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To William Lonsdale   [8 March 1839]

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Has finished earthquake paper ["Volcanic phenomena in South America" (1840), Collected papers 1: 53–86]. Gives instructions about a woodcut. There should be an outline map.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Lonsdale
Date:  [8 Mar 1839]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-497
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4.10 'Hornet' caricature of Darwin

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< Back to Introduction Caricatures of Darwin that depicted him as a semi-ape are numerous and well known, but they marked a specific historical moment. Most date from the period following the publication of Descent of Man in 1871-2, extending through…

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  • … and bibliography The Hornet , 5:115 (22 March 1871), p. 308 and following plate. [James Duncan …

The Mount, Shrewsbury

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Letters from home

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  • … Darwin writes in preparation for the voyage, and his father and sisters write with news from home …

3.11 Edwards, in Illustrated London News

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< Back to Introduction A photograph of Darwin by Ernest Edwards, showing him in three-quarter view to the left, must have been taken at the same session as the profile published in Men of Eminence in 1866. The baggy sleeve of Darwin’s coat looks…

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  • … on p. 243. Harper’s Weekly , 15:745 (8 April 1871), p. 308, wood engraving with the same caption, …
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