From William Mostyn Owen Sr 26 March 1843
Summary
Discusses the death of his son. Thanks CD for his letter of condolence and invites him to visit.
| Author: | William Mostyn Owen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Mar 1843 |
| Classmark: | DAR 98: A3–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-666 |
To Robert FitzRoy 31 March [1843]
Summary
Congratulates FitzRoy on his appointment as Governor of New Zealand. Wants to see him and his wife before their departure. Proposes to call on them in London next Thursday.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert FitzRoy |
| Date: | 31 Mar [1843] |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 118 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-667 |
To William Kemp 7 April [1843]
Summary
CD will sent seeds to specialists for identification.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Kemp |
| Date: | 7 Apr [1843] |
| Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/14) (gift of Ruth Cramond and David Cramond) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-667F |
To John Lindley 8 [April 1843]
Summary
CD sends seeds found by W. Kemp of Galashiels with explanation and request that they be planted and a report sent to him, so that Kemp may publish his discovery if results are interesting.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lindley |
| Date: | 8 [Apr 1843] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 189–90) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-668 |
From John Lindley [after 8 April 1843]
Summary
Will be happy to report on seeds sent by CD. Suggests names.
| Author: | John Lindley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 8 Apr 1843] |
| Classmark: | DAR 50: A23 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-669 |
From Charles Lyell [9 April 1843]
Summary
Spoke to Henry Warburton, W. H. Fitton, and E. B. Greenough on CD’s idea of a Government grant for publication [not identified].
Will read at next meeting his paper on erect Nova Scotia fossil trees [Proc. Geol. Soc. Lond. 4 (1843–5): 176–8].
E. P. Halstead reports on shores rising off Burma and Bay of Bengal.
Unpacking his U. S. fossils.
Phillips looked at beds below coal in Pennsylvania. Result is the usual different species found but with complete representation of forms.
| Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [9 Apr 1843] |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 81, 205.9: 393 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-670 |
From Richard Brinsley Hinds 21 April 1843
Summary
Replies to queries by CD. Describes Clipperton Rock [SW. of Mexico] and Cocos Island. Mentions possible species of Cactornis. Discusses depth of water at Bow Island [Hao, Tuamotu Archipelago], and occurrence of coral formations at various islands.
| Author: | Richard Brinsley Hinds |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Apr 1843 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 219 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-671 |
To G. A. Mantell 21 [April 1843]
Summary
Regrets that he can offer little aid. If he sees Captain FitzRoy, he will give him GAM’s letter to read at leisure.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Gideon Algernon Mantell |
| Date: | 21 [Apr 1843] |
| Classmark: | Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Mantell papers, MS-Papers-0083-033-4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-671A |
To Royal Geographical Society 23 April [1843]
Summary
Thanks Jackson for putting him on list for Council of Geographical Society, but he is unable to serve.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Julian Jackson |
| Date: | 23 Apr [1843] |
| Classmark: | Royal Geographical Society |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-672 |
To William Kemp 24 [April 1843]
Summary
Has not yet heard from R. Brown, but John Lindley thinks species will probably turn out to be common ones.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Kemp |
| Date: | 24 [Apr 1843] |
| Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/15) (gift of Ruth Cramond and David Cramond) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-672F |
To Susan Darwin 27[–8] April [1843]
Summary
Describes alterations being made at Down House. Accepts father’s offer to lend him money.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
| Date: | 27[–8] Apr [1843] |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: A11–13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-673 |
To Susan Darwin [8 December 1843]
Summary
Thanks father for loan. Explains difficulty of acquiring the land through which the approach to Down House now runs.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
| Date: | [8 Dec 1843] |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: A14–15 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-674 |
From B. J. Sulivan [10 May 1843]
Summary
Describes siege [of Montevideo].
