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Darwin in letters, 1874: A turbulent year
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The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early months working on second editions of Coral reefs and Descent of man; the rest of the year was mostly devoted to further research on insectivorous plants. A…
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- … be done by observation during prolonged intervals’ ( letter to D. T. Gardner, [ c . 27 August …
- … pleasures of shooting and collecting beetles ( letter from W. D. Fox, 8 May [1874] ). Such …
- … And … one looks backwards much more than forwards’ ( letter to W. D. Fox, 11 May [1874] ). …
- … was an illusory hope.— I feel very old & helpless’ ( letter to B. J. Sulivan, 6 January [1874] …
- … inferred that he was well from his silence on the matter ( letter from Ernst Haeckel, 26 October …
- … in such rubbish’, he confided to Joseph Dalton Hooker ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 18 January [1874] …
- … the psychic researcher Frederick William Henry Myers, and Thomas Henry Huxley, who sent a long …
- … that Mr Williams was ‘a cheat and an imposter’ ( letter from T. H. Huxley, 27 January 1874 ). …
- … his, ‘& that he was thus free to perform his antics’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 29 January [1874 …
- … Darwin had allowed ‘a spirit séance’ at his home ( letter from T. G. Appleton, 2 April 1874 ). …
- … edition, published in 1842 ( Correspondence vol. 21, letter to Smith, Elder & Co., 17 …
- … Hooker, and finally borrowed one from Charles Lyell ( letter to Smith, Elder & Co., 8 January …
- … to take so sweetly all the horrid bother of correction’ ( letter to H. E. Litchfield, 21 [March …
- … sent an apology for misinterpreting Darwin on this point ( letter from J. D. Dana, 21 July 1874 ); …
- … 2d ed., p. 258 n. 99). The former bishop of Honolulu, Thomas Nettleship Staley, and Titus Munson …
- … numbers and sex ratios among the Pitcairn islanders ( letter from William Dealtry, 16 January 1874 …
- … will say that I have pounded the enemy into a jelly’ ( letter from T. H. Huxley, 14 April 1874 ). …
- … by none but anatomists; and never mind where it goes’ ( letter from T. H. Huxley, 16 April 1874 ). …
- … the return on subsequent print runs would be very good ( letter from R. F. Cooke, 12 November 1874 …
- … by the conciseness & clearness of your thought’ ( letter from G. H. Darwin, 20 April 1874 ). …
- … legal action over the ‘scurrilous libel’ on his son ( letter to G. H. Darwin, [27 July 1874] ). …
- … false, scurrilous accusation of [a] lying scoundrel’ ( letter to G. H. Darwin, 1 August [1874] ). …
- … on the digestibility of various substances on his behalf. Thomas Lauder Brunton sent the results of …
- … At the other end of the spectrum, the Dublin accounts clerk Thomas Cooke Copland sent Darwin details …
- … letter from S. W. Pennypacker, 14 September 1874 ). Thomas Lauder Brunton sent Darwin …
- … often returned to the vomit and ate it ( letter from W. G. Walker, 6 December 1874 ). The …
- … you have to do—It is enough to kill anyone’, and asked Thomas Henry Farrer to attempt to influence …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
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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…
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- … Medical Rev. N o 14. Ap 1839 [Anon. 1839b] Rev. on Walker on Intermarriage [A. Walker 1838] …
- … facts on cross-bred animals, M r Yarrell has it?? Walker on Interriage [A. Walker 1838] …
- … [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] …
- … Skimmed. Coral & Transmut. theory —— Walker on intermarriage [Walker 1838]— List …
- … [Heer 1854].— Hooker has it.— Very important Hookers letter Jan. 1859 Yules Ava [Yule 1858] …
- … 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 …
- … 1 (1847) in Darwin Library.] *128: 179 Arnold, Thomas. 1838–43. History of Rome . 3 …
- … de Pekin . 16 vols. Paris. 128: 18 Beale, Thomas. 1839. The natural history of the …
- … ed. (1874) in Darwin Library.] 119: 5a Bell, Thomas. 1837. A history of British …
- … Croker. 5 vols. London. 119: 4a, 9b Boteler, Thomas. 1835. Narrative of a voyage of …
- … 119: 21b Broughton, William Grant. 1832. A letter in vindication of the principles of …
- … of natural history . London. 119: 20a Browne, Thomas. 1643. Religio Medici . First …
- … 125–7.] *119: 18v.; 119: 8a, 21a Buckle, Henry Thomas. 1857. History of civilization in …
- … the native tribes. London. 119: 21a Burgess, Thomas Henry. 1839. The physiology or …
- … of the Trilobites. Translated from the German by Thomas Bell and Edward Forbes. London: Ray …
- … *119: 13 Buxton, Charles. 1848. Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, Baronet. With …
- … . 3 vols. London. *119: 23; 119: 23b Campbell, Thomas. 1828. The poetical works of …
- … Irish famine . Belfast. 119: 22b Carlyle, Thomas. 1834. Sartor Resartus. London. …
- … by Bekhur to Garoo and the Lake Manasarowara: with a letter from … J. G. Gerard, Esq. …
1.19 John Collier, oil in NPG
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< Back to Introduction Very soon after the delivery of Collier’s portrait of Darwin to the Linnean Society, Darwin’s eldest son William decided to commission a replica to add to the family collection of pictures, which he had inherited. The new…
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- … collection must have weighed with William Darwin, who in his letter to George of December 1895, had …
- … replicas of Collier’s portrait of his father-in-law, Thomas Huxley, accompanied the Darwin replicas, …
- … or ledger, National Portrait Gallery archive, NPG 110348. Letter from Millais to Collier, and …
Darwin in letters, 1837–1843: The London years to 'natural selection'
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The seven-year period following Darwin's return to England from the Beagle voyage was one of extraordinary activity and productivity in which he became recognised as a naturalist of outstanding ability, as an author and editor, and as a professional…
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- … Gould; Fish , by Leonard Jenyns; and Reptiles , by Thomas Bell—a total of nineteen quarto …
- … 2). Darwin’s crustacean specimens, originally entrusted to Thomas Bell, subsequently purchased by …
- … letters have suffered an even more severe loss. In a letter to Lyell’s sister-in-law, Katharine …
- … of fact . . . on the origin & variation of species” ( Letter to J. S. Henslow, [November 1839] …
- … that he had a sound solution to what J. F. W. Herschel in a letter to Lyell had called the ‘mystery …
- … about searching for evidence to support his hypothesis. In a letter to Lyell, [14] September [1838 …
- … just the same, though I know what I am looking for' ( Letter to G. R. Waterhouse, [26 July …
- … there were no doubts as to how one ought to act’ ( Letter from Emma Darwin, [ c. February 1839] …
- … for several months (See Correspondence vol. 1, letter to Caroline Darwin, 13 October 1834 , …
- … notebook). See also Allan 1977, pp. 128–30). The letter, on ‘Double flowers’ to the …
