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Henrietta Darwin's diary

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Darwin's daughter Henrietta kept a diary for a few momentous weeks in 1871. This was the year in which Descent of Man, the most controversial of her father's books after Origin itself, appeared, a book which she had helped him write. The small…

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  • Charles Darwins daughter Henrietta wrote the following journal entries in March and July 1871 in a
  • F. J. Wedgwood to H. E. and C. R. Darwin, [186772],  letter   nos. 705862). She had published a
  • to orderTwo Mission priests Mr. Maclagan 3 & Mr. Wilkinson 4 had the bulk of the
  • when I feel my day made bright & happy by one short letter. I want him to take me in his arms
  • 21 January 1871, p. 7. 4 Probably John Bourdieu Wilkinson . 5 Miss Hollway

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…

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  • In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to
  • Eastern Archipelago [Crawfurd 1820] Raffeles d[itt]o [T. S. B. Raffles 1817] Buffon
  • … [Reimarius 1760] The Highlands & Western Isl ds  letter to Sir W Scott [MacCulloch 1824
  • Siebolds Japan [P. F. B. von Siebold 183350]— d[itt]o Kalms Travels in N. America [Kalm
  • the Linnean Society of   London ] Wernerian d[itt]o [ Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural
  • Naturelle ] Art. Hyb. in Encyclop: German d[itt]o; 32  Dict. des Sci: Nat: [Massey 1821
  • Library Hogarth Hist of Music [Hogarth 1835] Wilkinson Ægyptian [J. G. Wilkinson 1837
  • Botany [J. E. Smith 1807]: former import: to me d[itt]o. Engl. Bot. [J. E. Smith 17901814]. …
  • 183440]: In Portfolio ofabstracts34  —letter from Skuckard of books on Silk Worm
  • on Horses [C. H. Smith 1841]// Exotic Moths including Si[l]k [Duncan 1841] J. Kölreuter Hist
  • M rs  Frys Life [Fry 1847] Horace Walpoles letter to C t . of Ossory [Walpole 1848] …
  • Aspects of Nature Humboldt [A. von Humboldt 1849]— (d[itt]o) Journal of Hort Soc. [ Journal
  • Asiatic Society ]—contains very little Macleays letter to D r  Fleming [Macleay 1830] …
  • … } not abstracted Wilkinson on cattle [J. Wilkinson 1820]— …
  • Reference at end British Aviary [Anon. 1838?]— d[itt]o d[itt]o Listers 56
  • 1836] Bell on the Hand [C. Bell 1833] Wilkinsons Egyptian remains [?J. G. Wilkinson
  • 119: 17b] 1846 Feb. 12. 1 & 2 vol. of Wilkinsons Manner & Customs of
  • … [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