To James Torbitt 12 March [1880]
Summary
Asks about possible erratum in JT’s account of experiments.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Torbitt |
| Date: | 12 Mar [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 115 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12535 |
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- … To James Torbitt 12 March [1880] …
- … DAR 148: 115 Charles Robert Darwin Down 12 Mar [1880] James Torbitt …
- … Down, March 12, My dear Sir Your MS. just received. I have had a couple of sentences …
- … The copyist wrote the date as ‘March 12, 1880’, but someone, probably Francis Darwin , …
- … s queries (see letter from James Torbitt, 12 March 1880 ). Torbitt evidently sent part of …
To Alfred Krakauer 12 January 1880
Summary
"I am much obliged for your note. I have heard of the other analogous cases, but there remains a doubt whether they may not be accidental coincidences, for such cases certainly occur in non-Jewish families.––"
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Krakauer |
| Date: | 12 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Surrogate RP 4481/3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12419A |
From Lawson Tait 12 January 1880
Summary
Plans a "Darwin Festival" to celebrate CD’s birthday.
| Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 41 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12418 |
From Asa Gray 12 January 1880
Summary
Sends some cotton seeds for CD.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 201 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12416 |
To Ernst Haeckel 12 February 1880
Summary
Thanks for his very kind letter.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Date: | 12 Feb 1880 |
| Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1:1-52/51 [A 9905]) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12474F |
From James Torbitt 12 March 1880
Summary
Hopes to finish his report tomorrow; last year’s crosses were failures.
| Author: | James Torbitt |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Mar 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 163 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12534 |
From J. J. Eyre 12 November 1880
Summary
Reports inability to control depressor anguli oris muscle in grief.
Has read Expression.
| Author: | John Joseph Eyre |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Nov 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 163: 39 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12810 |
From James Paget 12 November 1880
Summary
Sends a copy of his lecture Elemental pathology: an address on elemental pathology delivered in the pathological section of the British Medical Association (Paget 1880).
| Author: | James Paget, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Nov 1880 |
| Classmark: | Skinner, Inc. (dealers) (Auction 3103T, 6 August 2018) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12809F |
To Ernst Krause [12 December 1880]
Summary
CD is pleased that EK will answer Butler. Thinks Butler is half insane.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
| Date: | [12 Dec 1880] |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36203) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12465 |
From James Torbitt 12 February 1880
Summary
It might be possible to borrow £500 [for potato experiments]. Variety of "The Champion" spreading over the Kingdom. Champion lately less able to produce.
| Author: | James Torbitt |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Feb 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 486 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12472 |
From R. F. Charles 12 June [1880]
Summary
Thanks CD for writing to Murray concerning Journal of researches extracts for his reading-book.
| Author: | Robert Fletcher Charles |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 June [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 134 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12632 |
From R. F. Cooke 12 June 1880
Summary
Matters related to Climbing plants
and reprint [1880] of Forms of flowers.
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 June 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 505 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12631 |
From Horace Darwin 9 and 12 September 1880
Summary
Reports evidence of earthworm activity.
| Author: | Horace Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 and 12 Sept 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 64.1: 36–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12709 |
From S. H. Haliburton 12 December [1880]
Summary
Writes of the pleasure of seeing him again.
| Author: | Sarah Harriet Mostyn Owen; Sarah Harriet Williams; Sarah Harriet Haliburton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Dec [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 209–10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12907 |
From Francis Darwin [11 or 12 November 1880]
Summary
Sorry he forgot the gardener’s address. Having a very nice time in Cambridge, and is almost finished the bramble paper. Drawing room is upside down, so living in Horace’s working room and dining room. Greek question was lost in the Senate House. George dined there last night. Too muddy to bicycle. Has some stuff for spectacles.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [11 or 12 Nov 1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 64 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12807F |
To C. E. Ferguson 12 January 1880
Summary
Suggests CEF read Ernst Haeckel’s Evolution of man [1879] and Descent.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Eugene Ferguson |
| Date: | 12 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | Indiana University, The Lilly Library (Ferguson MSS) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12630 |
From B. J. Sulivan 12 November 1880
Summary
Is collecting annual subscriptions for the support of J[emmy] FitzRoy Button. Has only just been told of the death of Miss [Sarah Elizabeth] Wedgwood.
Gives news of some former Beagle crew members.
| Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Nov 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 312 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12809 |
From T. H. Farrer 12 March 1880
Summary
Encloses letter from James Caird, who has entire confidence in CD’s appropriation of the money [collected for Torbitt’s experiments].
