To Philip Henry Stanhope 30 July [1852]
Summary
Declines invitation to Chevening [Lord Stanhope’s residence].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Philip Henry Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope |
| Date: | 30 July [1852] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University (bMs 7.10.3 (1)) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13844 |
To ? 31 December [1852–3]
Summary
Responds to correspondent’s request for information about shells from the Coquimbo beds in Chile. Difficulty in deciding on age of deposits and species. Notes views of Alcide d’Orbigny.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 31 Dec [1852-3] |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13872 |
To ? 19 December [1852 or 1854]
Summary
Ray Society has given CD 22 copies [of Living Cirripedia, vol. 1].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 19 Dec [1852 or 1854] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.100) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1464 |
To J. S. Henslow [1852–60]
Summary
Sends an enclosure forwarded from Down.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | [1852–60] |
| Classmark: | Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine (H MS c3.3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1466F |
To Japetus Steenstrup 3 January [1852]
Summary
Asks JS to compare cirripede specimens with those of Lorenz Spengler to establish comparative nomenclature.
Requests reference to article describing Xenobalanus.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup |
| Date: | 3 Jan [1852] |
| Classmark: | Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (NKS 3460 4to) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1469 |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle [before 10 January 1852]
Summary
Asks readers of Gardeners’ Chronicle whether they have experience with light wire rope instead of chain in drawing water buckets from deep wells. Describes the problem of his own well with its 325 foot chain.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
| Date: | [before 10 Jan 1852] |
| Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, no. 2, 10 January 1852, p. 22 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1470 |
To Edward Forbes 23 January [1852?]
Summary
Discusses Balanus unguiformis. Promises to return specimen.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Forbes |
| Date: | 23 Jan [1852?] |
| Classmark: | Florida State University Libraries, Strozier Library Special Collections Vault (tipped into a copy of Origin, QH365 .O2 1859) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1472 |
To Edwin Lankester, Ray Society 30 January [1852]
Summary
The Binder "by some wonderful Blunder" has bound the enclosed in all of CD’s copies [of Living Cirripedia, vol. 1]. He requests that it be pulled out. It may belong to W. A. Leighton’s volume [Lichens (1851)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edwin Lankester |
| Date: | 30 Jan [1852] |
| Classmark: | DAR 221.5: 19 photocopy; John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 56) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1472A |
To J. D. Dana 15 February [1852]
Summary
Sending first volumes on Living and Fossil Cirripedia. Solicits JDD’s opinion, especially on sexual relations of Scalpellum and Ibla, on which he "hardly expect[s] to be believed".
Sends unusual crustacean specimen collected by B. J. Sulivan.
The Sporillus sent by JDD is a very curious species of Acasta [see Living Cirripedia 2: 319].
Asks JDD to identify and give geographical distribution of pieces of coral in which some cirripedes are imbedded.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Dwight Dana |
| Date: | 15 Feb [1852] |
| Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 43) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1473 |
To W. E. Darwin 24 [February 1852]
Summary
Is glad WED has made a good beginning [at Rugby?].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 24 [Feb 1852] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1474 |
To A. A. Gould 29 February [1852]
Summary
Sends presentation copy of Fossil Cirripedia.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Augustus Addison Gould |
| Date: | 29 Feb [1852] |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Augustus A. Gould papers, 1831–66 MS Am 1210: 226) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1475 |
To W. D. Fox 7 March [1852]
Summary
Congratulates and "condoles" with WDF on a tenth child.
On education, he has not had courage to break away from "the old stereotyped stupid classical education"; has sent William to Rugby.
The first Ray Society volume [Living Cirripedia] is finished.
Has joined in a society to prosecute violators of the act against use of children in climbing chimneys.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 7 Mar [1852] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 80) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1476 |
To Syms Covington 14 March 1852
Summary
Asks for details about the discoveries of gold in Australia.
Has published one book on barnacles [1851].
Sulivan has just returned from his cattle farm in the Falklands.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Syms Covington |
| Date: | 14 Mar 1852 |
| Classmark: | Sydney Mail, 9 August 1884, p. 254 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1477 |
DCP-LETT-1478
Summary
Cancelled: draft of 1496.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [Apr 1852] |
| Classmark: | DAR 206: 40 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1478 |
From Japetus Steenstrup 8 April 1852
Summary
His difficulties in answering CD’s letter of 3 Jan [1852] [see 1469]. There is no Lepas mitra in the Lorenz Spengler collection. He undertakes to compare the specimens of Balanus sent by CD with those of Spengler.
