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The Charles Darwin Collection
The Darwin Correspondence Project is publishing letters written by and to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882). Complete transcripts of letters are being made available through the Project’s website (www.darwinproject.ac.uk) after publication in the ongoing print edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press 1985–). Metadata and summaries of all known letters (c. 15,000) appear in Ɛpsilon, and the full texts of available letters can also be searched, with links to the full texts.
Glad the house and cottage are completed. Hopes there is a good-sized garden with the cottage.
Please remember himself and CD to FH’s father, John Higgins.
Would greatly prefer an enema with a shorter nozzle but with a somewhat larger diameter.
Describes her experiences of blushing on her hands.
Obliged for letter on worm-castings. Asks GK to observe them in southern Europe.
Sends a copy of Expression and his autograph.
Sends a copy of Expression
and speaks fondly of his memories of Woodhouse and the Owen family.
Thanks for AdeC’s Histoire des sciences [1873].
Sends a copy of Expression.
His health keeps him weak; he dreads grappling with the fearful subject of variation [in nature]
so he is working up some observations in botanical physiology to publish with his old papers on climbing plants.
Is delighted to receive expression. Some comments on swallowing and scratching. Asks to be sent reviews.
Sends CD a copy of the second part of his paper on the remains and antiquities of Olmütz in Moravia.
Thanks for copy of Expression.
Reminiscences of their youth.
A number of students wish to nominate CD as Lord Rector of the University of Aberdeen and JSC inquires whether CD’s state of health would prevent his standing as a candidate.
Asks CD’s opinion of John Denny’s idea that males have prepotent transmission power in plants. A. J. F. Wegmann says the females are prepotent.
Has received Expression and will forward it to his brother [Jean-Charles Houzeau de Lehaie].
Observations on expression: women gnash teeth when sexually excited. W. Africans do not kiss.
Thanks SH for news of her family. Would like her to visit Down in the spring.
Is convinced that 2000 more copies [of Expression] must be printed without delay in order to meet demand. He therefore asks CD to send his corrections to the printer at once.
Thanks for Expression.
Has finished reading Descent and sends some comments [missing].
Thanks LHJ for a memoir [about remains and antiquities of Olmütz in Moravia].
Cannot accept honour of nomination as Lord Rector [of Aberdeen University].
