From Caroline & Susan Darwin 2 [January 1826]
Summary
A ball and two concerts at Shrewsbury; guests at the Darwins’: Mr and Mrs Mathew, three Mr Clives, Emma Wedgwood.
| Author: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood; Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 [Jan 1826] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 18 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-19 |
To Caroline Darwin 6 January 1826
Summary
CD comments on lectures and lecturers at Edinburgh.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
| Date: | 6 Jan 1826 |
| Classmark: | DAR 154: 28 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-20 |
From Catherine Darwin 15 January [1826]
Summary
Family news. Visits to the Owens at Woodhouse and the Parkers at Overton.
| Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Jan [1826] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 23 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-21 |
To Susan Darwin 29 January [1826]
Summary
Sends thanks to all for their letters.
News of dining and theatre at Edinburgh.
CD will learn to stuff birds from "a blackamoor".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Jan [1826] |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: A3–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-22 |
From Marianne Parker [23 February 1826]
Summary
Spark has died. Other family news.
| Author: | Marianne Darwin; Marianne Parker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [23 Feb 1826] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 26 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-23 |
From Caroline Darwin [27 February 1826]
Summary
Theatre at Shrewsbury.
Spark’s death.
Harry [Henry Allen] Wedgwood will make the circuit for the first time at the forthcoming assizes.
| Author: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [27 Feb 1826] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-24 |
From E. A. Darwin [9 March 1826]
Summary
Describes his trip by canal to Glasgow, and sightseeing there.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [9 Mar 1826] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 14 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-25 |
From E. A. Darwin [9 March 1826]
Summary
Found his vessel delayed. Spent an hour or so at the Hunterian Museum, "well worth going to".
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [9 Mar 1826] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 15 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-26 |
From Marianne Parker [c. 13 March 1826]
Summary
Further particulars of Spark’s death.
| Author: | Marianne Darwin; Marianne Parker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [c. 13 Mar 1826] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 27 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-27 |
From Caroline Darwin [22 March 1826]
Summary
Tells of gay times with guests.
| Author: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [22 Mar 1826] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-28 |
From Susan Darwin [27 March 1826]
Summary
Writes of Papa’s disapproval of CD’s practice of picking and choosing only lectures he likes to attend and of his early return home.
News of Erasmus, who is visiting sick poor people in the neighbourhood. Other Shrewsbury news.
| Author: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [27 Mar 1826] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 25 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-29 |
To Caroline Darwin 8 April [1826]
Summary
CD is studying the Bible, likes the gospels best.
Glad he stayed for T. C. Hope’s lectures on electricity.
Is running short of funds.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
| Date: | 8 Apr [1826] |
| Classmark: | DAR 154: 29 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-30 |
From Catherine & Caroline Darwin 11 April [1826]
Summary
Family and Shrewsbury news. Visits of relatives and friends.
| Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Apr [1826] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 24 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-31 |
From John Price [July 1826]
Summary
Tells CD he is recovering from the illness with which he was afflicted when CD visited.
| Author: | John Price |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [July 1826] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 40 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-32 |
From James Farley Turner [28 July 1826]
Summary
Is coming to Shrewsbury. Finds little to do but hunt rabbits. Has heard from Nathan Hubbersty and Frederick Watkins.
