To Dear Friend 1 January 1822
Summary
Erasmus Alvey Darwin has rheumatism; his sisters complain of his bad temper but CD thinks him very good tempered. CD has received a new cabinet. [This is the first of six entries written in a "Memorandum book" comprising four sheets folded into a gather and sewn together in book form. The entries are in the style of letters addressed to an unnamed friend and are dated between 1 and 12 January 1822, shortly before CD’s thirteenth birthday. As they were written straight into the memorandum book, it is clear that they were never sent through the post, but were either to an imaginary recipient, or intended to be read by someone in the household, possibly CD’s youngest sister, Emily Catherine Darwin (Catherine).]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Friend |
| Date: | 1 Jan 1822 |
| Classmark: | DAR 271/1/1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1F |
To Dear Friend 2 January 1822
Summary
Erasmus Alvey Darwin is good tempered and their sisters have "not abused at all". Hopes the recipient will help "in looking out and washing the fossils out of the plate closet".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Friend |
| Date: | 2 Jan 1822 |
| Classmark: | DAR 271/1/1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1G |
To Dear Friend 3 January 1822
Summary
"Monseur Beodoes" is inquisitive and impertinent; Mr Bayly "was formerly a devlish boor". Asks who his sisters have been talking about.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Friend |
| Date: | 3 Jan 1822 |
| Classmark: | DAR 271/1/1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1H |
To Dear Friend 4 January 1822
Summary
Likes Mariane who is very good to Miss Jones; CD bought cakes in town while Mariane visited Miss Jones; he was embarrassed to be shown into her bedroom when he returned. Miss Clare has had an accident.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Friend |
| Date: | 4 Jan 1822 |
| Classmark: | DAR 271/1/1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1J |
To Dear Friend 4 January 1822
Summary
Caroline disapproves of his not washing.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Friend |
| Date: | 4 Jan 1822 |
| Classmark: | DAR 271/1/1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1K |
To Dear Friend 12 January 1822
Summary
Was joined by Colonel Burgh Leighton when walking in the quarry. Plans to make caves next summer to store "warlike instruments" and "relicks". Sketches a design for a signalling device. May go with his father to visit the Earl of Powys at Walcot; visited Mrs and Miss Reynolds and William Pemberton Cludde.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Friend |
| Date: | 12 Jan 1822 |
| Classmark: | DAR 271.1.1: 6v |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1M |
From Erasmus Alvey Darwin 25 [October 1822]
Summary
Has found a shop with supplies of chemical equipment, and a mineral collector.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 [Oct 1822] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2 |
From E. A. Darwin 14 November 1822
Summary
EAD wants changes made and shelves built to improve the laboratory at the Mount [Darwin residence]; sends drawings and will bring chemical instruments, a book, and his record of experiments done in his chemistry course.
He has now been matriculated.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Nov 1822 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3 |
From E. A. Darwin 8 December 1822
Summary
Suggestions for laboratory equipment. Will buy some mineral specimens. Describes experiments he has seen.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Dec 1822 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (3) |
| Friend | (6) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
| Friend | (6) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (3) |
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: 29 hits
- … in Geolog. Soc. F. Cuvier on Instinct [F. G. Cuvier 1822] read Flourens Edit [Flourens 1845] …
- … of Zoology [Smellie 1790–9]. Fleming Ditto [Fleming 1822] Falconers remark on the …
- … [Reimarius 1760] The Highlands & Western Isl ds letter to Sir W Scott [MacCulloch 1824 …
- … 1834–40]: In Portfolio of “abstracts” 34 —letter from Skuckard of books on Silk Worm …
- … M rs Fry’s Life [Fry 1847] Horace Walpoles letter to C t . of Ossory [Walpole 1848] …
- … [Azara 1801] Dobrizhoffer’s Abipones [Dobrizhoffer 1822] Edinburgh New Philosoph. …
- … Asiatic Society ]—contains very little Macleay’s letter to D r Fleming [Macleay 1830] …
- … Harold [Byron 1819]. Manfred [Byron 1817]. Cain [Byron 1822] 18 th . Bossu & Loefflings …
- … 68 June 6 th Doblado’s letters on Spain [Doblado 1822] excellent November Three vols. of …
- … Dec. 15 th . Flemings Philosoph of Zoology [Fleming 1822]— Well read— references at end.— …
- … th Skimmed through Encyclopædia of Gardening [Loudon 1822]. ref. at end.— Sept 16 th …
- … April 5 th . Simond’s Travels [?Simond 1822].— May 6 th Several volumes of Belsham …
- … History of cultivated Vegetables 2. Vols. [H. Phillips 1822] (very poor) [DAR 119: 13b] …
- … —— 10 Johnson’s Field Sports of India [D. Johnson 1822] (nothing) Sept: Acerbis Travels …
- … Mem. Acad. Scien. lu Feb. 19/21/ 82 [A. von Humboldt 1822] 19 th Couch Illustrations of …
- … [Warren 1832–8] De Quincy Opium Eater [De Quincey 1822] The Devereux. Earls of Essex …
- … [Heer 1854].— Hooker has it.— Very important Hookers letter Jan. 1859 Yules Ava [Yule 1858] …
- … edition) —— 25 Quincey Opium Eater [De Quincey 1822] (very poor) —— Diary of a …
- … Sur la Distrib. Geograph from Journal de Physique Feb. 1822 [Desmoulins 1822] London Journal …
- … of the material from these portfolios is in DAR 205, the letter from William Edward Shuckard to …
