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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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- … James (c) (3) Anderson-Henry, Isaac (17) …
- … A. A. van (2) Bence Jones, Henry (8) …
- … E. M. (6) Bonham-Carter, Henry (1) …
- … Charles (2) Bradshaw, Henry (1) …
- … Cattell, John (3) Cecil, Henry (2) …
- … A. A. L. P. (2) Coe, Henry (6) …
- … Cohn, F. J. (22) Colburn, Henry (3) …
- … Denison, C. L. (3) Denny, Henry (13) …
- … Dorrell, Mr. (2) Doubleday, Henry (13) …
- … Edwards, Ernest (1) Edwards, Henry (5) …
- … Farrer, William (1) Faulds, Henry (2) …
- … Gill, T. N. (1) Gillman, Henry (2) …
- … Grove, W. R. (12) Groves, Henry (3) …
- … Hennell, S. S. (1) Hennessy, Henry (1) …
- … Holland, Edward (2) Holland, Henry (23) …
- … Hunt, T. C. (1) Huntsman, Henry (1) …
- … Huxley, H. A. (8) Huxley, Henry (1) …
- … Jackson, H. W. (3) Jackson, Henry (2) …
- … Johnson, G. W. (1) Johnson, Henry (a) (16) …
- … Land and Water (1) Landor, Henry (1) …
- … Lee, H. P. (1) Lee, Henry (5) Lee, J …
- … London Library (1) Lonsdale, Henry (1) …
- … Menyhért (2) MacKay, Henry (1) …
- … Ludwik (2) Matthew, Henry (3) …
- … Pitman, H. A. (3) Pitman, Henry (1) …
- … Treviranus, L. C. (1) Trimen, Henry (1) …
Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex
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The quantity of Darwin’s correspondence increased dramatically in 1868 due largely to his ever-widening research on human evolution and sexual selection.Darwin’s theory of sexual selection as applied to human descent led him to investigate aspects of the…
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- … in three parts in the Pall Mall Gazette , was by George Henry Lewes, well-known in London’s …
- … facts that they hoped might be of interest. Charles Henry Binstead, a civil engineer in Yorkshire, …
- … On 11 February , Darwin wrote to the entomologist Henry Walter Bates, ‘I have just found that I …
- … September . Darwin annotated a letter sent on 3 April by Henry Doubleday that contained a …
- … expression of natives faces as I meet them,’ wrote George Henry Kendrick Thwaites on 1 April …
- … Darwin began a long correspondence on orchids with Thomas Henry Farrer, permanent secretary to the …
- … the ascendant. His great public defender in England, Thomas Henry Huxley, remarked on 12 September …
Darwin in letters, 1871: An emptying nest
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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.…
Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
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At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…
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- … friends Charles Lyell, the respected geologist, and Thomas Henry Huxley, the zoologist and anatomist …
- … on the river Amazons , a book that he had encouraged Henry Walter Bates to write. When the book …
- … also began with the Scottish hybridiser Isaac Anderson-Henry, and Darwin continued the exchange of …
- … German botanist in Trinidad, and continued writing to George Henry Kendrick Thwaites, the director …
- … 16 July 1863 ). In England, Darwin asked Philip Henry Gosse, a writer and naturalist in …
- … plants in the same species ( see letter to Isaac Anderson-Henry, 20 January [1863] ). These …
- … to J. D. Hooker, [22–3 November 1863] ). He told Roland Trimen in a letter of 25 November [1863] …
Have you read the one about....
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... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some serious - but all letters you can read here.
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- … ... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some …
Descent
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There are more than five hundred letters associated with the research and writing of Darwin’s book, Descent of man and selection in relation to sex (Descent). They trace not only the tortuous route to eventual publication, but the development of Darwin’s…
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- … of reading Lyell, Darwin also received a copy of Thomas Henry Huxley’s new publication, Evidence …
- … so he went back to correspondents like Fritz Müller and Henry Bates. While he was at it, he also …
- … a barrage of questions from Darwin , the entomologist Henry Stainton not only sent a long reply …
- … been saved from ‘ a terrible mistake ’ by Roland Trimen who corrected his assertion that ‘no moths …
- … of moths back to Trimen to check the wording. Henry Bates read a whole packet of manuscript …
Darwin in letters, 1869: Forward on all fronts
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At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of Origin. He may have resented the interruption to his work on sexual selection and human evolution, but he spent forty-six days on the task. Much of the…
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- … to address in the fifth edition was that of the engineer Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin. Darwin had …
- … pleased to see Thomson’s work challenged by both Thomas Henry Huxley and Wallace. He confided to …
- … male and female fish, reptiles, and amphibians, while Roland Trimen in South Africa and John Jenner …
- … without reserve. Darwin initially contacted the physician Henry Maudsley, who had worked for some …
- … more of the same description’ ( enclosure to letter from Henry Maudsley, 20 May 1869 ). Darwin had …
- … Delpino’s criticism was noted in a letter from Thomas Henry Farrer, who had been reading some of …
- … by his horse. Having been advised in 1866 by the doctor Henry Bence Jones to go riding for his …
Sexual selection
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Although natural selection could explain the differences between species, Darwin realised that (other than in the reproductive organs themselves) it could not explain the often marked differences between the males and females of the same species. So what…
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- … He exchanged letters with naturalists and observers like Henry Walter Bates, Benjamin Dann Walsh, …
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…
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- … by insects; his correspondence with Gray, Philip Henry Gosse, George Chichester Oxenden, Friedrich …
- … speciosa that he received later in the year from Roland Trimen in South Africa. Darwin’s work with …
- … seemed only to grow in 1864. In addition to Crüger’s and Trimen’s orchid observations, he received, …
- … habit of a strangling fig that had been described in Henry Walter Bates’s Naturalist on the river …
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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- … intended for publication in Variation , to Thomas Henry Huxley for evaluation, and persuaded his …
- … July 1865] ). In July, he consulted the physician Henry Bence Jones, who put him on a strict …
- … health had been particularly bad, Darwin sent Thomas Henry Huxley a fair copy of a manuscript in …
- … William Farrar, writing on language, and from Roland Trimen in Cape Town. His last letter of the …
