From John Higgins 2 October 1845
Summary
Sends a list of the work he feels should be done at Beesby [Lincolnshire] to put the farm in order. Hopes to get purchase deeds completed by 10 October.
| Author: | John Higgins |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Oct 1845 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.10: 8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-918 |
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- … From John Higgins 2 October 1845 …
- … DAR 210.10: 8 John Higgins Alford 2 Oct 1845 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … crossed pencil On cover : ‘Papers, Plan, Letters about Beesby Estate Oct. — 1845. —’ ink …
- … Gazette , no. 30, 26 July 1845, p. 522). Old Michaelmas day, one of the quarter-days of …
- … enclosed with this letter indicate that the purchase was completed on 10 October 1845. …
- … Alford 2 nd October 1845 My Dear Sir, I enclose an Estimate of the different additional …
- … meeting, held at Shrewsbury, 15–18 July 1845 ( Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural …
From John Higgins 15 March 1845
Summary
Reports that he has an offer of an estate of about 325 acres that CD may find suitable.
| Author: | John Higgins |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Mar 1845 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.10: 5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-839 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … From John Higgins 15 March 1845 …
- … DAR 210.10: 5 John Higgins Alford 15 Mar 1845 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … in DAR 210.25. The plan is dated ‘March 1845’. For CD’s intention to invest in farmland …
- … Darwin paid a deposit of £620 on 7 April 1845 for the purchase of the farm at Beesby (R. …
- … Alford 15 th March 1845 Dear Sir, I have obtained the offer of another Estate in this …
To John Higgins 26 December 1859
Summary
Discusses purchase of additional land.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Higgins |
| Date: | 26 Dec 1859 |
| Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/3/2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2605 |
To John Higgins 27 May [1846]
Summary
Acknowledges receipt of draft. When does JH want the money for the new farmhouse? Bankers are Robarts, Curtis & Co. JH to pay them the rent directly.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Higgins |
| Date: | 27 May [1846] |
| Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-980 |
To John Higgins 7 June 1851
Summary
Mentions his account. Reduction in rent paid by Mr Hardy.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Higgins |
| Date: | 7 June 1851 |
| Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/45) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1432 |
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- … an agent. See Correspondence vol. 3, letter to Susan Darwin, [15 March – 2 April 1845]. …
To John Higgins 10 September [1847]
Summary
Agrees to lease land to Mr Mason. Discusses arrangements for bank draft.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Higgins |
| Date: | 10 Sept [1847] |
| Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1117 |
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- … land’ referred to in Correspondence vol. 3, letter to Emma Darwin, [7–8 February 1845] . …
To John Higgins 13 June [1860]
Summary
Discusses possible purchase of land.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Higgins |
| Date: | 13 June [1860] |
| Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/3/3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2831 |
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- … by his father, Robert Waring Darwin, in 1845 (see Correspondence vol. 3). Claythorpe farm …
To John Higgins 14 June [1848]
Summary
Discusses possible land transactions.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Higgins |
| Date: | 14 June [1848] |
| Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/20) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1185 |
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- … father’s poor health. In a will drawn up in 1845, Robert Waring Darwin had stipulated that …
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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…
Darwin in letters, 1844–1846: Building a scientific network
Summary
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 and Fatherhood
Summary
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…
Matches: 19 hits
- … 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 …
Darwin’s hothouse and lists of hothouse plants
Summary
Towards the end of 1862, Darwin resolved to build a small hothouse at Down House, for ‘experimental purposes’ (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter to J. D. Hooker, 24 December [1862], and volume 10, letter to Thomas Rivers, 15 January 1863). The decision…
Matches: 1 hits
- … vol. 3, letter to Charles Lyell, 8 October [1845] ). Having indulged his senses, Darwin …
John Murray
Summary
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
Summary
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
Summary
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…
Jemmy Button (Orundellico)
Summary
Jemmy Button was known as Orundellico among the Yahgan, or canoe people of the southern part of Tierra del Fuego. He was the fourth hostage taken by FitzRoy in 1830 following the theft of the small surveying boat. This fourteen-year old boy was called…
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Journal of researches
Summary
The Journal of researches, Darwin’s account of his travels round the world in H.M.S. Beagle, was his first published book. The circumstances of its publication were not shaped by Darwin, however, but by the Beagle’s captain, Robert FitzRoy, who, according…
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
Summary
The Darwins' son George Howard Darwin born
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- … The Darwins' son George Howard Darwin born …
Fuegia Basket (Yokcushlu)
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Fuegia Basket was known as Yokcushlu among the Alakaluf, or canoe people from the western part of Tierra del Fuego. She was one of the hostages seized by Robert FitzRoy, 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 the crustacean sub-class Cirripedia between 1851 and 1854, two on living species and two on fossil species. These were systematic monographs, written for a specialist audience, and as such are probably among the most…
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- … In the course of discussions about species in the autumn of 1845, his close friend Joseph Dalton …
Darwin’s observations on his children
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Charles Darwin’s observations on the development of his children,[1] 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…
Boat Memory
Summary
Boat Memory was one of the indigenous people from Tierra del Fuego brought back to England by Robert FitzRoy in 1830, but he remains as ghostly a figure as his name. What he was called by his own people is unknown, but the name Boat Memory, chosen by…
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- … London: Hodder and Stoughton. Darwin, C. R. 1845. Journal of researches into the natural …
Bartholomew James Sulivan
Summary
On Christmas Day 1866, Bartholomew Sulivan sat down to write a typically long and chatty letter to his old friend, Charles Darwin, commiserating on shared ill-health, glorying in the achievements of their children, offering to collect plant specimens, and…
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- … distinguished. He saw action at the siege of Montevideo in 1845 when British and French naval forces …
York Minster (Elleparu)
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York Minster was known as Elleparu among the Alakaluf, or canoe people from the western part of Tierra del Fuego. He was captured by FitzRoy in 1830 after one the small boats used for surveying the narrow inlets of the coast of Tierra del Fuego had been…
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- … London: Hodder and Stoughton. Darwin, C. R. 1845. Journal of researches into the natural …
Robert FitzRoy
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Robert FitzRoy was captain of HMS Beagle when Darwin was aboard. From 1831 to 1836 the two men lived in the closest proximity, their relationship revealed by the letters they exchanged while Darwin left the ship to explore the countries visited during the…
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- … of New Zealand in 1843, but was relieved of this post in 1845 after he worsened (through his support …
Darwin in letters, 1837–1843: The London years to 'natural selection'
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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…
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- … and G. A. W. Arnott 1836, 1841; J. D. Hooker 1844–7, 1845, 1846, 1853–5, and 1860). In 1980, two …
