To John Murray 29 September [1870]
Summary
CD did not promise Appleton stereotypes of text [of Descent]; only of cuts.
Wishes to know which passage JM thought "coarse". Remembers only a quotation from John Hunter on courtship of female being required "to give her desires" [Descent 1: 273]. He fancied a quotation rendered the sentence less coarse.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 29 Sept [1870] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 212–13) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7331 |
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- … relationship between this letter and the letter from John Murray, 28 September [1870] . …
- … See letter from John Murray, 28 September [1870] and n. …
- … 5. See letter from John Murray, 28 September [1870] and n. …
- … 4. See letter from John Murray, 28 September [1870] and n. 7. CD quotes John Hunter’s …
To John Murray 5 [August 1870]
Summary
MS of Descent, except last chapter, is ready to send to printer. Hopes the printer will be able to keep him steadily at work correcting proof. "It drives me mad to change from job to job."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 5 [Aug 1870] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 209–10) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7265 |
To John Murray 17 November [1870]
Summary
Pleased at [advance] sale [of Descent]. Suggests 3000 copies be printed. Corrections are frightful and, CD fears, will not be done until end of year.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 17 Nov [1870] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 f. 242) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7374 |
To John Murray 11 October [1870]
Summary
Glad to hear Dallas will do index of Descent, but he needs keeping up to the mark. Agrees to a Dutch edition.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 11 Oct [1870] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 41–2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7341 |
From G. Chiantore to John Murray 18 May 1875
Summary
Editor of L’Unione, Turin, would publish an Italian edition of Variation if the clichés of the English edition were made available at not more than £10.
| Author: | G. Chiantore |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 18 May 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 451 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9981 |
To John Murray 4 September [1870]
Summary
Variation is a much better looking volume than Origin due to quality of paper and binding. Hopes JM will attend to this point in Descent. Printers have sent "splendid lot" of proofs.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 4 Sept [1870] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 f. 211) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7316 |
To John Murray 15 November [1870]
Summary
Would like to hear results of JM’s November booksale.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 15 Nov [1870] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 f. 43) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7371 |
To John Murray 22 October [1870]
Summary
He agrees with his family that binding of Variation looks much better than Origin.
Asks JM to report the number of copies he has printed of Naturalist’s Voyage [Journal of researches].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 22 Oct [1870] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 218–19) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7348 |
To John Murray 26 September 1870
Summary
Wants sheets [of Descent] for foreign editions. Asks JM to determine price to be charged for the stereotypes of 62 cuts. Dallas would be excellent for the index but must be "civilly warned" not to delay. Encloses memo on the index.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 26 Sept 1870 |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 214–17) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7327 |
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 |
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- … letter to Victor Masson, [after 29 September 1869] . The third French edition of Origin was published in 1870 ( …
- … 1870). The reference is to Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald ; for the quotation, see the letter …
- … 1870); this included criticism of CD’s hypothesis of pangenesis, which had appeared in Variation. For more on Royer’s translations, including the prefaces, see Harvey 1997 , pp. 62– 9, 76–9, 97–9. For more on CD’s opinion of the translations, see Correspondence vol. 13, letter …
To John Murray 25 May 1868
Summary
Asks JM to consider publishing a MS on John Wesley by CD’s niece, Frances Julia Wedgwood [John Wesley and the evangelical reaction of the eighteenth century (1870)].
Has received clean sheets for Italian translation [of Variation?].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 25 May 1868 |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.186–189) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6207 |
From G. M. Asher to John Murray 1 November 1877
Summary
Describes case of two varieties of Russian wheat, the kubanka (or White Turkish) and the saxonka, which grow side by side with no intermediate varieties. As kubanka gradually yields place to saxonka, thinks an unusual tendency to jumping variation [saltation] operates; suggests CD urge some young botanist to investigate [see ML 2: 419–22].
| Author: | Georg Michael Asher |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 1 Nov 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 116 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11222 |
To John Murray 9 April [1870]
Summary
Finds Academy contains valuable matter for his work.
Descent progresses slowly – will not be ready for press for several months.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 9 Apr [1870] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 207–208) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7162 |
To John Murray [after 1 July 1870]
Summary
Wants to keep "The origin of man" as first part of title of book.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray; John Murray |
| Date: | [after 1 July 1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 273 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7050 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (12) |
| Asher, G. M. | (1) |
| Chiantore, G. | (1) |
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Darwin in letters,1870: Human evolution
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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 whole of the …
Darwin’s queries on expression
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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…
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Women as a scientific audience
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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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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…
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Francis Darwin
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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…
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- … Known to his family as ‘Frank’, Charles Darwin’s seventh child himself became a distinguished …
Jane Gray
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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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Casting about: Darwin on worms
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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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- … Earthworms featured in the news announcement in May 2014 that a citizen science project had …
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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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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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…
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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 '…
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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…
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- … The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom , published on 10 November …
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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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…
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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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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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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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- … Darwin’s views on race and gender are intertwined, and mingled also with those of class. In …
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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- … < Back to Introduction Darwin’s plans for the illustration of his book The …
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,…
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- … Letters | Selected Readings In Descent of Man , Darwin argued that human …