| Author: | James Farley Turner |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [28 July 1826] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 187 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-33 |
From E. A. Darwin [29 September 1826]
Summary
Describes the lectures at medical school in London.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [29 Sept 1826] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 16 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-34 |
From E. A. Darwin 10 October [1826]
Summary
Medical studies in London. Compares lectures and students at London and Edinburgh. Comments on the cost of dissection.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Oct [1826] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-35 |
| Darwin, Caroline | (4) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (4) |
| Wedgwood, Caroline | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Darwin, Catherine | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (14) |
| Darwin, Caroline | (2) |
| Wedgwood, Caroline | (2) |
| Darwin, S. E. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (17) |
| Darwin, Caroline | (6) |
| Darwin, Catherine | (2) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (4) |
| Darwin, Marianne | (2) |
| Darwin, S. E. | (3) |
| Langton, Catherine | (2) |
| Parker, Marianne | (2) |
| Price, John | (1) |
| Turner, J. F. | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Caroline | (6) |
Darwin’s student booklist
Summary
In October 1825 Charles Darwin and his older brother, Erasmus, went to study medicine in Edinburgh, where their father, Robert Waring Darwin, had trained as a doctor in the 1780’s. Erasmus had already graduated from Cambridge and was continuing his studies…
Matches: 13 hits
- … find the discipline of medicine more congenial. In October 1826 Charles returned to Edinburgh for a …
- … who had moved on to London for further medical training (see letter from E. A. Darwin, [29 …
- … to date precisely. Darwin mentions reading Granby in a letter to his sister dated 29 January …
- … Or perhaps, having returned to Edinburgh in the autumn of 1826, he made a list of some books he had …
- … work in 1879 Darwin judged it ‘a wretched production’ (letter to Ernst Krause, 19 March 1879 ); …
- … House. Darwin wrote to his sister Susan on 29 January [1826] : I have been most …
- … 1819b and Abernethy 1823 (see n. 3). 10 White 1826. 12 mo: duodecimo. 11 Pennant …
- … 13 Edinburgh new philosophical journal vols. 1–19 (1826–64), a continuation of the Edinburgh …
- … copy in the Darwin Library–CUL. 16 Hudson 1826; Lister 1826. CD described Lister 1826 as …
- … A periodical by Samuel Johnson. 20 Smith 1826. 21 Clarke 1810–23. …
- … th ed. 2 vols. London. Hudson, Marianne Spencer. 1826. Almack’s: a novel . 3 vols. …
- … Blackwood. London: T. Cadell. Lister, Thomas Henry. 1826. Granby . 3 vols. London. …
- … of Dr. Darwin . London: J. Johnson. Smith, Horace. 1826. Brambletye House: or, cavaliers …
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: 27 hits
- … 1800]— perhaps worth reading quoted by Malthus [Malthus 1826]. Heberdens observations on …
- … spont. Hybrids. where? Sweet Hortus Britann: [Sweet 1826]— has remarks on acclimatizing of …
- … [Reimarius 1760] The Highlands & Western Isl ds letter to Sir W Scott [MacCulloch 1824 …
- … 29 Chardin [Chardin 1686] & Bernier [Bernier 1826]. Mack. says very amusing Toland …
- … [Yarrell 1843] (1 Vol read) Last Edit of Malthus 1826 [Malthus 1826]— (read) Pallas’ …
- … Baber’s Biography. translat. by Erskine [Baber 1826] Lee Scot’s Narrative of Shipwreck in …
- … memoire descriptif de la fôret de Bialowcka. Varsovie 1826 [Brincken 1828] quoted by …
- … generales sur les Mammif. Isid. G. St. Hilaire. 1826? [I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1826] facts on …
- … 1834–40]: In Portfolio of “abstracts” 34 —letter from Skuckard of books on Silk Worm …
- … 1844].) read Sageret sur les Cucurbitaceæ [Sageret 1826] (Gerard Hybrids [Gérard 1844]) …
- … North’s lives of L d . Guildford & the Norths [North 1826]. (Erasmus) read Hebrew …
- … M rs Fry’s Life [Fry 1847] Horace Walpoles letter to C t . of Ossory [Walpole 1848] …
- … Asiatic Society ]—contains very little Macleay’s letter to D r Fleming [Macleay 1830] …
- … [Lavater 1806–7] Malthus on Population [Malthus 1826] Oct 12 th W. Earle’s 60 …
- … [T. Campbell 1828]. Some of Shellys Poems [Shelley 1826] 19 th . Read well Mackenzie …
