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Darwin in letters, 1876: In the midst of life

Summary

1876 was the year in which the Darwins became grandparents for the first time.  And tragically lost their daughter-in-law, Amy, who died just days after her son's birth.  All the letters from 1876 are now published in volume 24 of The Correspondence…

Matches: 27 hits

  • … ‘my wife … poor creature, has won only 2490 games’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 28 January 1876 ). …
  • … quantity of work’ left in him for ‘new matter’ (letter to Asa Gray, 28 January 1876). The …
  • … to a reprint of the second edition of Climbing plants ( letter from R. F. Cooke, 23 February …
  • … & I for blundering’, he cheerfully observed to Carus. ( Letter to J. V. Carus, 24 April 1876. …
  • … provided evidence for the ‘advantages of crossing’ (letter to Asa Gray, 28 January 1876). Revising …
  • … year to write about his life ( Correspondence vol. 23, letter from Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg, 20 …
  • … nowadays is evolution and it is the correct one’ ( letter from Nemo, [1876?] ). …
  • … him ‘basely’ and who had succeeded in giving him pain ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 17 June 1876 ). …
  • … disgrace’ of blackballing so distinguished a zoologist ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 29 January 1876 ) …
  • … must have been cast by the ‘poorest curs in London’ ( letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, [4 February …
  • … her questions were ‘too silly to deserve an answer’ ( letter from S. B. Herrick, 12 February 1876 …
  • … on Dionaea ‘to test the insect eating theory’ ( letter from Peter Henderson, 15 November 1876 …
  • … sending Darwin small amendments to his results ( letter from Moritz Schiff, 8 May 1876 ). …
  • … to get positive results in this year’s experiments’ ( letter from G. J. Romanes, [ c . 19 March …
  • … in the Encyclopaedia Britannica the previous year ( letter to G. H. Darwin, [after 4 September …
  • … and to promote work he admired. He was so interested in a letter from Fritz Müller in Brazil …
  • … with the ants that inhabited the trunk that he sent the letter to Nature for publication. ‘It …
  • … communicated this information in an article in Nature ( letter from Johann von Fischer, [before …
  • … phyllotaxis by the mutual pressure of very young buds’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 21 June [1876] ). …
  • … Scottish shoemaker and ardent naturalist Thomas Edward ( letter from F. M. Balfour, 11 December …
  • … live blood-hound which shall hunt it to the death’ ( letter from James Torbitt, 19 April 1876 …
  • … the public to consider Torbitt an untrustworthy fanatic ( letter to James Torbitt, 21 April 1876 ) …
  • … request, with the ‘awful job’ of informing the author ( letter to G. G. Stokes, 21 April [1876] ). …
  • … thought the paper was ‘not worthy of being read ever’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 28 January 1876 …
  • … to William Thiselton-Dyer on 26 April that Tait’s letter about his ‘accursed paper’ had quite …
  • … minded Horace, however, who was the first to type a letter, telling George on 1 May (in the only …
  • … Henry Lewes for an article on the snail’s heart and a letter to Nature on the use of the …

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: 29 hits

  • … [Reimarius 1760] The Highlands & Western Isl ds  letter to Sir W Scott [MacCulloch 1824 …
  • … 1834–40]: In Portfolio of “abstracts” 34  —letter from Skuckard of books on Silk Worm …
  • … M rs  Fry’s Life [Fry 1847] Horace Walpoles letter to C t . of Ossory [Walpole 1848] …
  • … Asiatic Society ]—contains very little Macleay’s letter to D r  Fleming [Macleay 1830] …
  • … [Heer 1854].— Hooker has it.— Very important Hookers letter Jan. 1859 Yules Ava [Yule 1858] …
  • … [Lutfullah 1857] Dec 26 Stephenson’s Life [Smiles 1857] [DAR 128: 22] …
  • … Lord Elgins China [Oliphant 1859] (poorish) May 13 Smiles Self-Help [Smiles 1859]. (goodish) …
  • … has not been located. CD may possibly have been referring to Samuel Johnson,  The vanity of human …
  • … of the material from these portfolios is in DAR 205, the letter from William Edward Shuckard to …
  • … ( Notebooks , pp. 319–28). 55  The letter was addressed to Nicholas Aylward Vigors …
  • … to William Jackson Hooker. See  Correspondence  vol. 3, letter to J. D. Hooker, [5 or 12 November …
  • …  CD marked this entry ‘O’ in pencil. 88  Samuel Highley, proprietor of a scientific …
  • … Academicæ . London.  119: 10a Bailey, Samuel. 1829.  Essays on the pursuit of truth, on …
  • … 1837.) [Darwin Library.]  119: 21a Bamford, Samuel. 1841.  Passages in the life of a …
  • … 119: 7a Boswell, James. 1831.  The life of Samuel Johnson …   Including a journal of a …
  • … 119: 21b Broughton, William Grant. 1832.  A letter in vindication of   the principles of …
  • …   islands . London. *128: 172 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. 1812.  The friend; a series of …
  • … 1835.  Specimens of the table talk of the late   Samuel Taylor Coleridge . Edited by [Henry …
  • … 7a ——. 1836–9.  The literary remains of Samuel Taylor   Coleridge . Collected and …
  • … 119: 9b Cottle, Joseph. 1847.  Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor   Coleridge and Robert …
  • … life of Mrs. Godolphin . Now first published and edited by Samuel [Wilberforce] Lord Bishop of …
  • … by W. Radcliffe . London.  *128: 159 Haldeman, Samuel Stehman. 1843–4. Enumeration of the …
  • … a course of lectures.  Translated from the German [by Samuel Mihlis]. 2 vols. London. [Other eds.]  …
  • … districts” . London.  128: 3 Hearne, Samuel. 1795.  A journey from Prince of Wales’s   …
  • … animals . London. [Other eds.] 119: 14a Johnson, Samuel. 1779.  The lives of the English …
  • … by Bekhur to   Garoo and the Lake Manasarowara: with a letter from … J.   G. Gerard, Esq. …
  • … 1830. On the dying struggle of the dichotomous sytem. In a letter to N. A. Vigors.  Philosophical …
  • … *119: 8v., 22v.; *128: 165 ——. 1850a. Letter to the Rev. John Bachman, on the question of …
  • … Edinburgh. [Other eds.]  *119: 1v.; 119: 12a Smiles, Samuel. 1857.  The life of George …