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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,…
Darwin’s first love
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Darwin’s long marriage to Emma Wedgwood is well documented, but was there an earlier romance in his life? How was his departure on the Beagle entangled with his first love? The answers are revealed in a series of flirtatious letters that Darwin was…
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- … Darwin’s long marriage to Emma Wedgwood is well documented, but was there an earlier …
- … possesses ’. This personage, a certain Miss Fanny Mostyn Owen, wrote a series of revealing letters …
- … from her to the end of his life. The Mostyn Owen and Darwin families were …
- … romance, and history. We know she read Ann Radcliffe’s Mysteries of Udolpho , but it was …
- … creditors) to a ruined abbey in a forest. In Fanny’s first letter, and in many others she wrote to …
- … a warmth of character that was first noted by Darwin’s sister Catherine. After staying a week at …
- … First and last pages of the letter from Fanny Owen, [late January 1828] (DAR 204: 43). Her …
- … Scandal and mystery Fanny’s first letters to her ‘dear Postillion’ were sent …
- … Darwin, however, did leave Shrewsbury before Fanny’s return, following his father’s decision that he …
- … University with the aim of becoming a clergyman. Fanny’s slow response to the news of Darwin’s …
- … say, “Dear me Ma’am would you believe it Miss Fanny Owen corresponds with a young man Ma’am at …
- … Swallowtail Papilio macheon. © Iain H. Leach. ( https://www.iainleachphotography.com ) …
- … Fanny ’. Letter from Fanny Owen, 27 January [1830] (DAR 204: 47), …
- … been jilted once, and Biddulph had to prove himself to the Mostyn Owen family, having had a …
- … The first and last pages of Fanny Owen’s letter of 1 March 1832 (DAR 204:55), …
- … ’. Darwin’s delight in the world created by Fanny Owen in the forest of her own imagination, …
- … and desperately selfish also. ’ Nonetheless, as William Mostyn Owen commented when he wrote to …
Darwin in letters, 1880: Sensitivity and worms
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‘My heart & soul care for worms & nothing else in this world,’ Darwin wrote to his old Shrewsbury friend Henry Johnson on 14 November 1880. Darwin became fully devoted to earthworms in the spring of the year, just after finishing the manuscript of…
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- … to adapt to varying conditions. The implications of Darwin’s work for the boundary between animals …
- … animal instincts by George John Romanes drew upon Darwin’s early observations of infants, family …
- … Controversy and Erasmus Darwin Darwin’s most recent book, Erasmus Darwin , had been …
- … generations. He continued to receive letters about Erasmus’s life and other bits of family history. …
- … Tindal, sent a cache of letters from two of Darwin’s grandfather’s clerical friends, full of lively …
- … the eagerness of the two learned divines to see a pig’s body opened is very amusing’, Darwin replied …
- … ( letter from J. L. Chester, 3 March 1880 ). Darwin’s sons George and Leonard also continued to …
- … been co-authored with Ernst Krause, whose essay on Erasmus’s scientific work complemented Darwin’s …
- … Krause, 9 June [1879] ). The final text of the Krause’s essay did not mention Butler’s book …
- … in the preface, where Darwin stated that Krause’s piece had been written in 1879 (before Evolution …
- … to Samuel Butler, 3 January 1880 ). At the top of Butler’s letter, Emma Darwin wrote: ‘it means war …
- … Sarah Haliburton. She was one of the daughters of William Mostyn Owen, the squire of Woodhouse, …