He thanks CD for his book [Fossil Cirripedia (1851)].
His work with Professor Forchhammer and Mr Worsaae.
| Author: | Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Apr 1852 |
| Classmark: | Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1478A |
To George Crawford Hyndman 16 April [1852]
Summary
Thanks GCH for Balanus specimens.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Crawford Hyndman |
| Date: | 16 Apr [1852] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.101) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1479 |
To John William Parker 5 May [1852]
Summary
As an author of some scientific works CD is of the opinion that each bookseller should settle, each for himself, the retail price.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John William Parker |
| Date: | 5 May [1852] |
| Classmark: | Stationers’ Company (Records Pt XI (III) J. W. Parker: autograph letters from authors (TSC/1/F/07/22)) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1480A |
To J. D. Dana 8 May [1852]
Summary
Gratified by JDD’s opinion of his work.
Discusses problem of homologies of cirripede larva in first stage and reasons for his view.
JDD’s information on corals was just what CD needed.
Would like specimen of blind cave rat described by B. Silliman [Jr] ["On the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 11 (1851): 336] for Waterhouse to examine.
Discusses origin of Australian valleys; he disagrees with JDD’s river-erosion hypothesis.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Dwight Dana |
| Date: | 8 May [1852] |
| Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 43) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1481 |
To Henry Norton Shaw, Secretary, Royal Geographical Society 17 May [1852]
Summary
Asks for catalogue and latest number of the Journal [of the Royal Geographical Society].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Norton Shaw; Royal Geographical Society |
| Date: | 17 May [1852] |
| Classmark: | Royal Geographical Society |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1482 |
To John Higgins 19 June [1852]
Summary
Discusses his account and rent reduction. Comments on agricultural prices.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Higgins |
| Date: | 19 June [1852] |
| Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/54) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1483 |
| letter | (38) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (35) |
| Higgins, John | (2) |
| Steenstrup, Japetus | (1) |
| Higgins, John | (4) |
| Dana, J. D. | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
| Fox, W. D. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (38) |
| Higgins, John | (6) |
| Dana, J. D. | (3) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
| Fox, W. D. | (2) |
Edward Lumb
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Edward Lumb was born in Yorkshire. According to the memoirs of his daughter Anne, Lady Macdonell, he travelled to Buenos Aires aged sixteen with his merchant uncle, Charles Poynton, and after some fortunate enterprises set up in business there. In 1833…
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Have you read the one about....
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... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some serious - but all letters you can read here.
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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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- … through 1851; the second (DAR 128) continues the list from 1852 to 1860, when, except for a few odd …
- … John Davies. China during the War and Peace [J. F. Davis 1852]. read Books Read, 1838–51 …
- … [Southey 1834–47]. Poor. skimmed Books to be Read, 1852–60 [DAR *128: Cover] …
- … of 1851 on silk-worms & sheep, selection & crossing [R. Owen 1852]. Also hybrid-wheat …
- … & Triticum 84 Knox on Anatomy & Art [R. Knox 1852]. London Library (read) …
- … Work on Hybridism reviewed in Gardeners Chronicle in 1852. by Wagner? [Unger 1852] 85 Read …
- … vols. The Vegetation of Europe by A. Henfrey [Henfrey 1852]. (remarks on Geograph. Distrib. …
- … very expensive Coll. of Surgeons? M r Highley. 88 1852 French Translation of Von …
- … Life of L d . Jeffrey. Colburn Cockburn [Cockburn 1852] Our antipodes by Colonel Mundy [G. …
- … Barrande Syst. Silurien du Centre de la Boheme [Barrande 1852–1911] must be deeply studied 1854 …
- … The Hon ble Cooke Journey to Oregon Bon. Price [Coke 1852] (amusing) read [DAR *128: 171 …
- … [DAR *128: 167] Revue Horticol Imp. 1852. p. 102. Naudin Consid. Phil. sur l’espèce [Naudin …
- … 109 [J. Phillips and Salter 1846]. Revue Horticole 1852 p. 102 Naudin on Nat. Selection …
- … Atlantidum 1. 1. 0 [Wollaston 1865] Books Read, 1852–60 [DAR 128: Cover] …
- … 20 D r Holland Chapters on Mental Phys: [Holland 1852] July 24 th Knox’s Ornithological …
- … Macgillivray Voyage of Rattle-Snake 119 [J. Macgillivray 1852] Oct 5. Risso Essai sur l …
Darwin and Fatherhood
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Charles Darwin married Emma Wedgwood in 1839 and over the next seventeen years the couple had ten children. It is often assumed that Darwin was an exceptional Victorian father. But how extraordinary was he? The Correspondence Project allows an unusually…
Living and fossil cirripedia
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Darwin published four volumes on barnacles, the crustacean sub-class Cirripedia, between 1851 and 1854, two on living species and two on fossil species. Written for a specialist audience, they are among the most challenging and least read of Darwin’s works…
