To a librarian [early September? 1854]
Summary
Will return all but two volumes; requests four titles, including Pepys’s Diaries, but not the first volume.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Librarian |
| Date: | [early Sept? 1854] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Surrogate RP 9763) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1592F |
To a librarian [c. June 1858 or later]
Summary
Will return Benjamin Jowett’s Epistles of St Paul (Jowett 1855) and requests several books, of which the latest is Hugh Miller’s Cruise of the Betsey (Miller 1858).
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Librarian |
| Date: | [c. June 1858 or later] |
| Classmark: | Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection: Edward G. and Hortense R. Levy Autograph Collection, Part 2 (OSB MSS 137) Box 25, folder 1188) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2199F |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Librarian | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
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List of correspondents
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Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. Click on a name to see the letters Darwin exchanged with that correspondent. "A child of God" (1) Abberley,…
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- … Liagre, J.-B. (1) Librarian (2) …
People featured in the German and Austrian photograph album
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Biographical details of people from the Habsburg Empire that appeared in the album of German and Austrian scientists sent to Darwin on 12 February 1877. We are grateful to Johannes Mattes for providing these details and for permission to make his…
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- … the Zoological-Botanical Society in Vienna, served there as librarian (1874–95) and built up a …
- … Natural Cabinet. Between 1865 and 1872, he served as librarian of the Zoological-Botanical Society …
- … (retirement in 1911). Additionally, Monnier served as librarian (1875), general secretary (1884–89) …
Mary Everest Boole
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Mary Everest was born in 1832 in Wickwar, Gloucestershire, daughter of Reverend Thomas Everest. Her uncle was George Everest, Surveyor General of India, after whom Mount Everest is named. Her family moved to France seeking to improve her father’s ill…
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- … youngest daughter was six months old. She became a librarian at the first English ladies’ …
Conrad Martens
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Conrad Martens was born in London, the son of an Austrian diplomat. He studied landscape painting under the watercolourist Copley Fielding (1789–1855), who also briefly taught Ruskin. In 1833 he was on board the Hyacinth, headed for India, but en route in…
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- … River. Martens stayed in Australia, becoming Assistant Librarian in the Australian Parliamentary …
What did Darwin believe?
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What did Darwin really believe about God? the Christian revelation? the implications of his theory of evolution for religious faith? These questions were asked again and again in the years following the publication of Origin of species (1859). They are…
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- … writer who was supporting her five daughters as a librarian after her husband, the mathematician …
Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex
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The quantity of Darwin’s correspondence increased dramatically in 1868 due largely to his ever-widening research on human evolution and sexual selection.Darwin’s theory of sexual selection as applied to human descent led him to investigate aspects of the…
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- … Francis sought additional advice from the entomologist and librarian at Cambridge, George Robert …
Was Darwin an ecologist?
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One of the most fascinating aspects of Charles Darwin’s correspondence is the extent to which the experiments he performed at his home in Down, in the English county of Kent, seem to prefigure modern scientific work in ecology.
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- … People Boole, Mary Everest. Mathematician, librarian and teacher. Campbell, George …
Darwin in letters, 1882: Nothing too great or too small
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In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and for the first time in decades he was not working on another book. He remained active in botanical research, however. Building on his recent studies in plant…
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- … the Viennese newspaper Neue Freie Presse . The Austrian librarian Ferdinand Maria Malven informed …
