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Darwin in letters, 1879: Tracing roots
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Darwin spent a considerable part of 1879 in the eighteenth century. His journey back in time started when he decided to publish a biographical account of his grandfather Erasmus Darwin to accompany a translation of an essay on Erasmus’s evolutionary ideas…
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- … his publishers, he warned that it was ‘dry as dust’ ( letter to R. F. Cooke, 9 September 1879 ). …
- … turned out, alas, very dull & has disappointed me much’ ( letter to Francis Galton, 15 [June …
- … home again’, he fretted, just days before his departure ( letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, [after 26 …
- … all, Darwin, despite his many blessings, was finding old age ‘a dismal time’ ( letter to Henry …
- … wrinkles one all over like a baked pear’ ( enclosure in letter from R. W. Dixon, 20 December 1879 …
- … itself, or gone some other way round?’ At least the last letter of 1879 contained a warmer note and …
- … office to complete Horace’s marriage settlement ( letter from W. M. Hacon, 31 December 1879 ). …
- … but they were ‘as nice and good as could be’ ( letter from Karl Beger, [ c. 12 February 1879] ) …
- … on your life’s work, which is crowned with glory’ ( letter from Ernst Haeckel, 9 February 1879 ). …
- … to wish Darwin a ‘long and serene evening of life’. This letter crossed with one from Darwin, …
- … the statement ‘In the beginning was carbon’ ( letter from Hermann Müller, 14 February 1879 ). …
- … as the ‘organ of “uncultivated materialism”’ ( letter from Francis Darwin, [after 2 June 1879 ]). …
- … up the glory & would please Francis’, he pointed out ( letter from E. A. Darwin, 13 March [1879 …
- … Beaufort of the Admiralty described the unknown young man as ‘A M r Darwin grandson of the well …
- … thought ‘perfect in every way’ ( letter from E. A. Wheler, 25 March 1879 ). She suggested that …
- … be given the task of cutting up the text and rearranging it—a job, he was sure, she could do ‘very …
- … with ‘no shade of doubt’ that the apex of the radicle was ‘a kind of brain for certain movements’ ( …
- … District for a holiday in a hotel owned by Victor Marshall, a Darwin family friend. Francis was to …
- … atrocious. The other cloud on the horizon was Thomas Henry Farrer’s objection to the …
- … most useful’, Emma reported, because Darwin told Farrer ‘a great deal about Horace that he did not …
- … & I may not be equal to the exertion’ ( letter to H. A. Pitman, [13 May 1879] ). In the end, …
- … that Darwin found the sittings tiring, and that she was ‘a good deal disgusted’ with the gown …
- … with information, suggestions, and questions. On 5 February, a stonemason, Thomas Maston, wrote …
- … your theory and the ecclasiastical dogma’, Mary Jung, a young Austrian woman, wrote on 7 January …
- … Darwin’s salary as his assistant, he mentioned that Henry Woodward, a palaeontologist at the British …
Darwin in letters, 1882: Nothing too great or too small
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In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and for the first time in decades he was not working on another book. He remained active in botanical research, however. Building on his recent studies in plant…
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- … ‘I feel a very old man, & my course is nearly run’ ( letter to Lawson Tait, 13 February 1882 ) …
- … fertility of crosses between differently styled plants ( letter from Fritz Müller, 1 January 1882 …
- … François Marie Glaziou (see Correspondence vol. 28, letter from Arthur de Souza Corrêa, 20 …
- … quite untirable & I am glad to shirk any extra labour’ ( letter to G. J. Romanes, 6 January …
- … probably intending to test its effects on chlorophyll ( letter to Joseph Fayrer, 30 March 1882 ). …
- … contained particles of starch very clearly,’ he wrote to Henry Groves, the botanist who had supplied …
- … we know about the life of any one plant or animal!’ ( letter to Henry Groves, 3 April 1882 ). He …
- … of seeing the flowers & experimentising on them’ ( letter to J. E. Todd, 10 April 1882 ). …
- … find stooping over the microscope affects my heart’ ( letter to Henry Groves, 3 April 1882 ). …
- … more than complimentary.’ ‘If the Reviewer is a young man & a worker in any branch of Biology,’ …
- … fact the clergyman and professor of ecclesiastical history Henry Wace. Darwin was confident that the …
