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Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad

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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…

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… At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of …
… markedly, reflecting a decline in his already weak health. Darwin then began punctuating letters …
… of the water-cure. The treatment was not effective and Darwin remained ill for the rest of the year. …
… from ‘some Quadrumanum animal’, as he put it in a letter to J. D. Hooker of 24[–5 ] February [1863] …
… ‘I declare I never in my life read anything grander’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 26 [February 1863] …
… the origin of species particularly, worried Darwin; he told Hooker that he had once thought Lyell …
… wished his one-time mentor had not said a word ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 24[–5 ] February [1863] ). …
… lack of expertise in the subject. ‘The worst of it is’, Hooker wrote to Darwin, ‘I suppose it is …
… difficulty in answering Owen unaided ’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [23 February 1863] ). Hugh …
… of Lyell’s book being written by others’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [23 February 1863] ). …
… for a fitting opportunity’ ( letter to Hugh Falconer, 5 [and 6] January [1863] ). …
… been filled in the fossil record ( letter to Hugh Falconer, 5 [and 6] January [1863] ). Only until …
… the Athenæum in response ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 5 March [1863] ). He later expressed …
… sentence from the second edition of Antiquity of man (C. Lyell 1863b, p. 469), published in …
… very slowly recovering, but am very weak’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, [29 September? 1863] ). …
… Thomas’s Hospital, London ( letter from George Busk, [ c. 27 August 1863] ). Brinton, who …

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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… In 1865, the chief work on Charles Darwin’s mind was the writing of The variation of animals and …
… letters on climbing plants to make another paper. Darwin also submitted a manuscript of his …
… for evaluation, and persuaded his friend Joseph Dalton Hooker to comment on a paper on Verbascum …
… Argyll, appeared in the religious weekly, Good Words . Darwin received news of an exchange of …
… Butler, and, according to Butler, the bishop of Wellington. Darwin’s theory was discussed at an …
… committed suicide at the end of April; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic …
… thriving, and when illness made work impossible, Darwin and Hooker read a number of novels, and …
… having all the Boys at home: they make the house jolly’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 January [1865] …
… Hugh Falconer died after a sudden illness. Falconer was 56, almost the same age as Darwin himself. …
… had failed to include among the grounds of the award ( see letter from Hugh Falconer to Erasmus …
… his letters to Darwin, and Darwin responded warmly: ‘Your letter is by far the grandest eulogium …
… may well rest content that I have not laboured in vain’ ( letter to Hugh Falconer, 6 January [1865] …
… kind friend to me. So the world goes.—’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 2 February [1865] ). However, …
… griefs & pains: these alone are unalloyed’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 3 February 1865 ). …
… Sic transit gloria mundi, with a vengeance’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 9 February [1865] ). …
… Darwin had received a copy of Müller’s book, Fü r Darwin , a study of the Crustacea with reference …
… … inheritance, reversion, effects of use & disuse &c’, and which he intended to publish in …
… He wrote to Hooker, ‘I doubt whether you or I or any one c d do any good in healing this breach. …
… Hooker’s behalf, ‘He asks if you saw the article of M r . Croll in the last Reader on the …
… ( see letter from J. D. Hooker, 2 May 1865 and nn. 2 and 5 ), and he may have suffered, or …
… ‘As for your thinking that you do not deserve the C[opley] Medal,’ he rebuked Hooker, ‘that I …

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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… Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig …
… as the creator of this dramatisation, and that of the Darwin Correspondence Project to be identified …
… correspondence or published writings of Asa Gray, Charles Darwin, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Jane Loring …
… Actor 1 – Asa Gray Actor 2 – Charles Darwin Actor 3 – In the dress of a modern day …
… of natural selection to his friend, the botanist, Joseph D Hooker GRAY: 3 Charles …
… and the simplicity of his character. DARWIN: 5 I am allowed to work now two-and-a …
… year 1839, and copied and communicated to Messrs Lyell and Hooker in 1844, being a part of …
… DARWIN: 7 January 1844. My dear Hooker. I have been …engaged in a very presumptuous work …
… his University) and is much less his own man. A letter from England catches his attention …
… the opportunity I enjoyed of making your acquaintance at Hooker’s three years ago; and besides that …
… 11 My dear Hooker… What a remarkably nice and kind letter Dr A. Gray has sent me in answer to my …
… be of any the least use to you? If so I would copy it… His letter does strike me as most uncommonly …
… on the geographical distribution of the US plants; and if my letter caused you to do this some year …
… a brace of letters 25 I send enclosed [a letter for you from Asa Gray], received …
… might like to see it; please be sure [to] return it. If your letter is Botanical and has nothing …
… I think an owl really might go in storm in this time 400 or 500 miles. Owls and Hawks have often …
… I cannot persuade myself that I can do so honourably, 50 knowing that Wallace is in the …
… who spake by the Prophets. DARWIN: 51 [And] I fear we have [a] case of scarlet …
… anxious, flitting from one worry to the next. 53 It is miserable in me to care at …
… paragraph, in which I quote and differ from you[r] 178 doctrine that each variation has been …
… ARTS AND SCIENCES, PROCEEDINGS XVII, 1882 4 C DARWIN TO JD HOOKER 10 MAY 1848 …
… C DARWIN, 18–19 AUGUST 1862 149 C DARWIN TO J. D. HOOKER 26 JULY 1863 150 …

