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Darwin in letters, 1872: Job done?

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'My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, 'is so nearly closed. . . What little more I can do, shall be chiefly new work’, and the tenor of his correspondence throughout the year is one of wistful reminiscence, coupled with a keen eye…

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… What little more I can do, shall be chiefly new work’ ( letter to Francis Galton, 8 November [1872] …
… anything more on 'so difficult a subject, as evolution’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 27 July …
… best efforts, set the final price at 7 s. 6 d. ( letter from R. F. Cooke, 12 February 1872 ) …
… condition as I can make it’, he wrote to the translator ( letter to J. J. Moulinié, 23 September …
… translation remained unpublished at the end of the year ( letter from C.-F. Reinwald, 23 November …
… to the comparative anatomist St George Jackson Mivart ( letter to St G. J. Mivart, 11 January …
… comparison of Whale & duck most beautiful’ ( letter from A. R. Wallace, 3 March 1872 ) …
… a person as I am made to appear’, complained Darwin ( letter to St G. J. Mivart, 5 January 1872 ). …
… Darwin would renounce `fundamental intellectual errors’ ( letter from St G. J. Mivart, 6 January …
… was silly enough to think he felt friendly towards me’ ( letter to St G. J. Mivart, 8 January [1872 …
… hoping for reconciliation, if only `in another world’ ( letter from St G. J. Mivart, 10 January …
… have been ungracious in him not to thank Mivart for his letter. He promised to send a copy of the …
… partly in mind, `chiefly perhaps because I do it badly’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 3 August [1872] …
… Darwinism is to be the theme. Surely the world moves!’ ( letter from Mary Treat, 13 December 1872 …
… to find that Weismann accepted it at least in part ( letter to August Weismann, 5 April 1872 ). ‘I …
… few naturalists in England seem inclined to believe it’ ( letter to Herman Müller, [before 5 May …
… reached the buzzing place where I myself was standing’ ( letter to Hermann Müller, [before 5 May …
… ‘as for myself it is dreadful doing nothing’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 22 October [1872] ). He was …
… to stand closer (a serried mass) and to be more erect’ ( letter to Briton Riviere, 19 May [1872] ) …
… and amused rather than offended by `that clever book’ ( letter to J. M. Herbert, 21 November 1872 …
… wrote offering Arthur May’s drawings shortly afterwards ( letter from Samuel Butler to Francis …
… 'exactly where, from his ignorance, he feels no doubts’ ( letter to F. C. Donders, 17 June …
… music provided by her husband, Richard Buckley Litchfield ( letter to H. E. Litchfield, 13 May 1872 …
… to Henrietta; 'I know that I am half-killed myself’ ( letter to H. E. Litchfield, 25 July 1872 …
… fellow’ was Darwin’s wholeheartedly partisan reply ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 14 May 1872 ). On 13 …
… was delivered to Gladstone a week later ( enclosure to letter from John Lubbock to W. E. Gladstone, …
… was `enough to make one turn into an old honest Tory’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 July [1872] ). …
… hypothesis of Mr. Darwin , and Darwin wrote a cutting letter to Nature in Wallace’s defence …

Darwin in letters, 1867: A civilised dispute

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Charles Darwin’s major achievement in 1867 was the completion of his large work, The variation of animals and plants under domestication (Variation). The importance of Darwin’s network of correspondents becomes vividly apparent in his work on expression in…

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… suppose abuse is as good as praise for selling a Book’ ( letter to John Murray, 31 January [1867] …
… to the printer, but without the additional chapter. In a letter written on 8 February [1867] to …
… books, Descent and Expression . In the same letter, Darwin revealed the conclusion to his …
… variation of animals and plants under domestication . In a letter to his son William dated 27 …
… of his brother’s embryological papers with his first letter to Darwin of 15 March 1867 , although …
… . Indeed, he told his publisher, John Murray, in a letter of 4 April [1867] , not to send …
… tell me, at what rate your work will be published’ ( letter from J. V. Carus, 5 April 1867 ). This …
… & sent to him, he may wish to give up the task’ ( letter to Carl Vogt, 12 April [1867] ). …
… fit person’ to introduce the work to the German public ( letter from J. V. Carus, 15 April 1867 ). …
… Vogt should translate my book in preference to you’ ( letter to J. V. Carus, 18 April [1867] ). …
… varieties at the eye, which resulted in a mottled hybrid ( letter from Robert Trail, 5 April 1867 …
… seems to me, if true, a wonderful physiological fact’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 15 April [1867] ). …
… it will be a somewhat important step in Biology’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 22 August [1867] ). …
… if you attack it & me with unparalleled ferocity’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 17 November [1867] …
… own discretion; anyhow most ought to be introduced’ ( letter to W. S. Dallas, 8 November [1867] ). …
… however, & I cannot get on so quickly as I could wish’ (letter from W. S. Dallas, 20 November …
… with me about 27 years old In a letter of 22 February [1867] to Fritz Müller in …
… chapter on the cause or meaning of Expression.’ With this letter Darwin enclosed a list of questions …
… ‘Queries about Expression’. In a postscript to the letter he added, ‘But you must not plague …
… that Darwin send his queries to foreign newspapers. The letter also reveals that he did not share …
… work in some “supplemental remarks on expression”’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, [12–17] March [1867] …
… of no one to send them to, so do not want any more’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 15 April [1867] ). …
… for the year 1867. In his 15 April [1867] letter to Gray , Darwin commented, ‘I have been …
… further ( Variation 2: 75). In notes for his reply to a letter from Edward Blyth dated 19 …
… on sexual differences in mammals and birds. In his letter to Fritz Müller of 22 February [1867] , …
… topic on a theoretical level was Alfred Russel Wallace. In a letter to Wallace written on 23 …
… in his aviary to see whether this was the case ( letter from A. R. Wallace, 24 February [1867] ). …
… at a fundamental level. In his response to Wallace ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 26 February [1867] ) …
… selection might come into play in some circumstances. In a letter of 5 May [1867] , Darwin …
… done by you than I c d have succeeded in doing’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 29 April [1867] ). …
… could pursue with a view to supporting Darwin’s theory (letter from Fritz to Hermann Müller, 11 …