- … 8 th Sageret’s Mem: sur les Cucurbitaceæ [Sageret 1826]— —— 16 Bot. Reports. Ray. Soc. …
- … I to Tom. XX —— 7 Malthus on population [Malthus 1826] (2 d time) —— 12 Brickell’s …
- … [Heer 1854].— Hooker has it.— Very important Hookers letter Jan. 1859 Yules Ava [Yule 1858] …
- … of the material from these portfolios is in DAR 205, the letter from William Edward Shuckard to …
- … ( Notebooks , pp. 319–28). 55 The letter was addressed to Nicholas Aylward Vigors …
- … to William Jackson Hooker. See Correspondence vol. 3, letter to J. D. Hooker, [5 or 12 November …
- … 119: 21b Broughton, William Grant. 1832. A letter in vindication of the principles of …
- … by Bekhur to Garoo and the Lake Manasarowara: with a letter from … J. G. Gerard, Esq. …
- … 1830. On the dying struggle of the dichotomous sytem. In a letter to N. A. Vigors. Philosophical …
- … *119: 8v., 22v.; *128: 165 ——. 1850a. Letter to the Rev. John Bachman, on the question of …
- … art of improving the breeds of domestic animals. In a letter addressed to the Right Hon. Sir …
- … 1820. Remarks on the improvement of cattle, &c. in a letter to Sir John Saunders Sebright, …
Early Days
Summary
Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment The young Charles Darwin From an early age, Darwin exhibited a keen interest in the natural world. His boyish fascination with naturalist pursuits deepened as he entered college and started to interact with…
Matches: 5 hits
- … Grove Press, pages 1 – 83. Letters Letter Packet: Darwin's Early Days …
- … and their first impressions of the city. Letter 20 —Darwin to Caroline Darwin [6 Jan …
- … him as “it is so pleasant receiving letters.” Letter 68 —Darwin to William Darwin Fox …
- … the exam he must take to complete his degree. Letter 78 —Darwin to William Darwin Fox …
- … spend Fox’s visit beetling in Cambridgeshire. Letter 98 —Darwin to Caroline Darwin [28 …
Books on the Beagle
Summary
The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.
Matches: 28 hits
- … Captain FitzRoy in the Narrative (2: 18). CD, in his letter to Henslow, 9 [September 1831] , …
- … . . . There will be plenty of room for Books.’ (Letter from Robert FitzRoy, 23 September 1831 …
- … the ‘immense stock’ which CD mentions may be had from a letter FitzRoy wrote to his sister during an …
- … on board the Beagle § — mentioned in a letter or other source as being on board …
- … Naturelle 3 (1834): 84–115. (DAR 37.1: 677v.; letter to J. S. Henslow, 12 July 1835). * …
- … d’histoire naturelle . 17 vols. Paris, 1822–31. (Letter from J. S. Henslow, 15–21 January [1833]). …
- … a report of the proceedings . . . Cambridge, 1833. (Letter to Charles Whitley, 23 July 1834). …
- … of the 2d meeting . . . Oxford, 1832 . London, 1833. (Letter to J. S. Henslow, March 1834 and …
- … the Sandwich Islands, in the years 1824–25 . London, 1826. (DAR 31.2: 333; Stoddart 1962, p.4). …
- … also Hawkesworth, John). (DAR 32.2: 89v.; Robert FitzRoy’s letter to the South African Christian …
- … description of active and extinct volcanoes . . . London, 1826. (DAR 32.1: 23v., 26). Darwin …
- … MM. [R. P.] Lesson et [P.] Garnot. 2 vols., atlas. Paris, 1826–30. (DAR 30.2: 184; 31.1: 241). …
- … residence in New Zealand in 1827 . . . London, 1832. (Letter to Caroline Darwin, 27 December 1835). …
- … 33: 254). § Euclid. Elements of geometry. (Letter to J. S. Henslow, 30 October 1831). …
- … The philosophy of zoology . . . 2 vols. Edinburgh, 1822. (Letter from Susan Darwin, 15 October …
- … journeys across the Pampas and among the Andes. London, 1826. (DAR 36.1: 469v.). Darwin Library …
- … dans les deux hémisphères. 2d ed. Paris, Strasbourg, 1826. (DAR 32.1: 56v.). Darwin Library–CUL †. …
- … to the mountain barometer. 2d ed. London, n.d. [1802]. (Letter to Robert FitzRoy, [10 October 1831 …
- … Conchifera and Mollusca in a collection formed . . . 1826–30. Zoological Journal 5 (1832–4). …
- … de l’ordre des polypiers. Paris, 1821. (DAR 30.1: 13v.; letter to J. S. Henslow, 24 July – 7 …
- … Video. Novem r . 1832’; vol. 3 (1833): ‘C. Darwin’; letter to J. S. Henslow, 24 July – 7 November …
- … of England. Volume one. London, 1830. (Robert FitzRoy’s letter to the South African Christian …
- … ‘A few little books written by Miss Martineau’. (Letter from Caroline Darwin, 28 October [1833]). …
- … Travels in Chile and La Plata . . . 2 vols. London, 1826. (DAR 31.2: 319; letter to Robert Fitzroy …
