To George Charles Wallich 18 April [1869]
Summary
Regrets he cannot come to London to be photographed [for GCW’s Eminent men of the day (1870)]. Invites GCW to Down.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Charles Wallich |
| Date: | 18 Apr [1869] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.374) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6701 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … London to be photographed [for GCW’s Eminent men of the day (1870)]. Invites GCW to Down. …
- … for Southampton in 1861 (see Correspondence vol. 9). Wallich 1870 had sixteen plates. …
- … Press. 1985–. Wallich, George Charles. 1870. Eminent men of the day. Scientific series. …
- … Wallich’s Eminent men of the day ( Wallich 1870 ), and from the form of the address, which …
- … CD began to use in April 1869. The preface of Wallich 1870 is …
- … dated May 1870. CD had corresponded in 1860 with Wallich about the results of deep-sea …
- … photographs of eminent scientists ( Wallich 1870 ). CD’s photograph does not appear in the …
To Alphonse de Candolle 11 October 1869
Summary
Thanks AdeC for his interesting letter [6915]. The experiment strikes CD as a very valuable one. CD has forwarded the letter to Hooker, who is glad to make the trial. CD will have many experiments in progress next spring but he will open the packet of seeds and if they are numerous, will try a few himself.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alphonse de Candolle |
| Date: | 11 Oct 1869 |
| Classmark: | Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6933 |
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- … parents (see Correspondence vol. 18, letter to T. H. Farrer, 28 May [ 1870] ). …
To ? 30 October [1869 or 1870]
Summary
Comments on a case of crossing distant plants of Habenaria
and on hermaphroditism in hybrid plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 30 Oct [1869-70] |
| Classmark: | King Edward VI High School, Stafford |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6961A |
To Eduard Koch 4 November 1869
Summary
Thanks EK for Julius Dub’s work [see 6961].
Has sent the new [5th] edition of Origin to Carus.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Eduard Koch |
| Date: | 4 Nov 1869 |
| Classmark: | Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart (Cod. hist. 4o 333a. No 77, 4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6969 |
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- … The references are to Julius Dub and Dub 1870 ; see letter from Eduard Koch, 30 October …
- … 1869 . There is a copy of Dub 1870 in the Darwin Library–Down. CD refers to Julius Victor …
- … edition of Origin (Bronn and Carus trans. 1870); see letter from Eduard Koch, 30 October …
- … London: John Murray. 1871. Dub, Julius. 1870. Kurze Darstellung der Lehre Darwin’s über …
To Louis Rérolle 2 August [1869]
Summary
Gives the definition of ‘distal’ and explains what ‘thrips’ are. Suggests that LR uses his descretion in his translation of Orchids about certain descriptive phrases such as ‘saddle-formed’, but suggests he use them each at least once.
Declines offer to look over LR’s translation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Louis Rérolle |
| Date: | 2 Aug [1869] |
| Classmark: | Aguttes (dealers) (20 February 2020, lot 240) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6848F |
To Julius Dub 20 March 1869
Summary
CD will supply the sheets of the new edition of the Origin [5th ed. (1869)] if JD goes ahead with his work [Kurze Darstellung der Lehre Darwin’s über die Entstehung der Arten der Organismen (1870)]. Has no objection to JD’s quoting him, but wonders whether the German publisher of Origin might not feel injured.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Christoph Julius (Julius) Dub |
| Date: | 20 Mar 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 62, 64 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6673 |
To ? 6 April [1869–71]
Summary
"My experiment was intended solely to show that colour reappeared, and I choose kinds which breed [true] to colour, as is certainly the case with [sports] and those which I tried . . .
I have recorded an undoubted case of wild rock Pigeons caught in Scotland having bred in confinement …"
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 6 Apr [1869-71] |
| Classmark: | L’Autographe (dealers) (Catalogue 21) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6098A |
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- … Catalogue 21) Charles Robert Darwin Down 6 Apr 1869 6 Apr 1870 6 Apr 1871 Unidentified …
To Anton Dohrn 25 December 1869
Summary
Thanks AD for his work. CD regrets he is not a better German scholar, but he must endeavour to understand AD’s views.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
| Date: | 25 Dec 1869 |
| Classmark: | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Ana 525. Ba 696) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7035 |
To John Murray 8 November [1869]
Summary
Masson et Fils have brought out a third French edition [of Origin] without informing CD and without the advantage of the corrections of the 4th and 5th English editions. For this and other reasons CD wants to give translation rights for the 5th English edition to C. Reinwald.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 8 Nov [1869] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 205–6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6977 |
To Charles Lyell 20 March [1869]
Summary
Discusses views of Wallace, H. N. Moseley, and Croll on the mechanics of glacier movement.