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…

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… be done by observation during prolonged intervals’ ( letter to D. T. Gardner, [ c . 27 August …
… pleasures of shooting and collecting beetles ( letter from W. D. Fox, 8 May [1874] ). Such …
… And … one looks backwards much more than forwards’ ( letter to W. D. Fox, 11 May [1874] ). …
… was an illusory hope.— I feel very old & helpless’ ( letter to B. J. Sulivan, 6 January [1874] …
… inferred that he was well from his silence on the matter ( letter from Ernst Haeckel, 26 October …
… in such rubbish’, he confided to Joseph Dalton Hooker ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 18 January [1874] …
… that Mr Williams was ‘a cheat and an imposter’ ( letter from T. H. Huxley, 27 January 1874 ). …
… his, ‘& that he was thus free to perform his antics’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 29 January [1874 …
… Darwin had allowed ‘a spirit séance’ at his home ( letter from T. G. Appleton, 2 April 1874 ). …
… edition, published in 1842 ( Correspondence vol. 21, letter to Smith, Elder & Co., 17 …
… Hooker, and finally borrowed one from Charles Lyell ( letter to Smith, Elder & Co., 8 January …
… to take so sweetly all the horrid bother of correction’ ( letter to H. E. Litchfield, 21 [March …
… sent an apology for misinterpreting Darwin on this point ( letter from J. D. Dana, 21 July 1874 ); …
… numbers and sex ratios among the Pitcairn islanders ( letter from William Dealtry, 16 January 1874 …
… will say that I have pounded the enemy into a jelly’ ( letter from T. H. Huxley, 14 April 1874 ). …
… by none but anatomists; and never mind where it goes’ ( letter from T. H. Huxley, 16 April 1874 ). …
… the return on subsequent print runs would be very good ( letter from R. F. Cooke, 12 November 1874 …
… by the conciseness & clearness of your thought’ ( letter from G. H. Darwin, 20 April 1874 ). …
… legal action over the ‘scurrilous libel’ on his son ( letter to G. H. Darwin, [27 July 1874] ). …
… false, scurrilous accusation of [a] lying scoundrel’ ( letter to G. H. Darwin, 1 August [1874] ). …
… as father and son agonised over the wording of both the letter to the editor and the letter to …
… relationship with Murray on the outcome ( enclosure to letter from G. H. Darwin, 6 [August] 1874 ) …
… is refused I’m really no worse off than if I had sent my letter direct to the Editor & it had …
… previous publications to review me in a hostile spirit’ ( letter to John Murray, 11 August 1874 ). …

Women as a scientific audience

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Target audience? | Female readership | Reading Variation Darwin's letters, in particular those exchanged with his editors and publisher, reveal a lot about his intended audience. Regardless of whether or not women were deliberately targeted as a…

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… Were women a target audience? Letter 2447 - Darwin to Murray, J., [5 April 1859] …
… Tollet for proofreading and criticisms of style. Letter 2461 - Darwin to Hooker, J. …
… her to read to check that she can understand it. Letter 7312 - Darwin to Darwin, F. …
… from all but educated, typically-male readers. Letter 7124 - Darwin to Darwin, H. E …
… he seeks her help with tone and style. Letter 7329 - Murray , J. to Darwin, [28 …
… in order to minimise impeding general perusal. Letter 7331 - Darwin to Murray, …
… he uses to avoid ownership of indelicate content. Letter 8335 - Reade, W. W. to …
… so as not to lose the interest of women. Letter 8341 - Reade, W. W. to Darwin, …
… which will make it more appealing to women. Letter 8611 - Cupples, A. J. to …
… Darwin’s female readership Letter 5391 - Becker, L. E. to Darwin, [6 February …
… of the Manchester Ladies Literary Society . Letter 6551 - Becker, L. E . to …
… the chapter on pangenesis, which is a revelation. Letter 6976 - Darwin to Blackwell, A. …
… Darwin assumes that 'A. B. Blackwell' is a man. Letter 7177 - Cupples, G. to …
… him to the psychology of Herbert Spencer. Letter 7624 - Bathoe, M . B. to Darwin …
… his statements on a lack of reasoning in animals. Letter 7644 - Barnard, A. to …
… during a visit to an asylum with her father. Letter 7651 - Wedgwood, F. J. to …
… on any comments that she feels might be suitable. Letter 7411 - Pfeiffer, E. J. to …
… and beauty in the process of sexual selection. Letter 8055 - Hennell, S. S. to Darwin, …
… of a woman’s natural thinking”. Letter 8778 - Forster, L. M . to Darwin, H. …
… and the showing of teeth in Expression . Letter 10072 - Pape, C. to …
… and hopes Darwin will complete her questionnaire. Letter 10390 - Herrick, S. M. B. …
… of questions which she hopes aren’t too silly. Letter 10415 - Darwin to Herrick, S. …
… and is pleased that his work has interested her. Letter 10508 - Treat, M. to Darwin …
… it nearly all night before she could lay it down. Letter 13547 - Tanner, M. H. …
… involving worms which occurred in her garden. Letter 13650 Kennard, C. A. to Darwin …
… Reading Variation Letter 5712 - Dallas, W. S. to Darwin, [8 December 1867] …
… array of facts” contained in the work. Letter 5861 - Blyth, E. to Darwin, [11 …
… are a few things which must be altered”. Letter 5928 - Gray, A. to Darwin, [25 …
… to be made to the text for the second edition. Letter 6040 - Haeckel, E. P. A. to …
… Darwin’s rich knowledge, patience and care. Letter 6110 - Samuelson, J. to Darwin, …

Darwin in letters, 1871: An emptying nest

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The year 1871 was an extremely busy and productive one for Darwin, with the publication in February of his long-awaited book on human evolution, Descent of man. The other main preoccupation of the year was the preparation of his manuscript on expression.…

