From H. C. Watson to George Gordon 27 June 1861
Summary
Regrets he cannot assist the fulfilment of CD’s request for a specimen of the orchid Corallorhiza.
| Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
| Addressee: | George Gordon |
| Date: | 27 June 1861 |
| Classmark: | Elgin Museum (Gordon Archive 61.9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3197F |
From T. F. Jamieson 3 September 1861
Summary
Observations from a fortnight in Lochaber. Found the entrance to Loch Treig to present the clearest evidence of intense glacial action. States, in contradiction of David Milne-Home, that there is glacial scoring in Glen Spean, as Louis Agassiz described, and moraine around the mouth of Loch Treig. There is little sign of water erosion on the rocks crossed by the lines in Glen Roy. Believes the smoothed rocks at the eastern end of Loch Laggan are due to flow from the lake and not tidal action. The lines in Glen Roy are too neat for a lake shore subject to tides. Given the glacial scoring sweeping round from Glen Spean into Glen Treig, and all the boulders, TFJ is astonished that anyone could deny that there had been glaciers there. [See 3247.]
| Author: | Thomas Francis Jamieson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Sept 1861 |
| Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/A3/7: 75–92) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3242A |
To John Lubbock 6 June [1861]
Summary
Arrangements for a meeting.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 6 June [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.7: 3 (EH 88205928) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3177 |
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- … directory, yearbook and diary. London: Richard Groombridge; Waterlow & Sons. 1845–1919. …
To John Lubbock [8 June 1861]
Summary
Asks to meet JL for a final talk about the banking partnership for William Darwin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | [8 June 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.7: 2 (EH 88205927) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3179 |
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- … directory, yearbook and diary. London: Richard Groombridge; Waterlow & Sons. 1845–1919. …
From Thomas Francis Jamieson 13 June 1861
Summary
Will look for botanical specimens CD requested.
Tells of a kestrel with a broken leg which apparently was forced to change its diet to worms and snails because of the injury.
| Author: | Thomas Francis Jamieson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 June 1861 |
| Classmark: | DAR 47: 171–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3180 |
To Charles Lovegrove 9 July [1861?]
Summary
Regrets he does not have pedigree of CL’s "pretty pony", but assures him information was very useful, "more especially as it confirms what I heard from Norway & did not know whether fully to believe".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lovegrove |
| Date: | 9 July [1861?] |
| Classmark: | Barton L. Smith MD (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13823 |
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- … Surrey and Sussex. London: W. Kelly & Co. 1845–78. Variation : The variation of animals …
To W. E. Darwin 17 [October 1861]
Summary
Discusses business matters relating to WED and the bank.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 17 [Oct 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 79 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3287 |
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- … directory, yearbook and diary. London: Richard Groombridge; Waterlow & Sons. 1845–1919. …
To John Lubbock 9 August [1861]
Summary
JL’s kindness has laid William and himself "under an enduring obligation". One clause in the partnership agreement seems harsh but will probably never signify.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 9 Aug [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 48 (EH 88206492) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3228 |
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- … Richard Groombridge; Waterlow & Sons. 1845–1919. Correspondence : The correspondence of …
To W. E. Darwin 15 November [1861]
Summary
Discusses stock-brokers; hopes to be able to see WED at Christmas.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Nov [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 89 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3319 |
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- … Richard Groombridge; Waterlow & Sons. 1845–1919. Beckett, Ian Frederick William. 1982. …
To W. E. Darwin 6 [June 1861]
Summary
Writes regarding the possibility of banking partnership for WED; second note arranges a meeting between the involved parties in London.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 6 [June 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 69–70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3178 |
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- … directory, yearbook and diary. London: Richard Groombridge; Waterlow & Sons. 1845–1919. …
To H. W. Bates 25 September [1861]
Summary
Recommends publisher for HWB; admires J. van Voorst but suggests Murray.
In reply to HWB’s letter [missing], comments on neuters and mimicry.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Date: | 25 Sept [1861] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3266 |
To Richard Kippist 7 January [1861]
Summary
Orders journal volume [Mémoires présentées par divers savans à l’Académie des Sciences 4] from librarian.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Kippist |
| Date: | 7 Jan [1861] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3044 |
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- … and Sussex. London: W. Kelly & Co. 1845–78. Roulin, François Désiré. 1835. Recherches sur …
To W. E. Darwin [25 May 1861]
Summary
Has heard, through Lubbock, of a gentleman who is offering a partnership in a bank.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [25 May 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 64 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3157 |
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- … Richard Groombridge; Waterlow & Sons. 1845–1919. Correspondence : The correspondence of …
From W. E. Darwin [17 November 1861]
Summary
Describes in detail his day at home and at the bank in Southampton.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [17 Nov 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.5: 3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3320 |
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- … Richard Groombridge; Waterlow & Sons. 1845–1919. Collected papers : The collected papers …
To S. P. Woodward 5 June [1861]
Summary
Gives directions to Down. Would be happy to see SPW but regrets they "have no attractions".
Agrees about colonisation of Arctic region.
