To Stephen Paul Engleheart? [April 1867?]
Summary
Asks for a note about sling for Leonard’s arm, as he is about to leave for school.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Stephen Paul Engleheart |
| Date: | [Apr 1867?] |
| Classmark: | Provenance unknown |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5385 |
To Asa Gray 15 April [1867]
Summary
Thanks AG for his trouble about expression queries; wishes he had thought earlier of having them printed.
Is "plodding on" correcting Variation
and getting "a little amusement" from plant experiments. Oxalis is trimorphic like Lythrum.
Is continuing his experiments on seedling vigour.
Has heard hybrid potatoes can be produced by joining halves of different tubers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 15 Apr [1867] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (97) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5442 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 2 April 1867
Summary
On whether to make woodcuts for Variation in Russia or use Murray’s stereotypes. He has similar advance publication agreements with Carl Vogt, E. A. Rossmässler and Theodor Billroth.
The Russian version of Origin is translated from Bronn’s German edition.
| Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Apr 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 72 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5452 |
From Fritz Müller 1 April 1867
Summary
Cites cases of difference in coloration between the sexes of some species of Crustacea, annelids, and spiders.
Discusses dimorphic plants and self-sterility.
Outlines some experiments involving the crossing of different species of orchids.
Encloses extract from Carl Claus, Die freilebenden Copepoden [1863].
| Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Apr 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 110: B111–12; DAR 81: 167 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5480 |
From Hermann Müller 1 April [1867]
Summary
Thanks for "Climbing plants" offprint and for references on fertilisation of flowers.
Considering the bounty of work already done, he is looking for something original to do.
Subularia does not grow in Westphalia.
| Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Apr [1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 289 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5481 |
From John Murray 2 April [1867]
Summary
Asks if he should give the clichés of Variation to E. Schweizerbart.
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Apr [1867] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42153 ff. 30–1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5481G |
From J. D. Hooker 3 April 1867
Summary
Begins to hope baby may survive; description of symptoms.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Apr 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 157–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5483 |
From Isaac Anderson-Henry 3 April 1867
Summary
Will find out identity of Robert Trail.
| Author: | Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Apr 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 67 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5484 |
To J. D. Hooker 4 April [1867]
Summary
Rejoices over baby’s improvement.
Horace Darwin has intermittent fever.
Thanks JDH for page of the Farmer, a great service.
R. Trail’s potato grafting case would be of extreme value for demonstrating Pangenesis. [See Variation 1: 395.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 4 Apr [1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 19–20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5485 |
To John Murray 4 April [1867]
Summary
Asks JM not to send stereotypes [of Variation] to Schweizerbart until he has heard that Carus will translate it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 4 Apr [1867] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42153 ff. 32–33) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5486 |
To Thomas Blunt 5 April [1867]
Summary
Congratulates TB on his son’s success in scientific studies.
Susan Darwin’s death [Oct 1866] has severed last ties of family with Shrewsbury.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Blunt |
| Date: | 5 Apr [1867] |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Albert Stephens Borgman autograph collection MS Am 1631: 95) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5487 |
To J. D. Hooker 5 April [1867]
Summary
C. Nägeli’s long letter on his four years of work on Hieracium appears to be valuable. Nägeli wants a set of British forms in exchange for German ones.
Sends note on a new genus of Umbelliferae (Drusa) in Canaries; speculates on origin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 5 Apr [1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 14–16 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5488 |
From J. V. Carus 5 April 1867
Summary
JVC is willing to translate [Variation], especially because of his conviction that progress of biology depends on proving CD’s theory.
Ernst Haeckel’s book [Generelle Morphologie (1866)] will do mischief because EH is so immoderate. Suggests CD tell EH that he has done him a bad service. CD is the only one to whom EH would listen.
| Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Apr 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 58 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5489 |
From Robert Trail 5 April 1867
Summary
Reports on an experiment in crossing potato varieties.
| Author: | Robert Trail |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Apr 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 175 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5490 |
From Frances Harriet Hooker [6 April 1867]
Summary
JDH has left for Paris with Thomas Thomson.