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… do to talk about it, which no doubt promotes the sale’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 26 March 1871 ) …
… to her liking, ‘to keep in memory of the book’ ( letter to H. E. Darwin, 20 March 1871 ). …
… and had forsaken his lunch and dinner in order to read it ( letter from James Crichton-Browne, 19 …
… they believe to be the truth, whether pleasant or not’ (letter from W. W. Reade, 21 February 1871). …
… and Oldham … They club together to buy them’ ( letter from W. B. Dawkins, 23 February 1871 ). …
… one’s n th . ancestor lived between tide-marks!’ ( letter from T. H. Huxley, 20 February 1871 ). …
… habits, furnished with a tail and pointed ears” (letter from Asa Gray, 14 April 1871) …
… ‘will-power’ and the heavy use of their arms and legs ( letter from C. L. Bernays, 25 February 1871 …
… in order to make it darker than the hair on his head ( letter from W. B. Tegetmeier, [before 25 …
… together with an image of an orang-utan foetus ( letter from Hinrich Nitsche, 18 April 1871 ). …
… of himself, adding that it made a ‘very poor return’ ( letter to Hinrich Nitsche, 25 April [1871] …
… each night, returning to its allotted space each morning ( letter from Arthur Nicols, 7 March 1871 …
… without having a high aesthetic appreciation of beauty ( letter from E. J. Pfeiffer, [before 26 …
… endowment of spiritual life’ at some time in the past ( letter from Roland Trimen, 17 and 18 April …
… to the white’. Darwin thanked Innes for his ‘pleasant letter’, but asserted his antipathy to human …
… myself a good way ahead of you, as far as this goes’ ( letter to J. B. Innes, 29 May [1871] ). …
… ‘whereas the baboon is as the Creator made it’ ( letter from George Morrish, 18 March 1871 ). …
… could also redeem the wayward author of Descent ( letter from a child of God, [after 24 …
… with the most deep and tender religious feeling’ ( letter from F. E. Abbot, 20 August 1871 ). The …
… charges of atheism amongst his ‘clerical brethren’ ( letter from George Henslow, 5 December 1871 ) …
… from one and the same catarrhine monkey !’ ( letter from Ernst Haeckel, 21 December 1871 ). …
… review as ‘a windbag full of metaphysics & classics’ ( letter to John Murray, 13 April [1871] …
… law &c’, and transmitted by culture, not biology ( letter from John Morley, 30 March 1871 ). …
… dog when it was confronted by the presence of its master. ( Letter from Hensleigh Wedgwood, [3–9 …
… sense was especially troubling to Emma, as indicated in a letter that she wrote to Cobbe on 25 …
… was emotionally and morally bound. In one particularly long letter to Wedgwood, Darwin alluded to …
… ‘Every point of agreement is a satisfaction to me’ ( letter to Hensleigh Wedgwood, 9 March 1871 ). …
… and found only the ‘most guarded expressions’ ( letter to St G. J. Mivart, 23 January [1871] ). …

Women’s scientific participation

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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…

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… Observers Women: Letter 1194 - Darwin to Whitby, M. A. T., [12 August …
… silkworm breeds, or peculiarities in inheritance. Letter 3787 - Darwin, H. E. to …
… observations of cats’ instinctive behaviour. Letter 4258 - Becker, L. E. to Darwin, …
… to artificially fertilise plants in her garden. Letter 4523 - Wedgwood, L. C. to …
… be made on seeds of Pulmonaria officinalis . Letter 5745 - Barber, M. E. to …
… Expression from her home in South Africa. Letter 6736 - Gray, A. & J. L …
… Expression during a trip to Egypt. Letter 7223 - Darwin to Wedgwood, L. C., …
… expression of emotion in her pet dog and birds. Letter 5817 - Darwin to Huxley, T. …
… is making similar observations for him. Letter 6535 - Vaughan Williams , M. S. …
… of a crying baby to Darwin's daughter, Henrietta. Letter 7179 - Wedgwood, …
… briefly on her ongoing observations of wormholes. Letter 8611 - Cupples, A. J. …
… expression of emotion in dogs with Emma Darwin. Letter 8676 - Treat, M. to Darwin, …
… birds, insects or plants on Darwin’s behalf. Letter 8683 - Roberts, D. to …
… of an angry pig and her niece’s ears. Letter 8701 - Lubbock, E. F . to Darwin, …
… that she make observations of her pet cats. Letter 8989 - Treat, M. to Darwin, [28 …
… on her experiments with fly-catching Drosera . Letter 9426 - Story …
… without the birds attacking the buds and flowers. Letter 9616 - Marshall, T. to …
… and her father of plants and insects. Men: Letter 2221 - Blyth, E. to Darwin …
… specimens and bird observations from Calcutta. Letter 3634 - Darwin to Gray, A., [1 …
… “enthusiasm and indomitable patience”. Letter 4242 - Hildebrand, F. H. G. to Darwin …
… contained in “a little treatise”. Letter 4436 - Darwin to Hooker, J. D., [26-27 …
… he has moved one or two of them into his bedroom. Letter 5602 - Sutton, S. to …
… expression of emotion in chimpanzees and orangs. Letter 5705 - Haast, J. F. J. von …
… to show in his museum in Canterbury, New Zealand. Letter 6453 - Langton, E. to …
… to be attracted to dark spots on the wallpaper. Letter 5756 - Langton, E. & C. …
… the black letters in a marble tablet”. Letter 6815 - Scott, J. to Darwin, [2 July …
… Fieldwork Women: Letter 1701 - Morris, M. H. to Prior, R. C. A., [17 June …
… on the shores of mountain lakes in Pennsylvania. Letter 3681 - Wedgwood, M. S. to …
… and her sisters while on holiday in Llandudno. Letter 4823 - Wedgwood, L. C. to …
… the fields around her home at Leith Hill Place. Letter 6139 - Doubleday, H. to …

Origin

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Darwin’s most famous work, Origin, had an inauspicious beginning. It grew out of his wish to establish priority for the species theory he had spent over twenty years researching. Darwin never intended to write Origin, and had resisted suggestions in 1856…

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… make a large-sized pamphlet. ’ On the 4 October, in a letter to T. C. Eyton explaining his change …
… buoyed up in January 1859, when he received a (now lost) letter from Wallace, expressing …
… his friend George Frederick Pollock. The former, in a long letter to Murray, believed that Darwin …

Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex

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The quantity of Darwin’s correspondence increased dramatically in 1868 due largely to his ever-widening research on human evolution and sexual selection.Darwin’s theory of sexual selection as applied to human descent led him to investigate aspects of the…

