From Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker [7 December 1863]
Summary
CD too ill to write.
Has evidence of long life of seed transported on a partridge’s foot.
Sends a squib by Samuel Butler on the Origin.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [7 Dec 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 215 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4351 |
Matches: 23 hits
- … see letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, [6–27 September 1863] , and Appendix IX). …
- … From Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker [7 December 1863] …
- … DAR 115: 215 Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Down [7 Dec 1863] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … Books, Shoe String Press. Galton, Francis. 1863. The first steps towards the domestication …
- … the Ethnological Society of London, 22 December 1863, and printed in Transactions of the …
- … the letter to J. D. Hooker, 5 [December 1863] , and the entries in Emma Darwin’s diary ( …
- … DAR 242). See n. 2, below. In 1863, 7 December was a Monday. …
- … Darwin’s diary entries on 5 and 6 December 1863 record that CD was vomiting four times a …
- … day (DAR 242). See also letter to J. D. Hooker, 5 [December 1863] and n. 7. See letter …
- … fever (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [1 or 3 November 1863] , and letter from J. D. …
- … Hooker to Emma Darwin, 11 November 1863 ). CD’s comment suggests that Charles Paget Hooker …
- … to J. D. Hooker, 5 [December 1863] and n. 8. See letter …
- … to J. D. Hooker, 5 [December 1863] . CD viewed this case of the transport of seeds by a …
- … see letter from Alfred Newton, 31 October 1863 and nn. 2 and 5). Hooker favoured …
- … eras (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [13 May 1863] and n. 20, and letters to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 15 and 22 May [1863] , and [ …
- … 28 August 1863] ). …
- … On 22 December 1863, Francis Galton read a paper on the domestication …
- … the Ethnological Society of London ( Galton 1863 ). Galton circulated a privately printed …
- … to the letter from Asa Gray, 23 November 1863 . CD refers to Samuel Butler (1835–1902), …
- … New Zealand, on 20 December 1862 (see letter to an editor, 24 March [1863? ] and n. 3). …
- … The squibs were published in the Press on 13 June 1863, p. …
- … 1, and 15 September 1863, p. 2. There are copies in the ‘Scrapbook of reviews’ in the …
From Emma Darwin to John Scott 23 September [1863]
Summary
CD too unwell to read. JS should not send Primula paper MS until CD returns home.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Scott |
| Date: | 23 Sept [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 93: B1–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4302 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … From Emma Darwin to John Scott 23 September [1863] …
- … DAR 93: B1–2 Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Malvern 23 Sept [1863] John Scott …
- … CD stayed at Malvern Wells, Worcestershire, from 3 September to 12 or 13 October 1863. …
- … Letter from John Scott, 21 September [1863] . According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR …
- … in the period between 20 and 23 September 1863. See also letter from Emma Darwin to W. …
- … D. Fox, [29 September 1863] . The reference is to the …
- … manuscript of Scott 1864a ; see from John Scott , 21 September [1863]. …
From Emma Darwin to John Scott 24 September [1863]
Summary
JS’s MS [of Primula paper] arrived, but CD is too ill to read it.
CD has sent JS’s paper on orchid sterility to Botanische Zeitung and to Hooker.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Scott |
| Date: | 24 Sept [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 93: B3–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4304 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … From Emma Darwin to John Scott 24 September [1863] …
- … DAR 93: B3–4 Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Malvern 24 Sept [1863] John Scott …
- … from 3 September to 12 or 13 October 1863. The reference is to the manuscript of Scott …
- … sent to CD for comment (see letter from John Scott, 21 September [1863] ). Scott 1863a ; …
- … see letter from John Scott, 21 September [1863] . The reference is to …
- … Joseph Dalton Hooker ; see letter from John Scott, 21 September [1863] and n. 5. …
- … See letter to John Scott, 7 November [1863] . …
From Emma Darwin to Alfred Newton 4 November [1863]
Summary
CD thanks AN for the note and remarks on the partridge’s leg. CD is too ill to write a note, but will send [for] the specimen as soon as he can. [See 4326.]
