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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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- … ‘My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, ‘is so nearly closed. . . What little more I can …
- … as evolution’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 27 July [1872] ). By the end of the year Darwin …
- … s. 6 d. ( letter from R. F. Cooke, 12 February 1872 ). Always closely involved in …
- … translator ( letter to J. J. Moulinié, 23 September 1872 ). He recapped the history of the French …
- … of the year ( letter from C.-F. Reinwald, 23 November 1872 ). To persuade his US publisher, …
- … Mivart ( letter to St G. J. Mivart, 11 January [1872] ). A worsening breach The …
- … beautiful’ ( letter from A. R. Wallace, 3 March 1872 ). I consider that you have …
- … Darwin ( letter to St G. J. Mivart, 5 January 1872 ). Piqued, Mivart flung back by return of post …
- … errors’ ( letter from St G. J. Mivart, 6 January 1872 ). Darwin likened the affair to the …
- … towards me’ ( letter to St G. J. Mivart, 8 January [1872] ). Despite Darwin’s request that he …
- … world’ ( letter from St G. J. Mivart, 10 January 1872 ). Darwin, determined to have the last …
- … acknowledge it ( letter to St G. J. Mivart, 11 January [1872] ). 'I hate controversy,’ Darwin …
- … I do it badly’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 3 August [1872] ). Darwin's theories under …
- … the world moves!’ ( letter from Mary Treat, 13 December 1872 ). 'Here is a bee' …
- … it at least in part ( letter to August Weismann, 5 April 1872 ). ‘I wanted some encouragement’, he …
- … to believe it’ ( letter to Herman Müller, [before 5 May 1872] ). Müller had sent him a …
- … of natural and sexual selection to bees (H. Müller 1872), and with his reply Darwin enclosed an …
- … standing’ ( letter to Hermann Müller, [before 5 May 1872] ). Finishing Expression …
- … doing nothing’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 22 October [1872] ). He was far from idle during their …
- … to be more erect’ ( letter to Briton Riviere, 19 May [1872] ). Riviere had been suggested to …
- … May was the teenage protégé of the artist and writer Samuel Butler, son of an old Shrewsbury …
- … clever book’ ( letter to J. M. Herbert, 21 November 1872 ) and invited Butler to dinner the …
- … Arthur May’s drawings shortly afterwards ( letter from Samuel Butler to Francis Darwin, [before 30 …
- … feels no doubts’ ( letter to F. C. Donders, 17 June 1872 ). Right up to the beginning of June, …
- … Buckley Litchfield ( letter to H. E. Litchfield, 13 May 1872 ). Delivery to the press brought only …
- … myself’ ( letter to H. E. Litchfield, 25 July 1872 ). A battle for the independence of …
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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- … the transcript) and the non-scientific on the right (labelled ‘b’). He continued this separation of …
- … Archipelago [Crawfurd 1820] Raffeles d[itt]o [T. S. B. Raffles 1817] Buffon Suites …
- … 1839–41]— in Geograph Soc Siebold’s Japan [P. F. B. von Siebold 1833–50]— d[itt]o Kalm …
- … Domestic Improvement ] Loudons. Journal of Nat Hist Z & B [ Magazine of Natural History …
- … 28 Bacon’s Essays [Bacon 1825–36].— Butler. 3. first sermons [Butler 1834] …
- … & Phys [Todd ed. 1836–59] [DAR *119: 14] Butler’s Analogy [Butler 1736] …
- … Nemesis to China [Bernard 1844]. The Emigrant, Head [F. B. Head 1846] St. John’s …
- … of Birds from distant countries Birds of Japan [P. F. B. von Siebold 1833–50] Zoolog. Soc …
- … 1801]. well Skimmed B. Edwards Hist. of W. Indies [B. Edwards 1793–1801]. d[itt]o. …
- … 1766]. good Bas. Montagu’s Select from old Divines [B. Montagu 1805] [DAR 119: 10a] …
- … th Kings & Lay’s Missionary Voyage [King and Lay 1839] —— B. Hall’s Schloss Hainfell …
- … 1834–9] Dec 12 th The Emigrant by Sir F. B. Head [F. B. Head 1846] —— 16 th …
- … Siege of Vienna [Schimmer 1847].— good Sept 12 th . B. Franklins life by Sparks [Sparks ed. …
- … has not been located. CD may possibly have been referring to Samuel Johnson, The vanity of human …
- … CD marked this entry ‘O’ in pencil. 88 Samuel Highley, proprietor of a scientific …
- … Academicæ . London. 119: 10a Bailey, Samuel. 1829. Essays on the pursuit of truth, on …
- … 1837.) [Darwin Library.] 119: 21a Bamford, Samuel. 1841. Passages in the life of a …
- … 119: 7a Boswell, James. 1831. The life of Samuel Johnson … Including a journal of a …
- … Library. Abstract in DAR 71: 85–6.] 128: 12 Butler, Joseph. 1736. The analogy of …
- … islands . London. *128: 172 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. 1812. The friend; a series of …
- … 1835. Specimens of the table talk of the late Samuel Taylor Coleridge . Edited by [Henry …
- … 7a ——. 1836–9. The literary remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge . Collected and …
- … 119: 9b Cottle, Joseph. 1847. Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert …
- … life of Mrs. Godolphin . Now first published and edited by Samuel [Wilberforce] Lord Bishop of …
- … by W. Radcliffe . London. *128: 159 Haldeman, Samuel Stehman. 1843–4. Enumeration of the …
- … a course of lectures. Translated from the German [by Samuel Mihlis]. 2 vols. London. [Other eds.] …
- … districts” . London. 128: 3 Hearne, Samuel. 1795. A journey from Prince of Wales’s …
- … of wheat . Jersey and London. [Darwin Library; 2d ed. (1872) also in Darwin Library.] *119: 7v.; …