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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… | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a …
… community. Here is a selection of letters exchanged between Darwin and his workforce of women …
… Observers Women: Letter 1194 - Darwin to Whitby, M. A. T., [12 August …
… silkworm breeds, or peculiarities in inheritance. Letter 3787 - Darwin, H. E. to …
… observations of cats’ instinctive behaviour. Letter 4258 - Becker, L. E. to Darwin, …
… to artificially fertilise plants in her garden. Letter 4523 - Wedgwood, L. C. to …
… on seeds of Pulmonaria officinalis . Letter 5745 - Barber, M. E. to Darwin, …
… in South Africa. Letter 6736 - Gray, A. & J. L to Darwin, [8 & 9 May 1869] …
… Egypt. Letter 7223 - Darwin to Wedgwood, L. C., [8 June 1867 - 72] Darwin …
… of emotion in her pet dog and birds. Letter 5817 - Darwin to Huxley, T. H., [30 …
… Henrietta. Letter 7179 - Wedgwood, L. C. to Darwin, [5 May 1870] …
… of wormholes. Letter 8611 - Cupples, A. J. to Darwin, E., [8 November1872] …
… Darwin’s behalf. Letter 8683 - Roberts, D. to Darwin, [17 December 1872] …
… little treatise”. Letter 4436 - Darwin to Hooker, J. D., [26-27 March 1864] …
… moved one or two of them into his bedroom. Letter 5602 - Sutton, S. to Darwin, [8 …
… and orangs. Letter 5705 - Haast, J. F. J. von to Darwin, [4 December 1867] …
… the wallpaper. Letter 5756 - Langton, E. & C. to Wedgwood S. E., [after 9 …
… Letter 1701 - Morris, M. H. to Prior, R. C. A., [17 June 1855] Margaretta Hare Morris …
… Lychnis diurna. Letter 8168 - Ruck, A. R . to Darwin, H., [20 January 1872] …
… lawn. Letter 8224 - Darwin to Ruck, A. R., [24 February 1872] Darwin …
… at Maer Hall, Staffordshire. Letter 1219 - Hooker, J. D. to Darwin, [3 February …
… Letter 1701 - Morris, M. H. to Prior, R. C. A., [17 June 1855] Margaretta Hare Morris …

Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex

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The quantity of Darwin’s correspondence increased dramatically in 1868 due largely to his ever-widening research on human evolution and sexual selection.Darwin’s theory of sexual selection as applied to human descent led him to investigate aspects of the…

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… On 6 March 1868, Darwin wrote to the entomologist and accountant John Jenner Weir, ‘If any …
… he ought to do what I am doing pester them with letters.’ Darwin was certainly true to his word. The …
… and sexual selection. In Origin , pp. 87–90, Darwin had briefly introduced the concept of …
… in satisfying female preference in the mating process. In a letter to Alfred Russel Wallace in 1864, …
… book would take the form of a ‘short essay’ on man ( letter to Ernst Haeckel, 3 July 1868 ). But …
… as well say, he would drink a little and not too much’ ( letter to Albert Günther, 15 May [1868] ) …
… the accursed Index-maker’, Darwin wrote to Joseph Dalton Hooker on 6 January . Darwin had sent …
… ). Darwin sympathised, replying on 14 January , ‘I sh d have a very bad heart, as hard as …
… to read a few pages feel fairly nauseated’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 February [1868] ). But such …
… away’ that sparked the most discussion. Darwin wrote to Hooker on 23 February , ‘did you look at …
… thought it was by Gray himself, but Darwin corrected him: ‘D r Gray would strike me in the face, …
… . It is a disgrace to the paper’ ( letter from A. R. Wallace, 24 February [1868] ). The review was …
… editor of the London and Westminster Review . When Hooker later tried to refute the claims of the …
… a scamp & I begin to think a veritable ass’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 1 September [1868] ). …
… April 1868 . The letter was addressed to ‘the Rev d C. Darwin M.d’; Binstead evidently assumed …
… able to throw off thick dictionaries by flexing. On 5 April , Edward Blyth, who had supplied …
… distributed it in Japan ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 5 September 1868 ); Edward Wilson, a neighbour …
… of her two-month old daughter Katherine ( letter from C. M. Hawkshaw to Emma Darwin, 9 February …