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
| Date: | 4 Nov [1863] |
| Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/65) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4330F |
Matches: 6 hits
- … From Emma Darwin to Alfred Newton 4 November [1863] …
- … Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/65) Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Down 4 Nov [1863] Alfred Newton …
- … See letter from Alfred Newton, 31 October 1863 . See also letter to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 5 [December 1863] , and Correspondence vol. 12, letter to J. D. …
- … entry in Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) for 4 November 1863 is ‘in bed all day’. Newton’ …
- … s endorsement may include the day he received the letter, 6 November 1863. …
From Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox [29 September 1863]
Summary
Thanks to WDF’s directions, Anne’s tombstone has been found.
CD improved, but recovery is slow. She describes treatment.
Encloses paper she and CD have written [see 4294, which was wrongly addressed by ED and had not reached WDF].
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [29 Sept 1863] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (Fox 141) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4312 |
Matches: 12 hits
- … From Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox [29 September 1863] …
- … Fox 141) Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Malvern Wells [29 Sept 1863] William Darwin Fox …
- … See letter from W. D. Fox, 7 September [1863] . Emma had been unable to locate in the …
- … see letter to W. D. Fox, 4 [September 1863] ). At CD’s request, Fox, who visited the …
- … for finding it (see letter to W. D. Fox, 4 [September 1863] , and letter from W. …
- … on 15 September 1863. See letter from Emma Darwin to W. …
- … D. Fox, [6–27 September 1863] . The enclosure referred to is reproduced in Appendix IX. …
- … The newspaper has not been identified. In 1863, the members of parliament for Worcester …
- … D. Fox, 7 September [1863] ). The reference is to Eliza Partington , the lodging-house …
- … and letter from W. D. Fox, [16–22 May 1863] ). As a result, CD was receiving treatment …
- … associate of Gully’s (see letter to W. D. Fox, 4 [September 1863] and n. 1). According …
- … Horace Darwin , who had been ill intermittently during 1863, began hydropathic treatment …
From Emma Darwin to Julius von Haast 12 December [1863]
Summary
CD too unwell to answer JvH’s letter.
He was interested in the "marvellous ground parrot"
and the report on "naturalisation of animals in New Zealand".
Honoured by election to the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast |
| Date: | 12 Dec [1863] |
| Classmark: | Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Haast family papers, MS-Papers-0037-051-3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4356 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … From Emma Darwin to Julius von Haast 12 December [1863] …
- … 051-3) Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Down 12 Dec [1863] John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast …
- … and the letter from Julius von Haast, 21 July [– 7? August] 1863 . Letter from Julius von …
- … Haast, 21 July [– 7? August] 1863 . See letter from Julius von Haast , 21 July [– 7? …
- … August] and nn. 13, 14, and 17. See letters to J. D. Hooker, 10 [November 1863] and [ …
- … 13 November 1863] , and letter from J. D. …
- … Hooker to Emma Darwin, 11 November 1863 . Joseph Dalton Hooker incorporated Haast’s …
- … of Canterbury , New Zealand, on 7 August 1863 (see letter from the secretary of the …
- … of Canterbury, New Zealand, 14 September 1863 ). Haast initiated the founding of the …
From Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox 8 December [1863]
Summary
Thanks WDF for his letter [on steel traps].
Gives a better report of CD’s health since he gave up water-cure.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 8 Dec [1863] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 142) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4355 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … From Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox 8 December [1863] …
- … Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 142) Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Down 8 Dec [1863] William Darwin Fox …
- … Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, [29 September 1863] . See also letter From Emma Darwin to J. …
- … D. Hooker, [7 December 1863] , n. 11. The Menai Bridge spans the Menai Straits to …
- … s own ill health (see letter from W. D. Fox, [16–22 May 1863] , and letters to W. …
- … D. Fox, 23 May [1863] , and …
- … 4 [September 1863] and n. 1). Emma was mistaken; William Brinton was a physician at St …
- … letter from George Busk , [ c. 27 August 1863]). Ellen Sophia Fox . Presumably a reference …
- … London ( Post Office London directory 1863). There is an entry in CD’s Account books– …
- … between 3 September and 12 or 13 October 1863 (see ‘Journal’ ( Correspondence vol. 11, …
From Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin [28 October 1863]
Summary
CD’s health.
