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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 ARWallace,  27 July [1872] ). By the end of the year Darwin
  • set the final price at 7 s.  6 d.  ( letter from RFCooke, 12 February 1872 ). …
  • translator ( letter to JJMoulinié, 23 September 1872 ). He recapped the history of the French
  • unpublished at the end of the year ( letter from C.-FReinwald, 23 November 1872 ). To
  • Mivart ( letter to St GJMivart,  11 January [1872] ). A worsening breach The
  • beautiful’ ( letter from ARWallace, 3 March 1872 ). I consider that you have
  • by Darwin himself (see  Correspondence  vol19, pxxiv). By the beginning of the year both men
  • Darwin ( letter to St GJMivart, 5 January 1872 ). Piqued, Mivart flung back by return of post
  • errors’ ( letter from St GJMivart, 6 January 1872 ). Darwin likened the affair to the
  • towards me’ ( letter to St GJMivart, 8 January [1872] ).  Despite Darwins request that he
  • world’ ( letter from St GJMivart,  10 January 1872 ).  Darwin, determined to have the last
  • acknowledge it ( letter to St GJMivart, 11 January [1872] ). 'I hate controversy,’ Darwin
  • I do it badly’ ( letter to ARWallace, 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 (HMüller 1872), and with his reply Darwin enclosed an
  • standing’ ( letter to Hermann Müller, [before 5 May 1872] ). Finishing  Expression
  • from his ignorance, he feels no doubts’ ( letter to FCDonders, 17 June 1872 ). Right up to the
  • agreed to let them have it for love!!!’ ( letter from RFCooke, 1 August 1872 ). It had
  • …  & have not taken care of ourselves’ ( letter from RFCooke, 20 November 1872 ). A
  • in the face of a disappointed public ( letter from RFCooke, 25 November 1872 ). Among those
  • darkness by an industrial strike ( letter from RFCooke, 6 December 1872 ).  Caught out by the
  • reward to which any scientific man can look’ ( letter to FCDonders, 29 April [1872] ). …

Darwin in letters,1870: Human evolution

Summary

The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the year at work on the Descent of Man & Selection in relation to Sex’.  Descent was the culmination of over three decades of observations and reflections on…

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  • on emotion; it would eventually appear as a separate book in 1872 ( Expression of the emotions in
  • by the religious writer and philanthropist Frances Power Cobbe. At Cobbes suggestion, Darwin read
  • apes & savages at the moral sense of mankind’ ( letter to F. P. Cobbe, 23 March [1870?] ). …
  • … & physics form one great philosophy?’ ( letter from F. P. Cobbe, 28 March [1870?] ). …
  • to finish my note on this subject’  ( letter from F. C. Donders, 17 May 1870 ). Human

Darwin in letters, 1871: An emptying nest

Summary

The year 1871 was an extremely busy and productive one for Darwin, with the publication in February of his long-awaited book on human evolution, Descent of man. The other main preoccupation of the year was the preparation of his manuscript on expression.…

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  • … consider the killing of some members of a hive a duty (Cobbe 1871, pp. 174, 188–9). Darwin was …
  • … to Emma, as indicated in a letter that she wrote to Cobbe on 25 February : ‘Speaking in my …