From W. E. Darwin [15 January 1877]
Summary
Thanks for the copy of Orchids.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [15 Jan 1877] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 66) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10794F |
Matches: 8 hits
- … Stoneham, 11 January 1877 , letter from G. M. …
- … Tracy, 11 January 1877 , letter from Alfred …
- … Grugeon, 14 January [1877] , letter from F. W. Pim, 15 January 1877 ; see also Gardeners’ …
- … to the letter CD had written to Gardeners’ Chronicle , 3 January [1877], which had been …
- … in December 1876. In his letter to William of 14 January 1877 (DAR 210.7: 6), Gordon wrote …
- … reprinted in full in The Times , 11 January 1877, p. 7 (see letter from Allen …
- … 148–9). The letter from Charles George Gordon to William, dated 14 January 1877, is in DAR …
- … letter from Charles George Gordon (see nn. 3 and 6, below). Orchids 2d ed. was published in January 1877 ( …
From T. H. Farrer 5 September 1877
Summary
Sends two papers on Roman ruins at Cirencester, which he asks CD to return.
Worm observations.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Sept 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 83 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11129 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Farrer ; the Farrers were away from 27 August to 5 September 1877 ( letter from T. H. …
- … Farrer, 23 September 1877 ). See letter from T. H. …
- … Farrer, 26 August 1877 and n. 1, and letter to T. H. …
- … Farrer, 27 August [1877] . CD cited the observations in this letter in Earthworms , p. …
- … Board of Trade. See letter to T. H. Farrer, 27 August [1877] . The former Darwin family …
From Francis Darwin [28 October 1877?]
Summary
FD has sent proofs; nutating of Ricinus; Horace Darwin and the wormograph.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [28 Oct 1877?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 45 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11302F |
Matches: 4 hits
- … with other plants, from Kew on 3 July 1877 ( letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 9 July [1877] …
- … rod in London around 24 October 1877 (see letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, [ …
- … by blocking it (see letter from Leonard Darwin, 28 November 1877 and n. 2), probably in …
- … Dalton Hooker and a paper by him (see letter to J. D. Hooker, [26 October 1877] and n. 4). …
From J. V. Carus 22 March 1877
Summary
A curious error – too late to change: in Cross and self-fertilisation CD has "cleistogenous" for "cleistogamous" flowers throughout.
| Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Mar 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 108 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10909 |
From R. F. Cooke 19 March 1877
Summary
Murray’s will not announce CD’s new work [Forms of flowers] until informed to do so.
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Mar 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 486 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10903 |
From Francis Galton 22 February 1877
Summary
Attributes the Castilian accent of speech of deaf and dumb men to imitation of their teachers’ lip movements.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Feb 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: A97–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10859 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … on 12 February 1877. In his letter of 11 February [1877] , CD had asked about Louisa Jane …
- … Galton had borrowed Tschouriloff 1876 (see letter from Francis Galton, 12 January 1877 ). …
- … See letter to Francis Galton, 11 February [1877] . William Henry Barlow invented a …
- … before 16] February 1877 ; on the Dutch album, see the letter from A. A. van Bemmelen …
- … 22 February 1877, p. 11. On the German and Austrian album, see the letter from Emil …
From John Murray 27 November [1877]
Summary
Sends CD his share of profits on Descent and Forms of flowers.
Wants to reprint Cross and self-fertilisation because supply of copies is entirely exhausted.
Congratulates CD on his Cambridge honour [LL.D.].
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Nov [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 495 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11255 |
From W. D. Roebuck 1 November 1880
Summary
Sends the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union’s publications prior to the visit to Down of its deputation.
| Author: | William Denison Roebuck |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Nov 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 130 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12788 |
From A. H. Sayce 30 July 1877
Summary
Thanks CD for statement about children’s speech. Asks permission to quote him in his forthcoming book.
| Author: | Archibald Henry Sayce |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 July 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 46 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11080 |
From Asa Gray 3 February 1878
Summary
AG’s review of Joseph Cook ["Lectures on biology", New Englander 37: 100–13].