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… in satisfying female preference in the mating process. In a letter to Alfred Russel Wallace in 1864, …
… of changing the races of man’ (Correspondence vol. 12, letter to A. R. Wallace, 28 [May 1864] ). …
… book would take the form of a ‘short essay’ on man ( letter to Ernst Haeckel, 3 July 1868 ). But …
… as well say, he would drink a little and not too much’ ( letter to Albert Günther, 15 May [1868] ) …
… would be a great loss to the Book’. But Darwin’s angry letter to Murray crossed one from Dallas to …
… of labour to remuneration I shall look rather blank’ ( letter from W. S. Dallas, 8 January 1868 ). …
… if I try to read a few pages feel fairly nauseated’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 February [1868] ). …
… reviews. On 7 August 1868 , he wrote him a lengthy letter from the Isle of Wight on the formation …
… would strike me in the face, but not behind my back’ ( letter to John Murray, 25 February [1868] ) …
… ignorant article… . It is a disgrace to the paper’ ( letter from A. R. Wallace, 24 February [1868] …
… ‘he is a scamp & I begin to think a veritable ass’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 1 September [1868] …
… wrote of the colour of duck claws on 17 April 1868 . The letter was addressed to ‘the Rev d C. …
… proved very fruitful. On 1 May , Darwin received a letter from George Cupples, who was encouraged …
… with the enthusiastic breeder, who apologised in a letter of 11–13 May 1868 for his ‘voluminuous …
… of science On 27 February , Darwin sent a letter of thanks to the naturalist and …
… he later added, ‘for it is clear that I have none’ ( letter to J. J. Weir, 30 May [1868] ). …
… to various classes, a dim ray of light may be gained’ ( letter to H. T. Stainton, 21 February [1868 …
… as well as of ‘victorious males getting wives’ ( letter to W. D. Fox, 25 February [1868] ). …
… of females was remarked upon by other entomologists ( letter from Roland Trimen, 20 February 1868 …
… and Coleoptera on 9 September . Darwin annotated a letter sent on 3 April by Henry Doubleday …
… for as sure as life he wd find the odour sexual!’ ( letter to A . R. Wallace, 16 September [1868] …
… George Robert Crotch, writing to his mother Emma in a letter dated [after 16 October 1868] : ‘I …
… box of preparations to papa … I will write a less beetley letter soon.’ Other relations …
… present had taken no particular interest in the dyed hen ( letter from Harrison Weir, 28 March 1868 …
… in the great question of the “Origin of Species”’ ( letter from A. R. Wallace, 4 October 1868 ). …
… weapon in the hands of the enemies of Nat. Selection’ ( letter from A. R. Wallace, 8 [April] 1868 …
… A correspondent of Hooker’s distributed it in Japan ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 5 September 1868 ) …
… to Aboriginal mission stations in Victoria, Australia ( letter from R. B. Smyth, 13 August 1868 ); …
… on the weeping of her two-month old daughter Katherine ( letter from C. M. Hawkshaw to Emma Darwin, …
… who observed screaming in patients undergoing vaccination ( letter from W. E. Darwin, [7 April 1868 …

Darwin in letters,1866: Survival of the fittest

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The year 1866 began well for Charles Darwin, as his health, after several years of illness, was now considerably improved. In February, Darwin received a request from his publisher, John Murray, for a new edition of Origin. Darwin got the fourth…

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… Pound foolish, Penurious, Pragmatical Prigs’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [29 December 1866] ). But …
… able to write easy work for about 1½ hours every day’ ( letter to H. B. Jones, 3 January [1866] ). …
… once daily to make the chemistry go on better’ ( letter from H. B. Jones, 10 February [1866] ). …
… see you out with our beagles before the season is over’ ( letter from John Lubbock, 4 August 1866 …
… work doing me any harm—any how I can’t be idle’ ( letter to W. D. Fox, 24 August [1866] ). …
… production of which Tegetmeier had agreed to supervise ( letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 16 January …
… of “Domestic Animals & Cult. Plants” to Printers’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 24 December [1866] …
… good deal I think, & have come to more definite views’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 22 December …
… ‘I quite follow you in thinking Agassiz glacier-mad’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 8[–9] September …
… ten times more than the belief of a dozen physicists’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [28 February 1866] …
… past few years. Emma described the Royal Society event in a letter to George: ‘Your father … entered …
… you—& told me to worship Bence Jones in future—’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 13 May 1866 ). …
… 3 calls! & then went for ¾ to Zoolog. Garden!!!!!!!!!’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [28 April 1866 …
… delighted to come on those terms so you are in for it’ ( letter from H. E. Darwin, [ c . 10 May …
… very much to see him, though I dread all exertion’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [12 May 1866] ). …
… to Madeira. His visit to Down House is described in a letter from Henrietta to George: ‘when first …
… most magnificent eulogium which it has ever received’ ( letter to Ernst Haeckel, 18 August [1866] …
… like myself weak in his Greek, is something dreadful’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 22 December [1866] …
… progressive, teleological development ( see for example, letter to C. W. Nägeli, 12 June [1866] ). …
… His drawings of C. scoparius , sent to Darwin with his letter of 8 May [1866] , allowed …
… initial state of dimorphism’ (Correspondence vol. 9, letter from Asa Gray, 11 October 1861 ). …
… that the species was ‘merely ordinaryly diœcious’ ( letter from W. E. Darwin, [7 May – 11 June 1866 …
… the Rhamnus is a case of dimorphic becoming diœcious’ ( letter from W. E. Darwin, 20 June [1866] ) …
… blows up— I am well accustomed to such explosions’ ( letter to W. E. Darwin, 22 June [1866] ). He …
… be honest, & admit how little is known on the subject’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 and 4 August …
… to see how differently we look at every thing’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 5 August [1866] ). Yet …
… a world of good, & we have been at it many a long year’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 15 February …
… at the same thing in a different light from you’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 7 August 1866 ). The …

Darwin's in letters, 1873: Animal or vegetable?

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Having laboured for nearly five years on human evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of emotions, Darwin was able to devote 1873 almost exclusively to his beloved plants. He resumed work on the digestive powers of sundews and Venus fly traps, and…

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… I omitted to observe, which I ought to have observed” ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 January [1873] …
… work your wicked will on it—root leaf & branch!” ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 12 January 1873 ) …
… parts of the flower would become modified & correlated” ( letter to T. H. Farrer, 14 August …
… it again, “for Heaven knows when it will be ready” ( letter to John Murray, 4 May [1873] ). …
… we take notes and take tracings of their burrows” ( letter from Francis Darwin, 14 August [1873] ) …
… in importance; and if so more places will be created” ( letter to E. A. Darwin, 20 September 1873 …
… our unfortunate family being fit for continuous work” ( letter from E. A. Darwin, 25 September …
… on any point; for I knew my own ignorance before hand” ( letter to George Cupples, 28 April [1873] …
… “he would fly at the Empr’s throat like a bulldog” ( letter from L. M. Forster to H. E. Litchfield, …
… force & truth of the great principle of inheritance!” ( letter to F. S. B. F. de Chaumont, 3 …
… the heavy breathing that accompanied sexual intercourse? (letter from ?, [1873?]). The Scottish …
… with up lines; & sadness & decay with the reverse—” ( letter from William Main, 2 April …
… with the advance of civilisation and good breeding ( letter from Henry Reeks, 3 March 1873 ). …
… have never felt an inclination to have a second dose” ( letter from Robert Swinhoe, 26 March 1873 …
… of an orbital one produces snapping of the jaws” ( letter from James Crichton-Browne, 16 April 1873 …
… that illustrated the physiognomy of the disease ( letter to James Crichton-Browne, 30 December 1873 …
… by an individual could be transmitted to its offspring ( letter from J. T. Moggridge, 1 February …
… a related discussion in Nature magazine, forwarding a letter from William Huggins on a case of …
… Kepler who was fearful of butchers and butcher’s shops ( letter to Nature , [before 13 February …
… smell. Darwin joined the debate, writing to Nature ( letter to Nature , [before 13 March …
… The debate later shifted to ants when Darwin forwarded a letter from the mining engineer James …
… disperse wildly after he had smashed some with his finger ( letter to Nature , [before 3 April …
… danger by seeing the corpses of a fellow species” ( letter to Nature , [before 24 July 1873] ). …
… cousin’s aims but regarded the project as “utopian” ( letter to Francis Galton, 4 January [1873] ) …
… in correspondence, and investing money very well” ( letter to Francis Galton, 28 May 1873 ). Among …
… his father’s virtues: “sober, honest & industrious” ( letter to Francis Galton, 28 May 1873 ). …
… who thought it would offend his father ( enclosure to letter from T. H. Huxley, 3 December 1873 ). …
… to reject what we should feel it a privilege to offer” ( letter from E. F. Lubbock, [before 7 April …
… from a defunct friend— but he is a deal too sharp” ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [7 April 1873] ). …

