From F. E. Abbot 3 March 1874
Summary
Asks CD to read and comment, for publication, on his forthcoming essay in Index on the evolution of conscience and morals through action and reaction between man and the moral environment.
Author: | Francis Ellingwood Abbot |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Mar 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9332 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Review , Contemporary Review ) and people ( John Lubbock , Edward Burnett Tylor , Herbert …
From Thomas Aitken [c. 25 June 1874]
Summary
Reports that Pinguicula is found in north of Scotland. Gives local names and uses. None of his patients, who are from all parts of Scotland, has heard of the use of Pinguicula to curdle milk.
Author: | Thomas Aitken |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. 25 June 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 150–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9204 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Milk but I do not know of any other people who do so. Rennet is principally used …
From R. F. Albrecht 16 March 1870
Summary
Is currently at work on the development in birds of organs of flight according to CD’s principles; asks permission to quote CD in stating the theory.
Urges CD to republish his works in a collected edition, to make them more readily available to Germans.
Author: | R. F. Albrecht |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Mar 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 33 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7136 |
From R. E. Alison 25 June 1835
Summary
Gives details of his observations which lend support to the view that Chile is rising with respect to the sea. Reports some observations and opinions with regard to earthquakes and volcanic action in the area.
Author: | Robert Edward Alison |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 June 1835 |
Classmark: | DAR 36.1: 427–427a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-277 |
From Grant Allen to G. J. Romanes 28 January 1880
Author: | Charles Grant Blairfindie (Grant) Allen |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 28 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: A46 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12440F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … in weather like an English July. As a rule, people who come here suffering as I do, do not …
From J. L. Ambrose 15 February 1882
Author: | James L. Ambrose |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Feb 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 201: 2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13688 |
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- … collection of letters from distinguished people you signed yourself “Your well-wisher”— …
From Thomas Gold Appleton 24 April [1862]
Summary
Sends letter via his brother visiting England. Awaits continuation of CD’s "wonderful book", which excites much interest.
Comments on Civil War which he expects will end slavery.
Author: | Thomas Gold Appleton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Apr [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 111 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3517 |
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- … sap” to send the no longer very young people I fear. It will remind them of long ago, and …
From G. M. Asher 7 November 1877
Summary
On receiving CD’s letter GMA wrote for wheat seeds to send CD. Gives information on the wheat and on grasses to suggest that variability of the soil accounts for replacement of kubanka by saxonka.
Author: | Georg Michael Asher |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Nov 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 117 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11228 |
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- … advantages of being a very cleanly sort of people; and as I lived two years among them I …
From John James Aubertin 27 April 1863
Summary
Reminds CD of their acquaintance at Ilkley Wells; encloses portrait of self;
describes the topography, trade, commerce, produce, and population of São Paulo province.
Sends pieces of rock blasted for railway for CD to analyse.
Author: | John James Aubertin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Apr 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 123 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4129 |
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- … view. Here, on the other hand this weak people let him in every where—even petting him—& …
From J. T. Austen 3 June 1863
Summary
Does not think Dennen’s transaction was dishonest, but can see no satisfactory explanation for it; feels they must inform their fellow trustees.
Author: | John Thomas Austen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 June 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 131, 151 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4201 |
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- … plainly to Dennen. I have told him that people do not borrow money at 10 per cent unless …
From C. F. Austin February 1879
Summary
Encloses Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, with account of a fungus that exhales chlorine;
relates his discovery in 1852 of a flowering plant that had "perfectly formed beetles" in the place of anthers.
Author: | Coe Finch Austin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | Feb 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 130 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11853 |
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- … it: and knowing the stupidity of country people
〈 gen〉 erally I did not wonder at it. And I …
From W. E. A. Axon 17 August 1880
Summary
Inquires whether a printed letter of CD’s [see 11902] correctly represents his views on vegetarianism.
Author: | William Edward Armytage Axon |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Aug 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 11–12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12690 |
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- … hand, the Gauchos are a very active people, and live almost entirely on flesh. Further, it …
From Charles Cardale Babington 18 May 1864
Summary
Glad to hear CD well again.
Will send Lythrum hyssopifolium flowers from Botanic Garden if they are in bloom; does not know where to find wild specimen, but thinks they are same as garden type.
Is finishing his course of lectures, which was attended by 35–45 people.