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Mar 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12533 |
From G. J. Romanes 13 November 1880
Summary
Sends proofs of Encyclopaedia Britannica article on hybridism [9th ed., 12: 422–6]. Can CD mention authorities who should be cited?
| Author: | George John Romanes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Nov 1880 |
| Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, pp. 100–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12813 |
From E. B. Aveling 12 October 1880
Summary
Mentions CD’s approval of earlier articles on CD’s works, and requests approval and permission to dedicate to CD a second work on CD’s thought for the International Library of Science and Free-thought.
| Author: | Edward Bibbens Aveling |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Oct 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 133 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12754 |
| letter | (115) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (44) |
| Sulivan, B. J. | (4) |
| Torbitt, James | (4) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (3) |
| Darwin, Horace | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (69) |
| Krause, Ernst | (4) |
| Darwin, Francis | (3) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (3) |
| Torbitt, James | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (113) |
| Torbitt, James | (7) |
| Krause, Ernst | (6) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (5) |
| Darwin, Francis | (5) |
Lost in translation: From Auguste Forel, 12 November 1874
Summary
You receive a gift from your scientific hero Charles Darwin. It is a book that contains sections on your favourite topic—ants. If only you had paid attention when your mother tried to teach you English you might be able to read it. But you didn’t, and you…
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- … barely understand a word. Writing in French on 12 November 1874 to thank Darwin for the …
Darwin’s hothouse and lists of hothouse plants
Summary
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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- … Correspondence vol. 10, letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 [December 1862] and n. 13). Initially, …
- … Stove [that is, cool hothouse]’ ( Correspondence vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, 26[–7] March …
- … of different temperatures’ (letter to W. C. Tait, 12 and 16 March [1869] , Calendar no. 6661) …
- … 100 yards’ to the greenhouses ( Correspondence vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, [25 January …
- … in mid-February (see letter from L. C. Treviranus, 12 February 1863 ). The second list is …
- … Anoectochilus argenteus 12 5 s . …
- … punctatum. 11. Mormodes aurantiaca 12. ‘Anoectochilus argenteus 5 s .’ deleted in …
- … Bolbophyllum barbigerum 12 major …
- … Ampelidae. 11. Alloplectus chrysanthus. 12. Bulbophyllum barbigerum. 13. …
Darwin in letters, 1879: Tracing roots
Summary
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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- … Seventy years old Darwin’s seventieth birthday on 12 February was a cause for international …
- … and good as could be’ ( letter from Karl Beger, [ c. 12 February 1879] ). The masters of …
- … ). The botanist and schoolteacher Hermann Müller wrote on 12 February to wish Darwin a ‘long and …
- … well, and with little fatigue’ ( letter to G. H. Darwin, 12 July 1879 , and letter from Leonard …
- … ever about life of D r . D’ ( letter to Francis Darwin, 12 July [1879] ). It was little …
- … Thiselton-Dyer, 5 June 1879 , and letter to G. H. Darwin, 12 July 1879 ). Darwin’s final task …
- … inn ‘ very comfortable’, but told Leonard Darwin on 12 August that there were ‘too many human …
- … not to have come up when the Darwins lunched with him on 12 August (Darwin’s ‘Journal’). Nor did …
- … the world. At the end of the year he was awarded a prize of 12,000 francs by the Turin Academy of …
- … which greatly pleased Darwin ( letter from Grant Allen, 12 February 1879 ). One of Allen’s targets …
- … engagement being made public ( letter from T. H. Farrer, 12 October 1879 ). Darwin’s response not …
- … accurate in its treatment’ ( letter from Francis Galton, 12 November 1879 ). The comment that …
Darwin in letters, 1874: A turbulent year
Summary
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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- … (letters from George Cupples, 21 February 1874 and 12 March 1874 ); the material was …
- … the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii; letters from T. N. Staley, 12 February 1874 and 20 February 1874 …
- … was published in November 1874 ( letter from R. F. Cooke, 12 November 1874 ). Though containing …
- … print runs would be very good ( letter from R. F. Cooke, 12 November 1874 ). Darwin's …
- … Review & in the same type’ ( letter from John Murray, 12 August 1874 ). George’s letter …
- … he finally wrote a polite, very formal letter to Mivart on 12 January 1875 , refusing to hold any …
- … & snugness’ ( letter from Emma Darwin to J. B. Innes, 12 October [1874] ). More …
- … vicar of Deptford ( letter from Emma Darwin to J. B. Innes, 12 October [1874] ), but to her …
- … mechanism that Darwin agreed with ( letter to F. J. Cohn, 12 October 1874 ). Darwin’s American …
- … bank with enormous tips to his ears ( letter from Asa Gray, 12 May 1874 ). The Manchester …
- … excellent, & as clear as light’ ( letter to John Tyndall, 12 August [1874] ). Hooker …
1.2 George Richmond, marriage portrait
Summary
< Back to Introduction Few likenesses of Darwin in his youth survive, although more may once have existed. In a letter of 1873 an old Shrewsbury friend, Arthur Mostyn Owen, offered to send Darwin a watercolour sketch of him, painted many years…
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- … < Back to Introduction Few likenesses of Darwin in his youth survive, although more …
Darwin in letters, 1881: Old friends and new admirers
Summary
In May 1881, Darwin, one of the best-known celebrities in England if not the world, began writing about all the eminent men he had met. He embarked on this task, which formed an addition to his autobiography, because he had nothing else to do. He had…
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- … made a small omission ’. Stephen’s reply on 12 January was flattering, reassuring, and …
- … books being ‘a game of chance’ ( letter to R. F. Cooke, 12 April 1881 ). On 18 May he described …
- … Darwin had difficulty in obtaining mature plants. On 12 April, he reported to Müller , ‘I have …
- … to make me happy & contented,’ he told Wallace on 12 July , ‘but life has become very …
- … fight’ (letters to J. D. Hooker, 6 August 1881 and 12 August 1881 ). Darwin may have …
- … else’s judgment on the subject ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 12 July 1881 ). However, some requests …
Darwin's in letters, 1873: Animal or vegetable?
