To [Walter Besant?] 10 January [1872–4]
Summary
Refuses an invitation on the grounds of ill-health.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Walter Besant |
| Date: | 10 Jan [1872-4] |
| Classmark: | eBay UK: worthpoint.com/worthopedia/emma-darwin-original-letter-1871-286171432, accessed 30 January 2020 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9236F |
From Francis Galton 1 February 1872
Summary
Asks to have one pair of rabbits sent to him; is abandoning experiments with the rats.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Feb 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: A44–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8192 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Galton to Francis Darwin, 7 April 1871 , and letters from Francis Galton , 21 November …
- … with rabbits, see Correspondence vol. 19, letter to Nature , [before 27 April 1871]. …
- … vol. 19, letter from Francis Galton, 13 September 1871 ). Galton’s experiments with …
- … letter to Francis Galton, 23 January [1872] . Galton sent CD eight young rabbits in April 1871; …
To Francis Galton 23 January [1872]
Summary
His rabbits have lost their patches and are grey.
Has FG seen William Crookes [spiritualist]?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Galton |
| Date: | 23 Jan [1872] |
| Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/3/2/2/12 Letter 1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8173 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … old ones in November ( letter from Francis Galton, 21 November 1871 ). CD seems to have …
- … young rabbits ( ibid. , letter from Francis Galton, 24 November 1871 ), and may have bred …
- … this letter, the letter from Francis Galton, 2 December 1871 ( Correspondence vol. …
- … four or five ( ibid. , letter from Francis Galton, 13 September 1871 ), and sent for the …
- … vol. 19, letter from Francis Galton to Francis Darwin, 7 April 1871 ). Galton later …
- … 19), and the letter from Francis Galton, 28 March 1872 . In 1871, Galton had sent CD some …
To F. E. Abbot 8 January 1872
Summary
CD is grateful for the eulogy in Index [no. 104]. Many would disagree. It is the fashion to say he is a good observer with "an utterly illogical mind".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Ellingwood Abbot |
| Date: | 8 Jan 1872 |
| Classmark: | Harvard University Archives (Papers of F. E. Abbot, 1841–1904. Named Correspondence, 1857–1903. Folder: Darwin, Charles and W. E. Darwin (son), 1871–1883, box 44. HUG 1101) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8151 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … to F. E. Abbot, 6 September [1871] , and letters from F. E. Abbot, 20 August 1871 and …
- … the first paragraph of CD’s letter to him of 16 November [1871] ( ibid. ), which suggested …
- … of the Index (that of 24 June 1871) was in fact from a letter from CD (see Correspondence …
- … free religion, in 1871 (see Correspondence vol. 19, letter to F. E. Abbot, 6 June [ …
- … 27 May [1871] , for the quotation, which is the last sentence of the letter). He reprinted …
From R. F. Cooke 12 February 1872
Summary
Sends first copy of new [6th] edition of Origin. Expenses have been much higher than estimated because of extensive revisions. 3000 copies retailing at 6s would yield only £100 profit. Suggests fixing price at 7s 6d.
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Feb 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 407 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8209 |
From L. C. Wedgwood [15 June 1872?]
Summary
Worm-casts on a ridged hill.
| Author: | Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [15 June 1872?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 61 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7345 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … from Francis Wedgwood, 4 January 1871 , and letter to Archibald …
- … Geikie, 27 December [1871] , and this volume, letter from W. E. Darwin, [1 January …
- … 1871, but most of his requests were made early in 1872 as part of his investigation into the transformation of landscape through the action of earthworms (see for example Correspondence vol. 19, letter …
From Arthur Mellersh 2 February 1872
Summary
Exchange of photographs among CD, AM, and Philip G. King.
| Author: | Arthur Mellersh |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Feb 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 147 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8196 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … mentioned meeting Mellersh in his letter of 21 September 1871 ( Correspondence vol. 19). …
- … Correspondence vol. 19, letter to Elliott & Fry, 23 April [1871] ; CD’s Classed account …
- … letter to Mellersh has not been found. The photograph that CD sent has not been identified, but he sat for Oscar Rejlander in April 1871 …
- … letter from Arthur Mellersh, 25 January 1872 . Mellersh was in command of the Forte between 1862 and 1864, when he retired. The first lieutenant during this time was George Lyon Tupman ( Navy list ). William Ballantine , serjeant-at-law, had appeared on behalf of the Tichborne claimant in 1871 ( …
From Henry Johnson 12 January [1872?]
