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To the Darwin children   8 January 1882

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Advises his children as to how some money will be distributed among them.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin; Francis Darwin; George Howard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Leonard Darwin; William Erasmus Darwin; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:  8 Jan 1882
Classmark:  DAR 185: 60
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13603

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  • … To the Darwin children   8 January 1882
  • … DAR 185: 60 Charles Robert Darwin Down 8 Jan 1882 Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin Francis …
  • … Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R. ) Jan 8 th . 1882 Circular of Distribution of 3034 £ , …

From John Lubbock to Francis Darwin   22 February 1882

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Returns certificate he has signed with pleasure.

Emma Darwin will be interested to hear that Charles Bradlaugh was expelled from Parliament.

Author:  John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  22 Feb 1882
Classmark:  Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (6 April 2022, lot 237)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13697F

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  • … From John Lubbock to Francis Darwin   22 February 1882
  • … John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury Hayes, Kent 22 Feb 1882 Francis Darwin …
  • … Bradlaugh’s expulsion from Parliament was reported in The Times , 23 February 1882, p. 8. …
  • … see letter to H. W. Bates, 17 February 1882 ). Charles Bradlaugh had been repeatedly …
  • … to George Howard Darwin on 28 February 1882 (DAR 210.3: 41), Emma Darwin wrote, ‘The …

From James Niven to Francis Darwin   12 March 1882

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Sends [for CD’s possible use] his observations on spines of fir used by worms to block burrows.

Author:  James Niven
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  12 Mar 1882
Classmark:  DAR 64.2: 101–2
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13726

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  • … From James Niven to Francis Darwin   12 March 1882
  • … DAR 64.2: 101–2 James Niven Manchester 12 Mar 1882 Francis Darwin …

From William Graham to Francis Darwin   [after 20 April 1882]

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Sends enclosed letters and hopes they are not too late. Letter of 8 July 1881 important because it contains clear statement of CD’s attitude to religious questions.

Author:  William Graham
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  [after 20 Apr 1882]
Classmark:  DAR 144: 483
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13769G

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  • … From William Graham to Francis Darwin   [after 20 April 1882] …
  • … DAR 144: 483 William Graham [after 20 Apr 1882] Francis Darwin …
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Darwin in letters, 1882: Nothing too great or too small

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In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and for the first time in decades he was not working on another book. He remained active in botanical research, however. Building on his recent studies in plant…

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  • … In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the …
  • … is nearly run’ ( letter to Lawson Tait, 13 February 1882 ). His condition worsened in March. …
  • … styled plants ( letter from Fritz Müller, 1 January 1882 , and letter to Fritz Müller, 4 January …
  • … any extra labour’ ( letter to G. J. Romanes, 6 January 1882 ). The finished paper, ‘On new …
  • … effects on chlorophyll ( letter to Joseph Fayrer, 30 March 1882 ). He received a specimen of …
  • … one plant or animal!’ ( letter to Henry Groves, 3 April 1882 ). He wrote to an American in Kansas …
  • … experimentising on them’ ( letter to J. E. Todd, 10 April 1882 ). While enthusiasm drove him, …
  • … affects my heart’ ( letter to Henry Groves, 3 April 1882 ). Earthworms and evolution …
  • … Murray, carried an anonymous article on the book in January 1882. The reviewer’s assessment was …
  • … researches themselves’ ( Quarterly Review , January 1882, p. 179). Darwin commented at length on …
  • … about evolution’ ( letter to John Murray, 21 January 1882 ). The author was in fact the clergyman …
  • … down the sides’ ( letter from J. F. Simpson, 7 January 1882 ). The agricultural chemist Joseph …
  • … me greatly’ ( letter from J. H. Gilbert, 9 January 1882, and letter to J. H. Gilbert, 12 …
  • … best of the fight’ ( letter from G. F. Crawte, 11 March 1882 ). The battle apparently ended in a …
  • … edited by the American educator Emily Talbot (Talbot ed. 1882). His letter to Talbot written the …
  • … the newspaper press’ ( letter from A. T. Rice, 4 February 1882 ). Rice looked to Darwin to provide …
  • … case greatly suffer’ ( letter to C. A. Kennard, 9 January 1882 ). Kennard’s reply must be read in …
  • … inferior, please ( letter from C. A. Kennard, 28 January 1882 ). Automata and vivisection …
  • … Collier sent Darwin a copy of his Primer of art (Collier 1882), which seemed to follow Darwin’s …
  • … a man, as Huxley’ ( letter to John Collier, 16 February 1882 ). Collier had married Thomas Henry …
  • … consciousness?’ ( letter from John Collier, 22 February 1882 ; T. H. Huxley 1881, pp. 199–245). …
  • … be overestimated’ ( letter to William Jenner, 20 March [1882] ; see also letter from T. L …
  • … complete rest’ ( letter to Anthony Rich, 4 February 1882 ). Horace had settled in Cambridge with …
  • … am now 73 years old’ ( letter to A. A. Reade, 13 February 1882 ). Over the month of February, …
  • … ‘I have been for some time unwell’ (Darwin pocket diary, 1882, Down House MS). On a visit to Down in …
  • … Pepsin mixture’ (letters to W. W. Baxter, 11 March 1882 and 18 March [1882 ]). Detailed …