Author: | Charles Cardale Babington |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 May 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4499 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … as garden type. Is finishing his course of lectures, which was attended by 35–45 people. …
From William Balfour Baikie 11 February 1858
Summary
Describes some species of fauna peculiar to Fernando Po. The ocean currents make it unlikely that animals have been floated to the little islands [off the west coast of Africa].
Author: | William Balfour Baikie |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Feb 1858 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 260 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2214 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … an indigenous population, a very peculiar people, in appearance, in habits, & in language— …
From W. W. Bailey 28 September 1877
Summary
Has noticed citation of his observations in CD’s latest books; writes to add some notes on fertilisation and forms of flowers.
Author: | William Whitman Bailey |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Sept 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11157 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … if not quite closed, It is known to the people as “box-gentian” for this reason, Two …
From F. M. Balfour 11 November 1873
Summary
Suggests raising money to help Anton Dohrn complete the Naples Zoological Station, which is in danger of remaining unfinished.
Author: | Francis Maitland Balfour |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Nov 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 22 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9138 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … therefore feels unable to ask other people to do so— Though I feel that it is hardly my …
From John Ball 31 January [1872]
Summary
Expands on a letter to Nature concerning the probability of the survival of a new variety in a given species. Differs with [F. Jenkin’s] argument, to which CD had agreed to a greater extent than JB feels it deserved.
Author: | John Ball |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Jan [1872] |
Classmark: | DAR 47: 196–201 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8190 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … to lead to an opposite result most people would say ‘so much the worse for mathematics. ’ …
From H. H. Bancroft 3 August 1874
Summary
Sends a volume and will send next volumes of a work intended to contribute to the study of mankind.
Author: | Hubert Howe Bancroft |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Aug 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 38 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9581 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … literary workshop employing up to fifty people at a time ( ANB ). Bancroft presumably sent …
From Mary Elizabeth Barber [after February 1867]
Summary
Replies to Queries on expression based on observations of the Kaffir and Fingoe tribes in South Africa.
Author: | Mary Elizabeth Bowker; Mary Elizabeth Barber |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after Feb 1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5745 |
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Correspondents in Commentary
Boat Memory
Summary
Boat Memory was one of the indigenous people from Tierra del Fuego brought back to England by Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, 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…
Matches: 5 hits
- … Boat Memory was one of the indigenous people from Tierra del Fuego brought back to England by Robert …
- … ghostly a figure as his name. What he was called by his own people is unknown, but the name Boat …
- … Boat Memory, a member of the Alakaluf tribe, or canoe people from the western part of Tierra del …
- … to Tierra del Fuego to act as moral exemplars to their own people and as interpreters for passing …
- … Chapman, Anne. 2010. European encounters with the Yamana people of Cape Horn, before and after …
Yokcushlu (Fuegia Basket)
Summary
Yokcushlu was one of the Alakaluf, or canoe people from the western part of Tierra del Fuego. She was one of the hostages seized by Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, after the small boat used for surveying the narrow inlets of the coast of Tierra del…
Matches: 4 hits
- … Yokcushlu was one of the Alakaluf, or canoe people from the western part of Tierra del Fuego. She …
- … to Tierra del Fuego to act as moral exemplars to their own people and interpreters for passing …
- … with Elleparu and Orundellico, met a select group of people, including FitzRoy’s relations, men …
- … Chapman, Anne. 2010. European encounters with the Yamana people of Cape Horn, before and after …
Elleparu (York Minster)
Summary
Elleparu was one of the Alakaluf, or canoe people from the western part of Tierra del Fuego. He was captured by Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, in 1830 after one the small boats used for surveying the narrow inlets of the coast of Tierra del Fuego…
Matches: 3 hits
- … Elleparu was one of the Alakaluf, or canoe people from the western part of Tierra del Fuego. He was …
- … as an intermediary between the English and the indigenous people of Tierra del Fuego. He chose …
- … Chapman, Anne. 2010. European encounters with the Yamana people of Cape Horn, before and after …
Orundellico (Jemmy Button)
Summary