Comments on Wallace’s new book [The Malay Archipelago (1869)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 20 Mar [1869] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.367) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6672 |
To James Orton 7 October [1869]
Summary
Has forwarded the horse’s tooth, sent by JO, to Huxley, who may be able to identify it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Orton |
| Date: | 7 Oct [1869] |
| Classmark: | University of Oklahoma Libraries History of Science Collections |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6925 |
To J. J. Moulinié 23 October [1869]
Summary
Would be delighted to have JJM translate new book [Descent].
Can CD legally bring out new edition of Origin in France with new publisher? Has been ill-used by V. Masson and C. Royer. Wants edition without Royer’s preface.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Jean Jacques Moulinié |
| Date: | 23 Oct [1869] |
| Classmark: | Bibliothèque de Genève (Ms. suppl. 66, ff. 11–12) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6955 |
To M. C. Lloyd 4 August [1869]
Summary
Encloses letter from W. B. Dawkins concerning "our old savage progenitors with their ground-down teeth".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Mary Charlotte Lloyd |
| Date: | 4 Aug [1869] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.373) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6852 |
To T. Thompson 9 October 1869
Summary
Writes, as county magistrate, in an attempt to get payment from the Club for a Mr Reeves.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | T. Thompson |
| Date: | 9 Oct 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 60 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6927 |
To A. B. Meyer 27 November [1869]
Summary
Not willing to sit for photographer again.
ABM’s translation of Wallace’s Malay Archipelago has not yet arrived.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Adolf Bernhard Meyer |
| Date: | 27 Nov [1869] |
| Classmark: | DAR 146: 362 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7014 |
To Charles Layton 24 November [1869]
Summary
CD long anxious for new American edition of Origin to incorporate corrections since 2d ed. [of 1860]; believes such updating has kept English and continental sales high. If Appleton unable to comply, he will ask Asa Gray to find another publisher.
Mentions possible arrangements for U. S. edition of new book [Descent].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles James (Charles) Layton |
| Date: | 24 Nov [1869] |
| Classmark: | Marshall Rare Books (dealer) (January 2022) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7007 |
To Charles Layton 26 November [1869]
Summary
The 5th edition of Origin was printed some months previously and stereotypes cannot be supplied.
If Appletons will reprint the 5th edition of Origin in America, he pledges to supply stereotypes, if possible, or the sheets as printed if not, of his new book (Descent).
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles James (Charles) Layton |
| Date: | 26 Nov [1869] |
| Classmark: | Bonhams, New York (dealers) (13 June 2019, lot 5) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7012F |
To J. V. Carus 22 October [1869]
Summary
His book [Descent] will not be ready for a year because of his health and the laboriousness of work on sexual selection. Has deferred arrangements for German translation, but would feel secure with JVC. Carl Vogt has offered to translate it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Date: | 22 Oct [1869] |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 43–44) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6954 |
To the editors of the Annals and Magazine of Natural History 23 July 1869
Summary
CD passes on notes prepared for the French translation of Orchids so that his book may be brought up to date in English as well.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Annals and Magazine of Natural History |
| Date: | 23 July 1869 |
| Classmark: | Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4th ser. 4 (1869): 142 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6840A |
Matches: 1 hit
- … CD refers to Orchids and Rérolle trans. 1870. For more on CD’s additions, see the letter …
To Victor Masson [after 29 September 1869]
Summary
Is annoyed that a new French edition of Origin [1870] has been prepared without making use of the corrections CD made in the 5th English edition [1869].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | V. Masson et fils |
| Date: | [after 29 Sept 1869] |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 61 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6916 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … annoyed that a new French edition of Origin [1870] has been prepared without making use of …
| Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
| Unidentified | (4) |
| Carus, J. V. | (2) |
| Koch, Eduard | (2) |
| Layton, Charles | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (42) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
| Unidentified | (4) |
| Carus, J. V. | (2) |
| Koch, Eduard | (2) |
Darwin in letters,1870: Human evolution
Summary
The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the year at work on the Descent of Man & Selection in relation to Sex’. Descent was the culmination of over three decades of observations and reflections on…
