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To Asa Gray 19 April [1865]

Summary

Congratulates AG on the "grand news of Richmond".

Still interested in dimorphism and would welcome new cases.

Working on Variation

and correcting proofs of Climbing plants.

Would like seed of AG’s dimorphic Plantago.

Cannot understand how the wind could fertilise reciprocally dimorphic flowers.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Asa Gray
Date:	19 Apr [1865]
Classmark:	Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (77)
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4467

Matches: 14 hits

… with Gray on this subject since 1863 (see, for example, Correspondence vol. …
… 11, letters to Asa Gray , 26 June [1863] and …
… 4 August [1863] , and letter from …
… Asa Gray, 1 September 1863 , and Correspondence vol. 12, letter to Asa Gray, 28 May [ …
… London: Garland Publishing. 1990. Mohl, Hugo von. 1863. Einige Beobachtungen über dimorphe …
… By Charles Darwin. [Read 5 February 1863. ] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean …
… 31 March [1862] , and Correspondence vol. 11, letters to Asa Gray , 2 January [1863] and …
… 4 August [1863] , and letter from …
… Asa Gray, 27 January 1863 ). See also Colp 1978 . For CD’s correspondence with Gray about …
… vol. 11, letter to Asa Gray, 11 May [1863] and n. 14). CD evidently did not obtain seeds …
… lanceolata , dated from 28 April to 14 June 1863, are in DAR 109: A27–9 and DAR 49: 91; …
… vol. 11, letter to W. E. Darwin, [5 May 1863] and n. 6, and Correspondence vol. 12, …
… to Gray’s review of a translation of Mohl 1863 in the January 1865 issue of the American …
… Gray 1865b ). Hugo von Mohl had argued ( Mohl 1863 , pp. 309, 321) that the existence of …

From Benjamin Dann Walsh 1 March 1865

Summary

Sends his paper on "Willow-galls" [Proc. Entomol. Soc. Philadelphia 3 (1864): 543–644].

Lengthy criticism of Agassiz’s views on species as stated in his Essay on classification [1857].

Interested by CD’s trimorphism in Lythrum. Thinks some great mystery may lie in the fact that in some genera, some species are tri-, some di-, and some monomorphic, and in other genera, Apis, Vespa, Bombus, all the known species are dimorphic.

Author:	Benjamin Dann Walsh
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	1 Mar 1865
Classmark:	Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4778

Matches: 20 hits

… papers 2: 45–63. ] Duval-Jouve, Joseph. 1863. Sur la floraison et la fructification du …
… Tidsskrift 3d ser. 3: 37–43. Mohl, Hugo von. 1863. Einige Beobachtungen über dimorphe …
… Darwin. ] Natural History Review n.s. 3 (1863): 219–24. [ Collected papers 2: 87–92. ] …
… By Charles Darwin. [Read 5 February 1863. ] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean …
… Murray. 1868. Wagner, Nikolai Petrovich. 1863. Beitrag zur Lehre von der Fortpflanzung der …
… Asa Gray , were published in the September 1863 issue of the American Journal of Science …
… vol. 11, letter from Asa Gray, 7 July 1863 . The journal was known as ‘Silliman’s …
… below. Hugo von Mohl had argued ( Mohl 1863 , pp. 309, 321) that the existence of small, …
… 1, 330). There is a discussion of Mohl 1863 in CD’s manuscript version of ‘Three forms of …
… 1864] . There is an annotated copy of Mohl 1863 in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. …
… Collected papers 2: 131), citing Duval-Jouve 1863 on Leersia oryzoides , CD stated that …
… failed to identify the species, was written in 1861 and published in German in 1863 ( …
… Wagner 1863 ). Walsh was at first sceptical of Wagner’s claims to have observed what later …
… written an editorial note to Wagner 1863 , pp. 513–14, stating that Wagner’s observations …
… in natural history (J. L. R. Agassiz 1863 ). There are annotated copies of J. L. …
… R. Agassiz 1850 and J. L. R. Agassiz 1863 in the Darwin Library–CUL and the Darwin …
… n. 7. The reference is to J. L. R. Agassiz 1863 . See also nn. 18 and 19, above, and …
… unsigned review of Bates’s paper in the April 1863 issue of the Natural History Review , ‘ …
… 1861 was reviewed by Gray in the September 1863 issue of the American Journal of Science …
… and Arts ( A. Gray 1863 ). See CD’s query regarding Bombus copulation in Correspondence …

