To William Walmisley Baxter 26 January [1862]
Summary
Discusses deduction from bill for medicine.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
| Date: | 26 Jan [1862] |
| Classmark: | University of Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13773 |
To Edward Cresy 8 January [1862 or 1868]
Summary
Obliged for the Theophrastus. Will return it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
| Date: | 8 Jan [1862 or 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 321 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13788 |
From Robert Bateman [28 January 1862]
Summary
For his father [James Bateman], he sends three more species of orchids and names of others described by CD.
| Author: | Robert Bateman |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [28 Jan 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160.1: 60 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3357 |
From Ellen Frances Lubbock to Emma Darwin [January 1862]
Summary
Trying to persuade CD to visit JL.
| Author: | Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [Jan 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 170.1: 9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3368 |
From John Brodie Innes 2 January [1862]
Summary
Quiz has been sent off to Down.
JBI will leave for Scotland on Monday.
| Author: | John Brodie Innes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Jan [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 167.1: 7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3370 |
To J. B. Innes [3] January [1862]
Summary
Quiz arrived safely.
CD’s three sons are in bed with bad colds.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
| Date: | [3] Jan [1862] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3371 |
To Charles Edouard Brown-Séquard 2 January [1862]
Summary
Pleased to hear through Miss Pennington that CEB-S intends to review Origin in a French journal. Suggests 3d ed. as this will soon appear in French translation. Does not expect perfect agreement on so complex a subject as descent.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Édouard Brown-Séquard |
| Date: | 2 Jan [1862] |
| Classmark: | Royal College of Physicians of London (MS-BROWC/981/96) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3372 |
From J. D. Hooker [1 January 1862]
Summary
Sends plant specimens. William Borrer will be glad to send seeds.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1 Jan 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3373 |
From John Lubbock 6 January 1862
Summary
Sends paper [on ancient Swiss lake-habitations, Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 26–51] for CD’s opinion.
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Jan 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 170.1: 23 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3376 |
From Henry Walter Bates 6 January 1862
Summary
Sends CD ch. 2 of his book [The naturalist on the river Amazons] for suggestions, having accepted CD’s recommendations concerning ch. 1.
Effects of climate on dress in ch. 1 similar to, but independent of, notions expressed by CD in his Journal of researches [p. 381].
On geology, book deals with distribution and theory of deltas of the Amazon.
| Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Jan 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160.1: 64 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3377 |
From Société Impériale Zoologique d’Acclimatation 10 January 1862
Summary
Announces a meeting of the Society to elect its officers.
| Author: | Société Impériale Zoologique d’Acclimatation |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Jan 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 11v |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3379 |
To Société Impériale Zoologique d’Acclimatation [after 10 January 1862]
Summary
Asks how much he owes for his annual subscription to the Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Société Impériale Zoologique d’Acclimatation |
| Date: | [after 10 Jan 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 11r |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3380 |
From H. W. Bates 11 January 1862
Summary
Grieved to hear of CD’s illness; begs him not to give moment’s thought to his MS until health has returned.
Plans to exhibit mimetic butterflies at Linnean Society.
| Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Jan 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160.1: 65 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3381 |
To H. W. Bates 13 January [1862]
Summary
Has been in bad health and has just read HWB’s MS in the last two days. Praises the book; assured it will be successful. Offers to write to Murray. Hooker interested in conclusions on colour.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Date: | 13 Jan [1862] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3382 |
From Thomas Henry Huxley 13 January 1862
Summary
Against all predictions his Edinburgh lecture was well received [Evidence as to man’s place in nature (1863)].
Took his old line about problem of infertility of hybrids as a test of CD’s views.
Report [from a newspaper] not quite right about what he said, but they have not refuted his statement that some form of progressive development theory is certainly true, nor that man and the apes come from same stock. Owen has gone in for progressive development in second edition of the Palaeontology [1861].
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Jan 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166.2: 290 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3383 |
From Charles Carter Blake 13 January 1862
Summary
Thanks for note on his Macrauchenia paper [Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 7 (1861): 441–3].
Asks for references to descriptions of certain bones found in South America.
Lists four fossil New World monkeys; is CD aware of any others?
| Author: | Charles Carter Blake |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Jan 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160.2: 198 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3384 |
From C. E. Brown-Séquard 13 January 1862
Summary
Apologises for not answering CD sooner about where he will publish review [of Origin]. Review is to appear in his own journal, but will postpone publishing it until the French translation of 3d ed. appears. Expresses substantial agreement with CD’s views.
| Author: | Charles Édouard Brown-Séquard |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Jan 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160.3: 327 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3385 |
To T. H. Huxley 14 [January 1862]
Summary
On success of THH’s Edinburgh lectures.
Agrees that THH is right that the hybrid question is a "hiatus" [in the argument for natural selection] but he overrates it. Crossed varieties frequently produce sterile offspring. On this question asks THH to read his Primula paper [Collected papers 2: 45–63]. CD suspects sterility will come to be viewed as a selected character.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 14 [Jan 1862] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 167) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3386 |
From John Hutton Balfour 14 January 1862
Summary
Thanks for Primula paper [Collected papers 2: 45–63]; will examine some [Edinburgh] Botanic Garden samples in its light.