CD thought that his St Helena land shells had quite recently become embedded; his specimens are at the Geological Society.
Can SPW ask A. Günther for any references to Silurus escaping from the Danube?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
| Date: | 5 June [1861] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 42579: 230–32b) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3043 |
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- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1845. Origin : On the origin of species by means …
From William Branwhite Clarke [August 1861]
Summary
Evidence of glacial action in Australia. [See Origin, 4th ed., p. 443.]
| Author: | William Branwhite Clarke |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [Aug 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 161.2: 171 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3222 |
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- … the Geological Society of London on 4 June 1845 ( Collected papers 1: 199–203), CD cited …
From H. W. Bates 30 September 1861
Summary
Discusses the mimicry of the Volucella flies, and the bees and wasps they mimic. Compares it with the different object of mimicry in butterflies.
Refers to incompleteness of Cuthbert Collingwood’s paper [? "On homophormism, or organic representative forms", Proc. Liverpool Lit. & Philos. Soc. 14 (1860): 181–216].
Thanks CD for help in selecting a publisher for his book [The naturalist on the river Amazons (1863)].
| Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Sept 1861 |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.10: 92 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3271 |
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- … Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1845. Journal of researches : Journal of researches …
To W. E. Darwin [27 October 1861]
Summary
Discusses affairs at Down and Southampton.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [27 Oct 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 82 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3302 |
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- … viz. , Essex, Herts, Kent, Middlesex, Surrey and Sussex. London: W. Kelly & Co. 1845–78. …
To Journal of Horticulture [before 14 May 1861]
Summary
Asks D. Beaton whether varieties of the same species of Compositae frequently cross by insect agency or other means. Do the raisers of hollyhocks have to keep each variety separate for raising seed?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Journal of Horticulture |
| Date: | [before 14 May 1861] |
| Classmark: | Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, and Country Gentleman, n.s. 1 (1861): 112 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3147 |
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- … as dean of Manchester, on 15 September 1845 ( ibid . , vol. 3, ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). …
To W. E. Darwin [26 May 1861]
Summary
Discusses the opportunity for WED to become a partner in a bank.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [26 May 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 65 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3160 |
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- … DNB ). Following the Banking Acts of 1844 and 1845, no new banks were allowed to form, but …
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| Jamieson, T. F. | (2) |
| Bates, H. W. | (1) |
| Clarke, W. B. (b) | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (8) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Lubbock, John | (3) |
| Kippist, Richard | (2) |
| Bates, H. W. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (22) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (9) |
| Lubbock, John | (3) |
| Bates, H. W. | (2) |
| Jamieson, T. F. | (2) |
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…
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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- … and anticlinal lines of a geological formation, 3 March 1845 Edward Forbes's " …
Darwin in letters, 1844–1846: Building a scientific network
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The scientific results of the Beagle voyage still dominated Darwin's working life, but he broadened his continuing investigations into the nature and origin of species. Far from being a recluse, Darwin was at the heart of British scientific society,…
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- … his Journal of researches for a second edition in 1845, having already provided corrections in …
- … vice-presidents in 1844 and remaining on the council from 1845 onwards; he was a conscientious …
- … attacked the work vehemently in the Edinburgh Review (1845), while other colleagues like Edward …
- … his cousin William Darwin Fox in a letter of [24 April 1845] , he felt he ought to be both …
- … of his Journal of researches for a second edition in 1845. At Lyell’s recommendation, …
- … the original publisher, to John Murray, and throughout 1845 Darwin worked hard to provide manuscript …
- … on board the Beagle back to Tierra del Fuego. By 1845, Darwin was in full command of a …
- … Distribution’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [10 February 1845] ) and quick to make use of the young …
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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- … vol. 3, letter to Charles Lyell, 8 October [1845] ). Having indulged his senses, Darwin …
Darwin and Fatherhood
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Charles Darwin married Emma Wedgwood in 1839 and over the next seventeen years the couple had ten children. It is often assumed that Darwin was an exceptional Victorian father. But how extraordinary was he? The Correspondence Project allows an unusually…
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- … he was working (Darwin to his wife Emma, [7-8 February 1845] ). Although Darwin did not usually …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
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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…
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- … on Instinct [F. G. Cuvier 1822] read Flourens Edit [Flourens 1845] read L. Jenyns paper on …
- … 1834–9] Carlyles Oliver Cromwell [Carlyle 1845] (read) Keppells(?) voyage to Borneo …
- … Exploring Expedition towards the Rocky Mountains [Frémont 1845]. (amusing extracts). perhaps for …
- … America by A. Downing Wiley & Putnam. 14 s . [Downing 1845] (Brit. Museum) (read) good …
