Catalogue description Original Letters of Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882)
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Title: | Original Letters of Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882) |
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Note: the photocopied letters, photographs and other non-holograph items in the volume are not listed. Folio: 1 Addressee: S P Woodward Date: 1860 Calendar reference: 2630 Folio: 3 Addressee: G R Waterhouse Date: [Dec 1843] Calendar reference: 718 Folio: 4 Addressee: Emma [Darwin] Date: 5 July 1844 Calendar reference: 761 Folio: 6 Addressee: *G C Wallich Date: 12 December 1860 Calendar reference: 3020 Addressee: *from Wallich Date: 25 March 1882 Calendar reference: 13739 Addressee: *G C Wallich Date: 28 March 1882 Calendar reference: 13747 Folio: 7 Addressee: G R Waterhouse Date: 1 April [1860] Calendar reference: 2740 Folio: 8 Addressee: [T M Hughes] Date: 26 August 1880 Calendar reference: 12701 Folio: 9 Addressee: Sir H[enry] Edwards Date: 15 July [1873] Calendar reference: 8979 Folio: 15-27 Addressee: H T Stainton Date: 1855-1881 Calendar reference: 1767, 1853, 2829, 2839, 5890, 5903, 5907, 5949, 5960, 5967, 5994, 9243, 10385, 13359 Folio: 29 Addressee: Frank [Darwin] Date: 6 Jan 1872 Calendar reference: 8147 Folio: 30-34 Addressee: Wiliam [E Darwin] Date: [1872] Calendar reference: 8140, 8174, 8208, 8396, 8529 Folio: 36 Addressee: H Weyenbergh Date: 18 March 1879 Calendar reference: 11943 Folio: 43 Addressee: Prof [T McK] Hughes Date: 23 August [1880] Calendar reference: 12695 Folio: 44 Addressee: George [H Darwin] Date: 30 May Folio: 45 Addressee: H Anton de Barry Date: 11 February 1879 Calendar reference: 11869 Folio: 45a Addressee: H Anton de Barry Date: 5 August 1879 Calendar reference: 12182 Folio: 62 Addressee: [W Thistleton-] Dyer Date: 22 April 1879 Calendar reference: 12009 Folio: 67 Addressee: [A G Butler] Date: 9 May 1877 Calendar reference: 10957 Folio: 68 Addressee: [A G Butler] Date: 1 July [1871] Calendar reference: 7845 Folio: 69 Addressee: [J E] Gray Date: 1 July [1856] Calendar reference: 1915 Folio: 71 Addressee: [A G Butler] Date: 20 February [1879] Calendar reference: 11889 |
Date: | 1843-1882 |
Held by: | Natural History Museum Library and Archives, not available at The National Archives |
Language: | English |
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Physical description: | 1 volume |
Physical condition: | Black guard book in black box |
Immediate source of acquisition: |
The letters have been acquired at various times and in various ways. |
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Administrative / biographical background: |
The most important event in Charles Darwin's life was his five-year voyage around the world aboard the Admiralty surveying ship Beagle, under the command of Robert Fitzroy. The observations and collections made on this voyage led Darwin to important publications on geology and botany. They also led to his interest in adaptation and the origin of species, from which he developed his theory of evolution by natural selection, published in On the origin of species (1859). |
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