Family and local news.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [28 Oct 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 219. 1: 78 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4323F |
Matches: 11 hits
- … From Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin [28 October 1863] …
- … DAR 219. 1: 78 Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Down [28 Oct 1863] William Erasmus Darwin …
- … Elizabeth Wedgwood arrived on 27 October 1863. The following Wednesday was 28 October. The …
- … letter from George Busk , [ c. 27 August 1863]). Brinton was a physician at St Thomas’s …
- … been on the staff of Guy’s Hospital, London ( Medical directory 1863). William Brinton …
- … attended CD at Down in November and December 1863 (see letter from W. …
- … E. Darwin, 21 August [1863] , n. 9). CD underwent treatment at James …
- … between 3 September and 12 or 13 October 1863. According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), …
- … 13 September and left on 25 September 1863. Mrs Acland was probably Robina Jemima Acland , …
- … Darwin , 29 October 1862 and [15 April 1863], in DAR 219.1: 63 and 73). CD’s Classed …
- … payments to Miss Buob in April and August 1863. Tatsfield is a village eight miles south- …
From Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox [6–27 September 1863]
Summary
Encloses a four-page printed pamphlet on the cruelty of steel traps [see Collected papers 2: 83–4].
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [6–27 Sept 1863] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 142a) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4294 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … From Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox [6–27 September 1863] …
- … 53 Fox 142a) Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Malvern Wells [6–27 Sept 1863] William Darwin Fox …
- … Bromley, Kent]: [privately printed. ] [1863. ] Darwin pedigree : Pedigree of the family of …
- … G. B. Sowerby Jr to Emma Darwin, 22 July 1863 , and Appendix IX). None of the replies to …
- … See letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, 8 December [1863] and n. 4, and Appendix IX. …
- … Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, [29 September 1863] , and by the address. According to her …
- … Malvern Wells, Worcestershire, on 1 September 1863; the first Sunday after her arrival was …
From Emma Darwin to Friedrich Hildebrand 20 November [1863]
Summary
ED writes on behalf of her husband, who is ill, to thank FH for his letter
and to thank [L. C.] Treviranus for his paper on orchids.
CD wishes to know whether Orchis pyramidalis grows in FH’s neighbourhood. He needs a fresh specimen to compare the stigma with those grown locally.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
| Date: | 20 Nov [1863] |
| Classmark: | Courtesy of Eilo Hildebrand (photocopy) (Original, previously owned by Klaus Groove, sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4343F |
Matches: 7 hits
- … From Emma Darwin to Friedrich Hildebrand 20 November [1863] …
- … 2018. ) Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Down 20 Nov [1863] Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) …
- … between this letter and the letter from Friedrich Hildebrand, 10 November 1863 . See …
- … from Friedrich Hildebrand, 10 November 1863 . The references are to Ludolph Christian …
- … 1863c , which was published in the 7 August 1863 number of Botanische Zeitung. There is a …
- … from L. C. Treviranus, 12 February 1863 , in which he mentioned sending Treviranus …
- … letter from Friedrich Hildebrand, 16 July 1863 . In Treviranus 1863c , p. 243, Treviranus …
From Emma Darwin to John Scott 19 November [1863]
Summary
CD agrees about reversion.
The discovery of crossing in cryptogams is very interesting.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Scott |
| Date: | 19 Nov [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 93: B31 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4343 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … From Emma Darwin to John Scott 19 November [1863] …
- … DAR 93: B31 Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Down 19 Nov [1863] John Scott …
- … and the letter to John Scott, 7 November [1863] (see n. 4, below). The letter from Scott …
- … letter from John Scott, 21 September [1863] ). He eventually sent seeds of this species to …
- … see letter to John Scott, 7 November [1863] ). Scott’s reply has not been found; however, …
- … and two others on inheritance on 1 April 1863 (see ‘Journal’ ( Correspondence vol. 11, …
From Emma Darwin to Frederick Pollock 23 October [1863?]