Encourages CD to work at heliotropism.
Thinks Thomas Meehan is as "rattle-brained" as Joseph Cook.
[A damaged fragment cut from this letter is pinned to 11051.]
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Feb 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 169, DAR 165: 199 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11343 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … Gray and CD described; see A. Gray 1877 and letter to Asa Gray, 21 [and 22] January 1878 …
- … married Sara Sedgwick , an American, in 1877; see letter to Asa Gray, 21 [and 22] January …
- … Correspondence vol. 25, letter to Thomas Meehan, 5 July [1877] , and Correspondence vol. …
- … vol. 25, letter from Henry Jackson to Francis Darwin, 18 November 1877 ). For a previous …
- … 23, letter to Hermann Müller, 26 October 1875 . In the summer of 1877, Gray and his wife, …
- … see J. Cook 1877 , pp. 1–32). For CD’s comment on the review, see the letter to Asa Gray, …
- … letter has not been found. Gray’s review of Joseph Cook’s Biology, with preludes on current events ( J. Cook 1877 ) …
- … letter to Asa Gray, 21 [and 22] January 1878 and n. 11. He had previously disagreed with Meehan over Meehan’s review of Cross and self fertilisation ( Meehan 1877 ) …
From Francis Galton 12 January 1877
Summary
Would like to see essay [on effects of conscription in France, see 10774]. Knows of Swiss memoir to the same effect. Author says Swiss yeomen apt to leave homestead to sickly son. Landed populations deteriorate.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Jan 1877 |
| Classmark: | Pearson 1914–30, 2: 192 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10783 |
From F. J. Cohn [10?] August 1877
Summary
Accepts CD’s offer to publish his letter, confirming Francis Darwin’s observations [see Collected papers 2: 205–7].
H. Hoffmann’s observations on Amanita contractile filaments must be repeated.
Microscopic examination of secretory gland filaments in Dipsacus leafcups. FD’s pseudopod theory of Dipsacus.
| Author: | Ferdinand Julius Cohn |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [10?] Aug 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 204 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11101 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … from Cohn’s letter of 5 August 1877 in his letter in Nature , 15 August [1877]. An …
- … could publish extracts from Cohn’s letter of 5 August 1877 in Nature ; Cohn had confirmed …
- … intended ‘stomata’ (see letter to Nature , 15 August [1877]). CD added some of Cohn’s …
- … of ink, but appears to read ‘10’. See letter to F. J. Cohn, 8 August 1877 . CD had asked …
- … described by Francis in common teasel (see letter to F. J. Cohn, 8 August 1877 and n. 3). …
- … 1877 My dear Sir That you value so highly the evidence I can give of the discoveries of Mr. Francis D. , is the greatest honour I ever was treated with. When you believe my witness necessary for the establishment of truth before the scientific jury of your country, then of course I am willing to testify the matter of fact. It is not without timidity that I may produce my evidence before the public being well conscious of the incorrectness of my English; but if you will kindly put right my letter …
From Ernst Krause 9 July 1877
Summary
Asks permission to print translation of "A biographical sketch of an infant" [Collected papers 2: 191–200] in Kosmos.
Notes divisions among German Darwinists.
| Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 July 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 106 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11045 |
From R. F. Cooke 29 November 1877
Summary
Answers CD’s query about number of copies of Origin recently printed. Order to print 2000, rather than 1000, was given after JM’s annual sales showed demand was keeping up.
Cross and self-fertilisation will be stereotyped after CD’s corrections have been made.
Printer will be asked to keep type of Forms of flowers standing, for the present.
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Nov 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 496 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11260 |
From G. J. Romanes 16 June [1877]
Summary
Galton agrees with GJR about rudimentary organs.
GJR’s note referred to possibility of selection acting on organic types as distinguished from individuals.
Thinks Grant Allen has not made out his point [in Physiological aesthetics (1877)], but his fundamental principle probably has much truth.
| Author: | George John Romanes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 June [1877] |
| Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 55 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11004 |
From G. J. Romanes 2 December 1877
Summary
Thanks for letter. Values CD’s opinion more than that of anybody else.