From Alfred Newton 27 October 1865

Summary

Asks CD to support his candidacy for Professorship of Zoology at Cambridge. Since he has spent many years travelling, he is not well enough known at the University.

Author:	Alfred Newton
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	27 Oct 1865
Classmark:	DAR 172: 43
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4925

Matches: 9 hits

… of London 28: 336–9. Newton, Alfred. 1863. On an illustration of the manner in which birds …
… may occasionally aid in the dispersion of seeds. [Read 21 April 1863. ] ]Proceedings …
… Cambridge, and held the post until March 1863 ( A. F. R. Wollaston 1921 , pp. 12, 75). …
… of the Zoological Society of London (1863): 127–9. Origin 4th ed. : On the origin of …
… the dispersion of seeds’ ( A. Newton 1863 ). Newton had sent CD the foot of a red-legged …
… seeds (see Correspondence vol. 11, letters from Alfred Newton , 21 March 1863 and …
… 31 October 1863 ). …
… With his letter of 31 October 1863 , Newton sent CD a copy of …
… A. Newton 1863 , part of which is in DAR 205.9: 366 and is annotated in CD’s hand. CD …

From Henry Walter Bates 28 January 1865

Summary

Pleased at receiving CD’s letter.

HWB informs him of favourable notice of the mimetic paper [in Wiegmann’s Arch. Naturgesch. 29 (1863) pt 2: 315–19].

He is pleased with his post [Asst. Sec. of Royal Geographical Society].

Author:	Henry Walter Bates
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	28 Jan 1865
Classmark:	DAR 160: 79
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4756

Matches: 9 hits

… vol. 11, letter from H. W. Bates, 29 September 1863 , and Curle 1954 , p. 26). …
… paper [in Wiegmann’s Arch. Naturgesch. 29 (1863) pt 2: 315–19]. He is pleased with his …
… 1862’, Archiv für Naturgeschichte 29 (1863): 315–18 ( Gerstaecker 1863a ). The journal was …
… D. Hooker, 30 January [1863] ). She had given birth to a daughter during the previous …
… on the Mantidae (praying mantids) in 1863; however, the work was never published (see …
… Darwin. ] Natural History Review n.s. 3 (1863): 219–24. [ Collected papers 2: 87–92. ] …
… had married Sarah Ann Mason on 19 January 1863 (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter from …
… H. W. Bates, 24 January 1863 , letter to H. …
… W. Bates, 26 January [1863] , and letter to J. …

From Julius von Haast 27 September 1865

Summary

Expects to publish an account of his journeys soon.

Asks CD’s support for his Royal Society candidacy.

Goldfields he discovered are now being worked.

Author:	John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	27 Sept 1865
Classmark:	DAR 166: 8
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4900

Matches: 11 hits

… photograph of CD in his letter of 21 July [ – 7? August] 1863 ( Correspondence vol. 11). …
… Two forms in species of Linum ’ (13 May 1863). Haast sent CD two short papers, J. F. …
… By Charles Darwin. [Read 5 February 1863. ] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean …
… letter to Julius von Haast, 22 January 1863 and n. 1), and an account of his geological …
… New Zealand’s Middle Island (now South Island) to the west coast in May 1863 (see ibid. , …
… letter from Julius von Haast, 13 May 1863 and n. 2). He also sent CD his 1861 geological …
… letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 [November 1863] ; CD’s lightly annotated presentation copy is …
… see ibid. , letter from Julius von Haast , 21 July [–7? August 1863] and n. 13, and …
… Darwin to Julius von Haast, 12 December [1863] and n. 4. For a complete list of Haast’s …
… Correspondence vol. 11, letters from Julius von Haast , 5 March 1863 and 21 July [– 7? …
… August] 1863 , and H. F. von Haast 1948 , pp. 199–219). For Haast’s description of the …

