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From James Paget   7 July 1875

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Thanks for Insectivorous plants.

Intrigued by the analogy between fairy-rings and annular skin diseases, e.g., herpes and psoriasis.

Author:  James Paget, 1st baronet
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  7 July 1875
Classmark:  DAR 174: 9
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10048

From James Paget   14 August 1875

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Encloses copy of description of an outgrown stump. Refers to letter [missing] in which CD reports on a case of amputation. Would like to check J. Simpson’s cases before thinking everything is settled.

Author:  James Paget, 1st baronet
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  14 Aug 1875
Classmark:  DAR 174: 10
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10117

From James Paget   30 May 1876

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Instructs CD that his son [William] should take a holiday following his concussion.

Author:  James Paget, 1st baronet
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  30 May 1876
Classmark:  DAR 210.9: 12
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10518

To James Paget   28 June [1879]

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Thanks JP for his kindness, but unfortunately the [unspecified] case is of no use to him.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  James Paget, 1st baronet
Date:  28 June [1879]
Classmark:  DAR 147: 238
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12127

To James Paget   14 July 1879

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Returns an "old book" [? Baeta, Comparative view of the theories and practice of Drs Cullen, Brown and Darwin (1800); see Erasmus Darwin, p. 107]. Glad to see that Dr Erasmus Darwin’s views on fever were attended to.

Fears his life of Dr Darwin will be a poor affair. "Never again will I be tempted out of my proper work."

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  James Paget, 1st baronet
Date:  14 July 1879
Classmark:  Indiana University, The Lilly Library (Miscellaneous MSS)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12156

From James Paget   25 July 1879

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Regrets that he cannot send the promised volume [Biographie médicale, 7 vols, 1820–5, biographical appendix to Dictionaire des sciences medicales]. Offers to have his son make an abstract of the biography [of Erasmus Darwin].

Author:  James Paget, 1st baronet
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  25 July 1879
Classmark:  DAR 99: 194
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12172

From James Paget   18 November 1879

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Thanks for Erasmus Darwin. It is a rare life and an unmatched illustration of the transmission of intellectual strength.

Author:  James Paget, 1st baronet
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  18 Nov 1879
Classmark:  DAR 174: 11
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12328

From James Paget   12 November 1880

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Sends a copy of his lecture Elemental pathology: an address on elemental pathology delivered in the pathological section of the British Medical Association (Paget 1880).

Author:  James Paget, 1st baronet
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  12 Nov 1880
Classmark:  Skinner, Inc. (dealers) (Auction 3103T, 6 August 2018)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12809F

To James Paget   14 November 1880

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Surprising thought that diseases of plants should illustrate human pathology.

Will recommend A. B. Frank’s article in a German encyclopedia, on diseases of plants, to Francis Darwin.

Gives JP a good case of regeneration in plants – the radicle of the common bean. That plants have little power of regeneration is not difficult to understand by anyone who believes in Pangenesis, "if such a man exists … There is reason to think that my imaginary gemmules have small power of passing from cell to cell."

Refers to early experiments in which he tried to produce galls in plants by injecting poisons.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  James Paget, 1st baronet
Date:  14 Nov 1880
Classmark:  Wellcome Collection (MS.5703/31)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12819

From James Paget   3 December 1880

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Thanks CD for his note and his new book [Movement in plants].

Makes him feel "we must go beyond plants for a really elemental pathology".

Wishes he knew enough about crystals to work at them.

Author:  James Paget, 1st baronet
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  3 Dec 1880
Classmark:  DAR 174: 12
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12886

To James Paget   13 December 1880

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Perhaps you would like to see a very small “tumour” on a lateral branch of the Silver Fur, caused by an Œstrum, as stated (with references) in my Power of Movement in Plants. These tumours are sometimes almost as big as a child’s head. At what age they emit the upright shoot, I do not know.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  James Paget, 1st baronet
Date:  13 Dec 1880
Classmark:  Paget ed. 1901, p. 409 n.
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12911

From James Paget   1 June 1881

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Asks CD to lunch to meet the Prince of Wales.

Author:  James Paget, 1st baronet
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  1 June 1881
Classmark:  DAR 202: 116
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13188

To James Paget   3 June 1881

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Is honoured by, and accepts JP’s invitation for 3 August.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  James Paget, 1st baronet
Date:  3 June 1881
Classmark:  Francisco Ayala (private collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13191

From James Paget   1 December 1881

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Thanks for Earthworms. Is going to Nice for a few weeks to recuperate.

Author:  James Paget, 1st baronet
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  1 Dec 1881
Classmark:  The Royal College of Surgeons of England (MS0026/7/4)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13525F

To James Paget   3 December 1881

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Is delighted with JP’s article on vivisection ["Vivisection: its pains and its uses, No. 1", Nineteenth Century 10 (1881): 920–30]. CD is "boiling over with indignation on the subject".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  James Paget, 1st baronet
Date:  3 Dec 1881
Classmark:  Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13526

To James Paget   [15 October – 19 November 1859]

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Thanks JP for bearing in mind his strong wish to learn any facts on inheritance at corresponding ages, and on correlation of growth.

JP’s case of teeth affected by syphilitic parents seems very curious. Would like to hear a few particulars when they meet.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  James Paget, 1st baronet
Date:  [15 Oct – 19 Nov 1859]
Classmark:  Wellcome Collection (MS.5703/27)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2500

From James Paget   7 February 1863

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Forwards a book [Horace Dobell, Lectures on the germs and vestiges of disease (1861)] and a genealogical table at the author’s request.

Author:  James Paget, 1st baronet
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  7 Feb 1863
Classmark:  DAR 174: 4
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3971

From James Paget   16 March 1863

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Sends two [unidentified] papers on inheritance of medical malformations. Suggests that besides the inheritance of specific variations, the tendency to show variations in the same organ system (stomach, nervous, etc.) may also be inherited.

Author:  James Paget, 1st baronet
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  16 Mar 1863
Classmark:  DAR 174: 5
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4045

To James Paget   19 December [1858]

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Asks JP to remember him if anything occurs to him "in regard to inheritance at corresponding or rather earlier ages". Sends JP a few examples for his "Chronometry of life". CD is sure he often met with striking facts but he disregarded them. "Deviations alone would have struck me."

Effects of different climates on breeding periods.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  James Paget, 1st baronet
Date:  19 Dec [1858]
Classmark:  Wellcome Collection (MS.5703/28)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5314

To James Paget   11 March [1863]

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Sends a sentence, quoting JP, on inherited peculiarities in eye-brows. Asks whether he may use it in his chapter on inheritance [Variation, ch. 12].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  James Paget, 1st baronet
Date:  11 Mar [1863]
Classmark:  Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5436
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