Summary
Apologises that CD is too unwell to do any work, but he is most interested in the frequent occurrence of inherited variations in one locality. It would have been a pleasure to visit if his health had permitted.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Jonathan Frederick (Frederick) Pollock, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 23 Oct [1863?] |
| Classmark: | Private collection |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4321F |
Matches: 4 hits
- … From Emma Darwin to Frederick Pollock 23 October [1863? ] …
- … Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Down 23 Oct [1863? ] Jonathan Frederick (Frederick) Pollock, 1st …
- … He was particularly ill from October 1863 into 1864, and Emma Darwin wrote several letters …
- … Darwin to Julius von Haast, 12 December [1863] . Pollock’s letter has not been found, but …
From Emma Darwin to George Maw 28 December 1863
Summary
CD too unwell to write but has signed the [unspecified] paper and forwarded it as requested.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Maw |
| Date: | 28 Dec 1863 |
| Classmark: | Royal Horticultural Society, Lindley Library (MAW/1/11) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4360 |
From Emma Darwin to Patrick Matthew 21 November [1863]
Summary
CD is too ill to write.
As for natural selection, he is more faithful to PM’s "own original child" than PM is himself. To illustrate, CD relates the metaphor of an architect selecting well-shaped stones and rejecting ill-shaped ones. [See Variation 2: 431.]
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Patrick Matthew |
| Date: | 21 Nov [1863] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (Acc.10963) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4344 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … From Emma Darwin to Patrick Matthew 21 November [1863] …
- … of Scotland (Acc.10963) Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Down 21 Nov [1863] Patrick Matthew …
- … description of CD’s ‘metaphor’ having been sent to Asa Gray earlier in 1863 (see letter to …
- … Asa Gray, 4 August [1863] , and n. 4, below). The letter from Matthew has not been found. …
- … See also letter to Asa Gray, 4 August [1863] . The photograph has not been found. CD’s …
From Emma Darwin to Alphonse de Candolle 17 December [1863]
Summary
CD sends thanks for pamphlet.
He has been very unwell for three months; it will be long before he can apply himself to his usual pursuits.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alphonse de Candolle |
| Date: | 17 Dec [1863] |
| Classmark: | Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4358 |
From Emma Darwin to John Murray [before 17 December 1863]
Summary
CD too ill to write.
Asks that a presentation copy of Origin be sent off.
He has authorised an Italian translation of Origin.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | [before 17 Dec 1863] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 128–129) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4352 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … From Emma Darwin to John Murray [before 17 December 1863] …
- … Ms.42152 ff. 128–129) Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Down [before 17 Dec 1863] John Murray …
- … letter to J. D. Hooker, 5 [December 1863] , in which CD told Joseph Dalton Hooker about …
- … London ( Post Office London directory 1863). The note accompanying this letter has not …
From Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker 26 December [1863]
Summary
CD would be pleased to sit for a bust by Thomas Woolner for JDH, but he is too ill now.
Emma’s views on slavery and the Civil War.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 26 Dec [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 214 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4359 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … From Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker 26 December [1863] …
- … DAR 115: 214 Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Down 26 Dec [1863] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … which came into effect on 1 January 1863, freed the slaves in those states in rebellion …
- … volume, letter to Asa Gray, 23 February [1863] and n. 22). Frederick Law Olmsted wrote a …
From Emma Darwin to John Scott 9 January 1864
Summary
CD thinks JS’s Primula paper is fit for publication; he will send it on to the Linnean Society.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Scott |
| Date: | 9 Jan 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 93: B29–30 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4383 |
From Charles and Emma Darwin to William Erasmus Darwin [4 May 1863]
Summary
Glad to hear of the plant; CD instructs WED to make further observations. If it is a good case he will insist on WED’s sending a communication to the Linnean Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [4 May 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 219.1: 55 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4139F |