Huxley visiting Edinburgh and spoke on man’s zoological relations with monkeys [see Man’s place in nature (1863)]. JHB disagrees with his views.
| Author: | John Hutton Balfour |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Jan 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160.1: 31 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3387 |
From Henry Holland [3–14] January [1862]
Summary
Condolences on death of Charlotte Langton [née Wedgwood].
Is waiting to hear from Lord Tankerville [see 3339].
| Author: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [3–14] Jan [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 166.2: 238 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3388 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (21) |
| Holland, Henry | (4) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
| Bates, H. W. | (3) |
| Lubbock, John | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (36) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Bates, H. W. | (2) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
| Babington, C. C. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (57) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (7) |
| Bates, H. W. | (5) |
| Holland, Henry | (5) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (4) |
List of correspondents
Summary
Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. Click on a name to see the letters Darwin exchanged with that correspondent. "A child of God" (1) Abberley,…
Darwin The Collector
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Look at nature more closely and create and record your own natural collections.
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Detecting Darwin
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Who was Charles Darwin? What is he famous for? Why is he still important?
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Cross and self fertilisation
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The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom, published on 10 November 1876, was the result of a decade-long project to provide evidence for Darwin’s belief that ‘‘Nature thus tells us, in the most emphatic manner, that she abhors…
4.18 'Figaro' chromolithograph 1
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< Back to Introduction In a cartoon of 1874 by Figaro’s French-born artist Faustin Betbeder (known as Faustin), Darwin holds up a mirror reflecting himself and the startled ape sitting beside him. Their hairy bodies, seen against a background of palm…
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3.2 Maull and Polyblank photo 1
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< Back to Introduction The rise of professional photographic studios in the mid nineteenth century was a key factor in the shaping of Darwinian iconography, but Darwin’s relationship with these firms was from the start a cautious and sometimes a…
4.44 'Puck' cartoon 1
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< Back to Introduction In March 1882, a month before Darwin’s death, an admiring image of him appeared in the American comic journal Puck. It was in a cartoon drawn by Joseph Keppler, Puck’s co-publisher, co-editor and chief cartoonist, titled Reason…
4.21 Gegeef, 'Our National Church', 1
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< Back to Introduction A print with the ironic title Our National Church: The Aegis of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity was issued by the London publisher Edmund Appleyard in c.1872-3, and sold at a penny. The artist who drew it signed himself …
3.4 William Darwin, photo 1
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< Back to Introduction In the 1860s Darwin increasingly turned to two of his sons - first to William and later to Leonard - for the fashioning of his image. William, the eldest, apparently took up photography c.1857, when still in his teens, and…
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- … < Back to Introduction In the 1860s Darwin increasingly turned to two of his sons - …
4.34 'Punch', Sambourne cartoon 1
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< Back to Introduction Linley Sambourne’s cartoon in Punch, a ‘Suggested Illustration’ for Darwin’s forthcoming book on The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants (1875) is another playful transformation of the author into an ape or monkey. However,…
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Language: Interview with Gregory Radick
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Darwin made a famous comment about parallels between changes in language and species change. Gregory Radick, Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at Leeds University, talks about the importance of the development of language to Darwin, what…
1 Belgrave Street, London
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Marriages and gossip
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1.4 Samuel Laurence drawing 1
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< Back to Introduction Samuel Laurence’s intimate chalk drawing of Darwin is dated 1853. It is likely that Darwin sat for the portrait at Down House, and Francis Darwin, in his catalogue of portraits of his father painted or drawn ‘from life’, noted…
German poems presented to Darwin
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Experiments in deepest reverence The following poems were enclosed with a photograph album sent as a birthday gift to Charles Darwin by his German and Austrian admirers (see letter from From Emil Rade, [before 16] February 1877). The poems were…
Dates of composition of Darwin's manuscript on species
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Many of the dates of letters in 1856 and 1857 were based on or confirmed by reference to Darwin’s manuscript on species (DAR 8--15.1, inclusive; transcribed and published as Natural selection). This manuscript, begun in May 1856, was nearly completed by…
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…
Darwin’s queries on expression
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When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations more widely and composed a list of queries on human expression. A number of handwritten copies were sent out in 1867 (see, for example, letter to Fritz Muller…
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Darwin And Evolution
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What is evolution? What did Darwin discover and how did he come to his conclusions?
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Henrietta Darwin's diary
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Darwin's daughter Henrietta kept a diary for a few momentous weeks in 1871. This was the year in which Descent of Man, the most controversial of her father's books after Origin itself, appeared, a book which she had helped him write. The small…
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- … Lena much excited about the Mission which was just over. 1 Whilst it is fresh in my mind I …
Home learning: 7-11 years
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Do try this at home! Support your children’s learning by downloading our free and fun activities for those aged between 7-11 and 11-14 years, using Darwin’s letters.
