From John Murray 6 January [1876]
Summary
At last, Expression is beginning to sell again.
Cooke has not yet decided on number of Variation [2d ed.] to print.
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Jan [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 481 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10347 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872. Murray, John. 1908–9. Darwin and his …
- … p. 540). Of 7000 copies printed of the first edition of Expression in 1872, 6200 were sold …
- … immediately ( Nature , 14 November 1872, p. 35). A total of 2404 …
- … second print run of 2000 made in December 1872, and only 7 had been sold at the trade sale …
- … 20, letter from R. F. Cooke, 6 December 1872 ; Correspondence vol. 21, letter from John …
To Robert Bell 14 April [1876]
Summary
Suspects that the reported skeleton of a tailed man is that of some distinct animal [see 10432].
Amused by brief visit of strange man about whom RB had written.
Hopes that geology continues to flourish in Canada.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Bell |
| Date: | 14 Apr [1876] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10450 |
To John Murray 15 November 1876
Summary
Is satisfied with sales of his books.
Did not expect Orchids to sell more than 600 or 700 copies.
Only bad item is Expression, which astonishes him, since it sells well in Germany.
Asks size of printing of Cross and self-fertilisation; thinks 1500 would be ample.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 15 Nov 1876 |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 306–7) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10672 |
From Friedrich Hildebrand 6 December 1876
Summary
Repeated maize crosses without success: i.e., in most cases yellow and red varieties did not produce fertile offspring.
| Author: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Dec 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 214 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10701 |
From H. N. Moseley 3 November 1876
Summary
Sends a Japanese book illustrating the expression of emotions.
| Author: | Henry Nottidge Moseley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Nov 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 254 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10661 |
From Nemo [1876?]
Summary
A believer in evolution seeks to convince CD that a spiritual creative force, rather than natural selection, explains its operation.
| Author: | Nemo |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1876?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10333 |
To Francis Darwin 27 [September 1876]
Summary
Sends last chapter of Orchids [1877] for revision.
Has some articles that might interest FD.
Has invited Ferdinand Cohn and his wife to Down but hopes they will not come.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 27 [Sept 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10621 |
To G. H. Darwin 2 May [1876]
Summary
Comments on the reaction of geologists to GHD’s work on elevation of continents.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 2 May [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 53 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10493 |
From Hubert Airy 2 May 1876
Summary
On his new paper for Royal Society on a point of leaf arrangement. Asks CD to communicate it and "gives some details of its contents", e.g., recorded observations of changing leaf-order on individual specimens.
Comments on a paper by George Henslow ["Helianthus tuberosus", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 26 (1876): 647].
| Author: | Hubert Airy |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 May 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 30 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10490 |
To William Bowman 1 June [1876]
Summary
Regrets he cannot hear lecture by F. C. Donders.
Hopes to see WB before he returns home.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bowman, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 1 June [1876] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10521 |
From Robert Bell 28 March 1876
Summary
Encloses letter printed in the Toronto Globe about the discovery on Prince Edward Island of a skeleton of a tailed man.
| Author: | Robert Bell |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Mar 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 127 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10432 |
From John Tyndall 2 February 1876
Summary
Tells CD of his engagement to Louisa, eldest daughter of Lord Claud Hamilton.
His investigations [into spontaneous generation] continue. He will deal with Bastian’s work [The modes of origin of lowest organisms (1871)].
The medical journals see that the end of the nonsense they have so long countenanced is nigh.
| Author: | John Tyndall |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Feb 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: C20–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10377 |
From Giovanni Canestrini 6 May 1876
Summary
Two parts of the second edition of the Italian translation of Variation are already out.
Expression will soon follow [published in 1878].
The publisher [Unione] asks CD to give him the right of Italian translations of his works.
| Author: | Giovanni Canestrini |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 May 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 38 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10499 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872. Insectivorous plants. By Charles Darwin. …
From T. W. Clarke 12 January 1876
Summary
Two photographs of T. W. Clarke, Jr, aged three, offered as examples of expression.
| Author: | Thomas William Clarke |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Jan 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 170 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10355 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … of the emotions in man and animals. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872. …
From B. J. Edwards & Co. 16 February 1876
Summary
Sends set of illustrations for Expression marked to show those that could be improved for a future edition.
| Author: | B. J. Edwards & Co. |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Feb 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 163: 2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10398 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … of the emotions in man and animals. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872. …
From W. H. Patterson 24 April 1876
Summary
Observations on expression and variation in cats.
| Author: | William Hugh Patterson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Apr 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 174: 28 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10469 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872. Variation : The variation of animals and …
To Ernst Haeckel 21 January [1876]
Summary
EH’s Arabische Korallen is spirited, clear, and poetical. With respect to formation of islands, thinks EH lays too much stress on views of Ehrenberg. Admires drawings.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Date: | 21 Jan [1876] |
| Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1:1-52/ 37 [9890]) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10363 |
To George King 19 September 1876
Summary
Would like to see the pigeons, though he is not likely to work on the subject again. When he hears from Dr Scully, he will present them to the British Museum.