Matches: 12 hits
- … From Charles and Emma Darwin to William Erasmus Darwin [4 May 1863] …
- … Robert Darwin Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Hartfield [4 May 1863] William Erasmus Darwin …
- … should return to school for another year (see letter to Edward Cresy, 13 May [1863] ). …
- … By Charles Darwin. [Read 5 February 1863. ] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean …
- … Darwin family left Hartfield Grove was 4 May 1863. According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR …
- … of Charles Langton , between 27 April and 6 May 1863. The letter from William has not been …
- … to Trinity College, Cambridge ). In 1863, George Howard Darwin competed unsuccessfully for …
- … See also letter to Edward Cresy, 13 May [1863] . Alfred Wrigley was headmaster of Clapham …
- … at Leith Hill Place from Wednesday 6 May 1863 until 13 May, when they returned to Down …
- … House. On Tuesday 5 May 1863, Emma recorded in her diary that CD had been ‘poorly & …
- … of the photograph to send to Roland Trimen (see letter to Roland Trimen, 23 May [1863] ). …
- … On Sunday 3 May 1863, Emma Darwin recorded in her diary (DAR 242) that it had been a ‘ …
From Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox [6 May 1864]
Summary
CD has been so ill they must discourage visit by WDF. Recovering slowly with new treatment.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [6 May 1864] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 143) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4487 |
| letter | (27) |
| Darwin, Emma | |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (27) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (5) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
| Scott, John | (4) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (3) |
| Candolle, Alphonse de | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (27) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (27) |
| Fox, W. D. | (5) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
| Scott, John | (4) |
Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
Summary
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…
Matches: 28 hits
- … At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation …
- … & must write briefly’ ( letter to John Scott, 31 May [1863] ), and in a letter of 23 [June …
- … of man and his history' The first five months of 1863 contain the bulk of the …
- … put it in a letter to J. D. Hooker of 24[–5] February [1863] . When Huxley’s book described the …
- … anything grander’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 26 [February 1863] ). In the same letter, he gave his …
- … origins was further increased by the discovery in March 1863 of the Moulin-Quignon jaw, the first …
- … bear ( see letter from Jacques Boucher de Perthes, 23 June 1863 ). Although English experts …
- … in learned journals and the press during the first half of 1863 focused attention even more closely …
- … made him ‘groan’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 6 March [1863] ). Darwin reiterated in a later letter …
- … separately created’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 17 March [1863] ). Public perceptions of creation, …
- … said a word ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 24[–5] February [1863] ). Darwin did not relish …
- … guide & master’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 6 March [1863] ). Nevertheless, Darwin’s regret was …
- … species change ( letter from Charles Lyell, 11 March 1863 ). The botanist Asa Gray, Darwin’s …
- … would scare them off ( see letter from Asa Gray, 20 April 1863 ). In May, Darwin responded to Gray …
- … put him ‘into despair’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 11 May [1863] ). In the same letter, he assured Gray …
- … unaided ’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [23 February 1863] ). Hugh Falconer was also preparing a …
- … by others’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [23 February 1863] ). Falconer published his criticisms in …
- … so for a little fame’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 17 March [1863] ). Falconer and Owen were …
- … ( letter to Hugh Falconer, 5 [and 6] January [1863] ). Archaeopteryx Falconer, …
- … his crimes… ?’ ( letter from Hugh Falconer, 3 January [1863] , and letter to Hugh Falconer, 20 …
- … reptiles and birds ( letter from Hugh Falconer, 3 January [1863] ). Darwin was delighted by …
- … fossil record ( letter to Hugh Falconer, 5 [and 6] January [1863] ). Only until March did Darwin …
- … attention ( see letter to J. D. Dana, 20 February [1863] , and letter to Charles Lyell, 6 March …
- … Athenæum in response ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 5 March [1863] ). He later expressed …
- … a good letter (!)’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 17 March [1863] ). At the same time Darwin admitted …
- … on Foraminifera ( see letter to J. D. Hooker, [29 March 1863] , and Appendix VII). The reviewer, …