Perfectly astonished at reception CD got among popular audiences at GJR’s lectures.
| Author: | George John Romanes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Dec 1877 |
| Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 68 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11283 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … CD’s reply of 5 December 1877 suggests that this letter was edited for publication. …
- … hard to eradicate. CD’s letter to Nature , 21 November [1877], was published in Nature , …
- … It introduced the letter from Fritz Müller to CD of 19 October 1877, discussing various …
- … reprinted in that journal (see letter to G. J. Romanes, [1 and 2 December 1877] and n. 8). …
- … not as a letter but in the ‘News’ section of Nature , 27 December 1877, pp. 168–9. John …
- … was strictly accurate (see letter from T. H. Huxley, 21 November 1877 ). A version of the …
- … See letter to G. J. Romanes, [1 and 2 December 1877] . Thomas Henry Huxley had given a …
- … Dec. 2, 1877. It was most kind of you to write me such a long and glowing letter. In one …
- … found, but see the letter to G. J. Romanes, [1 and 2 December 1877] . Vici (Latin): I have …
- … experiments (see letter to G. J. Romanes, [1 and 2 December 1877] and n. 4). Romanes …
From Raphael Meldola 20 October 1877
Summary
Would like to see the Kosmos article.
Is considering producing a translation of August Weismann’s essays.
Comments on Wallace’s paper on the colours of animals and plants [Macmillan’s Magazine 36 (1877): 384–408, 464–71].
| Author: | Raphael Meldola |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Oct 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 124 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11192 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Wallace, 31 August 1877 , and letter from A. R. …
- … See letter to Raphael Meldola, 19 October [1877] and n. 1. The address 21 John Street, …
- … Wallace 1877 ). Wallace had sent CD a copy of his September article (see letter to A. R. …
- … 1877 ); Wallace had long criticised CD’s theory of sexual selection as applied to colour and ornamentation (see letter …
From T. H. Farrer 9 October 1880
Summary
Sends the marked plans of the Abinger Hall excavation site.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Oct 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 101 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12748 |
From Sara Sedgwick [30 September 1877]
Summary
Thanks CD for his kind letter on her engagement to his son William.
| Author: | Sara Sedgwick; Sara Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [30 Sept 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.5: 20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11159 |
From D. T. Fish 7 February 1877
Summary
Sends holly specimens. Differences in flowering times of various hollies.
| Author: | David Taylor Fish |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Feb 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 123 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10834 |
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| Cooke, R. F. | (18) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (18) |
| John Murray | (18) |
| Gray, Asa | (15) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (13) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (413) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (18) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (18) |
| John Murray | (18) |
| Gray, Asa | (15) |
Darwin in letters, 1877: Flowers and honours
Summary
Ever since the publication of Expression, Darwin’s research had centred firmly on botany. The year 1877 was no exception. The spring and early summer were spent completing Forms of flowers, his fifth book on a botanical topic. He then turned to the…
Matches: 1 hits
- … no little discovery of mine ever gave me so much pleasure as the making out the …
Photograph album of German and Austrian scientists
Summary
The album was sent to Darwin to mark his birthday on 12 February 1877 by the civil servant Emil Rade, and contained 165 portraits of German and Austrian scientists. The work was lavishly produced and bound in blue velvet with metal embossing. Its ornate…
Matches: 1 hits
- … The album was sent to Darwin to mark his birthday on 12 February 1877 by the civil servant Emil …
Photograph album of Dutch admirers
Summary
Darwin received the photograph album for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from his scientific admirers in the Netherlands. He wrote to the Dutch zoologist Pieter Harting, An account of your countrymen’s generous sympathy in having sent me on my…
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- … Darwin received the photograph album for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from his scientific …
German and Dutch photograph albums
Summary
Darwin Day 2018: To celebrate Darwin's 209th birthday, we present two lavishly produced albums of portrait photographs which Darwin received from continental admirers 141 years ago. These unusual gifts from Germany and the Netherlands are made…
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- … In 1877, Charles Darwin was sent some unusual birthday presents: two lavishly …
Cross and self fertilisation
Summary
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…
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- … The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom , published on 10 November …
Language: key letters
Summary
How and why language evolved bears on larger questions about the evolution of the human species, and the relationship between man and animals. Darwin presented his views on the development of human speech from animal sounds in The Descent of Man (1871),…
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- … The origin of language was investigated in a wide range of disciplines in the nineteenth century. …