Reports on appearance and habits of horses and cattle of Falkland Islands; wild rabbits and pigs. Geology of the Falklands, especially of West Island. Discusses supposed discovery of coal. Has sent fossil specimens to CD.
| Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [10 May 1843] |
| Classmark: | DAR 39: 26–7, 39: 66–7, 46.1: 70–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-675 |
To G. A. Mantell 13 May [1843]
Summary
Capt. FitzRoy has read GAM’s letter to CD regarding an appointment for GAM’s son and is disposed to help, but has resolved to make no appointments until he arrives in New Zealand [as Governor].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Gideon Algernon Mantell |
| Date: | 13 May [1843] |
| Classmark: | Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Mantell papers, MS-Papers-0083-487 p.41) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-676 |
To [Leonard Horner?] 25 June 1843
Summary
Sends notes on volcanic islands for LH to read and return.
[Letter could be an inaccurate contemporary copy to which the copyist interpolated details, or a forgery. The address "Down House Orpington Kent" occurs nowhere else.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leonard Horner |
| Date: | 25 June 1843 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.31) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-677 |
To Smith, Elder, and Company 29 June [1843]
Summary
Requests information as to means of sending two pamphlets to a professor in the United States.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Smith, Elder & Co |
| Date: | 29 June [1843] |
| Classmark: | Kenneth W. Rendell (dealer) (1990) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-677A |
To B. W. Hawkins [c. 1 October 1843]
Summary
Discusses poor impression of plates [for Reptiles by Thomas Bell].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins |
| Date: | [c. 1 Oct 1843] |
| Classmark: | Dartmouth College Library (MSS 843900.3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-679 |
To Henry Colburn 4 July [1843]
Summary
Offers to pay for use of plate of map of S. America and for three woodcuts, for German edition of Journal of researches [1844].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Colburn |
| Date: | 4 July [1843] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-680 |
To Ernst Dieffenbach 4 July [1843]
Summary
CD gratified that ED wants to translate his Journal. Will send a copy of Coral reefs, which contains a fuller treatment of topic. Perhaps ED would insert a note to this effect. Can lend woodcuts from Coral reefs if ED wants. CD will send a few corrections; he wants to amend way he criticised Agassiz’s glacier theory.
He is also enclosing a questionnaire concerning differences between races or varieties and species, about which he intends to publish sometime.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Dieffenbach |
| Date: | 4 July [1843] |
| Classmark: | Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt (Nachlass Künzel Br./3/VII/1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-680A |
To G. R. Waterhouse 8 July 1843
Summary
Testimonial letter for GRW for position at British Museum.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Robert Waterhouse |
| Date: | 8 July 1843 |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Library MSS WAT) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-681 |
| letter | (94) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (70) |
| Kemp, William | (6) |
| Waterhouse, G. R. | (4) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (3) |
| Hinds, R. B. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (24) |
| Kemp, William | (10) |
| Dieffenbach, Ernst | (5) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (5) |
| Smith, Elder & Co | (5) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (94) |
| Kemp, William | (16) |
| Waterhouse, G. R. | (9) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (8) |
| Dieffenbach, Ernst | (5) |
Darwin's works in letters
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For the 163rd anniversary of the publication of Origin, we've added a new page to our Works in letters section on Cross and self fertilisation. These complement our existing pages on the 'big book' before Origin, Origin itself, the…
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- … my works. ( letter to Ernst Dieffenbach, 2 October 1843 ) Darwin published over …
Syms Covington
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When Charles Darwin embarked on the Beagle voyage in 1831, Syms Covington was ‘fiddler & boy to Poop-cabin’. Covington kept an illustrated journal of his observations and experiences on the voyage, noting wildlife, landscapes, buildings and people and,…
George Robert Waterhouse
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George Waterhouse was born on 6 March 1810 in Somers Town, North London. His father was a solicitor’s clerk and an amateur lepidopterist. George was educated from 1821-24 at Koekelberg near Brussels. On his return he worked for a time as an apprentice to…