Baby is better.
| Author: | Frances Harriet Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [6 Apr 1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 159–60 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5492 |
From J. D. Hooker [to W. E. Darwin?] [13 April? 1867]
Summary
Sends Oliver’s list of references on Adoxa.
Baby now out of trouble.
Pleased with Paris exhibition.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [13 Apr? 1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 186: 48 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5493 |
From Daniel Oliver 8 April 1867
Summary
Arrangements for obtaining Carl Nägeli a set of British Hieracium specimens.
| Author: | Daniel Oliver |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Apr 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 173: 33 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5494 |
From Carl Vogt 8 April 1867
Summary
Asks whether he may have right to translate Variation into German.
| Author: | Carl Vogt |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Apr 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 180: 10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5495 |
To Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli [after 8 April 1867]
Summary
Thanks for his long letter on morphological laws.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli |
| Date: | [after 8 Apr 1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 173: 33v |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5496 |
To John Murray 10 April [1867]
Summary
CD writes about stereotypes for German and Russian editions of Variation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 10 Apr [1867] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42153 ff. 34–35) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5497 |
| letter | (42) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (18) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Vogt, Carl | (3) |
| Carus, J. V. | (2) |
| Kovalevsky, V. O. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (23) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
| Carus, J. V. | (2) |
| Murray, John (b) | (2) |
| Blunt, Thomas | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (41) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (7) |
| Carus, J. V. | (4) |
| Murray, John (b) | (4) |
| Vogt, Carl | (4) |
Darwin’s queries on expression
Summary
When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations more widely and composed a list of queries on human expression. A number of handwritten copies were sent out in 1867 (see, for example, letter to Fritz Muller…
List of correspondents
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Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. Click on a name to see the letters Darwin exchanged with that correspondent. "A child of God" (1) Abberley,…
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- … (1) Alberts, Karl (4) Alberts, Maurice …
- … (2) Allman, G. J. (4) Althaus, Julius …
- … (1) Atkinson, Edward (4) Aubertin, J. J. …
- … (1) Bailey, W. W. (4) Baillie, A. F. …
- … (1) Bary, Anton de (4) Bashford, Frederick …
- … (1) Behrens, Wilhelm (4) Beke, C. T. …
- … (1) Bianconi, G. G. (4) Bibliogr. Inst. …
- … (8) Blackwall, John (4) Blackwell, A. L. B. …
- … (7) Blair, R. H. (4) Blake, C. C. (3 …
- … (2) Broca, Paul (4) Broderip, W. J. …
- … (1) Browne, Hugh (4) Browne, W. R. …
- … (1) Canning, A. S. G. (4) Capes, Frederick …
- … (1) Cardwell, Edward (4) Carlier, A. G. …
- … (1) Chapman, John (4) Charles, R. F. …
- … (2) Cheeseman, T. F. (4) Chemical supplier …
- … (1) Chester, J. L. (4) Chiantore, G. …
- … (2) Clark, J. W. (b) (4) Clarke, Benjamin …
- … (3) Coan, T. M. (4) Cobbe, F. P. (13 …
- … (2) Crotch, G. R. (4) Crotch, W. D. …
- … (56) Dallinger, W. H. (4) Daly, J. …
- … (11) Dobson, G. E. (4) Dodel-Port, Arnold …
- … (3) Dunker, Wilhelm (4) Dupré, August …
- … (2) Fawcett, Henry (4) Fayrer, Joseph …
Rewriting Origin - the later editions
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For such an iconic work, the text of Origin was far from static. It was a living thing that Darwin continued to shape for the rest of his life, refining his ‘one long argument’ through a further five English editions. Many of his changes were made in…
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- … translation, 1863 2d French translation 1865 4 th English edition published, 1866 …
- … Lyell, 11 October [1859] and letter from Charles Lyell, 4 October 1859 ). Despite having …
- … doomed to disappointment. 3 rd to 4 th editions This …
- … Everything which I have read during last 4 years I find is quite washy in my mind . Once …
Darwin's Fantastical Voyage
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Learn about Darwin's adventures on his epic journey.