To Friedrich Rolle 6 May [1865]

Summary

Thanks FR for copy [of first number] of Der Mensch [1866].

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Friedrich Rolle
Date:	6 May [1865]
Classmark:	Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum, Frankfurt (SNG-Archiv: Malakol.: Nachlass Rolle)
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4829

Matches: 6 hits

… London: John Murray. 1859. Rolle, Friedrich. 1863. Chs. Darwin’s Lehre von der Entstehung …
… popular exposition of CD’s theory ( Rolle 1863 ; see Correspondence vol. 10). For Rolle’s …
… see Correspondence vol. 11, letter from Friedrich Rolle, 26 January 1863 , and letter to …
… Friedrich Rolle, 30 January [1863] . …
… Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E. May 6. 1863 Dear Sir Illness has prevented me from sooner …
… the previous summer. The copyist has written ‘1863’ in error. Rolle’s Der Mensch ( Rolle …

To B. D. Walsh 9 July [1865]

Summary

Thanks BDW for his interesting letter [4839] and for the case of Panagaeus, a genus almost sacred to him since Cambridge days.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Benjamin Dann Walsh
Date:	9 July [1865]
Classmark:	Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 4)
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4867

Matches: 7 hits

… this work (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter to H. W. Bates, 30 April [1863] ). …
… CD’s annotated copy of Bates 1863 is in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia 1: 35–7). …
… 23 (1860–2): 495–566. Bates, Henry Walter. 1863. The naturalist on the River Amazons. A …
… Garland Publishing. 1990. Paez, Ramon. 1863. Wild scenes in South America, or life in the …
… naturalist on the river Amazons ( Bates 1863 ), which CD had encouraged Henry Walter Bates …
… Correspondence vols. 9 and 10, and Bates 1863 , 1: iv). CD was very enthusiastic about …
… pp. 62–3). The reference is to Paez 1863 . See letter from B. D. Walsh, 29 May 1865 …

From Asa Gray 15 and 17 May 1865

Summary

Reports Lincoln’s murder.

The end of Civil War is in sight.

Must look at dimorphism in Plantago.

Author:	Asa Gray
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	15 and 17 May 1865
Classmark:	DAR 165: 147
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4833

Matches: 7 hits

… He sent CD a copy of his book, The races of the old world. A manual of ethnology in 1863 ( …
… Brace 1863 ; see Correspondence vol. 11, letter to C. …
… L. Brace, 24 June [1863] and n. 2). This may have been the issue of 27 April 1865. See …
… Bibliography Brace, Charles Loring. 1863. The races of the old world. A manual of …
… vol. 11, letter to Asa Gray, 23 February [1863] and n. 19). On relations between Britain …
… 1861, and the Alabama affair in 1862 and 1863 (see Correspondence vol. 9, letter to Asa …
… 11, letter from Asa Gray, 23 November 1863 and nn. 8 and 9). The Union Army suffered a …

From August Schleicher 9 February 1865

Summary

Sends a pamphlet and photograph to CD [missing];

announces a botanical congress at Erfurt at which CD’s theory will be discussed.