Orundellico was one of the Yahgan, or canoe people of the southern part of Tierra del Fuego. He was the fourth hostage taken by Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, in 1830 following the theft of the small surveying boat. This fourteen-year old boy was…
Matches: 4 hits
- … Orundellico was one of the Yahgan, or canoe people of the southern part of Tierra del Fuego. He was …
- … sense of sympathy. Even though, as a member of a seafaring people, he could not understand Darwin’s …
- … 1864 he discovered that an epidemic had killed many of his people, including his father. Despite …
- … Chapman, Anne. 2010. European encounters with the Yamana people of Cape Horn, before and after …
St George Jackson Mivart
Summary
In the second half of 1874, Darwin’s peace was disturbed by an anonymous article in the Quarterly Review suggesting that his son George was opposed to the institution of marriage and in favour of ‘unrestrained licentiousness’. Darwin suspected, correctly,…
Matches: 3 hits
- … the inheritance of mental and physical qualities would make people realise that their reproductive …
- … without legislation. In order to assess the probability that people would endure such restrictions, …
- … it & I regret it very much because there are so many people stupid enough to fancy or malicious …
Charles Harrison Blackley
Summary
You may not have heard of Charles Harrison Blackley (1820–1900), but if you are one of the 15 million people in the UK who suffer from hay fever, you are indebted to him. For it was he who identified pollen as the cause of the allergy. Darwin was…
John Lubbock
Summary
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…
Gaston de Saporta
Summary
The human-like qualities of great apes have always been a source of scientific and popular fascination, and no less in the Victorian period than in any other. Darwin himself, of course, marshalled similarities in physiology, behaviour and emotional…
Joseph Simms
Summary
The American doctor and author of works on physiognomy Joseph Simms wrote to Darwin on 14 September 1874, while he was staying in London. He enclosed a copy of his book Nature’s revelations of character (Simms 1873). He hoped it might 'prove…
Matches: 1 hits
- … fact that American faces were becoming less different and people were ‘nearly as indistinguishable …
Syms Covington
Summary
When Charles Darwin embarked on the Beagle voyage in 1831, Syms Covington was ‘fiddler & boy to Poop-cabin’. Covington kept an illustrated journal of his observations and experiences on the voyage, noting wildlife, landscapes, buildings and people and,…
Matches: 1 hits
- … on the voyage , noting wildlife, landscapes, buildings and people and, frequently, food. …
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…
Matches: 1 hits
- … often passing news and gossip, and and was one of the few people whose visits Darwin encouraged. In …
William Winwood Reade
Summary
On 19 May 1868, an African explorer and unsuccessful novelist, William Winwoode Reade (1838–1875) offered to help Darwin, and started a correspondence and, arguably, a collaboration, that would last until Reade's death. After a first 1861 tour of…
Matches: 1 hits
- … book by HG Wells, George Orwell, and, even, Sherlock Holmes. People are sometimes surprised to find …
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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- … you on the Nile— I am afraid you will think us very stupid people not to have done more. But it is …
Benjamin Renshaw
Summary
How much like a monkey is a person? Did our ancestors really swing from trees? Are we descended from apes? By the 1870s, questions like these were on the tip of everyone’s tongue, even though Darwin himself never posed the problem of human evolution in…
Matches: 1 hits
- … times quite savage. Unusually hairy people have often been the subject of …
Clémence Auguste Royer
Summary
Getting Origin translated into French was harder than Darwin had expected. The first translator he approached, Madame Belloc, turned him down on the grounds that the content was ‘too scientific‘, and then in 1860 the French political exile Pierre…
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- … none whatever!! It is really curious to know what conceited people there are in the world”. …
George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)
Summary
George Eliot was the pen name of celebrated Victorian novelist Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880). She was born on the outskirts of Nuneaton in Warwickshire and was educated at boarding schools from the age of five until she was 16. Her education ended when she…
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- … a thorough and open discussion of a question about which people hitherto felt timid. So the world …
Conrad Martens
Summary
Conrad Martens was born in London, the son of an Austrian diplomat. He studied landscape painting under the watercolourist Copley Fielding (1789–1855), who also briefly taught Ruskin. In 1833 he was on board the Hyacinth, headed for India, but en route in…
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- … to illustrate more extensively the landscape and the people encountered on the voyage. …
William B. Bowles
Summary
As a famous figure in the debates surrounding human evolution, Darwin could be something of a lightning rod for eccentric thinkers with their own ideas about his theories. The idea of a “missing link” compelled one such enthusiast to write to him about the…
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- … Africa; with accounts of the manners and customs of the people, and of the chase of the gorilla, the …