From D. F. Nevill 17 [April 1875]
Summary
Hooker has told her CD is in London. She requests a meeting.
| Author: | Dorothy Fanny Nevill |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 [Apr 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 31 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8135 |
From T. H. Huxley [4 April 1875]
Summary
Sends his thoughts on [vivisection] petition. Thinks they might make petition more talked about. Leaves it to J. Paget, Burdon Sanderson, and CD to deal with.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [4 Apr 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 337 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9875 |
To Edward Cardwell [before 29 April 1875]
Summary
Believes correspondent is interested in how physiologists regard the question of legislating on vivisection. He forwards the sketch of a bill drawn up by physiologists for that purpose.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Cardwell, 1st Viscount Cardwell |
| Date: | [before 29 Apr 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 97: C17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9908 |
To Lyon Playfair [before 29 April 1875]
Summary
Sends a sketch of a bill on vivisection that he understands LP wishes to see.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair of St Andrews |
| Date: | [before 29 Apr 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 97: C18 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9909 |
From J. S. Burdon Sanderson [12 April 1875]
Summary
Considers the question of recognised lecturers being allowed a licence to perform animal experiments without having to obtain a certificate of fitness.
| Author: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [12 Apr 1875] |
| Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-27) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9909A |
From W. E. Darwin [4 April 1875]
Summary
Will write to Strickland. Asks whether name has already been put down for Athenaeum.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [4 Apr 1875] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 57) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9909F |
To W. E. Darwin [2 April 1875]
Summary
About elections to [an unspecified] club.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [2 Apr 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 140 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9910 |
To G. H. Darwin 2 [April 1875]
Summary
CD recounts events of the April-fool’s day séance at Hensleigh [Wedgwood]’s. Asks GHD to find out whether Sidgwick’s account of it agrees with what he has heard. "What rubbish the whole does seem to be!"
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 2 [Apr 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 45 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9911 |
From Thomas Belt 3 April 1875
Summary
Sends reference to Codrington paper on gravels ["The superficial deposits of the south of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 26 (1870): 3–28]. Comments on local gravels in railway cutting and the violent agency of their removal from hills.
| Author: | Thomas Belt |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Apr 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 129 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9912 |
From T. H. Farrer 3 April 1875
Summary
Payne will send vine cuttings.
Thomas Belt has been visiting; they are to meet Huxley.
He is moved by denudation of the Weald.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Apr 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 78 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9913 |
To W. E. Darwin [5 April 1875]
Summary
Another message about club elections.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [5 Apr 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 141 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9914 |
From John Lubbock 5 April [1875]
Summary
Expresses concern about the "coolness" between CD and [G. S.] Ffinden in regard to the Infant School.
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Apr [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 198: 128 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9914F |
To G. J. Romanes 7 April [1875]
Summary
Is sending plants from cut-leaved vine.
Invites GJR to visit.
"When in presence of my ladies do not talk about experiments on animals."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 7 Apr [1875] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.465) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9916 |
From J. D. Hooker 7 April 1875
Summary
Likes draft of petition on vivisection. Asks whether phrase "and the lower animals" might not be added at end.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Apr 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 22 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9917 |
From J. S. Burdon Sanderson 7 April [1875]
Summary
Sends the Memorial [concerning animal experimentation].
| Author: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Apr [1875] |
| Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-30) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9917A |
To ? 8 April [1875–82]
Summary
Explains that there is no need for the addressee to apologise.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 8 Apr [1875-82] |
| Classmark: | Jane da Mosto (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9917F |
From Lawson Tait 8 April [1875]
Summary
Arrangements for a visit to Down.
| Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Apr [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9918 |
From Federico Delpino 8 April 1875
Summary
Sends last part of his book [Ulteriori observazioni sulla dicogamia (1868–74)] [osservazioni!?] and describes contents.
| Author: | Federico Delpino |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Apr 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 152 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9919 |
To John Lubbock 8 April 1875
Summary
Writes regarding local difficulties concerning Down School and the setting up of a reading-room; his strained relationship with G. S. ffinden following some misunderstanding.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 8 Apr 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 146: 129 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9920 |
From John Murray 9 April [1875]
Summary
JM expresses willingness to publish CD’s Climbing plants [2d ed.].
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Apr [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 447 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9921 |
| letter | (67) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (27) |
| Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (8) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
| Allen, Thomas | (2) |
| Burgess, Thomas | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (40) |
| Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (6) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
| Litchfield, R. B. | (2) |
| Murray, John (b) | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (67) |
| Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (14) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (3) |
| Murray, John (b) | (3) |
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,…
Matches: 23 hits
- … (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…
Matches: 4 hits
- … 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 And Evolution
Summary
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 …
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 …
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
Summary
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…
Matches: 7 hits
- … 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 …