Author:	August Schleicher
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	9 Feb 1865
Classmark:	DAR 177: 53
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4770

Matches: 6 hits

… Stanford University Press. Schleicher, August. 1863. Die Darwinsche Theorie und die …
… appeared in an agricultural journal. In 1863, Schleicher had sent CD another article of …
… later translated into English ( Schleicher 1863 and 1869; see Correspondence vol. 11, …
… letter to J. D. Hooker, [22–3 November 1863] ). There …
… are lightly annotated copies of Schleicher 1863 and 1869 in the …
… Pamphlet Collection–CUL; Schleicher 1863 is inscribed by the author, and Schleicher …

From Alfred Newton 30 October 1865

Summary

CD need not apologise for not writing a testimonial for him. He knows comparative anatomy, although he has confined his publication to ornithology. Agrees that with a few members of the University a recommendation from CD would be harmful.

Author:	Alfred Newton
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	30 Oct 1865
Classmark:	DAR 172: 45
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4927

Matches: 5 hits

… of London 28: 336–9. Newton, Alfred. 1863. On an illustration of the manner in which birds …
… may occasionally aid in the dispersion of seeds. [Read 21 April 1863. ] ]Proceedings …
… CD’s dispersion theory in A. Newton 1863 . He suggested that natural selection was the …
… of the Zoological Society of London (1863): 127–9. Newton, Alfred. 1864. …
… s sand-grouse ( Syrrhaptes paradoxus ) in 1863. Ibis 6: 185–222. Origin : On the origin of …

From George Maw 1 June 1865

Summary

Reports a monstrous pig that looks like an elephant. It was born of a pregnant sow which had been frightened by a circus elephant. He offers the monster, which died at birth, to any London museum.

Author:	George Maw
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	1 June 1865
Classmark:	DAR 171: 100
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4847

Matches: 7 hits

… interested On the 3 rd . or 4 th . of May 1863 a sow belonging to M r . Wood of the Star …
… Bristol, Herefordshire, and Shropshire 1863). James ‘Barney’ Edmonds, who married a niece …
… 11, letter from George Maw, 25 April 1863 ). He was elected a member of the Geological …
… Society of London , [ c. 28 December 1863] and n. 1). In a brief report summarising Maw …
… geological age ( ibid. , p. 204). Prior to 1863 the correspondence between CD and Maw …
… see Correspondence vols. 9 and 10). In 1863, Maw wrote to CD about his interest in the …
… correctness of the following facts. In July 1863, the Sow was put to the Boar & one or two …

From B. D. Walsh 29 May 1865

Summary

Discusses several subjects, including examples of "Unity of coloration",

the origin of gall-producing poison,

Wagner’s theory of viviparous larvae,

and stridulation in insects.

Sends a reference supporting CD’s statement in Origin that flies check propagation of horses and cattle.

Author:	Benjamin Dann Walsh
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	29 May 1865
Classmark:	DAR 47: 179, 179a; DAR 207: 18
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4839

Matches: 7 hits

… be constant in allied species’ ( Walsh 1863 , p. 213); adding that this law was similar …
… London: John Murray. 1859. Paez, Ramon. 1863. Wild scenes in South America, or life in the …
… By Charles Darwin. [Read 5 February 1863. ] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean …
… Kazan: n.p. Wagner, Nikolai Petrovich. 1863. Beitrag zur Lehre von der Fortpflanzung der …
… in agricultural journals. [Read 7 October 1863. ] Proceedings of the Boston Society of …
… of paedogenesis ( Wagner 1862 and 1863 ), see the letter to B. D. Walsh, 27 March [ …
… life in the llanos of Venezuela ( Paez 1863 , pp. 58–9). Páez was a son of General José …

To J. D. Hooker 6 April [1865]

Summary

Asks to borrow Botanische Zeitung (1860) with Friedrich Alefeld on Pisum [pp. 204–5].

JDH should ask George Busk whether he knows a better doctor than William Jenner "for giving life to a worn out poor devil".