Darwin in letters, 1881: Old friends and new admirers

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In May 1881, Darwin, one of the best-known celebrities in England if not the world, began writing about all the eminent men he had met. He embarked on this task, which formed an addition to his autobiography, because he had nothing else to do. He had…

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… in Unconscious memory in November 1880 and in an abusive letter about Darwin in the St James’s …
… memory in Kosmos and sent Darwin a separate letter for publication in the Journal of Popular …
… publishers decided to print ‘500 more, making 2000’ ( letter to H. E. Litchfield, 4 January 1881 ) …
… the animal learnt from its own individual experience ( letter from G. J. Romanes, 7 March 1881 ). …
… whether observations of their behaviour were trustworthy ( letter to Francis Galton, 8 March [1881] …
… about the sale of books being ‘a game of chance’ ( letter to R. F. Cooke, 12 April 1881 ). On 18 …
… for more suggestions of such plants, especially annuals ( letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 21 March …
… supposed he would feel ‘less sulky in a day or two’ ( letter to R. F. Cooke, 29 July 1881 ). The …
… dead a work falls at this late period of the season’ ( letter from R. F. Cooke, 30 July 1881 ). …
… conversation with you’, a Swedish teacher told him ( letter from C. E. Södling, 14 October 1881 ), …
… add, however little, to the general stock of knowledge’ ( letter to E. W. Bok, 10 May 1881 ). …
… regular ‘bread-winners’ ( Correspondence vol. 30, letter to C. A. Kennard, 9 January 1882 ). …
… any future publication & to acknowledge any criticism’ ( letter to C. G. Semper, 19 July 1881 …
… view of the nature & capabilities of the Fuegians’ ( letter to W. P. Snow, 22 November 1881 ). …
… the kindly protection of the high priests of science’ ( letter from Francisco de Arruda Furtado, 29 …
… Nature , which he thought ‘an excellent Journal’ ( letter to G. J. Romanes, 4 July [1881] ). In …
… minds, without being in the least conscious of it’ ( letter to Alexander Agassiz, 5 May 1881 ). …
… this produced about the year 1840(?) on all our minds’ ( letter to John Lubbock, [18 September 1881 …
… big one’ and had ‘gone much out’ of his mind ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 20 June [1881] ). Feeling …
… than for originality’, and telling Hooker, ‘Your long letter has stirred many pleasant memories of …
… poured in so atrocious a manner on all physiologists’ ( letter to G. J. Romanes, 18 April 1881 ). …
… George Jesse and Frances Power Cobbe. Jesse, in a private letter, stated that Darwin must not have …
… Royal Commission for the regulation of vivisection, and a letter from Cobbe in The Times made …
… Cobbe’s claims. To Darwin’s relief, a second letter from Cobbe, published on 23 April, was answered …
… April , Darwin asked, ‘did you notice how in her second letter she altered what she quoted from her …
… Darwin, however, prevented Jesse from publishing a private letter he had written to him, explaining …
… his own and everyone else’s judgment on the subject ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 12 July 1881 ). …
… tedious as they would be with a less intelligent man’ ( letter from G. J. Romanes, 1 July [1881] ) …

Darwin in letters, 1864: Failing health

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On receiving a photograph from Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July 1864: ‘the venerable beard gives the look of your having suffered, and … of having grown older’. Because of poor health, Because of poor health, Darwin…

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… of the five physicians Darwin had consulted in 1863. In a letter of 26[–7] March [1864] , Darwin …
… and he received more letters of advice from Jenner. In a letter of 15 December [1864] to the …
… As Darwin explained to his cousin William Darwin Fox in a letter of 30 November [1864] , ‘the …
… observations indoors ( Correspondence vol. 11). In a letter of [27 January 1864] , Darwin …
… gradation by which leaves produce tendrils’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [8 February 1864] ). …
… fearfully for it is a leaf climber & therefore sacred’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 2 June [1864] …
… matters which routinists regard in the light of axioms’ ( letter from Daniel Oliver, [17 March 1864 …
… long series of changes . . .’ When he told Asa Gray in a letter of 29 October [1864] that he was …
… paper was published, Darwin remarked to Hooker in a letter of 26 November [1864] that nothing …
… of the two species with the common oxlip. In a letter of 22 October [1864] , Darwin triumphantly …
… the ‘splendid case of Dimorphism’ in Menyanthes ( letter from Emma and Charles Darwin to W. E. …
… this interest. At the start of the year, he received a letter, insect specimens, and an article on …
… that it was ‘the best medicine for my stomach’ ( letter to Daniel Oliver, 17 February [1864] ). …
… at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, in 1862 with a letter regarding the fertilisation of the …
… two years, with his stipend being paid by Darwin himself ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [1 April 1864] …
… is difficult enough to play your part over them’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [2 April 1864] ). …
… troublesome … they do require very careful treatment’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 8 April 1864 ). …
… the conclusion that in giving I am hastening the fall’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 20 April 1864 ) …
… his indomitable perseverance, and his knowledge’ ( letter to John Scott, 10 June 1864 ). Hooker …
… basis he recommended a first-class cabin for the journey ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [15 August …
… and curators at a great distance. Gray forwarded a letter from Charles Wright, a plant collector in …
… to the materialist philosophy of Ludwig Buchner ( letter from Hermann Kindt, 5 September 1864 ). …
… himself. Haeckel’s scientific life, he reported in a letter of 9 [July 1864] , had been …
… often called me her German “Darwin–Mann” ’ ( letter from Ernst Haeckel, 10 August 1864 ). Haeckel …
… to listen to any thing from him except á la Darwin!’ ( letter from Hugh Falconer, 3 November 186[4] …
… 1864a, p. 567). In 1864, Darwin received his first letter from Benjamin Dann Walsh, a new …
… widely throughout the eastern and mid-western states. In his letter to Darwin of 7 November 1864, …
… manner in which you have bearded this lion in his den’ ( letter to B. D. Walsh, 4 December [1864] …
… & clearly’ he spoke out on the modification of species ( letter to B. D. Walsh, 21 October …