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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… 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early months working …
… dispute over an anonymous review that attacked the work of Darwin’s son George dominated the second …
… and traveller Alexander von Humboldt’s 105th birthday, Darwin obliged with a reflection on his debt …
… be done by observation during prolonged intervals’ ( letter to D. T. Gardner, [ c . 27 August …
… pleasures of shooting and collecting beetles ( letter from W. D. Fox, 8 May [1874] ). Such …
… And … one looks backwards much more than forwards’ ( letter to W. D. Fox, 11 May [1874] ). …
… was an illusory hope.— I feel very old & helpless’ ( letter to B. J. Sulivan, 6 January [1874] …
… inferred that he was well from his silence on the matter ( letter from Ernst Haeckel, 26 October …
… to believe in such rubbish’, he confided to Joseph Dalton Hooker ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 18 …
… the publishers, he applied first to his friend Joseph Dalton Hooker, and finally borrowed one from …
… for misinterpreting Darwin on this point ( letter from J. D. Dana, 21 July 1874 ); however, he did …
… Descent was published in November 1874 ( letter from R. F. Cooke, 12 November 1874 ). Though …
… on subsequent print runs would be very good ( letter from R. F. Cooke, 12 November 1874 ). …
… Academy (2 January 1875; see Appendix V, pp. 644–5 ) . The affair rolled on into January …
… in a few hours dissolve the hardest cartilage, bone & meat &c. &c.’ ( letter to W. D. …
… whether at the ‘close of the putrefaction of flesh, skin &c, any substance is produced before …
… Sharpe for promotion at the British Museum ( letter to R. B. Sharpe, 24 November [1874] ). He …
… insane, as we all are occasionally’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 5 June [1874] ). The influence of …
… famous as the Belfast address ( letter from John Tyndall, 5 August 1874 ). It discussed the …

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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… The year 1866 began well for Charles Darwin, as his health, after several years of illness, was now …
… and also a meeting with Herbert Spencer, who was visiting Darwin’s neighbour, Sir John Lubbock. In …
… on publishers, decried on one occasion by Joseph Dalton Hooker as ‘Penny-wise Pound foolish, …
… Fuller consideration of Darwin’s work was given by Hooker in an evening speech on insular floras at …
… able to write easy work for about 1½ hours every day’ ( letter to H. B. Jones, 3 January [1866] ). …
… once daily to make the chemistry go on better’ ( letter from H. B. Jones, 10 February [1866] ). …
… see you out with our beagles before the season is over’ ( letter from John Lubbock, 4 August 1866 …
… me any harm—any how I can’t be idle’ ( letter to W. D. Fox, 24 August [1866] ). Towards …
… Animals & Cult. Plants” to Printers’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 24 December [1866] ). When …
… more than the belief of a dozen physicists’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [28 February 1866] ). Darwin …
… ‘Your father … entered at the same time with Dr B. J. who received him with triumph. All his friends …
… you go on, after the startling apparition of your face at R.S. Soirèe—which I dreamed of 2 nights …
… so you are in for it’ ( letter from H. E. Darwin, [ c . 10 May 1866] ). Henrietta’s …
… teleological development ( see for example, letter to C. W. Nägeli, 12 June [1866] ). Also in …
… common broom ( Cytisus scoparius ) and the white broom ( C. multiflorus ) in his botanical …
… and June on the subject of Rhamnus catharticus (now R. cathartica ). Darwin had become …
… of separate sexes. William gathered numerous specimens of R. catharticus , the only species of …
… published the results in Forms of flowers , pp. 293–5 , he credited observations of the different …
… we look at every thing’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 5 August [1866] ). Yet both men seemed to relish …
… replied with a modified list, adding Fritz Müller’s Fü r Darwin , and a recent fossil discovery in …

Darwin in letters, 1872: Job done?