- … John. Paradise lost. ( ’Beagle’ diary , p. 107; letter to J. S. Henslow, 24 November 1832). …
- … account of several late voyages. 2 parts. London, 1694. (Letter to J. S. Henslow, 24 July – 7 …
- … des côtes de l’Amérique méridionale . . . Paris, 1826. (DAR 32.1: 1, 2). [Saint Pierre, …
- … by J. B. B. Eyriès of Ansichten der Natur , 2d ed., 1826. 2 vols. Paris, 1828. (Letter to …
Darwin’s first love
Summary
Darwin’s long marriage to Emma Wedgwood is well documented, but was there an earlier romance in his life? How was his departure on the Beagle entangled with his first love? The answers are revealed in a series of flirtatious letters that Darwin was…
Matches: 15 hits
- … Had nineteen-year-old Darwin followed this instruction in a letter he received in 1828, there would …
- … creditors) to a ruined abbey in a forest. In Fanny’s first letter, and in many others she wrote to …
- … sister Catherine. After staying a week at Woodhouse in 1826 as company for Fanny and her older …
- … First and last pages of the letter from Fanny Owen, [late January 1828] (DAR …
- … Penny Post (1840), envelopes were rarely used. Instead, the letter was folded and held shut with …
- … awfully dull and prosy ’. She closed her letter with instructions to ‘ burn this, or if it …
- … ) Fanny’s thanks came in a characteristic letter. Apologies for not writing sooner, were …
- … mania go on, are you as constant as ever ?’ In this letter, the postilion and housemaid are …
- … ‘ la belle Fanny ’. Letter from Fanny Owen, 27 January [1830] (DAR …
- … Darwin that she would remember him. Responding to a recent letter he had written in a ‘ Blue …
- … there was not to be an end of them!! In her last letter before the Beagle sailed, she …
- … Little wonder that Darwin felt bereft when he learned in a letter from his sister Catherine, …
- … The first and last pages of Fanny Owen’s letter of 1 March 1832 (DAR 204:55), in which Fanny …
- … by Catherine Darwin, who had observed them at a ball in 1826: ‘ Fanny Owen has quite the preference …
- … so very engaging and delightful about her.— ’ In the letter accompanying his book in 1872, Darwin …
Introduction to the Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle
Summary
'a humble toadyish follower…': Not all pictures of Darwin during the Beagle voyage are flattering. Published here for the first time is a complete transcript of a satirical account of the Beagle’s brief visit in 1836 to the Cocos Keeling islands…
Matches: 4 hits
- … stretched over four decades. Ross’ chief project from 1826 to his death was developing a settlement …
- … are not so marked. A final set refers to a comparison of a letter and a newspaper editorial. In all …
- … to the Cape of Good Hope, where he lived from 1820 to 1826, while pressing the British and the Dutch …
- … his party to Cocos Keeling. Hare thus came Cocos-Keeling in 1826, after Ross’ initial visit but …
Journal of researches
Summary
Within two months of the Beagle’s arrival back in England in October 1836, Darwin, although busy with distributing his specimens among specialists for description, and more interested in working on his geological research, turned his mind to the task of…
Darwin in letters, 1837–1843: The London years to 'natural selection'
Summary
The seven-year period following Darwin's return to England from the Beagle voyage was one of extraordinary activity and productivity in which he became recognised as a naturalist of outstanding ability, as an author and editor, and as a professional…
Matches: 9 hits
- … R. Malthus’ An essay on the principle of population (1826) furnished him with a causal mechanism …
- … letters have suffered an even more severe loss. In a letter to Lyell’s sister-in-law, Katharine …
- … of fact . . . on the origin & variation of species” ( Letter to J. S. Henslow, [November 1839] …
- … that he had a sound solution to what J. F. W. Herschel in a letter to Lyell had called the ‘mystery …
- … about searching for evidence to support his hypothesis. In a letter to Lyell, [14] September [1838 …
- … just the same, though I know what I am looking for' ( Letter to G. R. Waterhouse, [26 July …
- … there were no doubts as to how one ought to act’ ( Letter from Emma Darwin, [ c. February 1839] …
- … for several months (See Correspondence vol. 1, letter to Caroline Darwin, 13 October 1834 , …
- … notebook). See also Allan 1977, pp. 128–30). The letter, on ‘Double flowers’ to the …
George James Stebbing
Summary
