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List of correspondents

Summary

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,…

Matches: 24 hits

  • … 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) …

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…

Matches: 26 hits

  • … 1814]. Sense & S [Austen 1811]. Rich d . 2 d . poor. Henry IV [Shakespeare:  King Richard …
  • … 1857] (the best Travels I ever read) Sept. Froude Henry VIII [Froude 1856]. 4 vols very …
  • … printed notices pasted into the notebook. 26  Henry Peter Brougham, Baron Brougham and …
  • … in December, 1841 . Oxford.  119: 13b Atkinson, Henry George and Martineau, Harriet. 1851 …
  • … in DAR 71: 150–1.]  128: 18 Borrow, George Henry. 1843.  The Bible in Spain; or, the   …
  • … 128: 9 Brooks, J. Tyrwhitt,  pseud.  (Henry Vizetelly). 1849.  Four   months among the …
  • … the gold districts . London.  119: 22b Brougham, Henry Peter. 1839.  Dissertations on …
  • … 71: 125–7.]  *119: 18v.; 119: 8a, 21a Buckle, Henry Thomas. 1857.  History of …
  • … tribes.  London.  119: 21a Burgess, Thomas Henry. 1839.  The physiology or mechanism   …
  • … [Other eds.]  *119: 5v., 11v.; 119: 9a Cline, Henry. 1829.  Observations on the breeding …
  • …   observations . London.  119: 7a Cockburn, Henry. 1852.  Life of Lord Jeffrey, with a …
  • … [Other eds.]  *128: 180; 128: 5, 21 Coke, Henry John. 1852.  A ride over the Rocky …
  • … talk of the late   Samuel Taylor Coleridge . Edited by [Henry Nelson Coleridge]. 2 vols. London. …
  • … of Samuel Taylor   Coleridge . Collected and edited by Henry Nelson Coleridge. 4 vols. London.  …
  • … white . New York and London.  *128: 152 Colman, Henry. 1848.  The agriculture and rural …
  • … in DAR 205.3: 143–51.]  128: 6 Dana, Richard Henry. [1840].  Two years before the mast. A …
  • … Commedia . Translated into English verse … by the Rev. Henry Boyd. 3 vols. London. [Other eds.]  …
  • … and Dr. Fisher. London.  119: 5a Edwards, William Henry. 1847.  A voyage up the River   …
  • …   Lower Styria . Edinburgh.  119: 13b Hallam, Henry. 1827.  The constitutional history …
  • … London. [Other eds.]  *119: 13 Harvey, William Henry. 1838.  The genera of South African …
  • … 3 vols. London.  *128: 180; 128: 9 Haygarth, Henry William. 1848.  Recollections of bush …
  • … W. Hazlitt.] 3 vols. London.  119: 12b Holland, Henry. 1839.  Medical notes and …
  • … Paris. 1842–54.  *128: 165; 128: 24 [Home, Henry, Lord Kames]. 1774.  Sketches of the …
  • … on the formation of   animals, and the new opinions of Henry Cline . London.  *119: 7v. …
  • …  n.s. 14: 25–31, 69–78.  *119: 16v. Keppel, Henry. 1846.  The expedition to Borneo of H.M …
  • … Library.] *119: 1v.; 119: 18a Layard, Austen Henry. 1849.  Nineveh and its remains.  2 …

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…

Matches: 3 hits

  • … Mivart enclosed a copy of an article replying to Thomas Henry Huxley’s scathing review of  Genesis …
  • … widen.  Wallace’s favourable review of the physiologist Henry Charlton Bastian’s recent book on the …
  • … younger correspondents, Huxley’s seven-year-old son, Henry ( letter from Henry Huxley, 17 and 20 …