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- … their ‘ descent from common stock’ in a letter of 1843 . In the same year, Darwin …
Darwin’s study of the Cirripedia
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Darwin’s work on barnacles, conducted between 1846 and 1854, has long posed problems for historians. Coming between his transmutation notebooks and the Origin of species, it has frequently been interpreted as a digression from Darwin’s species work. Yet…
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- … correspondence with George Robert Waterhouse. On [26 July 1843] ( Correspondence vol. 2), for …
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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- … [DAR *119: 13v.] Yarrel’s Birds [Yarrell 1843] (1 Vol read) Last Edit of Malthus …
- … 1825–36] Prescott. Hist. of Mexico [W. H. Prescott 1843], strongly recommended by Lyell (read …
- … Travels into the interior of New Zealand [Dieffenbach 1843]. Capt. Porter, Journ of Cruize in …
- … Prichards. Nat: History of Man. Bailliere. 1.10 [Prichard 1843] must be studied . London Library …
- … Essay on serpent (1844). 6 s . 6 d . Edinburgh [Schlegel 1843]. Geograph. Distrib &c &c. …
- … “Scenes in Sandwich Isl d & Central America [Jarves 1843] contains good account of Silkworm, …
- … } Much Botany & [Backhouse 1843] Nat: Hist.— …
- … be read. Paper on transmutation of shells [Haldeman 1843–4] already (1844) VI. vols. …
- … . 42 [P. Miller 1724] Life of Wilkie [Cunningham 1843] & Chantry [G. Jones 1849]. …
- … 1833] (Boot) Leslie life of Constable [Leslie 1843]. (Emma) (read) M rs Fry’s Life …
- … 1847].— Cunningham Life of Wilkie [Cunningham 1843] [DAR *119: 23v.] …
- … 3 d Part of Clarendons History [Hyde 1704]. 1843 Jan 10. Last Vol of Clarendons …
- … 1842–6] Mar 1. Lieut. Eyres Narrative [?V. Eyre 1843].— May 7 th . F. Horner’s life …
- … Bremer [Bremer 1843a].— [DAR 119: 13a] 1843 Feb 20 th . L. Jenyns notes …
- … d[itt]o. —— 26 Hinds Regions of Vegetation [Hinds 1843]. June 10 th . Linnæan Trans. …
- … of London ] to end of Vol: XVIII & Part I. of V. 19 (1843) 25. Murray Domestic Poultry.— …
- … Nov 30. Dieffenbach’s New Zealand [Dieffenbach 1843] 1844 Wiegman on Hybrids—German— …
- … Phillips 1822] (very poor) [DAR 119: 13b] 1843 May 20 th Carlyle’s Past …
- … 1844 Jan 7 th Borrow’s Bible in Spain [Borrow 1843]. 22. Hallam Constitu History …
- … 30 1. Vol of Prescotts Hist of Mexico [W. H. Prescott 1843] /Oct 1 st / 2 d & 3 d Vol …
- … July 5 th Owens Lectures on Invertebrata [R. Owen 1843–6] Aug 1 Bradley’s Husbandry 3. …
- … —— d[itt]o Salmon Fishing in Tweed [Scrope 1843]. (d[itt]o) 20 th Reflections on the Study …
- … Nov. 20 Liebig’s familiar letters on Chemistry [Liebig 1843] —— Ranke’s Popes of Rome 3 vols …
- … 3 d . 25 th Forbes Alps [J. D. Forbes 1843] —— Crawfords Embassy to Siam …
- … Philadelphia ]; skimmed. 24 th . Report. Zoolog. 1843. 1844. Ray Soc. [Ray Society 1847] …
- … —— 10 Neander’s Life of St Bernard [Neander 1843] interesting —— Feuerbachers Trials …
- … 27 Abbott Travels from Khiva to Heraut [James Abbott 1843] (very good) Nov. 7 th Leslie’s …
Darwin & Glen Roy
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Although Darwin was best known for his geological work in South America and other remote Beagle destinations, he made one noteworthy attempt to explain a puzzling feature of British geology. In 1838, two years after returning from the voyage, he travelled…
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- … October 1842] To William Darwin Fox, [4 September 1843] To Charles Lyell, 8 …
Darwin in letters, 1837–1843: The London years to 'natural selection'
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The seven-year period following Darwin's return to England from the Beagle voyage was one of extraordinary activity and productivity in which he became recognised as a naturalist of outstanding ability, as an author and editor, and as a professional…
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- … of the living species he had collected. By the end of 1843 he had also completed the writing of a …
- … the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle from February 1838 to October 1843. The correspondence provides a …
- … in articles on Sagitta , finished during the autumn of 1843, and Planariae, described in 1844 …
- … unless they went to some other authority. Towards the end of 1843, he increasingly hoped that …
- … thinking during this period and in his letters of 1843, Darwin was clearly testing his evolutionary …
- … I am looking for' ( Letter to G. R. Waterhouse, [26 July 1843] ). It is interesting to …
- … twelve letters from Darwin to Kemp in the years 1840 to 1843 have come to light; they were published …
- … flowers’ to the Gardeners’ Chronicle , [late August 1843], expresses his interest in ‘unity of …
Scientific Networks
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Friendship|Mentors|Class|Gender In its broadest sense, a scientific network is a set of connections between people, places, and things that channel the communication of knowledge, and that substantially determine both its intellectual form and content,…