George James Stebbing (1803—1860) travelled around the world with Charles Darwin on board HMS Beagle and helped him with measuring temperature on at least one occasion. However, Stebbing barely registers in Darwin’s correspondence. The only mention omits…
Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson
Summary
[f.146r Title page] Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle Supplement / to the 2nd 3rd and Appendix Volumes of the First / Edition Written / for and in the name of the Author of those / Volumes By J.C. Ross. / Sometime Master of a…
Matches: 18 hits
- … been shewn in Section IV took place in the latter part of 1826. That I am however quite …
- … her lying with the English crew until the middle of January 1826 – when he at last left, but had not …
- … and saw these Isles for the first time in his life July 1826. On first landing ^then^ – Mr J.C. Ross …
- … a moment longer to come home as he deserved to do.” That letter they shewed to Mr Ross and requested …
- … races for being so kept. IX. “In 1826 or within a year of that time – Mr J. …
- … as possible is as follows – About 9 years ago i.e. from 1826 or 1827 counting back from 1836 – Mr …
- … to somewhere else” – so now read “your brother's letter and then we may have something sure to …
- … wrote to him immediately before leaving for Sumatra – a letter calculated to elicit something …
- … – not all exaggerated – and Mr R sent him back with a letter [ f.183r p.73 ] as he proposed. …
- … was not of any profitable description but of what Mr H in letter to Mr R denominated “fiddle faddle” …
- … to a note from Mr H concerning the last mentioned fugitive a letter which – Mr H sent to Mr R – …
- … ] The three or four runaways mentioned in the forgoing letter had run to apply to Mr Ross – and on …
- … from frequenting your islands &c” and in this his second letter he writes “I told you how it …
- … at present only as by the bye” – In reply to Mr Ross’ letter which he sent with the paper –Mr H …
- … the Eastern one may be seen by the following extract from a letter dated 19 th May and sent by Mr …
- … that Mr Hare came to these Islands before the middle of 1826 His Knightly credit for accuracy of …
- … of the present writing. VI “In 1826 – Mr J.C. Ross formerly master of a …
- … Copy Extract Of a letter sent to Captain Ross by Captain Harding of H.M …
Charles Darwin’s letters: a selection 1825-1859
Summary
The letters in this volume span the years from 1825, when Darwin was a student at the University of Edinburgh, to the end of 1859, when the Origin of Species was published. The early letters portray Darwin as a lively sixteen-year-old medical student. Two…
Matches: 3 hits
- … Malthus’s Essay on the principle of population (London, 1826), he found a clue: in the competition …
- … the director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. In his letter of 11 January 1844 , Darwin …
- … ‘big book’, when, in June 1858, he received the famous letter from Wallace in which was enclosed a …
Darwin in letters, 1821-1836: Childhood to the Beagle voyage
Summary
Darwin's first known letters were written when he was twelve. They continue through school-days at Shrewsbury, two years as a medical student at Edinburgh University, the undergraduate years at Cambridge, and the of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle.…
Matches: 1 hits
- … fellows your friends at Barmouth must be’ ( see letter to J. M. Herbert, [13 September 1828] ). …
Was Darwin an ecologist?
Summary
One of the most fascinating aspects of Charles Darwin’s correspondence is the extent to which the experiments he performed at his home in Down, in the English county of Kent, seem to prefigure modern scientific work in ecology.
Matches: 8 hits
- … Despite the difference in language between Darwin’s letter and the modern scientific paper quoted …
- … daresay very well, & for coining new words.’ See the letter The word first appeared …
- … for atheism, but as Darwin himself acknowledged in a letter to Mary Boole, it was more satisfactory …
- … as a result of the direct intervention of God. See the letter We may contrast Darwin’s …
- … sucks it, must have! It is a very pretty case.’ See the letter Darwin was confident …
- … nature as she really is.’ It seems from Haeckel’s letter that what most struck him about …
- … of his great discovery is by contrast extremely modest. In a letter written in 1864 and …
- … Cambridge University Press. Malthus, Thomas Robert. 1826. An essay on the principle of …