Summary
Having laboured for nearly five years on human evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of emotions, Darwin was able to devote 1873 almost exclusively to his beloved plants. He resumed work on the digestive powers of sundews and Venus fly traps, and…
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Darwin in letters, 1862: A multiplicity of experiments
Summary
1862 was a particularly productive year for Darwin. This was not only the case in his published output (two botanical papers and a book on the pollination mechanisms of orchids), but more particularly in the extent and breadth of the botanical experiments…
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- … Hooker: ‘he is no common man’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 [December 1862] ). Two sexual …
- … of the year, he wrote to Hooker ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 [December 1862] ): ‘my notions on …
- … least 3 classes of dimorphism’ ( letter to Daniel Oliver, 12 [April 1862] ), and experimenting to …
- … passed so miserable a nine months’ ( letter to W. D. Fox, 12 September [1862] ). A family …
- … ‘Botany is a new subject to me’ ( letter to John Scott, 12 November [1862] ), but, impressed by …
- … into Tyndall’s ears’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 10–12 November [1862] ). Another of Darwin’s …
German and Dutch photograph albums
Summary
Darwin Day 2018: To celebrate Darwin's 209th birthday, we present two lavishly produced albums of portrait photographs which Darwin received from continental admirers 141 years ago. These unusual gifts from Germany and the Netherlands are made…
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- … their generous sympathy. ( Letter to A. A. van Bemmelen, 12 February 1877 ) View the …
Darwin in letters, 1875: Pulling strings
Summary
‘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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- … than insectivorous plants. As he confessed to Hooker on 12 December , ‘I have not felt so angry …
- … from his family, he sent a curt note to Mivart on 12 January , breaking off all future …
- … of a bill that was presented to the House of Commons on 12 May, one week after a rival bill based on …
- … The author, Fritz Schultze, contacted Darwin himself on 12 June , describing the aims of his book …
- … scientific Socy. has done in my time,’ he told Hooker on 12 December . ‘I wish that I knew what …
Darwin in letters, 1878: Movement and sleep
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In 1878, Darwin devoted most of his attention to the movements of plants. He investigated the growth pattern of roots and shoots, studying the function of specific organs in this process. Working closely with his son Francis, Darwin devised a series of…
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Diagrams and drawings in letters
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Over 850 illustrations from the printed volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin have been added to the online transcripts of the letters. The contents include maps, diagrams, drawings, sketches and photographs, covering geological, botanical,…
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- … Rubiaceae with enclosures containing bud samples, 12 May 1878 G. H. Darwin's …
Darwin in letters, 1869: Forward on all fronts
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At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of Origin. He may have resented the interruption to his work on sexual selection and human evolution, but he spent forty-six days on the task. Much of the…
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…
Darwin’s queries on expression
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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…
Darwin in letters, 1847-1850: Microscopes and barnacles
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Darwin's study of barnacles, begun in 1844, took him eight years to complete. The correspondence reveals how his interest in a species found during the Beagle voyage developed into an investigation of the comparative anatomy of other cirripedes and…
Cross and self fertilisation
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The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom, published on 10 November 1876, was the result of a decade-long project to provide evidence for Darwin’s belief that ‘‘Nature thus tells us, in the most emphatic manner, that she abhors…
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Henrietta Darwin's diary
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Darwin's daughter Henrietta kept a diary for a few momentous weeks in 1871. This was the year in which Descent of Man, the most controversial of her father's books after Origin itself, appeared, a book which she had helped him write. The small…
Darwin in letters, 1856-1857: the 'Big Book'
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In May 1856, Darwin began writing up his 'species sketch’ in earnest. During this period, his working life was completely dominated by the preparation of his 'Big Book', which was to be called Natural selection. Using letters are the main…
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Darwin & Glen Roy
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Although Darwin was best known for his geological work in South America and other remote Beagle destinations, he made one noteworthy attempt to explain a puzzling feature of British geology. In 1838, two years after returning from the voyage, he travelled…