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- … These activities explore Darwin’s life changing voyage aboard HMS Beagle. Using letters home, …
Detecting Darwin
Summary
Who was Charles Darwin? What is he famous for? Why is he still important?
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- … Pupils act as Darwin detectives, exploring clues about Darwin’s life and work. No prior knowledge …
Darwin And Evolution
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What is evolution? What did Darwin discover and how did he come to his conclusions?
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- … Activities give an introduction to Charles Darwin and his theories of evolution. Specimens brought …
Language: Interview with Gregory Radick
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Darwin made a famous comment about parallels between changes in language and species change. Gregory Radick, Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at Leeds University, talks about the importance of the development of language to Darwin, what…
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…
Matches: 7 hits
- … improvement to Jones’s diet ( see letter to T. H. Huxley, 4 October [1865] ). It was not until …
- … for the press in the autumn’ ( letter to John Murray, 4 April [1865] ). In early June, he wrote to …
- … from the Linnean Society ( letter to [Richard Kippist], 4 June [1865] ). The paper was published …
- … to high scientific account’ (A. Gray 1865–6, pp. 273-4). Darwin had also written to Gray on 19 …
- … for him to read attentively ( see letter to J. D. Hooker, [4 June 1865] ). The fact that …
- … do it if it ever can be done’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [4 June 1865] ); the hard work of …
- … keep out of contact with him’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 4 May [1865] ). Darwin contributed …
Teachers notes: Offer of a lifetime
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The Offer of a Lifetime? Activities for: English Key Stage 3 and 4 When Darwin was 22 he received an exciting and unique opportunity to join HMS Beagle. The voyage changed his life but the letters show how close he came to not going at all! …
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- … Activities for: English Key Stage 3 and 4 When Darwin was 22 he received an exciting and …
Home learning: 7-11 years
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Do try this at home! Support your children’s learning by downloading our free and fun activities for those aged between 7-11 and 11-14 years, using Darwin’s letters.
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- … More Darwin the Collector activities 4 How did Darwin develop his ideas on …
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…
Matches: 9 hits
- … published in Paris (in 2 vols.), so long ago as 1839 4 [Pierquin de Gembloux 1839]. Said to …
- … et anim: on sleep & movements of plants £ 1 ..s 4. [Dutrochet 1837] Voyage aux …
- … observations on increase & decrease of different diseases 4 to . 1801 [Heberden 1801] quoted …
- … worth reading [Dampier 1697] Sportsman’s repository 4 to . [W. H. Scott 1820]— contains …
- … Audubons Ornithol: Biography [Audubon 1831–9]— 4 Vols. well worth reading [DAR *119: 4v.] …
- … 31 An analysis of British Ferns. G. W. Francis 4 s [Francis 1837]— plates of every …
- … of Rural Sports [Blaine 1840] (at Athenæum?) Book II Chapt. 4 on variation by Blaine .— & on …
- … Yak.— Steudel Botan. Nomenclature [Steudel 1821–4]. Synonym of every plant & country— …
- … Paper on transmutation of shells [Haldeman 1843–4] already (1844) VI. vols. published Lib. …
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…
Darwin and vivisection
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Darwin played an important role in the controversy over vivisection that broke out in late 1874. Public debate was sparked when the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals brought an unsuccessful prosecution against a French physiologist who…
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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- … mammoth ( Correspondence vol. 8, letter to Charles Lyell, 4 May [1860] and n. 3; Hutchinson 1914, …
- … partly inspired by the controversies associated with it. 4 One area of controversy centred …
- … admiration for Lubbock’s book ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [4 June 1865] ). A week later he sent …
- … of the situation was succinct. In his letter to Hooker of [4 June 1865] he warned that no one …
Darwin in letters, 1871: An emptying nest