The full edition is now online!

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For nearly fifty years successive teams of researchers on both sides of the Atlantic have been working to track down all surviving letters written by or to Charles Darwin, research their content, and publish the complete texts. The thirtieth and final…

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  • … all the letter texts – more than 15000 between 1822 and 1882 – are now published online. Like …
  • … months of Darwin's life in our Life and Letters series, 1882: Nothing too great or too small …
  • … run. ’ Letter to Lawson Tait, 13 February 1882 In early 1882, Darwin, who …
  • … as I am. ’ Letter to John Murray, 21 January 1882 Darwin was by now confident …
  • … no pain. ’ Letter to T. H. Huxley, 27 March 1882 Darwin wrote this to Thomas …
  • … Letter from Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker, [20 April 1882] Emma Darwin wrote the news of …
  • … on 20 April: this letter concludes the correspondence for 1882. The family had expected Darwin to be …

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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  • … voyage, to a letter to C. A. Kennard written on 9 January 1882 , only shortly before Darwin’s …

Correspondence with women

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We know of letters to or from around 2000 correspondents, about 100 of whom were women. Using the letter summaries available on this website, the letters can be assigned to rough categories.  Included in the count are letters to women in Darwin’s family…

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  • … case greatly suffer. (Darwin to C. A. Kennard, 9 January 1882 ) Kennard responded (C. …

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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  • … [1877] Letter to C. A. Kennard, 9 January 1882 Letter from C. A. Kennard, 28 …

4.42 'Punch' Sambourne cartoon 3

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< Back to Introduction Linley Sambourne’s last caricature of Darwin, ‘Man is But a Worm’, was published in Punch’s Almanac for 1882 on 6 December 1881, only four months before Darwin’s death. Like Sambourne’s ‘Punch’s Fancy Portraits. No. 54. Charles…

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  • … is But a Worm’, was published in Punch’s Almanac for 1882 on 6 December 1881, only four months …
  • … references and bibliography Punch’s Almanac for 1882 , issued 6 December 1881 (unpaginated). …

4.52 'Wasp' caricature

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< Back to Introduction Less than a fortnight after Darwin’s death, an irreverent portrayal of him appeared on the cover of a Californian satirical magazine. The Wasp, based in San Francisco, resembled the better-known New York magazine Puck in its…

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  • … (signed bottom right) 
 date of creation April 1882 
 computer-readable date c …
  • … cover illustration in The Wasp , 8:300 (28 April 1882). The other references to Darwin in The …

3.18 Elliott and Fry photos, c.1869-1871

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< Back to Introduction The leading photographic firm of Elliott and Fry seems to have portrayed Darwin at Down House on several occasions. In November 1869 Darwin told A. B. Meyer, who wanted photographs of both him and Wallace for a German…

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  • … the same block was re-used as the frontispiece to the June 1882 issue, which had two obituary …
  • … Police News, accompanying a notice of Darwin’s death in 1882. A vignette version of the most …
  • … signed by A. Gusman in Le Magasin Pittoresque, c. 1882 (Bridgeman Images), and a painting by …
  • … of the Emotions , pp. 434-49, and in vol. 21 (June 1882), as frontispiece, accompanying two …
  • … article in a supplement to the same journal (22 April 1882) (DAR 215.22c). It was copied in a …
  • … Photographic Studios of Europe (London: Piper and Carter, 1882), pp. 42-5, ‘Messrs Elliott & …

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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  • … your private use.” (Letter to Kennard, C.A., 9 Jan 1882 ) In this personal exchange, she finds …

