on Thursday morning.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Kippist |
| Date: | 27 [Feb or Mar] 1861 |
| Classmark: | Morristown National Historical Park (Lloyd W. Smith MS 697) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3889A |
From J. D. Hooker 23 October 1863
Summary
With scientific party to Amiens to look at gravel-pits, the geology of which JDH describes at length.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Oct 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 167–70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4321 |
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- … With scientific party to Amiens to look at gravel-pits, the geology of which JDH describes …
From Edouard Bergson 10 October 1875
Summary
Asks CD’s opinion on whether there is a fundamental difference between the "primitive forms" of animals and plants. Mentions and rejects various views of major distinguishing characteristics.
| Author: | Edouard Bergson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Oct 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 173 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10188 |
From Robert FitzRoy 15 November 1837
Summary
RF declines to give an opinion on the wording of the preface to CD’s volume [Journal and remarks, vol. 3 of Narrative, published separately as Journal of researches] and refers him to a disinterested third party.
| Author: | Robert FitzRoy |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Nov 1837 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 132 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-386 |
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- … separately as Journal of researches ] and refers him to a disinterested third party. …
Grant, U. S. (1822–85)
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- … created general in 1866. Nominated Republican Party candidate in 1868. President of United …
To C. E. Norton 16 March 1877
Summary
Thanks for Chauncey Wright’s work [Philosophical discussions (1877)].
Gladstone visited recently, and they discussed the future role of the United States as a world power.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Eliot Norton |
| Date: | 16 Mar 1877 |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Charles Eliot Norton Papers, MS Am 1088.14: 1596) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10895 |
To Caroline Darwin [7 December 1836]
Summary
Dinner at the Hensleigh Wedgwoods’. They have agreed to go over his journal. Henry Holland thinks it not worth publishing alone because it goes over FitzRoy’s ground.
His impressions of Harriet Martineau: "She is overwhelmed with her own projects, her own thoughts and own abilities."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
| Date: | [7 Dec 1836] |
| Classmark: | DAR 154: 50 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-325 |
From Henry Napier Bruce Erskine to Frances Julia Wedgwood 1 November 1867
Summary
Sends FJW replies to queries about expression.
| Author: | Henry Napier Bruce Erskine |
| Addressee: | Frances Julia (Snow) Wedgwood |
| Date: | 1 Nov 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 163: 31–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5663 |
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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…
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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
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…
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- … 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,…
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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
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
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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
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
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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 …
