To G. H. Darwin 19 April [1874]
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Is sorry to hear the news about the cousin question – a real misfortune.
Congratulates GHD on being nearly finished with work on Descent.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Apr [1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9419 |
To Henry Willett 19 April [1874]
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F. M. Balfour is in Naples. Comments on rate at which sea eats back the land, as given in early editions of Origin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Willett |
| Date: | 19 Apr [1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 359 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9420 |
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4.19 George Montbard, caricature
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< Back to Introduction In this watercolour drawing by Charles Auguste Loye, who called himself George Montbard, Darwin is in a ‘Gallery of ancestors’. He is improbably pictured as a connoisseur in a sleek cut-away tail coat, training his lorgnette on…
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- … < Back to Introduction In this watercolour drawing by Charles Auguste Loye, who …
4.52 'Wasp' caricature
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< Back to Introduction Less than a fortnight after Darwin’s death, an irreverent portrayal of him appeared on the cover of a Californian satirical magazine. The Wasp, based in San Francisco, resembled the better-known New York magazine Puck in its…
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- … 299; 8:303 (19 May 1882), p. 317; 8:310 (7 July 1882), p. 419. These are accessible online at …
Darwin in letters, 1877: Flowers and honours
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Ever since the publication of Expression, Darwin’s research had centred firmly on botany. The year 1877 was no exception. The spring and early summer were spent completing Forms of flowers, his fifth book on a botanical topic. He then turned to the…
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- … meaning of heterostyled flowers’ (‘Recollections’, p. 419). During the winter and spring, Darwin was …
St George Jackson Mivart
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In the second half of 1874, Darwin’s peace was disturbed by an anonymous article in the Quarterly Review suggesting that his son George was opposed to the institution of marriage and in favour of ‘unrestrained licentiousness’. Darwin suspected, correctly,…
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- … has his approval is manifest, since he tells us (p. 419): ‘one may hope’ for certain preliminary …
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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- … noticed by ‘only a few persons’ (‘Recollections’, p. 419). Unnoticed results such as this, together …