Summary
Sends a map of a field showing the effect of earthworms.
| Author: | Henry Johnson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Jan [1872?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 168: 65 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12419 |
From Raphael Meldola 25 January 1872
Summary
Discusses the roles of natural and sexual selection in producing mimicry, and the problem of explaining the cause of the first mimetic variation; considers the ideas of A. R. Wallace and Fritz Müller on this problem.
| Author: | Raphael Meldola |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Jan 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 118 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8180 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … 404. CD had enclosed the letter from Fritz Müller, 14 June 1871 ( Correspondence vol. …
- … of butterfly wings with his letter of 14 June 1871 ( Correspondence vol. 19). Meldola …
- … Correspondence vol. 19, letter from Fritz Müller, 14 June 1871 and n. 17. See letter …
- … See Correspondence vol. 19, letter from Fritz Müller, 14 June 1871 . See [Wallace] 1867 , …
- … Correspondence vol. 19, letter from Fritz Müller, 14 June 1871 and n. 15. The former …
To H. E. Litchfield 13 May 1872
Summary
Wishes to insert R. B. Litchfield’s remarks [into Expression] but will not give them as his own.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | 13 May 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 32 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8321 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … from R. B. Litchfield, [before 2 December 1871] , and letters to H. E. …
- … 2 December 1871] and 2 December [1871] ). Further letters on the subject from R. B. …
- … 1871, or earlier, CD had consulted Richard Buckley Litchfield on the expression of emotion through music (see Correspondence vol. 19, letter …
To Francis Galton 29 March [1872]
Summary
Comments on FG’s description of a séance at the house of William Crookes.
Will use FG’s words about [H. M. Butler’s] hereditary habit [in Expression, p. 33 n. 8].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Galton |
| Date: | 29 Mar [1872] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8258 |
From Georg von Seidlitz 22 April 1872
Summary
Discusses his book [Die Darwin’sche Theorie (1871)], in which he emphasises natural selection acts on inborn variation and is the exclusive cause of transmutation, in opposition to the theories of Haeckel and Moritz Wagner.
| Author: | Georg Karl Maria (Georg) von Seidlitz |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Apr 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 133 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8298 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … just received two copies of G. Seidlitz 1871 (see letter to Georg von Seidlitz, 10 April …
- … vol. 19, letter to Bartholomäus von Carneri, 17 April [1871] ). For more on Carneri’s …
- … letter to Georg von Seidlitz, 1 April 1872 . Bartholomäus von Carneri’s work ( Carneri 1871 ) …
- … letters from the 1. and 10. of April
〈 h〉 ave caused to me a great joy. But I am very sorry to see, that the bookseller Köhler in Leipzig and his commissionaire in England have been very neglectfull in executing my orders; for already in July 1871 … - … letter to Georg von Seidlitz, 10 April 1872 and n. 2. Seidlitz refers to Ernst Haeckel and Haeckel 1866 , and to Moritz Wagner and Wagner’s law of migration or separation theory (see Wagner 1868b and Wagner 1870 ). The page numbers refer to G. Seidlitz 1871 …
From Fritz Müller 16 January 1872
Summary
Has no objection to CD’s alluding to FM’s idea that sexual selection has come into play in mimetic butterflies.
Reports observations on other butterflies and on termites.
| Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Jan 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 142: 55 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8161 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … See Correspondence vol. 19, letter to Fritz Müller, 2 August [1871] . Müller refers to …
- … 8. In his letter of 14 June 1871 ( ibid. ), Müller had mentioned the preference of some …
- … the world ). See Correspondence vol. 19, letter to Fritz Müller, 2 August [1871] and n. …
- … Correspondence vol. 19, letter to Fritz Müller, 2 August [1871] . CD had proposed adding …
- … letter to his brother Hermann Müller , dated 11 January 1872, Müller mentioned his trip to Doña Francisca from 11 November until 12 December 1871 ( …
From Ernst Haeckel 1 March 1872
Summary
Thanks CD for Origin, 6th ed.