Has not had time to use the information about earthworms yet, but hopes to use it in about a year’s time.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George King |
| Date: | 19 Sept 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 112 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10610F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … sent CD worm-castings from South India in 1872 and from the south of France in 1873 (see …
From J. G. Fenwick 17 March 1876
Summary
Recounts family trait of excessive orderliness
and the behaviour of his dog.
| Author: | John George Fenwick |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Mar 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 117 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10418 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … of the emotions in man and animals. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872. …
To Hubert Airy 27 January [1876?]
Summary
Agrees to aid HA in applying for membership in a society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hubert Airy |
| Date: | 27 Jan [1876?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10369 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Airy , was a fellow of the Royal Society and had been president in 1872–3 ( ODNB ). …
| letter | (38) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (14) |
| Moseley, H. N. | (2) |
| Airy, Hubert | (1) |
| B. J. Edwards & Co. | (1) |
| Bell, Robert (b) | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (24) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (2) |
| Airy, Hubert | (1) |
| Bell, Robert (b) | (1) |
| Bowman, William | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (38) |
| Moseley, H. N. | (3) |
| Airy, Hubert | (2) |
| Bell, Robert (b) | (2) |
| Carus, J. V. | (2) |
Darwin in letters, 1872: Job done?
Summary
'My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, 'is so nearly closed. . . What little more I can do, shall be chiefly new work’, and the tenor of his correspondence throughout the year is one of wistful reminiscence, coupled with a keen eye…
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- … ‘My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, ‘is so nearly closed. . . What little more I can …
- … as evolution’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 27 July [1872] ). By the end of the year Darwin …
- … s. 6 d. ( letter from R. F. Cooke, 12 February 1872 ). Always closely involved in …
- … translator ( letter to J. J. Moulinié, 23 September 1872 ). He recapped the history of the French …
- … of the year ( letter from C.-F. Reinwald, 23 November 1872 ). To persuade his US publisher, …
- … Mivart ( letter to St G. J. Mivart, 11 January [1872] ). A worsening breach The …
- … beautiful’ ( letter from A. R. Wallace, 3 March 1872 ). I consider that you have …
- … Darwin ( letter to St G. J. Mivart, 5 January 1872 ). Piqued, Mivart flung back by return of post …
- … errors’ ( letter from St G. J. Mivart, 6 January 1872 ). Darwin likened the affair to the …
- … towards me’ ( letter to St G. J. Mivart, 8 January [1872] ). Despite Darwin’s request that he …
- … world’ ( letter from St G. J. Mivart, 10 January 1872 ). Darwin, determined to have the last …
- … acknowledge it ( letter to St G. J. Mivart, 11 January [1872] ). 'I hate controversy,’ Darwin …
- … I do it badly’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 3 August [1872] ). Darwin's theories under …
- … the world moves!’ ( letter from Mary Treat, 13 December 1872 ). 'Here is a bee' …
- … it at least in part ( letter to August Weismann, 5 April 1872 ). ‘I wanted some encouragement’, he …
- … to believe it’ ( letter to Herman Müller, [before 5 May 1872] ). Müller had sent him a …
- … of natural and sexual selection to bees (H. Müller 1872), and with his reply Darwin enclosed an …
- … standing’ ( letter to Hermann Müller, [before 5 May 1872] ). Finishing Expression …
- … doing nothing’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 22 October [1872] ). He was far from idle during their …
- … to be more erect’ ( letter to Briton Riviere, 19 May [1872] ). Riviere had been suggested to …
- … clever book’ ( letter to J. M. Herbert, 21 November 1872 ) and invited Butler to dinner the …
- … from Samuel Butler to Francis Darwin, [before 30 May 1872] , and letter from Samuel Butler, 30 …
- … feels no doubts’ ( letter to F. C. Donders, 17 June 1872 ). Right up to the beginning of June, …
- … Buckley Litchfield ( letter to H. E. Litchfield, 13 May 1872 ). Delivery to the press brought only …
- … myself’ ( letter to H. E. Litchfield, 25 July 1872 ). A battle for the independence of …
- … partisan reply ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 14 May 1872 ). On 13 June, a messenger arrived in …
- … to letter from John Lubbock to W. E. Gladstone, 20 June 1872 ). Darwin was quietly using his …
- … an old honest Tory’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 July [1872] ). Darwin and Wallace: …
- … Wallace’s defence ( letter to Nature , 3 August [1872] ). Although the two men were …
Diagrams and drawings in letters
Summary
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,…
New features for Charles Darwin's 208th birthday
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The website has been updated with an interactive timeline (try it!) and enhanced secondary school resources for ages 11-14. What's more, the full texts of the letters for 1872 are now online for the first time, and a selection of Darwin's…
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…
Referencing women’s work
Summary
Darwin's correspondence shows that women made significant contributions to Darwin's work, but whether and how they were acknowledged in print involved complex considerations of social standing, professional standing, and personal preference.…
