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Darwin in letters, 1872: Job done?

Summary

'My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, 'is so nearly closed. . .  What little more I can do, shall be chiefly new work’, and the tenor of his correspondence throughout the year is one of wistful reminiscence, coupled with a keen eye…

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  • What little more I can do, shall be chiefly new work’ ( letter to Francis Galton, 8 November [1872] …
  • the year is one of wistful reminiscence, coupled with a keen eye to the crafting of his legacy.  …
  • …   On the origin of   species , intended to be Darwins last, and of  Expression of the emotions
  • in relation to sex , published in 1871, these books brought a strong if deceptive sense of a job
  • himself without writing anything more on 'so difficult a subject, as evolution’ ( letter to A. …
  • earthworms in shaping the environmentThe former led to a series of books and papers, and the
  • … , published in the year before his deathDespite Darwins declared intention to take up new work, …
  • years before. In his private life also, Darwin was in a nostalgic frame of mind, picking up
  • June the previous yearHe intended the edition to be a popular one that would bring his most
  • … , shortly after correcting the proofs, and Darwins concern for the consolidation of his legacy is
  • should be affordable: ‘do you not think 6s is too dear for a cheap Edit? Would not 5s be better? . . …
  • editions were costly to incorporate, and despite Darwins best efforts, set the final price at 7 s. …
  • condition as I can make it’, he wrote to the translator ( letter to JJMoulinié, 23 September
  • let alone the fifthPrinting of the proofs of Moulinié’s translation of the fifth English edition
  • This complex operation, combined with Moulinié’s increasingly poor health, led to yet further delay, …
  • be resetThe investment in stereotype reinforced Darwins intention to make no further changes to
  • to the comparative anatomist St George Jackson Mivart ( letter to St GJMivart,  11 January
  • comparison of Whale  & duck  most beautiful’ ( letter from ARWallace, 3 March 1872 ) …
  • a person as I am made to appear’, complained Darwin ( letter to St GJMivart, 5 January 1872 ). …
  • Darwin would renounce `fundamental intellectual errors’ ( letter from St GJMivart, 6 January
  • was silly enough to think he felt friendly towards me’ ( letter to St GJMivart, 8 January [1872
  • help in securing an invitation for her son, Lord Sackville Cecil, to attend a séance ( letter from

Darwin’s reading notebooks

Summary

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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  • … [Reimarius 1760] The Highlands & Western Isl ds  letter to Sir W Scott [MacCulloch 1824 …
  • … 1834–40]: In Portfolio of “abstracts” 34  —letter from Skuckard of books on Silk Worm …
  • … M rs  Fry’s Life [Fry 1847] Horace Walpoles letter to C t . of Ossory [Walpole 1848] …
  • … Asiatic Society ]—contains very little Macleay’s letter to D r  Fleming [Macleay 1830] …
  • … [Heer 1854].— Hooker has it.— Very important Hookers letter Jan. 1859 Yules Ava [Yule 1858] …
  • … of the material from these portfolios is in DAR 205, the letter from William Edward Shuckard to …
  • … ( Notebooks , pp. 319–28). 55  The letter was addressed to Nicholas Aylward Vigors …
  • … to William Jackson Hooker. See  Correspondence  vol. 3, letter to J. D. Hooker, [5 or 12 November …
  • … Bethune, John. 1840.  Poems by the late John Bethune; with a   sketch of the author’s life by his …
  • … eds.]  119: 11a Blacklock, Ambrose. 1838.  A treatise on sheep; with the   best means …
  • … ——. 1840.  An encyclopædia of   rural sports; or, a complete account, historical, practical,   …
  • … 1844.  Algeria, past and present.   Containing a description of the country … with a review of   …
  • … Artaud. 2 vols. Metz.  128: 24 ——. 1807.  A short system of comparative anatomy . …
  • … 1794–6.  Harmonia ruralis; or, an essay   towards a natural history of British song birds . 2 …
  • … ou, iconographie de toutes les espèces et   variétés d’arbres, fruitiers cultivés dans cet   …
  • … augmentée d’un grand nombre de fruits, les uns échappés aux recherches de Duhamel, les autres …
  • … . Vol. 37 in Jardine, William, ed.,  The naturalist’s library . 40 vols. Edinburgh. 1843.  *119: …
  • …   manual . London.  119: 8a [——]. 1841.  Cecil; or, the adventures of a coxcomb . …