- … origin of matter.—’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [29 March 1863] ). Owen’s endorsement of Lamarck …
- … nothing’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 12–13 March [1863] ). poor miserable devil of a …
Darwin’s hothouse and lists of hothouse plants
Summary
Darwin became increasingly involved in botanical experiments in the years after the publication of Origin. The building of a small hothouse - a heated greenhouse - early in 1863 greatly increased the range of plants that he could keep for scientific…
Matches: 24 hits
- … , and volume 10, letter to Thomas Rivers, 15 January 1863 ). The decision was evidently prompted …
- … experimentation, and the building of the hothouse early in 1863 marked something of a milestone in …
- … mid-February (see letters to J. D. Hooker, 13 January [1863] and 15 February [1863] ). It was …
- … a mess of it’ (letter to G. H. Turnbull, [16? February 1863] ). Even before work on the …
- … plants’ (letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 January [1863] ). Darwin apparently refers to the catalogues …
- … to Nurserymen’ (letter from J. D. Hooker, [15 January 1863] ). Darwin agreed to send Hooker his …
- … have from Kew’ (letter to J. D. Hooker, 30 January [1863] ). Darwin probably gave his list …
- … a school-boy’ (letter to J. D. Hooker, 15 February [1863] ). On 20 February, the plants from Kew …
- … like to ask for’ (letter to J. D. Hooker, [21 February 1863] ). He had, he confessed to Hooker, …
- … Emma Darwin to William Erasmus Darwin, [22 February 1863] in DAR 210.6: 109). There were other …
- … on cultivation (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [6 March 1863] ). Darwin derived enormous …
- … each leaf’ (letter to J. D. Hooker, 24[–5] February [1863] ). Darwin’s aesthetic appreciation of …
- … which they belonged. In his letter to Hooker of 5 March [1863] , he announced that the plants …
- … worth trial’ (letter to J. D. Hooker, 21 February [1863] ). Darwin’s hothouse became an …
- … foreground, with pipes clearly visible, is the hothouse of 1863. Over many years, the …
- … book gives an entry under ‘Science’, dated 28 March 1863, for five guineas’ worth of plants bought …
- … not supply (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [16 February 1863] ). However, it can be dated with …
- … this list and in his letter to J. D. Hooker, 15 February [1863]. Secondly, he mentioned in this list …
- … (see letter from L. C. Treviranus, 12 February 1863 ). The second list is headed ‘Stove …
- … to him by Hooker (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 5 March [1863] ), since many of the species listed …
- … from Kew. Darwin said in the letter to Hooker of 5 March [1863] that he had received 165 plants …
- … at Clapton, London ( Post Office London directory 1863). 2. John Cattell was a florist, …
- … p. 10. See also letter to J. D. Hooker, 24[–5] February [1863] and n. 19. 9. Catasetum …
- … with premises at Clapton, London. After Low’s death in 1863 the firm was conducted by his son, …
Thomas Rivers
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Rivers and Darwin exchanged around 30 letters, most in 1863 when Darwin was hard at work on the manuscript of Variation of plants and animals under domestication, the lengthy and detailed sequel to Origin of species. Rivers, an experienced plant breeder…
The Lyell–Lubbock dispute
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In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book Prehistoric times, accused Lyell of plagiarism. The dispute caused great dismay among many of their mutual scientific friends, some of whom took immediate action…
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- … ‘Textual changes made to C. Lyell 1863c’). On 6 February 1863, Antiquity of man (C. Lyell 1863a) …
- … Busk, Prestwich, and Galton. In February 1863, Lubbock received a letter from Lyell, …
- … Bath in 1864 (C. Lyell 1864). 3 By November 1863 a third edition of Antiquity of …
- … of several aspects of the book. Throughout the first half of 1863, Darwin discussed the book in …
- … aggrieved about Lyell’s failure to support him. In April 1863, in a letter to the Athenæum , he …
- … note on p. 11. Unlike the earlier controversies of 1863 where the disputants had quarrelled …
- … 13). The third edition had originally appeared in November 1863. In spite of Lyell’s 1865 revisions, …
- … (Original version of the last section, printed in November 1863) In conclusion, I wish it to …
- … evidence appealed to. 53 Harley Street: November 1863 Preface, C. Lyell 1863c, pp. …
- … in the interval between the autumn of 1861 and February 1863. In this long interval my thoughts had …
- … 2. Letter from Charles Lyell to John Lubbock, 20 February 1863 (British Library, Add. MSS 49640). …
- … of C. Lyell 1863a, see Darwin's Life in Letters, 1863 , (introduction to Correspondence …
- … vol. 11, letter to J. D. Hooker, 24[–5] February [1863] . On Lyell’s unwillingness to commit …