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'My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, 'is so nearly closed. . . What little more I can do, shall be chiefly new work’, and the tenor of his correspondence throughout the year is one of wistful reminiscence, coupled with a keen eye…

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… ‘My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, ‘is so nearly closed. . . What little more I can …
… of On the origin of species , intended to be Darwin’s last, and of Expression of the …
… books brought a strong if deceptive sense of a job now done: Darwin intended, he declared to Alfred …
… anything more on 'so difficult a subject, as evolution’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 27 July …
… you not think 6s is too dear for a cheap Edit? Would not 5s be better? . . . The public are …
… Darwin’s best efforts, set the final price at 7 s. 6 d. ( letter from R. F. Cooke, 12 …
… condition as I can make it’, he wrote to the translator ( letter to J. J. Moulinié, 23 September …
… remained unpublished at the end of the year ( letter from C.-F. Reinwald, 23 November 1872 ). …
… anatomist St George Jackson Mivart ( letter to St G. J. Mivart, 11 January [1872] ). A …
… Whale & duck most beautiful’ ( letter from A. R. Wallace, 3 March 1872 ). I …
… am made to appear’, complained Darwin ( letter to St G. J. Mivart, 5 January 1872 ). Piqued, …
… `chiefly perhaps because I do it badly’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 3 August [1872] ). …
… accepted it at least in part ( letter to August Weismann, 5 April 1872 ). ‘I wanted some …
… to believe it’ ( letter to Herman Müller, [before 5 May 1872] ). Müller had sent him a …
… from his ignorance, he feels no doubts’ ( letter to F. C. Donders, 17 June 1872 ). Right up to the …
… dispute involving his close friend Joseph Dalton Hooker came to a head. Hooker, director of the …
… system in the glasshouses had escalated to the point where Hooker applied over Ayrton’s head direct …
… your enemies be cursed, is my pious frame of mind Hooker’s cause was taken up by his …
… Darwin’s wholeheartedly partisan reply ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 14 May 1872 ). On 13 June, a …
… to make one turn into an old honest Tory’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 July [1872] ). …
… Charlton Bastian’s recent book on the origin of life (H. C. Bastian 1872; Wallace 1872d) left him …
… Lord Sackville Cecil, to attend a séance ( letter from M. C. Stanley, 4 June 1872 ). There was …

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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… There are summaries of all Darwin's letters from the year 1879 on this website. The full texts …
… 27 of the print edition of The correspondence of Charles Darwin , published by Cambridge …
… to publish a biographical account of his grandfather Erasmus Darwin to accompany a translation of an …
… his publishers, he warned that it was ‘dry as dust’ ( letter to R. F. Cooke, 9 September 1879 ). …
… turned out, alas, very dull & has disappointed me much’ ( letter to Francis Galton, 15 [June …
… home again’, he fretted, just days before his departure ( letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, [after 26 …
… many blessings, was finding old age ‘a dismal time’ ( letter to Henry Johnson, 24 September 1879 ) …
… Darwin had written: ‘The worst thing I find now is this d—n’d old age, which creeps slily upon one, …
… nice and good as could be’ ( letter from Karl Beger, [ c. 12 February 1879] ). The masters of …
… of the Admiralty described the unknown young man as ‘A M r Darwin grandson of the well known …
… admiration of his grandfather: ‘The more I read of Dr. D. the higher he rises in my estimation.’ …
… same man in one volume’, Darwin pointed out to Krause on 5 June , adding that although Krause’s …
… him on 9 June not to ‘expend much powder & shot on M r Butler’, for he really was not worth …
… it, leaving Darwin ‘more perplexed than ever about life of D r . D’ ( letter to Francis Darwin, …
… beyond his ‘tether’ ( letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 5 June 1879 , and letter to G. H. Darwin, …
… the highest point, for his “why”—“what for” &c are incessant’, Darwin joked on 2 July (first …
… is his profession tho’ not a profitable one; also D r C[lark]’s opinion that he was so likely to …
… when the acorns failed to ripen, Darwin had to ask Joseph Hooker to come to his rescue by sending …
… scarlet oak: ‘to be planted in my honour!’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 4 November [1879] ). While in …
… Darwin with information, suggestions, and questions. On 5 February, a stonemason, Thomas Maston, …
… vague probabilities’ ( letter to Nicolai Mengden, 5 June 1879 ). On the very day that Emma …
… knowledge—observation & experiment’ ( letter from J. F. Moulton, 10 December 1879 ). In reply …
… image of the frog be published in Nature ( letter to J. N. Lockyer, 4 and 6 March [1879] ). …
… and his family to the Riviera for the summer ( letter to G. J. Romanes, 23 July 1879 ). Allen, who …
… prospects were precarious. Darwin contacted Joseph Hooker on 17 December to ask his opinion: ‘I …
… and prevent ‘Cattle diseases, Potato diseases &c’, probably did not know that Darwin had already …

Darwin in letters, 1864: Failing health

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On receiving a photograph from Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July 1864: ‘the venerable beard gives the look of your having suffered, and … of having grown older’. Because of poor health, Because of poor health, Darwin…