- … were taken up by individual readers. James Frederick Simpson, a musical composer, had provided …
- … Simpson, 7 January 1882 ). The agricultural chemist Joseph Henry Gilbert was struck by the benefits …
- … homes, would in this case greatly suffer’ ( letter to C. A. Kennard, 9 January 1882 ). Kennard’s …
- … judged, intellectually his inferior, please ( letter from C. A. Kennard, 28 January 1882 ). …
- … Collier, 16 February 1882 ). Collier had married Thomas Henry Huxley’s daughter Marian. He returned …
- … than anything else. I am now 73 years old’ ( letter to A. A. Reade, 13 February 1882 ). Over the …
- … spiders. The instructions were from Charles Lawrence Hughes, a fellow pupil of Darwin’s at …
- … A. R. Wallace, [ c . 10 April 1864] ). To the physician Henry Holland, he remarked. ‘I shall …
- … a little work in Natural History every day’ ( letter to Henry Holland, 6 November [1864] ). …
- … on heredity. His belief in human improvement was tested by Henry Keylock Rusden, an Australian …
- … undertaken observations years earlier. In 1871, he had asked Henry Johnson to observe the thickness …
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, …
- … from Calcutta. Letter 3634 - Darwin to Gray, A., [1 July 1862] Darwin …
- … on orchids and passes on their observations contained in “a little treatise”. Letter 4436 …
- … his work on Climbing Plants . The plants are such “a great amusement” to observe that he …
- … Letter 1701 - Morris, M. H. to Prior, R. C. A., [17 June 1855] Margaretta Hare Morris …
- … in Lychnis diurna. Letter 8168 - Ruck, A. R . to Darwin, H., [20 January …
- … lawn. Letter 8224 - Darwin to Ruck, A. R., [24 February 1872] Darwin …
- … a new species of waterlily. Letter 12389 - Johnson, M. to Darwin, [January 1880] …
- … Letter 4433 - Wright, Charles to Gray, A., [20, 25, 26 March & 1 April 1864] …
- … Women: Letter 1113 - Darwin to Whitby, M. A. T., [2 September 1847] Darwin …
- … Letter 1701 - Morris, M. H. to Prior, R. C. A., [17 June 1855] Margaretta Hare Morris …
- … Doubleday, H. to Darwin, [22 April 1868] Naturalist Henry Doubleday details his experiments …
- … obscure, even after it had been proofread and edited by “a lady”. Darwin, E. to Darwin, W …
- … Letter 7858 - Darwin to Wa llace, A. R., [12 July 1871] Darwin tells Wallace that …
- … editorial process. Letter 9156 - Wallace, A. R . to Darwin, [19 November 1873] …
Darwin’s student booklist
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In October 1825 Charles Darwin and his older brother, Erasmus, went to study medicine in Edinburgh, where their father, Robert Waring Darwin, had trained as a doctor in the 1780’s. Erasmus had already graduated from Cambridge and was continuing his studies…
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- … who had moved on to London for further medical training (see letter from E. A. Darwin, [29 …
- … to date precisely. Darwin mentions reading Granby in a letter to his sister dated 29 January …
- … of physiology was an influential work; John Ayrton Paris, a doctor from Cambridge, published the …
- … was written by Darwin’s grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, a doctor at Lichfield; Anna Seward wrote a …
- … in 1804. On rereading this work in 1879 Darwin judged it ‘a wretched production’ (letter to Ernst …
- … essays, many of a philosophical nature, produced by Samuel Johnson and published twice a week …
- … practice. The remaining titles provide lighter fare. Henry Kirke White (1785–1806) died aged …
- … Vol. 8 Vo Almack & Granby 16 6 Vols 12. mo Henry Chemistry 17 2 Vols 8 Vo …
- … CD described Lister 1826 as an ‘entertaining book’ (see letter to S. E. Darwin, 29 January [1826] …
- … years 1819, 20, 21, and 22 . London: John Murray. Henry, William. 1823. The elements of …
- … William Blackwood. London: T. Cadell. Lister, Thomas Henry. 1826. Granby . 3 vols. London. …
- … Thomas. 1784–85. Arctic zoology . 2 vols. London: Henry Hughs. Scoresby, William. 1820. …
- … roundheads . 3d ed. 3 vols. London: Colburn. White, Henry Kirke. 1826. The life and …
3.14 Julia Margaret Cameron, photos
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< Back to Introduction In the summer of 1868 Darwin took a holiday on the Isle of Wight with his immediate family, his brother Erasmus, and his friend Joseph Hooker. The family’s accommodation at Freshwater was rented from the photographer Julia…