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:	6 Apr [1865]
Classmark:	DAR 115: 262
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4805

Matches: 4 hits

… see Correspondence vol. 11, letter from George Busk , [ c. 27 August 1863]). CD …
… consulted Brinton in November and December 1863, and began consulting Jenner in March …
… 11, letter to J. D. Hooker, 5 [December 1863] , and Correspondence vol. 12, letter from …
… culinary plants and their wild prototypes. In 1863 George Busk had given advice to CD on …

To J. D. Hooker 9 February [1865]

Summary

Falconer’s death haunts him. Personal annihilation not so horrifying to him as sun cooling some day and human race ending.

His health has been wretched.

Masters has written his agreement with CD’s "Climbing plants".

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:	9 Feb [1865]
Classmark:	DAR 115: 260
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4769

Matches: 5 hits

… example, letters to J. D. Hooker, 14 July [1863] and [27 January 1864] ( Correspondence …
… and Correspondence vol. 11, letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 January [1863] ); however, …
… in 1863 and 1864 CD was even more ill than usual, and at one stage could ‘only stand very …
… Darwin to J. D. Hooker, 26 December [1863] ; see also Correspondence vol. 12, letter to …
… flower specimens of the species in June 1863 for his research on heterostyly (DAR 111: …

From Ludwig Rütimeyer 3 January 1865

Summary

Regrets he has not yet finished his monograph on Bos. Has examined and discusses the Bos skull from Lord Tankerville.

Would like CD’s opinion on the conclusions in LR’s paper on fossil horses.

Author:	Karl Ludwig (Ludwig) Rütimeyer
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	3 Jan 1865
Classmark:	DAR 176: 227
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4736

Matches: 6 hits

… s Buchhandlung (C. Detloff). Rütimeyer, Ludwig. 1863. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der fossilen …
… Country Gentlemans News Paper) Jan. 10. 1863 and elsewhere. It is a tamed type not rarely …
… Gardens’, in the Field , 10 January 1863, pp. 28–9. The article described a white bull …
… 1: 81. The reference is to Rütimeyer’s 1863 monograph on the comparative odontography of …
… In Variation 1: 51, CD cited Rütimeyer 1863 as suggesting that horses may have descended …
… are marked in CD’s copy of Rütimeyer 1863 (see Marginalia 1: 718). Rütimeyer included a …

From Samuel Butler 1 October 1865

Summary

Autobiographical letter describing how, when he could not conscientiously take orders, he went to New Zealand and has now returned to England to study art.

Fascinated and delighted by Origin

and is pleased that his pamphlet [Evidence for the resurrection of Jesus Christ] pleases CD.

Author:	Samuel Butler
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	1 Oct 1865
Classmark:	DAR 106: A1–2; Butler 1923, pp. 198–201
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4904

Matches: 7 hits

… vol. 11, letter to an editor, 24 March [1863? ] and n. 3). CD’s Scrapbook of reviews …
… 1862, was printed in the Press , 17 January 1863. It is not certain that Abraham was, in …
… letter printed in the Press , 21 February 1863, is reproduced here. See enclosure. Butler, …
… 20 December 1862 and the writer of the critical response of 17 January 1863. A response to …
… this letter, signed ‘The Savoyard’ appeared on 14 March 1863. Further letters appeared in …
… Press on 18 March, 11 April, and 22 June 1863, the first and last of which were signed ‘ …
… 1818 . In the article of 17 January 1863, the author, in fact, refers to a separately …

From John Scott 20 January 1865

Summary

Comments on his Primula paper [see 4213].

Describes his situation in Calcutta.

Author:	John Scott
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	20 Jan 1865
Classmark:	DAR 177: 114
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4751

Matches: 6 hits

… vol. 11, letter from John Scott, 21 September [1863] ). In his letter of 16 May [1864] ( …
… on a draft of Scott 1864b in September 1863, praising it as an ‘excellent memoir’ and …
… 11, letter to John Scott, 7 November [1863] ). CD received a revised version of the paper …
… appointment in Darjeeling offered to him by Balfour in May 1863 (see Correspondence vol. …
… 11, letter from John Scott, [3 June 1863] , and Correspondence vol. 12, letter from John …
… 11, letter from J. D. Hooker, 10 June 1863 , and Correspondence vol. 12, letter to J. …

From Eliza Meteyard 17 November 1865

Summary

Returns 19 of the letters CD lent her, so that he can choose one for the Autographic Mirror.