Darwin in letters, 1869: Forward on all fronts

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At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of Origin. He may have resented the interruption to his work on sexual selection and human evolution, but he spent forty-six days on the task. Much of the…

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… & I am sick of correcting’ ( Correspondence vol. 16, letter to W. D. Fox, 12 December [1868 …
… Well it is a beginning, & that is something’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [22 January 1869] ). …
… made any blunders, as is very likely to be the case’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 January 1869 ). …
… than I now see is possible or probable’ (see also letter to A. R. Wallace, 22 January [1869] , …
… is strengthened by the facts in distribution’ ( letter to James Croll, 31 January [1869] ). Darwin …
… tropical species using Croll’s theory. In the same letter to Croll, Darwin had expressed …
… a very long period before the Cambrian formation’ ( letter to James Croll, 31 January [1869] …
… data to go by, but don’t think we have got that yet’ ( letter from James Croll, 4 February 1869 ). …
… I d have been less deferential towards [Thomson]’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 19 March [1869] ). …
… completed revisions of the ‘everlasting old Origin’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 1 June [1869] ), he was …
… him however in his researches I would willingly do so’ ( letter from Robert Elliot to George …
… with his noisy courting of the female in the garden ( letter from Frederick Smith, 8 October 1869 …
… doubted her ability to recognise the different varieties ( letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 25 February …
… weary of everlasting males & females, cocks & hens.—’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 November …
… with much more of the same description’ ( enclosure to letter from Henry Maudsley, 20 May 1869 ). …
… in an additional & proximate cause in regard to Man’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 14 April 1869 …
… orang-utan, and the bird of paradise (Wallace 1869a; letter to A. R. Wallace, 22 March [1869] ) …
… does himself an injustice & never demands justice’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 14 April 1869 ). …
… geological structures of the South American cordillera ( letter to Charles Lyell, 20 May 1869 ), …
… of the same species that Darwin had investigated in depth ( letter from C. F. Claus, 6 February …
… role of earthworms in the formation of the soil ( letter to Gardeners’ Chronicle , 9 May [1869] …
… sundew), a genus that he had studied in the early 1860s ( letter to W. C. Tait, 12 and 16 March …
… for either the fourth or the fifth English editions ( see letter from Victor Masson, 29 September …
… not employ [her] to translate “Domestic Animals”’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 19 November [1869] ). …
… before offering my book to English readers.—’ ( letter from Fritz Müller, 15 June 1869 ). …
… He literally poured boiling oil over the bumptious man’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 7 September …
… to have made greater fools of themselves than they did’ ( letter from T. H. Huxley, 28 September …

Darwin in letters, 1876: In the midst of life

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1876 was the year in which the Darwins became grandparents for the first time. And tragically lost their daughter-in-law, Amy, who died just days after her son's birth. All the letters from 1876 are now published in volume 24 of The Correspondence…

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… ‘my wife … poor creature, has won only 2490 games’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 28 January 1876 ). …
… quantity of work’ left in him for ‘new matter’ (letter to Asa Gray, 28 January 1876). The …
… to a reprint of the second edition of Climbing plants ( letter from R. F. Cooke, 23 February …
… & I for blundering’, he cheerfully observed to Carus. ( Letter to J. V. Carus, 24 April 1876. …
… provided evidence for the ‘advantages of crossing’ (letter to Asa Gray, 28 January 1876). Revising …
… year to write about his life ( Correspondence vol. 23, letter from Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg, 20 …
… nowadays is evolution and it is the correct one’ ( letter from Nemo, [1876?] ). …
… him ‘basely’ and who had succeeded in giving him pain ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 17 June 1876 ). …
… disgrace’ of blackballing so distinguished a zoologist ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 29 January 1876 ) …
… must have been cast by the ‘poorest curs in London’ ( letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, [4 February …
… her questions were ‘too silly to deserve an answer’ ( letter from S. B. Herrick, 12 February 1876 …
… on Dionaea ‘to test the insect eating theory’ ( letter from Peter Henderson, 15 November 1876 …
… sending Darwin small amendments to his results ( letter from Moritz Schiff, 8 May 1876 ). …
… to get positive results in this year’s experiments’ ( letter from G. J. Romanes, [ c . 19 March …
… in the Encyclopaedia Britannica the previous year ( letter to G. H. Darwin, [after 4 September …
… and to promote work he admired. He was so interested in a letter from Fritz Müller in Brazil …
… with the ants that inhabited the trunk that he sent the letter to Nature for publication. ‘It …
… communicated this information in an article in Nature ( letter from Johann von Fischer, [before …
… phyllotaxis by the mutual pressure of very young buds’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 21 June [1876] ). …
… Scottish shoemaker and ardent naturalist Thomas Edward ( letter from F. M. Balfour, 11 December …
… live blood-hound which shall hunt it to the death’ ( letter from James Torbitt, 19 April 1876 …
… the public to consider Torbitt an untrustworthy fanatic ( letter to James Torbitt, 21 April 1876 ) …
… request, with the ‘awful job’ of informing the author ( letter to G. G. Stokes, 21 April [1876] ). …
… thought the paper was ‘not worthy of being read ever’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 28 January 1876 …
… to William Thiselton-Dyer on 26 April that Tait’s letter about his ‘accursed paper’ had quite …
… minded Horace, however, who was the first to type a letter, telling George on 1 May (in the only …
… Henry Lewes for an article on the snail’s heart and a letter to Nature on the use of the …
… his son, ‘all I can say is do not commit suicide’ ( letter to G. H. Darwin, [4 June 1876] ). By …

Darwin in letters,1870: Human evolution

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The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the year at work on the Descent of Man & Selection in relation to Sex’. Descent was the culmination of over three decades of observations and reflections on…