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- … which his son Francis described as characteristic of him – ‘a noble air of strong and generous …
- … bump of reverence developed enough for ten priests’. Even Henry Fairfield Osborn, a devoted …
- … of Darwin on a visit to Down House in 1866: He had ‘a Jupiter-like forehead, highly and broadly …
- … . . . I fancied a lofty world-sage out of Hellenic antiquity – a Socrates or Aristotle – stood alive …
- … to (for example) Sir Joshua Reynolds’s picture of Dr Johnson discoursing; and Cameron’s emphasis on …
- … tonal subtlety of the original; as Darwin complained in a letter to Alfred Russel Wallace, the image …
- … Hooker to Darwin, 30 Aug. 1868 (DCP-LETT-6333). Darwin’s letter to Wallace, 5 Dec. [1869] (DCP-LETT …
- … st ed. 1926 (London: Hogarth Press, 1973), pp. 24–5, 30. Henry Fairfield Osborn, Impressions of …
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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- … in this world,’ Darwin wrote to his old Shrewsbury friend Henry Johnson on 14 November 1880 . …
- … life and other bits of family history. On 1 January , a distant cousin, Charles Harrison Tindal, …
- … 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 ). …
- … outside the medium of correspondence or scientific publishing, a critic whom he clearly regarded as …
- … 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 …
- … Francis Balfour described Movement in plants as ‘a complete revelation— The remarkable nervous …
- … with diverse backgrounds and interests. In February, a 12-year-old boy asked politely, ‘What causes …
- … 1880 ). On 16 February , ‘an ardent student’, Henry Faulds, sought help in collecting finger and …
- … Scientific Association (1880): 19–20). In November, a delegation from the Yorkshire Naturalists’ …
- … against English landlords from the Irish Land League. In May, a parliamentary committee was …
- … Darwin children, 17 [January 1880] ). At the year’s end, a Christmas card from another old friend, …
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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- … presented here makes this information more widely available. A previous transcript of the reading …
- … about the works were later additions to the notebook text. A number of entries in the ‘Books to be …
- … the scientific works listed on the left-hand pages (labelled ‘a’ in the transcript) and the non …
- … numbered as follows: the verso of the pages of DAR *119, the ‘a’ pages of DAR 119, the odd-numbered …
- … identification of the book or article to which Darwin refers. A full list of these works is given in …
- … until the shelves overflowed, and then, with much lamenting, a day was given up to the cataloguing. …
- … to be Read Humboldt’s New Spain—much about castes [A. von Humboldt 1811] Richardson’s …
- … (Hooker 923) 7 read Decandolle Philosophie [A. P. de Candolle 1821] Decandolle …
- … [Reimarius 1760] The Highlands & Western Isl ds letter to Sir W Scott [MacCulloch 1824 …
- … Tucker’s light of Nature [Tucker 1768–78] Johnson lifes of Poets [S. Johnson 1779]. Erasmus—— …
- … 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] …
- … 1814]. Sense & S [Austen 1811]. Rich d . 2 d . poor. Henry IV [Shakespeare: King Richard …
- … Letters to Philosoph Unbeliever [Priestly 1780] Johnson. Tour to Hebrides by Boswell [Boswell …
- … 3. vols. [Bradley 1724] (nothing) scarcely —— 10 Johnson’s Field Sports of India [D. Johnson …
- … [Heer 1854].— Hooker has it.— Very important Hookers letter Jan. 1859 Yules Ava [Yule 1858] …
- … 1857] (the best Travels I ever read) Sept. Froude Henry VIII [Froude 1856]. 4 vols very …
- … printed notices pasted into the notebook. 26 Henry Peter Brougham, Baron Brougham and …
- … been located. CD may possibly have been referring to Samuel Johnson, The vanity of human wishes …
- … of the material from these portfolios is in DAR 205, the letter from William Edward Shuckard to …
- … in December, 1841 . Oxford. 119: 13b Atkinson, Henry George and Martineau, Harriet. 1851 …
- … in DAR 71: 150–1.] 128: 18 Borrow, George Henry. 1843. The Bible in Spain; or, the …
- … 119: 7a Boswell, James. 1831. The life of Samuel Johnson … Including a journal of a …
- … 128: 9 Brooks, J. Tyrwhitt, pseud. (Henry Vizetelly). 1849. Four months among the …
- … the gold districts . London. 119: 22b Brougham, Henry Peter. 1839. Dissertations on …
- … Illustrated Library.) London. *128: 157 Johnson, Daniel. 1822. Sketches of field sports …