- … as assistant secretary to the Horticultural Society from 1822 to 1841 then vice-secretary from 1841 …
- … ( 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, …
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). * …
- … classique d’histoire naturelle . 17 vols. Paris, 1822–31. (Letter from J. S. Henslow, 15–21 …
- … 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 …
- … in the interior of Southern Africa . 2 vols. London, 1822–4. ( Voyage , p. 182; Red notebook , …
- … expedition around the world . . . Aberdeen, [1786], 1822. (DAR 31.1: 206; 35.1: 235v.). …
- … of the geology ofEngland and Wales. Pt 1. London, 1822. (DAR 35.1: 317). Darwin Library–Down. …
- … also Hawkesworth, John). (DAR 32.2: 89v.; Robert FitzRoy’s letter to the South African Christian …
- … autour du monde . . . sur la corvette . . .La Coquille 1822–5. Zoologie par MM. [R. P.] Lesson et …
- … 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 …
- … coasts of Chili, Peru and Mexico for the years 1820, 1821, 1822. 2 vols. Edinburgh, 1824. (DAR 37 …
- … to the mountain barometer. 2d ed. London, n.d. [1802]. (Letter to Robert FitzRoy, [10 October 1831 …
- … 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]). …
- … and La Plata . . . 2 vols. London, 1826. (DAR 31.2: 319; letter to Robert Fitzroy, 28 August 1834) …
- … 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 …
- … A voyage towards the South Pole performed in the years 1822–24. London, 1825. (DAR 32.2: 109v.). …
- … of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall 2 (1822): 49–128. ( Red notebook , p. 20e). …
- … subjects of natural history and botany. London, 1822. Vancouver,George. A voyage of …
'An Appeal' against animal cruelty
Summary
The four-page pamphlet transcribed below and entitled 'An Appeal', was composed jointly by Emma and Charles Darwin (see letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, [29 September 1863]). The pamphlet, which protested against the cruelty of steel vermin…
Matches: 16 hits
- … was composed jointly by Emma and Charles Darwin (see letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, [29 …
- … of the pamphlet in August and September 1863 (see letter from G. B. Sowerby Jr to Emma Darwin, 22 …
- … 1863, pp. 821–2, under the title `Vermin and traps' ( Letter no. 4282). The wording of the …
- … and to 'a good many persons Squires Ladies & MPs' (see letter from Emma Darwin to W. D …
- … more success with the campaign than she expected (see the letter from Emma Darwin to William Erasmus …
- … s. 6 d. for distributing the 'cruelty pamphlet', and letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. …
- … involved no more cruelty than the possible alternatives (see letter from E. L. Darwin, 7 September …
- … to the RSPCA in 1852 for working horses with sore necks (see letter from Emma Darwin to William …
- … threatened to report a similar case of cruelty in 1866 (see letter to [Local landowner], [1866], …
- … , pp. 44, 54–5, 78, and Correspondence vol. 2, letter to W. D. Fox, 28 August [1837]). Later he …
- … Autobiography , pp. 78–9, Correspondence vol. 7, letter to W. E. Darwin, 22 [September 1858], …
- … result of systematic campaigning, legislation was passed in 1822, 1835, and 1849 (see nn. 1 and 5, …
- … Act to prevent the cruel and improper treatment of cattle, 1822, prohibited the ill-treatment of …
- … Gardeners’ Chronicle , 29 August 1863, pp. 821–2 ( Letter no. 4282). The woodcut was arranged …
- … is to William Howitt; the quotation is taken from Howitt"s letter to the Morning Star , 8 …
- … Gardeners’ Chronicle , 29 August 1863, pp. 821–2 ( Letter no. 4282). 7 Edward Strong …
The full edition is now online!
Summary
For nearly fifty years successive teams of researchers on both sides of the Atlantic have been working to track down all surviving letters written by or to Charles Darwin, research their content, and publish the complete texts. The thirtieth and final…
Matches: 6 hits
- … life, will be published in early 2023 and all the letter texts – more than 15000 between 1822 and …
- … ‘ My course is nearly run. ’ Letter to Lawson Tait, 13 February 1882 In …
- … convinced of the truth of Evolution as I am. ’ Letter to John Murray, 21 January 1882 …
- … than for 3 weeks & have had as yet no pain. ’ Letter to T. H. Huxley, 27 March 1882 …
- … all that with my children it is worth having .’ Letter from Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker, …
- … greatest friend outside the family, on 20 April: this letter concludes the correspondence for 1882. …
Fritz Müller
Summary
Fritz Müller, a German who spent most of his life in political exile in Brazil, described Darwin as his second father, and Darwin's son, Francis, wrote that, although they never met 'the correspondence with Müller, which continued to the close of…
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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…
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- … 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 …
- … work in 1879 Darwin judged it ‘a wretched production’ (letter to Ernst Krause, 19 March 1879 ); …
- … Vo: octavo. 2 Cochrane 1825. 3 Abernethy 1822. There is a lightly annotated copy …
- … CD described Lister 1826 as an ‘entertaining book’ (see letter to S. E. Darwin, 29 January [1826] …
- … Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown. Abernethy, John. 1822. Physiological lectures, exhibiting a …
John Stevens Henslow
Summary
The letters Darwin exchanged with John Stevens Henslow, professor of Botany and Mineralogy at Cambridge University, were among the most significant of his life. It was a letter from Henslow that brought Darwin the invitation to sail round the world as…