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- … 714 — Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. D., [13 or 20 Nov 1843] Darwin knows Cambridge botanist J. …
Joseph Dalton Hooker
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The 1400 letters exchanged between Darwin and Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911) account for around 10% of Darwin’s surviving correspondence and provide a structure within which all the other letters can be explored. They are a connecting thread that spans…
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
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Here is a list of people that appeared in the photograph album Darwin received for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from scientific admirers in the Netherlands. Many thanks to Hester Loeff for identifying and researching them. No. …
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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- … Murray, who followed his father as head of the business in 1843, had spent a year studying geology …
Henrietta Darwin born
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Daughter, Henrietta Emma, born
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- … Daughter, Henrietta Emma, born …
Meets Joseph Hooker
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Darwin begins a 40-year friendship with Joseph Dalton Hooker. In November Hooker begins work on Darwin's Beagle plant specimens.
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- … Darwin begins a 40-year friendship with Joseph Dalton Hooker. In November Hooker begins work on …
Suggested reading
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Contemporary writing Anon., The English matron: A practical manual for young wives, (London, 1846). Anon., The English gentlewoman: A practical manual for young ladies on their entrance to society, (Third edition, London, 1846). Becker, L. E.…
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- … domestic influence and social obligations , (London, 1843). Somerville, M., On …
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
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List of people appearing in the photograph album Darwin received from scientific admirers in the Netherlands for his birthday on 12 February 1877. We are grateful to Hester Loeff for providing this list and for permission to make her research available.…
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 717 - Hooker, J. D. to Darwin, [28 November 1843] Hooker thanks Darwin for his …
Darwin in letters, 1844–1846: Building a scientific network
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The scientific results of the Beagle voyage still dominated Darwin's working life, but he broadened his continuing investigations into the nature and origin of species. Far from being a recluse, Darwin was at the heart of British scientific society,…
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- … vol. 2, letter to A. Y. Spearman, 9 October 1843, n. 1). Darwin's inner circle: first …
John Lort Stokes
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John Lort Stokes, naval officer, was Charles Darwin’s cabinmate on the Beagle voyage – not always an enviable position. After Darwin’s death, Stokes penned a description of their evenings spent working at the large table at the centre, Stokes at his…
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- … command in 1841, and eventually returned to England in 1843. Shortly after, he unwittingly involved …
Darwin’s observations on his children
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Charles Darwin’s observations on the development of his children, began the research that culminated in his book The Expression of the emotions in man and animals, published in 1872, and his article ‘A biographical sketch of an infant’, published in Mind…
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- … in exact manner of grown up person.— March 1 st . 1843. Annie shows no signs of skill in …
- … was natural acting & deceit. 39v. [54] Jan. 20 1843 Willy 3 years & a month. …
- … to something he used to say when a baby. 40 Feb 1843. Willy says “No” in the fiercest way …
- … later; Anne Elizabeth was born in 1841 and Henrietta Emma in 1843. Mrs Locke was probably the …
- … name and address of a Mrs Locke are noted in Emma Darwin’s 1843 diary. [16] The following …
George James Stebbing
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George James Stebbing (1803—1860) travelled around the world with Charles Darwin on board HMS Beagle and helped him with measuring temperature on at least one occasion. However, Stebbing barely registers in Darwin’s correspondence. The only mention omits…
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- … instrument maker George Stebbing (1774—1847). By 1843, he was established enough in the town to be …