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… shall be a man again & not a horrid grinding machine’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 25 December …
… anything which has happened to me for some weeks’ ( letter to Albert Günther, 13 January [1870] ) …
… corrections of style, the more grateful I shall be’ ( letter to H. E. Darwin, [8 February 1870] ) …
… who wd ever have thought that I shd. turn parson?’ ( letter to H. E. Darwin, [8 February 1870] ). …
… abt any thing so unimportant as the mind of man!’ ( letter from H. E. Darwin, [after 8 February …
… thro’ apes & savages at the moral sense of mankind’ ( letter to F. P. Cobbe, 23 March [1870?] …
… how metaphysics & physics form one great philosophy?’ ( letter from F. P. Cobbe, 28 March [1870 …
… in thanks for the drawing ( Correspondence vol. 16, letter to J. D. Hooker, 26 November [1868] …
… patients, but it did not confirm Duchenne’s findings ( letter from James Crichton-Browne, 15 March …
… muscle’, he complained, ‘is the bane of existence!’ ( letter to William Ogle, 9 November 1870 ). …
… to their belief that all demons and spirits were white ( letter from W. W. Reade, 9 November 1870 …
… . . Could you make it scream without hurting it much?’ ( letter to A. D. Bartlett, 5 January [1870] …
… or crying badly; but I fear he will not succeed’ ( letter to James Crichton-Browne, 8 June [1870] …
… Lucy Wedgwood, who sent a sketch of a baby’s brows ( letter from L. C. Wedgwood, [5 May 1870] ). …
… is the inclination to finish my note on this subject’ ( letter from F. C. Donders, 17 May 1870 ). …
… the previous year (see Correspondence vol. 17, letter to A. R. Wallace, 14 April 1869 ). His …
… (in retrograde direction) naturalist’ (letter to A. R.Wallace, 26 January [1870]). …
… towards each other, though in one sense rivals’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 20 April [1870] ). …
… version of the theory of descent by natural selection in a letter to Darwin, prompting much anxiety …
… But who is to criticise them? No one but yourself’ ( letter from H. W. Bates, 20 May 1870 ). …
… me to be able to say that I never write reviews’ ( letter to H. W. Bates, [22 May 1870] ). …
… design. Darwin commented on Mivart’s essay in a letter to William Henry Flower: ‘I am glad …
… time wd be wasted if I once began to answer objectors’ ( letter to W. H. Flower, 25 March [1870] ) …
… laborious & valuable labours on the Primates’ ( letter to St G. J. Mivart, 23 April [1870] ). …
… Ape than such an Ape differs from a lump of granite’ ( letter from St G. J. Mivart, 22 April 1870 …
… his “end” whatever may have been his “origin” ( letter from St G. J. Mivart, 25 April 1870 ). In …
… by you in this manner than praised by many others’ ( letter to Armand de Quatrefages, 28 May [1870 …
… us which are stronger than the causes of discord’ ( letter from Armand de Quatrefages, 30 March …
… that you had called on assistants to describe them’ ( letter from Armand de Quatrefages, 18 July …
… years and your immortal work is above all attacks’ ( letter from Edouard van Beneden, 17 December …

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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… [Reimarius 1760] The Highlands & Western Isl ds letter to Sir W Scott [MacCulloch 1824 …
… 1834–40]: In Portfolio of “abstracts” 34 —letter from Skuckard of books on Silk Worm …
… M rs Fry’s Life [Fry 1847] Horace Walpoles letter to C t . of Ossory [Walpole 1848] …
… Asiatic Society ]—contains very little Macleay’s letter to D r Fleming [Macleay 1830] …
… [Heer 1854].— Hooker has it.— Very important Hookers letter Jan. 1859 Yules Ava [Yule 1858] …
… of the material from these portfolios is in DAR 205, the letter from William Edward Shuckard to …
… ( Notebooks , pp. 319–28). 55 The letter was addressed to Nicholas Aylward Vigors …
… to William Jackson Hooker. See Correspondence vol. 3, letter to J. D. Hooker, [5 or 12 November …
… 119: 21b Broughton, William Grant. 1832. A letter in vindication of the principles of …
… by Bekhur to Garoo and the Lake Manasarowara: with a letter from … J. G. Gerard, Esq. …
… 1830. On the dying struggle of the dichotomous sytem. In a letter to N. A. Vigors. Philosophical …
… *119: 8v., 22v.; *128: 165 ——. 1850a. Letter to the Rev. John Bachman, on the question of …
… art of improving the breeds of domestic animals. In a letter addressed to the Right Hon. Sir …
… 1820. Remarks on the improvement of cattle, &c. in a letter to Sir John Saunders Sebright, …

Darwin in letters, 1880: Sensitivity and worms

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‘My heart & soul care for worms & nothing else in this world,’ Darwin wrote to his old Shrewsbury friend Henry Johnson on 14 November 1880. Darwin became fully devoted to earthworms in the spring of the year, just after finishing the manuscript of…

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… my grandfather’s character is of much value to me’ ( letter to C. H. Tindal, 5 January 1880 ). …
… have influenced the whole Kingdom, & even the world’ ( letter from J. L. Chester, 3 March 1880 …
… delighted to find an ordinary mortal who could laugh’ ( letter from W. E. Darwin to Charles and …
… much powder & shot’ ( Correspondence vol. 27, letter from Ernst Krause, 7 June 1879 , and …
… modified; but now I much regret that I did not do so’ ( letter to Samuel Butler, 3 January 1880 ). …
… and ‘decided on laying the matter before the public’ ( letter from Samuel Butler, 21 January 1880 …
… and uncertain about what to do. He drafted two versions of a letter to the Athen æum , sending …
… in which he will have the last word’, she warned ( letter from H. E. Litchfield, [1 February 1880] …
… who will fight to the end’, added her husband Richard ( letter from R. B. Litchfield, 1 February …
… him & given him Darwinophobia? It is a horrid disease’ ( letter from T. H. Huxley, 3 February …
… squashing the ‘mosquito inflated to an elephant’ ( letter from Ernst Krause, 9 December 1880 ). …
… inches of soil as a protection against enemies.’ ‘Your letter … made me open my eyes’, Gray replied …
… his original description. Darwin was puzzled: ‘If my letter opened your eyes, yours has opened mine …
… to the same species, should behave so differently.’ ( Letter to Asa Gray, 17 February 1880 .) But …
… of the plant in its native habitat. He forwarded a letter from a botanist and schoolteacher in …
… ‘Where is the profit for Author or publisher?’ ( letter from R. F. Cooke, 20 July 1880 ). ‘I must …
… money by science, I must now lose some for science’ ( letter to R. F. Cooke, 21 July 1880 ). The …
… without any corresponding structural differentiations’ ( letter from F. M. Balfour, [22 November …
… In former years I was, also, rarely fit to see anybody’ ( letter to S. H. Haliburton, 13 December …
… he pretended, ‘but the subject has amused me’ ( letter to W. C. McIntosh, 18 June 1880 ). Members …
… back. Then we saw a steam tram—imagine my excitement’ ( letter from Horace Darwin to Emma Darwin, …
… at the worms. We find that the light frightens them’ ( letter to Sophy Wedgwood, 8 October [1880] …
… it elsewhere, and thus one looks to prevent its return’ ( letter from J.-H. Fabre, 18 February 1880 …
… country, and letting them out of their respective bags ( letter from G. J. Romanes, [6, 13, or 20] …