Has declined chair at Strasbourg.
Describes research on calcareous sponges.
Criticises Pangenesis.
| Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Mar 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 57 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8232 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … also Correspondence vol. 19, letter to Ernst Haeckel, 27 December 1871 . Haeckel’s name …
- … Correspondence vol. 19, letter to Ernst Haeckel, 27 December 1871 . Alsace (now part of …
- … Haeckel, 10 December 1872 ). In a letter of 27 December 1871 ( Correspondence vol. 19), …
- … See Correspondence vol. 19, letter to Ernst Haeckel, 3 March 1871 . Die Kalkschwämme ( …
From R. F. Cooke 26 October 1872
Summary
Does not understand Reinwald [French publisher of Expression], who apparently intends an edition of only 500 copies. Sends first copy to CD.
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Oct 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 427 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8576 |
To C. J. Maynard 7 December [1872–3]
Summary
CD sends a better photo for CJM.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Johnson Maynard |
| Date: | 7 Dec [1872-3] |
| Classmark: | Barbara and Robert Pincus (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8664 |
To Raphael Meldola 23 January [1872]
Summary
Discusses the problems of mimicry as related to natural selection; the general variability of colour as a character; and the conditions necessary for natural selection to fix firmly a character.
Encloses a Fritz Müller letter speculating that organisms respond to certain colours because of the prevalence of those colours in their environment.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
| Date: | 23 Jan [1872] |
| Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8172 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Correspondence vol. 19, letter to Fritz Müller, 2 August [1871] . The third volume of …
- … course. CD enclosed the letter from Fritz Müller, 14 June 1871 ( Correspondence vol. 19). …
- … the postmark. The amanuensis wrote ‘1871’ in error. See letter from Raphael Meldola, 21 …
- … 159 to 172. See also Correspondence vol. 19, letter to C. V. Riley, 1 June [1871] . …
- … see Correspondence vol. 19, letter from A. R. Wallace, 7 August 1871 . CD had wondered …
From Francis Galton 26 May 1872
Summary
Again seeks help with his rabbits; hopes one of CD’s men can take them.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 May 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: A57–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8352 |
To William Bowman 25 January 1872
Summary
Discusses role of orbicular muscle and distended veins in eye in secretion of tears. Asks WB’s opinion.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bowman, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 25 Jan 1872 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8179 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … vol. 19, letter to William Bowman, [before 26] January [ 1871] , and letter from William …
- … 1871 . CD refers to Expression , chapter 6. No further correspondence with Bowman on the subject of CD’s manuscript has been found; however, see the letter …
- … 1871 (see Correspondence vol. 19, Appendix II). Bowman had a country house, Joldwynds, nearby. This postscript may not belong with this letter: …
From Athénaïs Michelet 17 May 1872
Summary
AM [wife of Jules Michelet] offers information on crosses in cats.