- … vol. 11, letter to Charles Lyell, 6 March [1863] and n. 7. 9. See Correspondence …
- … University Press. 1985–.: Falconer, Hugh. 1863. Letter. Athenaeum , 4 April 1863, pp. 459 …
- … 13 (1858–63): i–x; 14 (1858–63): 1–34, 129–88; 15 (1863–66): 245–321. Lubbock, John. 1861. …
- … Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. Owen, Richard. 1863. Ape-origin of man as tested by the …
'An Appeal' against animal cruelty
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The four-page pamphlet transcribed below and entitled 'An Appeal', was composed jointly by Emma and Charles Darwin (see letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, [29 September 1863]). The pamphlet, which protested against the cruelty of steel vermin…
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- … (see letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, [29 September 1863]). The pamphlet, which protested …
- … the distribution of the pamphlet in August and September 1863 (see letter from G. B. Sowerby Jr to …
- … (see letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, [6–27 September 1863], and letter from Emma Darwin to J. …
- … from Emma Darwin to William Erasmus Darwin, [2 September 1863] (DAR 219.1: 77), and Correspondence …
- … (see CD's Classed account book (Down House MS), 20 August 1863, recording a payment of £2 11 s …
- … and letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, 8 December [1863]). There is no surviving record of …
- … alternatives (see letter from E. L. Darwin, 7 September 1863, letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, …
- … to the RSPCA, payments being recorded from 1854 to 1861, in 1863 and 1864, from 1871 to 1875, and in …
- … 1858], and this volume, letter to J. B. Innes, 1 September [1863]). The 'Appeal' …
- … published in the Gardeners’ Chronicle , 29 August 1863, pp. 821–2 ( Letter no. 4282). The …
- … Jr (see letter from G. B. Sowerby Jr to Emma Darwin, 22 July 1863 and n. 1). 3 This …
- … published in the Gardeners’ Chronicle , 29 August 1863, pp. 821–2 ( Letter no. 4282). …
- … Bromley ( Post Office directory of the six home counties 1863). 8 The closing words, …
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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- … Letter 4258 - Becker, L. E. to Darwin, [31 July 1863] Lydia Becker details her …
- … Letter 4242 - Hildebrand, F. H. G. to Darwin, [16 July 1863] Hildebrand writes to …
- … Letter 4235 - Becker, L. E. to Darwin, [8 July 1863] Lydia Becker sends Darwin a …
- … Letter 4139 - Darwin, W. E. to Darwin, [4 May 1863] William sends the results of a …
- … Letter 4258 - Becker, L. E. to Darwin, [31 July 1863] Lydia Becker details her …
- … 4233 - Tegetmeier, W. B. to Darwin, [29 June - 7 July 1863] Tegetmeier updates Darwin …
- … 3896 - Darwin to Huxley, T. H, [before 25 February 1863] Darwin offers the results of …
- … Letter 4010 - Huxley, T. H. to Darwin, [25 February 1863] Huxley praises Henrietta’s …
- … Letter 4038 - Darwin to Lyell, C., [12-13 March 1863] Darwin secretly passes on …
Dining at Down House
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Dining, Digestion, and Darwin's Domestic Life While Darwin is best remembered for his scientific accomplishments, he greatly valued and was strongly influenced by his domestic life. Darwin's…
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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- … help him with his research (e.g. to Lydia Becker, 2 August 1863 ; to Mary Treat, 5 January 1872 …
Dramatisation script
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Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
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- … of your darling. BOOKS BY THE LATE CHARLES DARWIN: 1863-1865 In which Drwin struggles …
- … 1860 98 A GRAY TO ALPHONSE DE CANDOLLE, 16 FEB 1863 99 C DARWIN TO LYELL, …
- … 1862 149 C DARWIN TO J. D. HOOKER 26 JULY 1863 150 C DARWIN TO J. D. …
- … JULY 1864 160 C DARWIN TO JD HOOKER, 3 JAN 1863 161 TO ASA GRAY 13 …
- … 1862 164 C Darwin TO ASA GRAY, 23 FEBRUARY 1863 165 A Gray TO C Darwin …
- … APRIL 1866 173 C DARWIN TO ASA GRAY 20 APRIL 1863 174 FROM A GRAY TO …
- … STAY 1881 192 C DARWIN TO A GRAY, 19 JANUARY 1863 193 TO A GRAY 9 AUGUST …
Science, Work and Manliness
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Discussion Questions|Letters In 1859, popular didactic writer William Landels published the first edition of what proved to be one of his best-selling works, How Men Are Made. "It is by work, work, work" he told his middle class audience, …
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- … Letter 4262 - Darwin to Gray, A., [4 August 1863] Darwin tells Gray about his recent …
- … Letter 3901 - Darwin to Falconer, H., [5 & 6 January 1863] Darwin gives feedback on …
- … Letter 4000 - Darwin to Dana, J. D., [20 February 1863] Darwin praises Dana’s latest work …
- … Letter 4185 - Darwin to Scott, J., [25 & 28 May 1863] Darwin praises Scott’s …
Darwin's health