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… On receiving a photograph from Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July …
… … of having grown older’. This portrait, the first of Darwin with his now famous beard, had been …
… into their movements. Hurrah! I have been 52 hours without vomiting!! In the …
… of the five physicians Darwin had consulted in 1863. In a letter of 26[–7] March [1864] , Darwin …
… and he received more letters of advice from Jenner. In a letter of 15 December [1864] to the …
… As Darwin explained to his cousin William Darwin Fox in a letter of 30 November [1864] , ‘the …
… observations indoors ( Correspondence vol. 11). In a letter of [27 January 1864] , Darwin …
… gradation by which leaves produce tendrils’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [8 February 1864] ). …
… peduncles to test sensitivity, and in his request to Hooker for another specimen: ‘I want it …
… with his stipend being paid by Darwin himself ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [1 April 1864] ). …
… often at odds with one another: ‘Gardeners are the very d—l, & where two or three are gathered …
… enough to play your part over them’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [2 April 1864] ). …
… … they do require very careful treatment’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 8 April 1864 ). Nevertheless …
… philosophy of Ludwig Buchner ( letter from Hermann Kindt, 5 September 1864 ). Fritz Müeller sent …
… but Lyell says when I read his discussion in the Elements [C. Lyell 1865] I shall recant for fifth …
… on intellectual & moral qualities’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 28 [May 1864] ). …

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 …
… book out of my head’. But a large proportion of Darwin’s time for the rest of the year was devoted …
… way, and the initial reception of the book in the press. Darwin fielded numerous letters from …
… offered sharp criticism or even condemnation. Darwin had expected controversy. ‘I shall be …
… the proof-sheets, rather than waiting for the bound copies. Hooker suggested one of the reasons …
… do to talk about it, which no doubt promotes the sale’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 26 March 1871 ) …
… to her liking, ‘to keep in memory of the book’ ( letter to H. E. Darwin, 20 March 1871 ). …
… and had forsaken his lunch and dinner in order to read it ( letter from James Crichton-Browne, 19 …
… they believe to be the truth, whether pleasant or not’ (letter from W. W. Reade, 21 February 1871). …
… and Oldham … They club together to buy them’ ( letter from W. B. Dawkins, 23 February 1871 ). …
… and the heavy use of their arms and legs ( letter from C. L. Bernays, 25 February 1871 ). Samples …
… letter from Arthur Nicols, 7 March 1871 ; letter from B. J. Sulivan, 11 March 1871 ; letter …
… a high aesthetic appreciation of beauty ( letter from E. J. Pfeiffer, [before 26 April 1871] ). …
… feel no shade of animosity,—& that is a thing which I sh d feel very proud of, if anyone c d …
… a good way ahead of you, as far as this goes’ ( letter to J. B. Innes, 29 May [1871] ). On …
… his ‘clerical brethren’ ( letter from George Henslow, 5 December 1871 ). Ernst Haeckel boasted of …
… of all times and all circumstances’ (8 April 1871, p. 5 ). Darwin condemned the author of the review …
… was achieved through ‘the medium of opinion, positive law &c’, and transmitted by culture, not …
… tell heavily against natural selection’, Darwin wrote to Hooker on 21 January . Darwin read the …
… religious bigotry is at the root of it’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 16 September [1871] ). …
… in the world except. laughing. crying grinning pouting &c. &c’, he wrote to Hooker on 21 …
… so giddy I can hardly sit up, so no more’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 4 August [1871] ). On 23 …
… ( letter to Asa Gray, 16 July [1871] , letter to S. R. S. Norton, 23 November [1871] ). …
… ( letter from H. E. Litchfield to Charles and Emma Darwin, [5 November 1871] ). Her husband …

Darwin’s hothouse and lists of hothouse plants

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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…

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… Towards the end of 1862, Darwin resolved to build a small hothouse at Down House, for ‘experimental …
… hothouse early in 1863 marked something of a milestone in Darwin’s botanical work, since it greatly …
… account book (Down House MS) and Correspondence vol. 5 , letter to J. D. Hooker, 19 April [1855 …
… its sensitivity to touch (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 [December …
… his employer’s hothouses over the previous two years. In a letter of 24 December [1862] ( …
… of prizes & is very observant. He believes that we sh d succeed with a little patience; …
… mid-January, and completed by mid-February (see letters to J. D. Hooker, 13 January [1863] and …
… Hayes, and cost a total of £85 11s. 1d.; this included £22 5s. for Horwood, who superintended the …
… beauty in each leaf’ (letter to J. D. Hooker, 24[–5 ] February [1863] ). Darwin’s

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