Capturing Darwin’s voice: audio of selected letters
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On a sunny Wednesday in June 2011 in a makeshift recording studio somewhere in Cambridge, we were very pleased to welcome Terry Molloy back to the Darwin Correspondence Project for a special recording session. Terry, known for his portrayal of Davros in Dr…
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- … On a sunny Wednesday in June 2011 in a makeshift recording studio somewhere in Cambridge, we were …
Diagrams and drawings in letters
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Over 850 illustrations from the printed volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin have been added to the online transcripts of the letters. The contents include maps, diagrams, drawings, sketches and photographs, covering geological, botanical,…
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- … Over 850 illustrations from the printed volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin have …
Charles Harrison Blackley
Summary
You may not have heard of Charles Harrison Blackley (1820–1900), but if you are one of the 15 million people in the UK who suffer from hay fever, you are indebted to him. For it was he who identified pollen as the cause of the allergy. Darwin was…
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- … You may not have heard of Charles Harrison Blackley (1820–1900), but if you are one of the 15 …
Referencing women’s work
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Darwin's correspondence shows that women made significant contributions to Darwin's work, but whether and how they were acknowledged in print involved complex considerations of social standing, professional standing, and personal preference.…
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- … Darwin's correspondence shows that women made significant contributions to Darwin's work, but …
Darwin on race and gender
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Darwin’s views on race and gender are intertwined, and mingled also with those of class. In Descent of man, he tried to explain the origin of human races, and many of the differences between the sexes, with a single theory: sexual selection. Sexual…
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- … Darwin’s views on race and gender are intertwined, and mingled also with those of class. In …
Darwin in public and private
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Extracts from Darwin's published works, in particular Descent of man, and selected letters, explore Darwin's views on the operation of sexual selection in humans, and both his publicly and privately expressed views on its practical implications…
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- … The following extracts and selected letters explore Darwin's views on the operation of sexual …
Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
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At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…
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- … At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of …
Darwin as mentor
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Darwin provided advice, encouragement and praise to his fellow scientific 'labourers' of both sexes. Selected letters Letter 2234 - Darwin to Unidentified, [5 March 1858] Darwin advises that Professor C. P. Smyth’s observations are not…
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- … Darwin provided advice, encouragement and praise to his fellow scientific 'labourers' of both …
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…
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- … Experiments in deepest reverence The following poems were enclosed with a …
John Murray
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Darwin's most famous book On the origin of species by means of natural selection (Origin) was published on 22 November 1859. The publisher was John Murray, who specialised in non-fiction, particularly politics, travel and science, and had published…
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- … Darwin's most famous book On the origin of species by means of natural selection (Origin) was …
Natural Science and Femininity
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Discussion Questions|Letters A conflation of masculine intellect and feminine thoughts, habits and feelings, male naturalists like Darwin inhabited an uncertain gendered identity. Working from the private domestic comfort of their homes and exercising…
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- … Discussion Questions | Letters A conflation of masculine intellect and feminine …
Floral Dimorphism
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Floral studies In 1877 Darwin published a book that included a series of smaller studies on botanical subjects. Titled The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species, it consisted primarily of…
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- … Sources | Discussion Questions | Experiment Floral studies In 1877 …
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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- … There are summaries of all Darwin's letters from the year 1879 on this website. The full texts of …
Movement in Plants
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The power of movement in plants, published on 7 November 1880, was the final large botanical work that Darwin wrote. It was the only work in which the assistance of one of his children, Francis Darwin, is mentioned on the title page. The research for this…
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- … The power of movement in plants , published on 7 November 1880, was the final large botanical …