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- … The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The …
- … machine’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 25 December [1870] ). Finishing Descent; …
- … some weeks’ ( letter to Albert Günther, 13 January [1870] ). Darwin was still working hard on …
- … I shall be’ ( letter to H. E. Darwin, [8 February 1870] ). She had previously read proof-sheets …
- … shd. turn parson?’ ( letter to H. E. Darwin, [8 February 1870] ). Henrietta disagreed: ‘Certainly …
- … of man!’ ( letter from H. E. Darwin, [after 8 February 1870] ). Darwin was also encouraged …
- … sense of mankind’ ( letter to F. P. Cobbe, 23 March [1870?] ). Cobbe accused Darwin of smiling in …
- … great philosophy?’ ( letter from F. P. Cobbe, 28 March [1870?] ). Humans as animals: ears …
- … [1868] ; this volume, letter to Thomas Woolner, 10 March [1870] ). Darwin included Woolner’s …
- … findings ( letter from James Crichton-Browne, 15 March 1870 ). Indeed, Darwin noted the same …
- … bane of existence!’ ( letter to William Ogle, 9 November 1870 ). Researching expression: …
- … spirits were white ( letter from W. W. Reade, 9 November 1870 ). Keen for more evidence of …
- … hurting it much?’ ( letter to A. D. Bartlett, 5 January [1870] ). Darwin made a similar request of …
- … not succeed’ ( letter to James Crichton-Browne, 8 June [1870] ). Darwin’s queries were part …
- … of a baby’s brows ( letter from L. C. Wedgwood, [5 May 1870] ). He also wrote to a leading Dutch …
- … on this subject’ ( letter from F. C. Donders, 17 May 1870 ). Human evolution: debates and …
- … more fully in a collection of essays published in April 1870 (Wallace 1870a). Wallace wrote to …
- … naturalist’ (letter to A. R.Wallace, 26 January [1870]). Despite their increasing …
- … in one sense rivals’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 20 April [1870] ). Darwin alluded here to the …
- … No one but yourself’ ( letter from H. W. Bates, 20 May 1870 ). Darwin very rarely used the …
- … never write reviews’ ( letter to H. W. Bates, [22 May 1870] ). St George Jackson Mivart …
- … to answer objectors’ ( letter to W. H. Flower, 25 March [1870] ). In his letters to Mivart, Darwin …
- … on the Primates’ ( letter to St G. J. Mivart, 23 April [1870] ). He also tried to recruit Mivart’s …
- … lump of granite’ ( letter from St G. J. Mivart, 22 April 1870 ). Mivart hinted that his …
- … his “origin” ( letter from St G. J. Mivart, 25 April 1870 ). In his critical essays (later revised …
- … Charles Darwin et ses précurseurs français (Quatrefages 1870), that gave a detailed account, as …
- … many others’ ( letter to Armand de Quatrefages, 28 May [1870] ). Quatrefages had …
- … discord’ ( letter from Armand de Quatrefages, 30 March 1870 ). In proposing Darwin for election, …
- … them’ ( letter from Armand de Quatrefages, 18 July 1870 ). The assertion had been made by Emile …
Darwin’s queries on expression
Summary
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…
Matches: 12 hits
- … Brooke, C.A.J. 30 Nov 1870 Sarawak, Borneo …
- … Crichton-Browne, James 15 March 1870 West Riding …
- … Crichton-Browne, James 18 March 1870 Down, Kent, …
- … Donders, F.C. 27 May 1870 Utrecht, Netherlands …
- … Forbes, David 13 June 1870 Portman Square, London W. …
- … Nicol, Patrick 13 May 1870 Sussex Lunatic Asylum, …
- … Reade, Winwood W. [c.8 or 9 Apr 1870] Accra, West …
- … Reade, Winwood W. 4 June 1870 Lagos, Africa …
- … Reade, Winwood W. 3 Sept 1870 Conservative Club, St …
- … Reade, Winwood W. 9 Nov 1870 11 St Mary Abbot's …
- … Weale, J.P.M. [25 May 1870] Bedford, Cape of Good …
- … Weir, J.J. 27 June 1870 Blackheath, London, England …
Women as a scientific audience
Summary
Target audience? | Female readership | Reading Variation Darwin's letters, in particular those exchanged with his editors and publisher, reveal a lot about his intended audience. Regardless of whether or not women were deliberately targeted as a…
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- … Letter 7124 - Darwin to Darwin, H. E., [8 February 1870] Darwin seeks Henrietta’s …
- … Letter 7329 - Murray , J. to Darwin, [28 September 1870] Written shortly before …
- … Letter 7331 - Darwin to Murray, J., [29 September 1870] Darwin asks Murray to …
- … Letter 7177 - Cupples, G. to Darwin, [29 April 1870] George Cupples tells Darwin about a …
Francis Darwin
Summary
Known to his family as ‘Frank’, Charles Darwin’s seventh child himself became a distinguished scientist. He was an undergraduate at Trinity College, Cambridge, initially studying mathematics, but then transferring to natural sciences. Francis completed…
Jane Gray
Summary
Jane Loring Gray, the daughter of a Boston lawyer, married the Harvard botanist Asa Gray in 1848 and evidence suggests that she took an active interest in the scientific pursuits of her husband and his friends. Although she is only known to have…
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- … behaviour of her dog (letter from J. L. Gray, 14 February 1870 ), she also passed on information …
Casting about: Darwin on worms
Summary
Earthworms were the subject of a citizen science project to map the distribution of earthworms across Britain (BBC Today programme, 26 May 2014). The general understanding of the role earthworms play in improving soils and providing nutrients for plants to…