| Author: | Adèle-Athénaïs Mialaret (Athénaïs) Michelet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 May 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 170 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8356 |
| letter | (178) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (71) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (8) |
| Galton, Francis | (7) |
| Reade, W. W. | (7) |
| Kovalevsky, V. O. | (5) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (103) |
| Galton, Francis | (5) |
| Wright, Chauncey | (4) |
| Carus, J. V. | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (174) |
| Galton, Francis | (12) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (11) |
| Reade, W. W. | (7) |
| Wright, Chauncey | (7) |
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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- … The year 1871 was an extremely busy and productive one for Darwin, seeing the publication of his …
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…
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- … When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations …
Frank Chance
Summary
The Darwin archive not only contains letters, manuscript material, photographs, books and articles but also all sorts of small, dry specimens, mostly enclosed with letters. Many of these enclosures have become separated from the letters or lost altogether,…
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- … The Darwin archive not only contains letters, manuscript material, photographs, books and articles …
Animals, ethics, and the progress of science
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Darwin’s view on the kinship between humans and animals had important ethical implications. In Descent, he argued that some animals exhibited moral behaviour and had evolved mental powers analogous to conscience. He gave examples of cooperation, even…
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- … Darwin’s view on the kinship between humans and animals had important ethical implications. In …
Women’s scientific participation
Summary
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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- … Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants …
Women as a scientific audience
Summary
Target audience? | Female readership | Reading Variation Darwin's letters, in particular those exchanged with his editors and publisher, reveal a lot about his intended audience. Regardless of whether or not women were deliberately targeted as a…
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- … Target audience? | Female readership | Reading Variation Darwin's …
Moral Nature
Summary
In Descent of Man, Darwin argued that human morality had evolved from the social instincts of animals, especially the bonds of sympathy and love. Darwin gathered observations over many decades on animal behavior: the heroic sacrifices of social insects,…
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- … Letters | Selected Readings In Descent of Man , Darwin argued that human …
Cross and self fertilisation
Summary
The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom, published on 10 November 1876, was the result of a decade-long project to provide evidence for Darwin’s belief that ‘‘Nature thus tells us, in the most emphatic manner, that she abhors…
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- … The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom , published on 10 November …
Darwin and the Church
Summary
The story of Charles Darwin’s involvement with the church is one that is told far too rarely. It shows another side of the man who is more often remembered for his personal struggles with faith, or for his role in large-scale controversies over the…
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- … The story of Charles Darwin’s involvement with the church is one that is told far too rarely. It …
Strange things sent to Darwin in the post
Summary
Some of the stranger things Darwin received in the post can tell us a lot about how Darwin worked at home. In 1863, Darwin was very excited when the ornithologist Alfred Newton sent him a diseased, red-legged partridge foot with an enormous ball of clay…
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- … Some of the stranger things Darwin received in the post can tell us a lot about how Darwin worked …
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…
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- … Darwin played an important role in the controversy over vivisection that broke out in late 1874. …
Experimenting with emotions
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Darwin’s interest in emotions can be traced as far back as the Beagle voyage. He was fascinated by the sounds and gestures of the peoples of Tierra del Fuego. On his return, he started recording observations in a set of notebooks, later labelled '…
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- … Darwin’s interest in emotions can be traced as far back as the Beagle voyage. He was fascinated by …
Henrietta Darwin's diary
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Darwin's daughter Henrietta kept a diary for a few momentous weeks in 1871. This was the year in which Descent of Man, the most controversial of her father's books after Origin itself, appeared, a book which she had helped him write. The small…
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- … Charles Darwin’s daughter Henrietta wrote the following journal entries in March and July 1871 in …
Darwin in letters, 1882: Nothing too great or too small
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In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and for the first time in decades he was not working on another book. He remained active in botanical research, however. Building on his recent studies in plant…
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- … In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and …
Darwin in letters, 1874: A turbulent year
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The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early months working on second editions of Coral reefs and Descent of man; the rest of the year was mostly devoted to further research on insectivorous plants. A…
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- … The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early …
Diagrams and drawings in letters
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Over 850 illustrations from the printed volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin have been added to the online transcripts of the letters. The contents include maps, diagrams, drawings, sketches and photographs, covering geological, botanical,…
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- … Over 850 illustrations from the printed volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin have …
Referencing women’s work
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Darwin's correspondence shows that women made significant contributions to Darwin's work, but whether and how they were acknowledged in print involved complex considerations of social standing, professional standing, and personal preference.…
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- … Darwin's correspondence shows that women made significant contributions to Darwin's work, but …
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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- … Darwin's most famous book On the origin of species by means of natural selection (Origin) was …
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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- … On a sunny Wednesday in June 2011 in a makeshift recording studio somewhere in Cambridge, we were …
Darwin in public and private
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Extracts from Darwin's published works, in particular Descent of man, and selected letters, explore Darwin's views on the operation of sexual selection in humans, and both his publicly and privately expressed views on its practical implications…
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- … The following extracts and selected letters explore Darwin's views on the operation of sexual …
