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Volume appendices

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Here is a list of the appendices from the print volumes of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin with links to adapted online versions where they are available. Appendix I in each volume contains translations of letters in foreign languages and these can…

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  • … and these can be accessed online by searching for a letter and clicking on the translation tab on …
  • … life in the period covered by the volume, and Appendix III is a reproduction of the diplomas awarded …
  • … Beagle records 1 III Persons on board the …
  • …   2 III An autobiographical fragment …
  • …   3 III Darwin’s notes arising from …
  • … of the Cirripedia 4 III Darwin’s …
  • …   6 III Dates of composition of Darwin’s …
  • …   7 III Abstract of Darwin’s species …
  • …   8 III Presentation list for Origin …
  • … 8 V Patrick Matthew's letter to the Gardeners’ Chronicle …
  • …   9 III Presentation list for Asa Gray’s …
  • … Correspondence between Erasmus Darwin and Josiah Wedgwood I, concerning the properties of ice …
  • …   10 III Presentation list for ‘Dimorphic …
  • …   12 III Presentation list for ‘Three forms …
  • …   24 III Presentation lists for second …
  • …   30 III Darwin’s funeral …

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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  • … Zoolog. Proceedings & Journal of Asiatic Soc. Vol. II & Vol. III [DAR *119: 7v.] …
  • … [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] …
  • … Religio Medici [T. Browne 1643] Lyell’s Book III 5th Edit 58  [Lyell 1837]— There are many …
  • … Society of London ] from Vol I to Vol VII. part III or p 433. N.B. I think the three first of Hort …
  • … Hist. Peace of Utrecht to La Chapelle [Stanhope 1836–54] III Vols. —— 17 th  Laing notes of …
  • … More [Mackintosh 1844] Malmsbury correspondence Vol III & IV [J. Harris 1844] 28 …
  • … skimmed 14 th  Wellington Despatches Vol I. II. III [Wellesley 1834–9] Dec 12 th …
  • … good May 9 th  Brougham Statesmen of G III [Brougham 1839–43]. (1 series, 2 vols. 12 mo.) …
  • … Life of T. Moore [?T. Moore 1853–6] have read vol III. Mundy’s Antipodes [G. C. Mundy 1852] …
  • … [Heer 1854].— Hooker has it.— Very important Hookers letter Jan. 1859 Yules Ava [Yule 1858] …
  • … du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle ] Tom. I (lost). II 1833. III 1834. & IV 1835: Extracted …
  • … [Walpole 1848] 1 st  vol. —— History George III [Walpole 1845]. 1. vol. —— 17 th …
  • … Life. L d  J. Russel [T. Moore 1853–6]. Vol I. II. III. poorish. —— 26 Sir T. Moore’s life …
  • … 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 …
  • … of statesmen who   flourished in the time of George III . 3 pts. London.  119: 21b …
  • … 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 …
  • … . 3 vols. Boston. [Other eds.]  119: 21b Nott, Josiah Clark and Gliddon, George Robbins. …
  • … art of improving the   breeds of domestic animals. In a letter addressed to the   Right Hon. Sir …
  • … 1820.  Remarks on the improvement of   cattle, &c. in a letter to Sir John Saunders Sebright, …
  • … of   fowling … II: Of the ordering of singing birds. III: Of   falconry. By J. Ray . London.  …

Darwin’s observations on his children

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Charles Darwin’s observations on the development of his children, began the research that culminated in his book The Expression of the emotions in man and animals, published in 1872, and his article ‘A biographical sketch of an infant’, published in Mind…

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  • … our door N o  12 and N o  11 is in the slit for the Letter box.— he decidedly ran past N o  11 …
  • … has learned them from my sometimes changing the first letter in any word he is using—thus I say …
  • … , pp. 131–2. [6]  Correspondence  vol. 2, letter from Emma Wedgwood, [23 January 1839] . …
  • … fragment of 1838 ( Correspondence  vol. 2, Appendix III). [9] The sheets of the notebook …
  • … Sarah Wedgwood, Elizabeth (Bessy) Wedgwood, and Josiah Wedgwood II. According to Emma Darwin’s diary …
  • … [78] See  Correspondence  vol. 2, Appendix III, for a transcription of CD’s autobiographical …

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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  • … developed by Darwin from a suggestion made by his uncle, Josiah Wedgwood II, during one of Darwin’s …
  • … 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 …
  • … 1961, p. 53). Marriage Darwin married Emma Wedgwood in January 1839. His hopes and …
  • … fragment ( Correspondence vol. 2, Appendix III). The letters that Emma and Darwin subsequently …
  • … 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  …

Darwin in letters, 1880: Sensitivity and worms

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‘My heart & soul care for worms & nothing else in this world,’ Darwin wrote to his old Shrewsbury friend Henry Johnson on 14 November 1880. Darwin became fully devoted to earthworms in the spring of the year, just after finishing the manuscript of…

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  • … my grandfather’s character is of much value to me’ ( letter to C. H. Tindal, 5 January 1880 ). …
  • … have influenced the whole Kingdom, & even the world’ ( letter from J. L. Chester, 3 March 1880 …
  • … delighted to find an ordinary mortal who could laugh’ ( letter from W. E. Darwin to Charles and …
  • … much powder & shot’ ( Correspondence vol. 27, letter from Ernst Krause, 7 June 1879 , and …
  • … modified; but now I much regret that I did not do so’ ( letter to Samuel Butler, 3 January 1880 ). …
  • … and ‘decided on laying the matter before the public’ ( letter from Samuel Butler, 21 January 1880 …
  • … and uncertain about what to do. He drafted two versions of a letter to the Athen æum , sending …
  • … in which he will have the last word’, she warned ( letter from H. E. Litchfield, [1 February 1880] …
  • … who will fight to the end’, added her husband Richard ( letter from R. B. Litchfield, 1 February …
  • … him & given him Darwinophobia? It is a horrid disease’ ( letter from T. H. Huxley, 3 February …
  • … squashing the ‘mosquito inflated to an elephant’ ( letter from Ernst Krause, 9 December 1880 ). …
  • … inches of soil as a protection against enemies.’ ‘Your letter … made me open my eyes’, Gray replied …
  • … his original description. Darwin was puzzled: ‘If my letter opened your eyes, yours has opened mine …
  • … to the same species, should behave so differently.’ ( Letter to Asa Gray, 17 February 1880 .) But …
  • … of the plant in its native habitat. He forwarded a letter from a botanist and schoolteacher in …
  • … ‘Where is the profit for Author or publisher?’ ( letter from R. F. Cooke, 20 July 1880 ). ‘I must …
  • … money by science, I must now lose some for science’ ( letter to R. F. Cooke, 21 July 1880 ). The …
  • … without any corresponding structural differentiations’ ( letter from F. M. Balfour, [22 November …
  • … In former years I was, also, rarely fit to see anybody’ ( letter to S. H. Haliburton, 13 December …
  • … he pretended, ‘but the subject has amused me’ ( letter to W. C. McIntosh, 18 June 1880 ). Members …
  • … Darwin to Emma Darwin, [18 September 1880] ). Darwin’s Wedgwood nieces, Sophy and Lucy, were asked …
  • … We find that the light frightens them’ ( letter to Sophy Wedgwood, 8 October [1880] ). The …
  • … the loss of several close family members. Emma’s brother Josiah Wedgwood III died on 11 March. Like …