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On 28 March 1849, ten years before Origin was published, Darwin wrote to his good friend Joseph Hooker from Great Malvern in Worcestershire, where Dr James Manby Gully ran a fashionable water-cure establishment. Darwin apologised for his delayed reply to…
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- … in severity in the years around 1848, 1852, 1859, and 1863. In a letter to Hooker in April of 1861, …
- … 1849 ( Correspondence vol. 4). Throughout the winter of 1863 and spring of 1864, he was sick …
- … pp. 31-2, 47, 98. In his letter to J. D. Hooker, 5 March [1863] ( Correspondence vol. 11), …
- … Wells, under James Smith Ayerst, in September and October 1863 (see Correspondence vol. 11, …
Inheritance
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It was crucial to Darwin’s theories of species change that naturally occurring variations could be inherited. But at the time when he wrote Origin, he had no explanation for how inheritance worked – it was just obvious that it did. Darwin’s attempt to…
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- … in invisible ink on the germ' ( to J. D. Hooker, 26 [March 1863] ). Years before he …
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…
Evolution: Selected Letters of Charles Darwin 1860-1870
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This selection of Charles Darwin’s letters includes correspondence with his friends and scientific colleagues around the world; letters by the critics who tried to stamp out his ideas, and by admirers who helped them to spread. It takes up the story of…
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- … derivation of Species … Darwin to Charles Lyell, 1863. Permit me again to …
Darwin and Down
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Charles and Emma Darwin, with their first two children, settled at Down House in the village of Down (later ‘Downe’) in Kent, as a young family in 1842. The house came with eighteen acres of land, and a fifteen acre meadow. The village combined the…
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- … species in the world’. To J. D. Hooker, 25 [June 1863] : describing the light-sensing …
Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments
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The year was marked by three deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend and supporter; Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and father of Darwin’s friend…
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Climbing Plants
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment A monograph by which to work After the publication of On the Origin of Species, Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, The Descent of Man, and The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals in…
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- … of tendrils, as described in the following excerpt from an 1863 letter he wrote to the English …
Darwin's notes for his physician, 1865
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On 20 May 1865, Emma Darwin recorded in her diary that John Chapman, a prominent London publisher who had studied medicine in London and Paris in the early 1840s, visited Down to consult with Darwin about his ill health. In 1863 Chapman started to treat…
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- … visited Down to consult with Darwin about his ill health. In 1863 Chapman started to treat epilepsy …
- … medical practitioner Darwin contacted around this time. In 1863, Darwin experienced a period of …
- … joints (see, for example, Holland 1855, p. 233, and Garrod 1863, pp. 263-4). The diagnosis of …
- … George Busk, 28 April 1865). In November and December 1863, Darwin had consulted the stomach …
- … vol. 11, Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, 8 December [1863]). In his letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 [November …
2.3 Wedgwood medallions
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< Back to Introduction Despite Darwin’s closeness to the Wedgwood family, he was studiously uninterested in the productions of his maternal grandfather Josiah Wedgwood I, the immensely successful ceramic manufacturer. In a letter to Hooker of January…
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- … ceramic manufacturer. In a letter to Hooker of January 1863, Darwin described himself and his wife …
- … scientists for the museum at Kew, and in the spring of 1863 he borrowed from the Darwin family a …
- … above, Hooker had actually been in touch with Woolner since 1863. However, it was apparently William …
- … museum. Letters from Joseph Hooker to Darwin, 6 Jan. 1863 (DCP-LETT-3902) and [24 March 1863] (DCP …
John Beddoe
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In 1869, when gathering data on sexual selection in humans, Darwin exchanged a short series of letters with John Beddoe, a doctor in Bristol. He was looking for evidence that racial differences that appear to have no benefit in terms of survival - and…