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The year 1871 was an extremely busy and productive one for Darwin, with the publication in February of his long-awaited book on human evolution, Descent of man. The other main preoccupation of the year was the preparation of his manuscript on expression.…
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- … of Descent , he wrote to Philip Lutley Sclater on 4 January , ‘Heaven knows, whether the book …
- … produce physiological changes ( letter from Michael Foster, 4 June [1871] ). Pangenesis …
- … can hardly sit up, so no more’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 4 August [1871] ). On 23 September he …
- … good as twice refined gold’ ( letter to H. E. Litchfield, 4 September [1871] ). The months …
Darwin in letters, 1879: Tracing roots
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Darwin spent a considerable part of 1879 in the eighteenth century. His journey back in time started when he decided to publish a biographical account of his grandfather Erasmus Darwin to accompany a translation of an essay on Erasmus’s evolutionary ideas…
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- … me’, Darwin wrote enthusiastically to Reginald Darwin on 4 April , declaring that reading it was …
- … independent of him as possible’, Francis told Darwin on 4 July, after reporting that he had …
- … with Ubba about your return’, Darwin wrote to Francis on 4 July , ‘He said “it is likely he will …
- … neither cross nor ennuied’ (Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [4 August 1879] (DAR 219.1: 125)). Darwin …
- … has opposed it’ (letter from Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [4 August 1879] (DAR 219.1: 125)). Nothing …
- … ‘to be planted in my honour!’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 4 November [1879] ). While in Coniston, …
- … frog be published in Nature ( letter to J. N. Lockyer, 4 and 6 March [1879] ). When Darwin’s …
Darwin in letters, 1876: In the midst of life
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1876 was the year in which the Darwins became grandparents for the first time. And tragically lost their daughter-in-law, Amy, who died just days after her son's birth. All the letters from 1876 are now published in volume 24 of The Correspondence…
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- … curs in London’ ( letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, [4 February 1876] ). 'The heat of …
- … as stemming a torrent with a reed’, he told Romanes on 4 June , but added, ‘Frank … who sputters …
- … the previous year ( letter to G. H. Darwin, [after 4 September 1876] ). ...all sorts of …
- … say is do not commit suicide’ ( letter to G. H. Darwin, [4 June 1876] ). By midsummer, Darwin …
- … size of pollen grains & state of stigma’, he told Gray on 4 December. Darwin also adopted …
Darwin in letters, 1875: Pulling strings
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‘I am getting sick of insectivorous plants’, Darwin confessed in January 1875. He had worked on the subject intermittently since 1859, and had been steadily engaged on a book manuscript for nine months; January also saw the conclusion of a bitter dispute…
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- … He expressed his views to his daughter Henrietta on 4 January : ‘I wd gladly punish severely …
- … eyes of one variety into another ( Variation 2d ed. 1: 420–4, 2: 360). Darwin had encouraged …
- … become wholly white’ ( letter from G. J. Romanes, [before 4 November 1874] ). Testing …
- … am very glad indeed of your work,’ Darwin replied on 4 November , ‘though I cannot yet follow all …
- … occasions and finally arranged a visit to Down House on 4 May, but was not content with just one …
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
Darwin in letters,1866: Survival of the fittest
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The year 1866 began well for Charles Darwin, as his health, after several years of illness, was now considerably improved. In February, Darwin received a request from his publisher, John Murray, for a new edition of Origin. Darwin got the fourth…
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- … [1866] ). Darwin began riding the cob, Tommy, on 4 June 1866, and in a letter to his …
- … before the season is over’ ( letter from John Lubbock, 4 August 1866 ). More predictably, however, …
- … is known on the subject’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 and 4 August [1866] ). And on the next day: …
- … he had sounded the charge’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [4 September 1866] ). 'Natural …
