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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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- … Ball, John (5) Ball, Robert (3) Ball …
- … Bateman, James (1) Bateman, Robert (1) …
- … Bell, Marion (1) Bell, Robert (b) (2) …
- … Buckman, James (2) Buist, Robert (2) …
- … Burgess, Thomas (3) Burn, Robert (1) …
- … Giuseppe (2) Carden, Robert (1) …
- … Caspari, Otto (1) Caspary, Robert (11) …
- … J. H. (1) Chambers, Robert (7) …
- … W. H. M. (2) Christison, Robert (1) …
- … Cole, William (3) Colgate, Robert (1) …
- … Dalziel, Hugh (1) Damon, Robert (2) …
- … Elliot, H. F. H. (1) Elliot, Robert (3) …
- … Evans, Marian (2) Everest, Robert (1) …
- … Fitch, Adam (3) Fitch, Robert (16) …
- … Fitton, W. H. (2) FitzRoy, Robert (28) …
- … Gardner, E. T. (1) Garner, Robert (1) …
- … Hunt, James (b) (1) Hunt, Robert (5) …
- … Magniac, Charles (1) Main, Robert (2) …
- … Malden, B. S. (1) Mallet, Robert (1) …
- … Daniel (1) McAndrew, Robert (1) …
- … W. C. (5) McLachlan, Robert (8) …
- … F. G. (1) Patterson, Robert (8) …
- … Russell, Mr (2) Russell, Robert (1) …
- … Moritz (1) Schlagintweit, Robert (1) …
- … Scott, W. R. (1) Scrimgeour, Robert Shedden & John Shedden & …
- … Shaw, James (11) Shaw, Robert (3) …
- … Smith, John (c) (2) Smith, Robert (2) …
- … George (1) Swinhoe, Robert (19) …
- … Södling, C. E. (1) Tachau, Robert (1) …
Julia Wedgwood
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Charles Darwin’s readership largely consisted of other well-educated Victorian men, nonetheless, some women did read, review, and respond to Darwin’s work. One of these women was Darwin’s own niece, Julia Wedgwood, known in the family as “Snow”. In July…
Darwin in letters, 1861: Gaining allies
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The year 1861 marked an important change in the direction of Darwin’s work. He had weathered the storm that followed the publication of Origin, and felt cautiously optimistic about the ultimate acceptance of his ideas. The letters from this year provide an…
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 Bell [Hume 1778] recommended by Erasmus Life of Hutton by Playfair [Playfair 1797]— (read) …
- … [Brewster 1831] March. 8 Houdins the conjurer Life [Robert-Houdin [1859] 19 …
- … 21 Erasmus Alvey Darwin. 22 Robert Waring Darwin. 23 The …
- … The cyclopædia of anatomy and physiology, edited by Robert Bentley Todd, was issued in parts. …
- … Pulteney. 1847. Instinct. In vol. 3, pp. 1–29, of Todd, Robert Bentley, The cyclopædia of anatomy …
- … on the progress of civilisation . Edinburgh: William and Robert Chambers. 119: 22a Anon. …
- … Therry, Esq. Sydney. *119: 8v. Brown, Robert. 1814. General remarks, geographical …
- … … Translated by John Black. With notes … by Robert Jameson . London. [Darwin Library.] …
- … by her niece. 7 vols. London. 119: 12b, 18b Burns, Robert. 1786. Poems, chiefly in the …
- … London. [Other eds.] 119: 11b [Chambers, Robert]. 1844. Vestiges of the natural history …
- … 1847. Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey . London. 119: 21b …
- … 3 vols. London. *119: 21, 23; 119: 22b Curzon, Robert. 1849. Visits to monasteries in …
- … pts. London. [Darwin Library.] 119: 12a [Darwin, Robert Waring]. 1787. Principia …
- … Useful Knowledge.) London. *119: 14, 22 Drury, Robert. 1729. Madagascar; or, Robert …
- … fraisiers . 2 pts. Paris. *119: 21v. Dudley, Robert. 1844. Correspondence of Robert …
- … those countries . London. *119: 13v. FitzRoy, Robert. 1839. Narrative of the surveying …
- … between the years 1826 and 1836 . Edited by Robert FitzRoy. 3 vols. and appendix. (Vol. 2 and …
- … expedition, 1831–6, under the command of Captain Robert Fitz-Roy .) London. 119: 5a …
- … forest trees. London. 119: 7a, 13a Fortune, Robert. 1847. Three years’ wanderings in …
- … et morale . Paris. 119: 20a Gleig, George Robert. 1848. The life of Robert, first …
- … history . London. 119: 8a Haydon, Benjamin Robert. 1853. The life of B. R. Haydon . …
- … 6a Hickson, William Edward. 1849. Review of Thomas Robert Malthus, An essay on the …
- … and Asia . From the French of M. le Poivre. Philadelphia: Robert Bell. *119: 15 ——. 1779 …
- … between the years 1826 and 1836 . Edited by Robert FitzRoy. 3 vols. and appendix. (Vol. 1: …
- … . London. [Other eds.] *119: 22v.; 128: 2 Knox, Robert. 1850. The races of men: a …
- … [Abstract in DAR 205.2: 100.] 128: 16 Latham, Robert Gordon. 1851. Man and his …
Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments
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The year was marked by three deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend and supporter; Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and father of Darwin’s friend…
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Darwin in letters, 1864: Failing health
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On receiving a photograph from Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July 1864: ‘the venerable beard gives the look of your having suffered, and … of having grown older’. Because of poor health, Because of poor health, Darwin…