Darwin and the Church

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The story of Charles Darwin’s involvement with the church is one that is told far too rarely. It shows another side of the man who is more often remembered for his personal struggles with faith, or for his role in large-scale controversies over the…

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… & I can see it even through a grove of Palms.—’ (letter to Caroline Darwin, 25–6 April [1832] …
… wrote to the contrary: ‘I am sorry to see in your last letter that you still look forward to the …
… near the British Museum or some other learned place’ (letter from E. A. Darwin, 18 August [1832] …
… it is a sort of scene I never ought to think about—’ (letter to W. D. Fox, [9–12 August] 1835 ). …
… However, what remains is cordial; in the first extant letter of the correspondence, Darwin wrote to …
… (a local charity), which he administered from 1848 to 1869 (letter to J. B. Innes, [8 May 1848] …
… he would make an excellent Guardian [of the Poor Fund]’ (letter to J. W. Lubbock, 28 March [1854] …
… club the use of his own lawn for its meetings (Moore 1985; letter to J. S. Henslow, 17 January …
… the family’s dog, Quiz, when he moved away from Down (letter to J. B. Innes, 15 December [1861] ) …
… was considered to be a cross between a cow and a red deer (letter from J. B. Innes, 7 December …
… ancestor. Please think of my request favourably—’ (letter from J. B. Innes, 26 May 1871 ). Indeed …
… and leaves Moses to take care of himself. Letter from J. B. Innes, 1 December 1878 …
… take care of the financial complications he left behind (letter from S. J. O’H. Horsman, 2 June …
… seemed to have made off with the church’s organ fund (letter to J. B. Innes, 15 June [1868] ). So …
… by Horsman relating to the Down school and organ funds (letter to J. B. Innes, 13 January 1871 ). …
… Dissenters’ chapel, rather than the Down parish church (letter to J. B. Innes, 1 December 1868 ). …
… in the Parish, but preaches, I hear, very dull sermons’ (letter to J. B. Innes, 18 January [1871] …
… capital testimonials to his wife’s qualifications’ (letter from J. B. Innes, 5 June 1871 ). …
… support, and presented their answer to the School Committee (letter to Down School Board, [after …
… of letters to both men, vainly seeking to reconcile them (letter from John Lubbock, 5 April [1875] …
… During the reign of Ffinden, there is an interesting letter from Darwin to the evangelist J. W. C. …
… do not know that there is a drunkard left in the village’ (letter to J. W. C. Fegan, [December …

Books on the Beagle

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The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.

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… Captain FitzRoy in the Narrative (2: 18). CD, in his letter to Henslow, 9 [September 1831] , …
… . . . There will be plenty of room for Books.’ (Letter from Robert FitzRoy, 23 September 1831 …
… the ‘immense stock’ which CD mentions may be had from a letter FitzRoy wrote to his sister during an …
… on board the Beagle § — mentioned in a letter or other source as being on board …
… Naturelle 3 (1834): 84–115. (DAR 37.1: 677v.; letter to J. S. Henslow, 12 July 1835). * …
… d’histoire naturelle . 17 vols. Paris, 1822–31. (Letter from J. S. Henslow, 15–21 January [1833]). …
… a report of the proceedings . . . Cambridge, 1833. (Letter to Charles Whitley, 23 July 1834). …
… of the 2d meeting . . . Oxford, 1832 . London, 1833. (Letter to J. S. Henslow, March 1834 and …
… also Hawkesworth, John). (DAR 32.2: 89v.; Robert FitzRoy’s letter to the South African Christian …
… residence in New Zealand in 1827 . . . London, 1832. (Letter to Caroline Darwin, 27 December 1835). …
… 33: 254). § Euclid. Elements of geometry. (Letter to J. S. Henslow, 30 October 1831). …
… The philosophy of zoology . . . 2 vols. Edinburgh, 1822. (Letter from Susan Darwin, 15 October …
… to the mountain barometer. 2d ed. London, n.d. [1802]. (Letter to Robert FitzRoy, [10 October 1831 …
… de l’ordre des polypiers. Paris, 1821. (DAR 30.1: 13v.; letter to J. S. Henslow, 24 July – 7 …
… Video. Novem r . 1832’; vol. 3 (1833): ‘C. Darwin’; letter to J. S. Henslow, 24 July – 7 November …
… of England. Volume one. London, 1830. (Robert FitzRoy’s letter to the South African Christian …
… ‘A few little books written by Miss Martineau’. (Letter from Caroline Darwin, 28 October [1833]). …
… and La Plata . . . 2 vols. London, 1826. (DAR 31.2: 319; letter to Robert Fitzroy, 28 August 1834) …
… John. Paradise lost. ( ’Beagle’ diary , p. 107; letter to J. S. Henslow, 24 November 1832). …
… account of several late voyages. 2 parts. London, 1694. (Letter to J. S. Henslow, 24 July – 7 …
… introducton to . . . mineralogy . . . London, 1816. (Letter from J. S. Henslow, 22 July 1834; …
… the Cambridge Philosophical Society 4 (1833): 209–17. (Letter to J. S. Henslow, 24 July – 7 …
… 1803, and 1804 . . . London, 1805. (Robert FitzRoy’s letter to the South African Christian …
… of the world . . . Vol. 1. London, 1832. (DAR 30.1: 2v.; letter to J. M. Herbert, 2 June 1833). …
… of the voyages . . . London, 1773. (Robert FitzRoy’s letter to the South African Christian …
… state . . . by a country pastor [R. W.]. London, 1829. (Letter from Caroline Darwin, 28 October …
… of the Royal Society of London 123 (1833): 147–236. (Letter to J. S. Henslow, March 1834; …
… James. Elements of algebra. 8th ed. Cambridge, 1825. (Letter to J. S. Henslow, 30 October 1831). …
… Ansichten der Natur , 2d ed., 1826. 2 vols. Paris, 1828. (Letter to Catherine Darwin, 5 July [1832] …

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