Darwin Correspondence Project – Cambridge University Library Special Collections

Conservation of a Bound Volume of Letters from the Darwin Archive

Posted on 19 January 2022 by CUL Conservation

This volume was kindly donated to the Library in 2018 and comprises 80 letters all of which were sent to William Kemp, an amateur geologist, […]

Archives, Cambridge Digital Library, Conservation, Darwin Correspondence Project, Digitisation, Exhibitions, Manuscripts

Turning over a new leaf: Fasciculing fragile letters and plant specimens in the Darwin Archive

Posted on 13 October 2021 by CUL Conservation

The Darwin Archive contains a wide variety of loose sheet papers, often in diverse formats and frequently found in specific combinations. Letters are kept together […]

Archives, Conservation, Darwin Correspondence Project, Special Collections

The man who knew everything! The letters of John Stevens Henslow (1796-1861)

Posted on 14 December 2020 by Special Collections

175 years ago John Stevens Henslow started lobbying for a Botanic Garden in Cambridge. After twenty years of effort, his work bore fruit and led […]

Archives, Collectors and collecting, Darwin Correspondence Project, Manuscripts, Special Collections

Discovery: 200 Years of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

Posted on 13 March 2019 by Katrina Dean

Coming into the Cambridge University Library entrance hall visitors encounter three objects: a wall-mounted cast of 565 million-year-old sea-creature fossils, a plastinated pitcher plant, using […]

Archives, Astronomy, Cambridge University Archives, Cambridge University history, Darwin Correspondence Project, Engineering, Exhibitions, Rare Books, Science, Special Collections

Views of the Beagle Expedition

Posted on 6 October 2016 by James Freeman

The second of our ‘Treasures of the University Library’ talks was given by Alison Pearn, Associate Director of the Darwin Correspondence Project:

Cambridge Digital Library, Darwin Correspondence Project, Events, Special Collections

Treasures of the University Library: don’t miss out!

Posted on 30 September 2016 by James Freeman

Would you like the opportunity to come face-to-face with some of the most precious items from Cambridge University Library’s collections? To celebrate our 600th anniversary, […]

600th anniversary, Cambridge Digital Library, Chinese, Darwin Correspondence Project, Events, Incunabula, Manuscripts, Maps, Music, Near and Middle Eastern, Rare Books, Taylor-Schechter Genizah Collection

Darwin Correspondence Project launches their new website on Darwin’s birthday

Posted on 12 February 2016 by Special Collections

The Darwin Correspondence Project is celebrating ‘Darwin Day’ today (12th February) with a new website helping us to find out more about the life and […]

Archives, Darwin Correspondence Project, Digital Resources

Cambridge Digital Library – July update

Posted on 3 July 2015 by Special Collections

This release sees the launch of our new Royal Commonwealth Society collection. The Royal Commonwealth Society Library collections are a treasure-trove of information, pictorial and […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Darwin Correspondence Project, Digitisation, Manuscripts, Photographs, Royal Commonwealth Society

Personal correspondence between Charles Darwin and Joseph Dalton Hooker released online

Posted on 28 March 2013 by Special Collections

The Darwin Correspondence Project and Cambridge Digital Library have collaborated to publish images and transcriptions of 1200 letters exchanged by Darwin with his closest friend, Joseph […]

Cambridge Digital Library, Darwin Correspondence Project

Rehabilitating Henrietta

Posted on 12 April 2012 by Special Collections

A small lockable leather diary in the archive at Cambridge University Library is leading us to reassess one of the key relationships in Charles Darwin’s […]

Darwin Correspondence Project, Manuscripts

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