Author:	Eliza Meteyard
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	17 Nov 1865
Classmark:	DAR 171: 161
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4937

Matches: 3 hits

… letter to Hurst and Blackett, 15 November [1863]). Meteyard’s study of Josiah Wedgwood’s …
… 1865 . CD had sent the letters in November 1863 (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter to …
… J. D. Hooker, [22–3 November 1863] and n. 11, and …

To J. D. Hooker 7 January [1865]

Summary

Has finished long paper on "Climbing plants". Prefers sending it to Linnean Society if Bentham does not think it too long.

For New Zealand flora [1864–7] CD suggests JDH count plants with irregular corollas and compare with England.

Does not quite agree about Reader.

Is Tyndall author of piece on spiritualism?

CD’s illness diagnosed as "suppressed gout".

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:	7 Jan [1865]
Classmark:	DAR 115: 257a–c
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4742

Matches: 6 hits

… 11, letter to M. T. Masters, 6 April [1863] . See letter from J. D. Hooker, 1 January …
… Shoe String Press. Garrod, Alfred Baring. 1863. The nature and treatment of gout and …
… 11, letter from J. D. Hooker, 6 January 1863 ), was published in two parts. The first …
… Flora Australiensis (see Bentham and Mueller 1863–78, 1: 1–xl). It included only a general …
… Holland 1855 , p. 233, and Garrod 1863 , pp. 263–4). The diagnosis of suppressed gout …
… and Jenner. CD had consulted Brinton in 1863 (see Correspondence vol. 11). In his own …

To Jeffries Wyman 8 October [1865]

Summary

Experiments with string and elastic paper answered well.

Does JW know Ferdinand Cohn’s paper on contraction of stamens of certain Compositae [Edinburgh New Philos. J. n.s. 18 (1863): 190–4]?

Formerly made observations on movement in plants, but weak health has made it impossible to publish.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Jeffries Wyman
Date:	8 Oct [1865]
Classmark:	Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine (Jeffries Wyman papers H MS c 12)
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4912

Matches: 3 hits

… Compositae [ Edinburgh New Philos. J. n.s. 18 (1863): 190–4]? Formerly made observations …
… letter to Daniel Oliver, [before 27 November 1863] and n. 2). CD refers to the article by …
… and Magazine of Natural History 11 (1863): 188–202. CD referred to both the original …

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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…

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… knowledge out of your wealth of information? ( 11 January [1863] ) Rivers and Darwin …
… would find abundance of food”, Rivers wrote ( [3 February 1863] ). Darwin thought the example …
… just such feelings & reflexions as yours.— ( [14 February 1863] ) Darwin’s letter …

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…

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… affords." ( Darwin to H.W. Bates , 26 January [1863] ). In addition to sharing a …
… cook. Emma Darwin to Henrietta Darwin, [4 November 1863] In this brief note to her …

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…

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… Letter 3934 - Darwin to Scott, J., [21 January 1863] Darwin urges John Scott to publish …
… Letter 4185 - Darwin to Scott, J., [25 & 28 May 1863] Darwin praises Scott’s …

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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… Scott had evidently started his crossing experiments in 1863 (see Correspondence vol. 11, …
… vol. 11, letter from J. D. Hooker, 10 June 1863 ). However, probably the most enthusiastic …
… that Lyell in his Antiquity of man , published in 1863, had made unacknowledged use of Lubbock’s …

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…

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… of dark hair in England', Anthropological Review (1863) 1: 310–12). Three letters …
… written to Beddoe asking for the original data from Beddoe's 1863 hospital study. Beddoe sent …

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