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- … on my mind’ ( letter to W. T. Preyer, 17 February [1870 ])) that without earthworms aerating the …
Francis Galton
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Galton was a naturalist, statistician, and evolutionary theorist. He was a second cousin of Darwin’s, having descended from his grandfather, Erasmus. Born in Birmingham in 1822, Galton studied medicine at King’s College, London, and also read mathematics…
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- … more litters & no happy results”, he wrote on 26 April 1870 . In the following year, Galton …
Capturing Darwin’s voice: audio of selected letters
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On a sunny Wednesday in June 2011 in a makeshift recording studio somewhere in Cambridge, we were very pleased to welcome Terry Molloy back to the Darwin Correspondence Project for a special recording session. Terry, known for his portrayal of Davros in Dr…
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- … of Descent (letter to H. E. Darwin, [8 February 1870] ). Audio of more …
Darwin and Gender Projects by Harvard Students
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Working in collaboration with Professor Sarah Richardson and Dr Myrna Perez, Darwin Correspondence Project staff developed a customised set of 'Darwin and Gender' themed resources for a course on Gender, Sex and Evolution first taught at Harvard…
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- … grateful I shall be.”(Letter to Darwin, H. E., [8 Feb 1870] ) Although Miranda acknowledges that …
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…
Experimenting with emotions
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Darwin’s interest in emotions can be traced as far back as the Beagle voyage. He was fascinated by the sounds and gestures of the peoples of Tierra del Fuego. On his return, he started recording observations in a set of notebooks, later labelled '…
John Lubbock
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John Lubbock was eight years old when the Darwins moved into the neighbouring property of Down House, Down, Kent; the total of one hundred and seventy surviving letters he went on to exchange with Darwin is a large number considering that the two men lived…
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Evolution: Selected Letters of Charles Darwin 1860-1870
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This selection of Charles Darwin’s letters includes correspondence with his friends and scientific colleagues around the world; letters by the critics who tried to stamp out his ideas, and by admirers who helped them to spread. It takes up the story of…
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- … you owe any more … Darwin to his son Francis, 1870. …
Women’s scientific participation
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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
3.16 Oscar Rejlander, photos
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< Back to Introduction Darwin’s plans for the illustration of his book The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872) led him to the Swedish-born painter and photographer, Oscar Gustaf Rejlander. Rejlander gave Darwin the notes that he had…
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- … Photograph: Authenticity, Science and the Periodical Press, 1870 – 1890 (London and New York: …
Photograph album of Dutch admirers
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Darwin received the photograph album for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from his scientific admirers in the Netherlands. He wrote to the Dutch zoologist Pieter Harting, An account of your countrymen’s generous sympathy in having sent me on my…
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- … & I feel deeply for you. ( Letter to F. C. Donders, 19 May 1870 ) …
Darwin in public and private
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Extracts from Darwin's published works, in particular Descent of man, and selected letters, explore Darwin's views on the operation of sexual selection in humans, and both his publicly and privately expressed views on its practical implications…
Science: A Man’s World?
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Discussion Questions|Letters Darwin's correspondence show that many nineteenth-century women participated in the world of science, be it as experimenters, observers, editors, critics, producers, or consumers. Despite this, much of the…
Darwin on race and gender
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Darwin’s views on race and gender are intertwined, and mingled also with those of class. In Descent of man, he tried to explain the origin of human races, and many of the differences between the sexes, with a single theory: sexual selection. Sexual…
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- … Key letters : Letter to H. E. Darwin, [8 February 1870] Letter from Mary Treat, …
Moral Nature
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In Descent of Man, Darwin argued that human morality had evolved from the social instincts of animals, especially the bonds of sympathy and love. Darwin gathered observations over many decades on animal behavior: the heroic sacrifices of social insects,…
