Webster, Noah. 1865. An American dictionary of the English language. Revised by Chauncey A. Goodrich and Noah Porter. Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam.
From Hensleigh Wedgwood [21 March 1871]
Summary
Copy of and note on a picture of Noah’s daughter averting her eyes in shame.
| Author: | Hensleigh Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [21 Mar 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 195.1: 54 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7406 |
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- … Copy of and note on a picture of Noah’s daughter averting her eyes in shame. …
- … A picture in the campo santo at Pisa of Noahs daughter looking at her drunken father, …
- … The picture of Noah’s daughter is part of a fresco in the Camposanto …
- … in Pisa, ‘The vintage and drunkenness of Noah’, painted by Benozzo Gozzoli between 1469 …
Micklethwait, David. 2000. Noah Webster and the American dictionary. Jefferson, N.C., and London: McFarland & Company.
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- … Micklethwait, David. 2000. Noah Webster and the American dictionary. Jefferson, N.C. , and …
Porter, Noah. 1872. The human intellect: with an introduction upon psychology and the soul. London: Strahan.
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- … Porter, Noah. 1872. The human intellect: with an introduction upon psychology and the …
Allen, Don Cameron. 1949. The legend of Noah: Renaissance rationalism in art, science, and letters. Illinois Studies in Language and Literature 33 (nos. 3 and 4): 1–221.
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- … Allen, Don Cameron. 1949. The legend of Noah: Renaissance rationalism in art, science, and …
O’Malley, Joseph. 1871. Noah’s Ark vindicated and explained: a reply to Dr Colenso’s difficulties. Melbourne: Thomas Verga.
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- … O’Malley, Joseph. 1871. Noah’s Ark vindicated and explained: a reply to Dr Colenso’s …
O’Malley, Joseph (1830–1910)
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- … Emigrated to Melbourne in 1870. Author of Noah’s Ark vindicated and explained: a reply to …
From Gerard Krefft [after 12 July 1873]
Summary
JLGK’s public advocacy of Darwinism brings him into numerous arguments.
| Author: | Johann Louis Gerard (Gerard) Krefft |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 12 July 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 114 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8959 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Press. 1985–. O’Malley, Joseph. 1871. Noah’s Ark vindicated and explained: a reply to Dr …
- … was Father Joseph O’Malley ; his book, Noah’s Ark vindicated and explained: a reply to …
- … over here from Melbourne to lecture on “Noahs Arck” who proved to the satisfaction of a …
- … about the extinct Animals and where did Noah keep the Venomous Snakes. – If I cut a joke …
Webster, Noah (1758–1843)
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- … Noah Webster 1758–1843 American lexicographer and journalist. Author of grammars, spelling …
To George Warington 7 October [1867]
Summary
Admires his paper ["On the credibility of Darwinism", J. Trans. Victoria Inst. 2 (1867): 39–62, and discussion 63–125].
Ridicules William H. Ince and Admiral FitzRoy on their naive ideas about Noah’s ark.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Warington |
| Date: | 7 Oct [1867] |
| Classmark: | Royal College of Physicians of London (MS1001/95) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5642 |
From Clair James Grece 29 December 1867
Summary
Asks CD to write a letter on his behalf to John Murray. CJG plans to translate Eduard Maetzner’s Englische Grammatik [1860–5] if publication can be arranged.
| Author: | Clair James Grece |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Dec 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 221 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5742 |
From Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen [before 18 January 1873]
Summary
Translation of some of his annotations in Dutch edition of Expression.
| Author: | Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 28 Jan 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 53.1: B44–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8712 |
To J. D. Hooker 13 July [1861]
Summary
Has worked out homologies of orchids’ pollinia and rostellum.
On W. H. Harvey’s review ["The natural evolution of organic species considered", Dublin Hosp. Gaz. 8 (1861): 146–52].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 13 July [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 105 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3207 |
From Alexander F. Boardman 26 January 1867
Summary
Encloses letter written a week ago. Letter and enclosure speculate on origins of human races in relation to geological and political changes, according to a theory of progressive development.
Was sorry CD wrote so little on man in Origin.
| Author: | Alexander F. Boardman |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Jan 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 226, 226/1, 227 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5378 |
To W. D. Fox [May 1850]
Summary
Details of his continuing water-cure regimen.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [May 1850] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 76) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1323 |
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- … purposes. See CD’s reference to Fox’s ‘Noah’s Ark’ in his letter to W. D. Fox, 10 …
To J. D. Hooker 10 March [1854]
Summary
More praise for Himalayan journals.
How remote was glacial action in Himalayas?
Implies Himalayas were birthplace of many plants.
Final volume of Cirripedia to be printed in two or three months.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 10 Mar [1854] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 119 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1558 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Allen, Don Cameron. 1949. The legend of Noah: Renaissance rationalism in art, science, and …
From Edward Cresy 9 June 1865
Summary
Sends Fritz Müller citation as CD requested.
Huxley is boldly proclaiming his Darwinism at Royal Institution ["Methods and results of ethnology", Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 4: 460–3; also Collected essays 7 (1894)].
| Author: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 June 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 244 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4856 |
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- … his faith in Darwinism & pitching Noahs ark in good set terms to the four winds— He never …
From Francis Darwin [before 22 November 1878]
Summary
Horse chestnut roots have not acted at all well.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 22 Nov 1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 42 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11754F |
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- … I brought Ubbadubba an apron from Idy, & a noahs ark which he likes very much—when he had …
To Charles Lyell 22 [December 1859]
Summary
Comments on Hooker’s introductory essay [in Flora Tasmaniae].
Cites C. V. Naudin’s article ["Considérations philosophiques sur l’espèce et la variété", Rev. Hortic. 4th ser. 1 (1852): 102–9].
Mentions letter from William Jardine criticising discussion of the Galapagos in the Origin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 22 [Dec 1859] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.186) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2593 |
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- … Hooker. — What a marvellous geological Noah’s ark that fossil tree in N. America was! — …
To W. D. Fox [13 February 1845]
Summary
News of his family and his own health. He is able to work three hours a day on the geology of South America.
Harriet Martineau is greatly excited by mesmerism.
Tells of Sydney Smith’s dream.
Asks for some [S. American] potatoes to test "sporting".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [13 Feb 1845] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 69a) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-827 |
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- … for your letter & all your news of your Noah’s Ark; it w d really be a curiosity to see …
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| Boardman, A. F. | (1) |
| Cresy, Edward, Jr | (1) |
| Crotch, W. D. | (1) |
| Cupples, George | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
| Fox, W. D. | (4) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (20) |
| Fox, W. D. | (4) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Boardman, A. F. | (1) |
| Cresy, Edward, Jr | (1) |
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Darwin in letters, 1851-1855: Death of a daughter
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The letters from these years reveal the main preoccupations of Darwin’s life with a new intensity. The period opens with a family tragedy in the death of Darwin’s oldest and favourite daughter, Anne, and it shows how, weary and mourning his dead child,…
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- … Darwin Fox, who kept a wide assortment of animals at his ‘Noah’s ark’ in Delamere and who had long …