'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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- … animals, reporting a neighbouring farmer to the RSPCA in 1852 for working horses with sore necks …
Scientific Practice
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Specialism|Experiment|Microscopes|Collecting|Theory Letter writing is often seen as a part of scientific communication, rather than as integral to knowledge making. This section shows how correspondence could help to shape the practice of science, from…
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- … Letter 1495 — Darwin, C. R. to Hancock, Albany, 25 Dec [1852] Darwin discusses the capacity …
4.35 Frederick Sem, caricature
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< Back to Introduction A caricature drawing of Darwin by Frederick Sem was one of a series of his portrait caricatures acquired by Queen Alexandra for her scrapbook or album, which has been preserved in the Royal Collection. Darwin is shown leaning…
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- … are accompanying letters to Croker, variously dated between 1852 and 1877, which provided samples of …
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. …
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…
3.9 Leonard Darwin, photo on horseback
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< Back to Introduction It is so rare to encounter an image of Darwin in a specific locale that a family photograph of him riding his horse Tommy takes on a special interest. He is at the front of Down House, the door of which is open; it seems as…
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- … the RSPCA to prosecute a man living in Down village in 1852 on a charge of cruelty to his horses, …
New material added to the American edition of Origin
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A ‘revised and augmented’ American edition of Origin came on the market in July 1860, and was the only authorised edition available in the US until 1873. It incorporated many of the changes Darwin made to the second English edition, but still contained…
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.…
Arthur Mellersh
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Arthur Mellersh was a midshipman (promoted to mate during the voyage) serving on the Beagle at the time when Darwin was travelling around the world. One account suggests an inauspicious start to their friendship; apparently Mellersh introduced himself…
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- … on the HMS Rattler during the Burma Campaign in 1852, and in 1853 Darwin learned in a letter …
Alfred Russel Wallace
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Wallace was a leading Victorian naturalist, with wide-ranging interests from biogeography and evolutionary theory to spiritualism and politics. He was born in 1823 in Usk, a small town in south-east Wales, and attended a grammar school in Hertford. At the…
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- … most of his collection in a fire on the return to England in 1852, Wallace became known for his …
George Busk
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After the Beagle voyage, Darwin’s collection of bryozoans disappears from the records until the material was sent, in 1852, for study by George Busk, one of the foremost workers on the group of his day. In 1863, on the way down to Malvern Wells, Darwin had…
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First of the barnacle books
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After eight years of research, Darwin publishes Living Cirripedia vol 1, the first of four volumes classifying living and fossil barnacles
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- … After eight years of research, Darwin publishes Living Cirripedia vol 1, the first of four …
Jane Gray
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Jane Loring Gray, the daughter of a Boston lawyer, married the Harvard botanist Asa Gray in 1848 and evidence suggests that she took an active interest in the scientific pursuits of her husband and his friends. Although she is only known to have…
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- … (letter to Jane Gray from George Bentham, 10 March 1852. Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Box AD, …
Wearing his knowledge lightly: From Fritz Müller, 5 April 1878
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Darwin received letters from so many people and wrote so many fascinating letters himself, that it’s hard to choose from many letters that stand out, but one of this editor’s favourites, that always brings a smile, is a letter from Fritz Müller written 5…
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- … had emigrated to the German colony of Blumenau in Brazil in 1852. He had a PhD in natural sciences …
Hermann Müller
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Hermann (Heinrich Ludwig Hermann) Müller, was born in Mühlberg near Erfurt in 1829. He was the younger brother of Fritz Müller (1822–97). Following the completion of his secondary education at Erfurt in 1848, he studied natural sciences at Halle and Berlin…
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- … and Berlin, focusing on botany, zoology, and geology. In 1852, he qualified as a teacher, but …