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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  • … illustrate an obituary article in the same journal in April 1882. A coarser wood engraved version …
  • … (1 October 1876); L’Univers Illustré (29 April 1882); and (reversed) in La Revue Illustrée …
  • … March 1875), p. 301, reprinted in the same journal (29 April 1882), p. 428. Wood engraving in a …

4.37 'Mosquito' satire

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< Back to Introduction The Buenos Aires satirical journal Mosquito published this cartoon in May 1882, shortly after Darwin’s death, with the title ‘El Homenage a Darwin en el Teatro Nacional’ (The tribute to Darwin in the National Theatre). A…

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  • … satirical journal Mosquito published this cartoon in May 1882, shortly after Darwin’s death, …
  • … editor of Mosquito  
 date of creation May 1882 
 computer-readable …
  • … and bibliography Mosquito , year XIX, no. 1011 (21 May 1882) front page. J van Wyhe, …

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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  • … plants",  Collected papers  2: 236–56],  22 February 1882

Exercise: Caricatures of Science

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Caricatures provide intriguing insights into both ideals and transgressions of gender. The following six images show caricatured representations of nineteenth-century men and women of science. They provide insight into the boundaries of what was deemed …

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  • … width="203"] Caricature of John Lubbock (1882)[/caption]   …

4.44 'Puck' cartoon 1

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< Back to Introduction In March 1882, a month before Darwin’s death, an admiring image of him appeared in the American comic journal Puck. It was in a cartoon drawn by Joseph Keppler, Puck’s co-publisher, co-editor and chief cartoonist, titled Reason…

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  • … < Back to Introduction In March 1882, a month before Darwin’s death, an admiring image …
  • … ‘J. Keppler’) 
 date of creation March 1882 
 computer-readable date 1882-01-01 …
  • … references and bibliography Puck 11:261 (8 March 1882), centrefold. A Selection of Cartoons …

1.7 Ouless replica

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< Back to Introduction Following Darwin’s death in 1882, Walter William Ouless painted a replica of the portrait that had been commissioned from him by the Darwin family in 1875. This replica is signed and dated at lower left ‘W. W. Ouless 1883…

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  • … to Introduction Following Darwin’s death in 1882, Walter William Ouless painted a replica …

1.20 Leopold Flameng etching, after Collier

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< Back to Introduction Almost as soon as Collier’s portrait of Darwin was put on display at the Linnean Society in 1882, requests for permission to reproduce it flooded in, from book and print publishers. Collier himself often felt, with some…

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  • … of Darwin was put on display at the Linnean Society in 1882, requests for permission to …

4.45 'Puck' cartoon 2

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< Back to Introduction In Reason Against Unreason, a cartoon published shortly before Darwin’s death, the American humorous magazine Puck had celebrated him as the embodiment of ‘Reason’. Now, a month after his death, an imaginative drawing in the…

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  • … in the press which followed Darwin’s death on 19 April 1882.  Puck , a weekly publication, …
  • … associate of Keppler, produced cartoons for Puck c.1882-5, and also contributed to satirical and …
  • … Graetz’ 
 date of creation April - May 1882 
 computer-readable date c.1882-04 …

1.18 John Collier, oil in Linnean

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< Back to Introduction By 1881 it was clear to Darwin’s intimates that he was increasingly frail, and that, as he approached death, he had finally escaped from religious controversy to become a heroic figure, loved and venerated for his achievements…

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  • … about to be hung in the rooms of the society’ in April 1882, when his death was announced, and …
  • … By the time it was exhibited at the Royal Academy in May 1882, Darwin was already dead. Speaking at …
  • … 27 May 1881. Correspondence between Darwin and Collier in 1882, DCP-LETT-13689 and DCP-LETT-13701. …
  • … ‘The Royal Academy Banquet’, Times (1 May 1882), p. 7. ‘Fine arts and music. Royal Academy – …

Earthworms

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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…

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  • … about worms were written only months before he died in March 1882. In the same way that Darwin cast …
  • … Letter 13632 - Darwin to John Murray, 21 January 1882 In his last letter touching on …

Animals, ethics, and the progress of science

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Darwin’s view on the kinship between humans and animals had important ethical implications. In Descent, he argued that some animals exhibited moral behaviour and had evolved mental powers analogous to conscience. He gave examples of cooperation, even…

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  • … in general’ ( letter from T. L. Brunton, 12 February 1882 ). Darwin declined the offer to be …
  • … 1881 ). The organization had its first meeting on 20 April 1882, the day after Darwin’s death. …
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