Matches: 7 hits
- … Letter 8321 - Darwin to Litchfield, H. E., [13 May 1872] Darwin consults his …
- … Letter 7345 - Wedgwood, L. C. to Darwin, [15 June 1872] Darwin’s niece, Lucy, reports …
- … Letter 8427 - Darwin to Litchfield H. E., [25 July 1872] Darwin thanks Henrietta for …
- … 8168 - Ruck, A. R. to Darwin, H., [20 January 1872] Amy Ruck reports the results …
- … 8193 - Ruck, A. R. to Darwin, H., [1 February 1872] Amy Ruck sends a second …
- … Letter 8224 - Darwin to Ruck, A. R., [24 February 1872] Darwin asks his …
- … Letter 7345 - Wedgwood, L. C. to Darwin, [15 June 1872] Darwin’s niece, Lucy, reports …
Women’s scientific participation
Summary
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…
Matches: 9 hits
- … Letter 8676 - Treat, M. to Darwin, [13 December 1872] Mary Treat details her …
- … Letter 8683 - Roberts, D. to Darwin, [17 December 1872] Dora Roberts reports an …
- … 8144 - Darwin to Wedgwood, L. C., [5 January 1872] Darwin asks his niece, Lucy, …
- … 8168 - Ruck, A. R . to Darwin, H., [20 January 1872] Amy Ruck reports the results …
- … Letter 8224 - Darwin to Ruck, A. R., [24 February 1872] Darwin asks his …
- … Letter 8169 - Wedgwood, L. to Darwin, [20 January, 1872] Darwin’s niece, Lucy, gives the …
- … 8427 - Darwin to Litc hfield, H. E., [25 July 1872] Darwin thanks Henrietta for …
- … 8153 - Darwin to Darwin, W. E., [9 January 1872] Darwin thanks his son William …
- … Letter 8676 - Treat, M. to Darwin, [13 December 1872] Mary Treat details her …
Capturing Darwin’s voice: audio of selected letters
Summary
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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- … Lydia Becker, 2 August 1863 ; to Mary Treat, 5 January 1872 ). Click on the play …
Language: key letters
Summary
How and why language evolved bears on larger questions about the evolution of the human species, and the relationship between man and animals. Darwin presented his views on the development of human speech from animal sounds in The Descent of Man (1871),…
Survival of the fittest: the trouble with terminology Part II
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The most forceful and persistent critic of the term ‘natural selection’ was the co-discoverer of the process itself, Alfred Russel Wallace. Wallace seized on Herbert Spencer’s term ‘survival of the fittest’, explicitly introduced as an alternative way of…
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- … the fittest’ as ‘survival of the better’ (see Spencer 1872, and the letter to Herbert Spencer, 10 …
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…
Darwin as mentor
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Darwin provided advice, encouragement and praise to his fellow scientific 'labourers' of both sexes. Selected letters Letter 2234 - Darwin to Unidentified, [5 March 1858] Darwin advises that Professor C. P. Smyth’s observations are not…
Have you read the one about....
Summary
... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some serious - but all letters you can read here.
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- … ... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some …
4.13 'Fun' cartoon by Griset, 'Emotional'
Summary
< Back to Introduction Ernest Griset’s drawing titled ‘Emotional!’ was published in Fun magazine on 23 November 1872, and is another skit referring to Darwin’s recently published Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. A hippopotamus had been…
Thomas Rivers
Summary
Rivers and Darwin exchanged around 30 letters, most in 1863 when Darwin was hard at work on the manuscript of Variation of plants and animals under domestication, the lengthy and detailed sequel to Origin of species. Rivers, an experienced plant breeder…
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- … for the prosperity I have long enjoyed” ( 29 March 1872 ). …
4.5 William Beard, comic painting
Summary
< Back to Introduction In June 1872, Darwin’s friend Asa Gray, the Harvard Professor of Botany, sent him a print or photograph of a comic painting by the American artist William Holbrook Beard. Titled The Youthful Darwin Expounding His Theories, it…
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Climbing Plants
Summary
Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment A monograph by which to work After the publication of On the Origin of Species, Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, The Descent of Man, and The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals in…
Earthworms
Summary
As with many of Darwin’s research topics, his interest in worms spanned nearly his entire working life. Some of his earliest correspondence about earthworms was written and received in the 1830s, shortly after his return from his Beagle voyage, and his…
Darwin in letters, 1874: A turbulent year
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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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3.16 Oscar Rejlander, photos
Summary
< 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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- … book The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872) led him to the Swedish-born …
- … him in May, August and October 1871, and in March and August 1872, but some of these payments, and …
- … April 1871, and reproduced in the London Journal in June 1872. Darwin also sent it to various …
- … one of Huxley, in The London Journal , 55:1426 (8 June 1872), p. 357, illustrating an article …
4.20 Frederick Waddy, caricature
Summary
< Back to Introduction A series of portrait caricatures drawn by Frederick Waddy appeared in the journal Once a Week through 1872. It clearly emulated the more famous series in Vanity Fair, and indeed, Waddy’s drawing of Darwin has the same title or…