- … [DAR *119: 22] Eyeres Travels [E. J. Eyre 1845] very amusing Tschudi’s Travels in …
- … Campbells Lives of Chancellors [J. Campbell 1845–7] last vol. Ludlows Memoirs …
- … Murchisons Russia [Murchison, Verneuil, and Keyserling 1845] (read) Agassiz’s Works …
- … Wilkes Expedition. £ 3. 3 s [Wilkes 1845] order at L. Library. read Botanical Soc. of …
- … Soc. of Neuchatel on Jura. 1846, or 7, or 8 [?Marcou 1845]. 46 Morris good for me.— …
- … 1853] Vol. V of Campbells Chancellors [J. Campbell 1845–7] Lives of the Lindsays …
- … [I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1832–7] Wilkes [Wilkes 1845]. Voyage Vol I. to V Apr …
- … May. Blanco White. Auto-biography [Blanco y Crespo 1845].— 24 Improvisatore [Andersen 1845] …
- … Aug. 5 th Lyells Travels in N. America [Lyell 1845] Oct. Cosmos [A. von Humboldt 1845–8]. …
- … Dec. 10 Ray. Society. Vol I. Reports [Ray Society 1845].— 20 D r Badham insect Life …
- … Feb 6 Explanations by Author of Vestiges [Chambers 1845] —— Bronn’s Gesickte [Bronn 1842–3] 2 …
- … [Twamley 1844] —— Whewell on Education [Whewell 1845–52]. Dec: 26. Watson History of …
- … [Heber 1828] —— 31 Kitto on Deafness [Kitto 1845] —— the French in Algiers [Lamping …
- … 1841] April 10 Wagners Anatomy by Tulk [Wagner 1845] (half through) —— 24 Steenstrup …
- … th Elie de Beaumont Lecons Geologie [Élie de Beaumont 1845] skimmed. June 17 th . Downing …
John Murray
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Darwin's most famous book On the origin of species by means of natural selection (Origin) was published on 22 November 1859. The publisher was John Murray, who specialised in non-fiction, particularly politics, travel and science, and had published…
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- … hundred letters from Darwin, from his first negotiations in 1845 until his final years. Although …
- … came to discuss a second edition, probably at the end of 1845, Darwin was not happy with Colburn’s …
- … Colonial Library in three monthly parts (July to September 1845) before being reissued in a single …
- … you have transacted the business with me’ (27 August [1845] Letter 908 ). Thus began the business …
Richard Matthews
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Richard Matthews was 21 years old when he stepped aboard the Beagle, destined for a lonely career as a missionary in Tierra del Fuego. The Church Missionary Society had arranged for him to accompany the three Fuegians (Fuegia Basket, Jemmy Button, and York…
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…
Orundellico (Jemmy Button)
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Orundellico was one of the Yahgan, or canoe people of the southern part of Tierra del Fuego. He was the fourth hostage taken by Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, in 1830 following the theft of the small surveying boat. This fourteen-year old boy was…
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Journal of researches
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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…
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
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Here is a list of people that appeared in the photograph album Darwin received for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from scientific admirers in the Netherlands. Many thanks to Hester Loeff for identifying and researching them. No. …
People featured in the Dutch photograph album
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List of people appearing in the photograph album Darwin received from scientific admirers in the Netherlands for his birthday on 12 February 1877. We are grateful to Hester Loeff for providing this list and for permission to make her research available.…
4.51 Frederick Holder 'Life and Work'
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< Back to Introduction A popular biography of Darwin for young readers by the American naturalist Charles Frederick Holder, published in 1891, sought to present him as ‘an example to the youth of all lands’ (p. v). Thus ‘our hero’ was shown to have…
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- … Captain Fitz Roy, R.N. , 2 nd ed. (London: John Murray, 1845), pp. 22, 90, 182, and 384. Francis …
Second species sketch
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Darwin finishes an expanded sketch of his species theory, first drafted in 1842
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- … Darwin finishes an expanded sketch of his species theory, first drafted in 1842 …
George Darwin born
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The Darwins' son George Howard Darwin born
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- … The Darwins' son George Howard Darwin born …
Yokcushlu (Fuegia Basket)
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Yokcushlu was one of the Alakaluf, or canoe people from the western part of Tierra del Fuego. She was one of the hostages seized by Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, after the small boat used for surveying the narrow inlets of the coast of Tierra del…
Living and fossil cirripedia
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Darwin published four volumes on barnacles, the crustacean sub-class Cirripedia, between 1851 and 1854, two on living species and two on fossil species. Written for a specialist audience, they are among the most challenging and least read of Darwin’s works…
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- … In the course of discussions about species in the autumn of 1845, his close friend Joseph Dalton …
Introduction to the Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle
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'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…
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- … in roman numerals. Others relate to Darwin’s 1839 or 1845 volumes and Belcher’s Narrative of the …
- … The British press was decidedly unsympathetic. Recalled in 1845, he returned home in humiliation as …
- … world, and had copies of both the 1839 Narrative and the 1845 second edition titled Journal of …
- … Borneo, and the Philippines in HMS Samarang from 1842 to 1845, and ended his naval career with …
Darwin’s observations on his children
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Charles Darwin’s observations on the development of his children, began the research that culminated in his book The Expression of the emotions in man and animals, published in 1872, and his article ‘A biographical sketch of an infant’, published in Mind…
