To John Murray 23 March 1871
Summary
Amount received from 2d issue of Descent now stands at £840. Would be glad to have 2000 more copies printed because he wants time to collect information for a corrected edition.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 23 Mar 1871 |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42153 ff. 44–5) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7613 |
To Lewin Hill 23 March [1871]
Summary
Thanks LH for his account of a family weakness of the knee.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Bernard Lewin (Lewin) Hill |
| Date: | 23 Mar [1871] |
| Classmark: | Dr Robert McLennan-Smith (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7613F |
From R. H. Tiddeman 23 March 1871
Summary
On the case of a male acquaintance with two pairs of mammae.
| Author: | Richard Hill Tiddeman |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Mar 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 87: 141–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7614 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Tiddeman, R. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Hill, Lewin | (1) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Hill, Lewin | (1) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
| Tiddeman, R. H. | (1) |
4.2 Augustus Earle, caricature drawing
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< Back to Introduction The paucity of evidence for Darwin’s appearance and general demeanour during the years of the Beagle voyage gives this humorous drawing of shipboard life a special interest. It is convincingly attributed to Augustus Earle, an…
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- … Henry Graves and George Bell & Sons, 1905), p. 3, no. 323, Earle’s Divine service exhibited …
4.31 'La Lune Rousse', Gill cartoon
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< Back to Introduction A drawing of Darwin by André Gill borrows a satirical trope found in The Hornet, Fun and Punch, showing him with a large caricatured head joined to the body of an ape. However, La Lune Rousse is distinctively French in…
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3.7 Leonard Darwin, photo on verandah
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< Back to Introduction Like the anonymous photograph of Darwin on horseback in front of Down House, Leonard Darwin’s photograph of him sitting in a wicker chair on the verandah was originally just a family memento. However, as Darwin’s high…
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- … references and bibliography frontispiece (facing p. 323) to Century Magazine , 25:3 (Jan. 1883) …
1.2 George Richmond, marriage portrait
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< Back to Introduction Few likenesses of Darwin in his youth survive, although more may once have existed. In a letter of 1873 an old Shrewsbury friend, Arthur Mostyn Owen, offered to send Darwin a watercolour sketch of him, painted many years…
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- … and London: Yale University Press, 2009), pp. 29–46 (pp. 32–3). J. van Wyhe, ‘Iconography’, p. 134, …
Controversy
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The best-known controversies over Darwinian theory took place in public or in printed reviews. Many of these were highly polemical, presenting an over-simplified picture of the disputes. Letters, however, show that the responses to Darwin were extremely…
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- … distribution [but see Wallace’s Island life (1880), p. 323]. …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
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In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
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- … by B. Lambert. London. [Other eds.] [Abstract in DAR 205.10: 32–3.] 119: 12a Middleton, …
