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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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- … Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. …
- … Ball, John (5) Ball, Robert (3) Ball …
- … Bateman, James (1) Bateman, Robert (1) …
- … Bell, Marion (1) Bell, Robert (b) (2) …
- … (1) Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte …
- … Buckman, James (2) Buist, Robert (2) …
- … Burgess, Thomas (3) Burn, Robert (1) …
- … Giuseppe (2) Carden, Robert (1) …
- … Caspari, Otto (1) Caspary, Robert (11) …
- … J. H. (1) Chambers, Robert (7) …
- … W. H. M. (2) Christison, Robert (1) …
- … Dareste, Camille (9) Darwin family (1) …
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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- … In 1865, the chief work on Charles Darwin’s mind was the writing of The variation of animals and …
- … letters on climbing plants to make another paper. Darwin also submitted a manuscript of his …
- … protégé, John Scott, who was now working in India. Darwin’s transmutation theory continued to …
- … Argyll, appeared in the religious weekly, Good Words . Darwin received news of an exchange of …
- … Butler, and, according to Butler, the bishop of Wellington. Darwin’s theory was discussed at an …
- … in the Gardeners’ Chronicle . At the end of the year, Darwin was elected an honorary member of …
- … year was marked by three deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend of …
- … in August. There was also a serious dispute between two of Darwin’s friends, John Lubbock and …
- … jolly’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 January [1865] ). Darwin was ready to submit his paper on …
- … a sudden illness. Falconer was 56, almost the same age as Darwin himself. Falconer had seconded …
- … Darwin had received a copy of Müller’s book, Für Darwin , a study of the Crustacea with reference …
- … … inheritance, reversion, effects of use & disuse &c’, and which he intended to publish in …
- … encomium of the year also came from Scotland, from James Shaw, a schoolmaster with strong literary …
- … conditions are explicable by our own’ ( letter from James Shaw, 20 November 1865 ). Shaw had also …
- … He wrote to Hooker, ‘I doubt whether you or I or any one c d do any good in healing this breach. …
- … Hooker’s behalf, ‘He asks if you saw the article of M r . Croll in the last Reader on the …
- … from J. D. Hooker, [3 November 1865] ). The death of Robert FitzRoy Another …
- … to support FitzRoy’s children ( see letter from Charles Shaw, 3 October 1865 ). Family …
- … ‘As for your thinking that you do not deserve the C[opley] Medal,’ he rebuked Hooker, ‘that I …
