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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,…
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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- … 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early months working …
- … dispute over an anonymous review that attacked the work of Darwin’s son George dominated the second …
- … and traveller Alexander von Humboldt’s 105th birthday, Darwin obliged with a reflection on his debt …
- … during prolonged intervals’ ( letter to D. T. Gardner, [ c . 27 August 1874] ). The death of a …
- … pleasures of shooting and collecting beetles ( letter from W. D. Fox, 8 May [1874] ). Such …
- … one looks backwards much more than forwards’ ( letter to W. D. Fox, 11 May [1874] ). …
- … Andrew Clark, whom he had been consulting since August 1873. Darwin had originally thought that …
- … that the land had long remained stationary ( Coral reefs , p. vi). On receiving a presentation …
- … retract his criticism in his own second edition (Dana 1875, p. 274). Descent …
- … number of new facts and remarks’ ( Descent 2d ed., p. v). Among the many contributors was …
- … practices might influence sex ratios ( Descent 2d ed., p. 258 n. 99). The former bishop of …
- … Descent was published in November 1874 ( letter from R. F. Cooke, 12 November 1874 ). Though …
- … on subsequent print runs would be very good ( letter from R. F. Cooke, 12 November 1874 ). …
- … and as displaying ‘amazing ignorance’ ([Mivart] 1874b, p. 45). He also circuitously implicated …
- … sexual criminality of Pagan days’ ([Mivart] 1874b, p. 70). 'scurrilous libel' …
- … the ‘swell’ of his indignation through William Walter Roberts, a Catholic priest and friend of …
- … written before (see Correspondence vol. 22, Appendix V, p. 641). give him the cold …
- … & yours’ (see Correspondence vol. 22, appendix V, p. 644). In his dealings …
- … the subject & that must be enough for me’ ( letter to W. D. Fox, 11 May [1874] ). …
- … in a few hours dissolve the hardest cartilage, bone & meat &c. &c.’ ( letter to W. D. …
- … whether at the ‘close of the putrefaction of flesh, skin &c, any substance is produced before …
- … details of an Australian variety of sundew ( letter from T. C. Copland, 23 June 1874 ). …
- … do when they are sitting at rest’ ( letter from S. W. Pennypacker, 14 September 1874 ). …
- … Sharpe for promotion at the British Museum ( letter to R. B. Sharpe, 24 November [1874] ). He …
- … head that M r Spencer’s terms of equilibration &c always bother me & make everything less …
Suggested reading
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There is an extensive secondary literature on Darwin's life and work. Here are some suggested titles that focus Darwin’s correspondence, as well as scientific correspondence and letter-writing more generally. Collections of Darwin’s letters …
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- … There is an extensive secondary literature on Darwin's life and work. Here are some suggested …
- … al ., eds. 2008. Evolution: selected letters of Charles Darwin 1860–1870 . Cambridge: Cambridge …
- … on scientific correspondence and letter-writing On Darwin’s correspondence: …
- … Princeton University Press. Pp. 519–42. White, P. 2007. Letters and the scientific life in the …
- … Cornell University Press. Pp. 136–52. Miller, D. P. 1996. Joseph Banks, empire, and ‘ Centers …
- … Studies 23 : 301–17. Spary, E. C. 2000. Utopia’s garden: French natural history from …
- … Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Pp. 15–29. Chartier, R. 1997. An ordinary kind of writing: model …
- … century. Edinburgh Review 183 : 306–35. Roberts, W. 1843. History of letter-writing …
The origin of language
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Darwin started thinking about the origin of language in the late 1830s. The subject formed part of his wide-ranging speculations about the transmutation of species. In his private notebooks, he reflected on the communicative powers of animals, their…
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- … Darwin started thinking about the origin of language in the late 1830s. The …
- … communicate to each other” (Barrett ed. 1987, p. 542-3). Darwin observed the similarities between …
- … in music—do monkeys howl in harmony”? (Barrett ed. 1987, p. 568). The origin of language was …
- … Proponents of the natural language theory included Darwin’s cousin, Hensleigh Wedgwood , the …
- … series of influential lectures delivered several years after Darwin’s Origin of Species , Max …
- … the cries of beasts” (Müller 1861, 1: 22-3, 354). Darwin eventually published his views on …
- … the similarities between animal and human communication. Darwin’s arguments were based on his broad …
- … as well as observations of his own children and pets. Darwin described how language might have …
- … and snarls, for example), which functioned as warning signs. Darwin addressed the natural theology …
- … other functions, especially the use of the hands. Finally, Darwin drew an extended analogy between …
- … and animal psychology, build upon the work of Darwin and his contemporaries, while taking that work …
- … sources Barrett, Paul. et al. eds. Charles Darwin’s Notebooks, 1836-1841. Cambridge: …
- … May, and June, 1861 . London: Longman, Green, Longman & Roberts. Max Müller, Friedrich. …
- … the German, with preface and additional notes, by Alex V. W. Bikkers. London: John Camdem Hotten. …
- … Johns Hopkins University Press. Alter, Steven G. 2008. Darwin and the linguists: the …
- … . Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. Hurford, James R., Michael Studdert-Kennedy, and Chris Knight, …
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 …
- … supported his candidacy, and had tried hard to persuade Darwin to accept the award in person (see …
- … the award ( see letter from Hugh Falconer to Erasmus Alvey Darwin, 3 January 1865 ). Erasmus …
- … 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 …
- … the serenity of the Christian world’ (Brewster 1862, p. 3). John Hutton Balfour, though he had sent …
- … 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 …
- … ‘As for your thinking that you do not deserve the C[opley] Medal,’ he rebuked Hooker, ‘that I …
Darwin in letters, 1864: Failing health
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On receiving a photograph from Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July 1864: ‘the venerable beard gives the look of your having suffered, and … of having grown older’. Because of poor health, Because of poor health, Darwin…
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- … On receiving a photograph from Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July …
- … … of having grown older’. This portrait, the first of Darwin with his now famous beard, had been …
- … 52 hours without vomiting!! In the same month, Darwin began to consult William Jenner, …
- … prescribed a variety of antacids and purgatives, and limited Darwin’s fluid intake; this treatment …
- … the dimorphic aquatic cut-grass Leersia . In May, Darwin finished his paper on Lythrum …
- … he had set aside the previous summer. In October, Darwin let his friends know that on his …
- … to the surgeon and naturalist Francis Trevelyan Buckland, Darwin described his symptoms in some …
- … November and December were also marked by the award to Darwin of the Royal Society’s Copley Medal; …
- … been unsuccessfully nominated the two previous years. As Darwin explained to his cousin William …
- … it was conferred, brought a dramatic conclusion to the year. Darwin also wrote to Fox that he was …
- … progress’ in Britain. Challenging convention Darwin’s concern about the acceptance of …
- … vol. 11). In a letter of [27 January 1864] , Darwin wrote to Hooker: ‘The only approach to work …
- … produce tendrils However, the queries that Darwin, describing himself as ‘a broken-down …
- … tendrils’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [8 February 1864] ). Darwin’s excitement about his …
- … ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 2 June [1864] ). When Darwin asked Oliver whether the tendrils of …
- … for his teacherly tone, explaining that he had felt that Darwin had misunderstood some accepted …
- … ( letter from Daniel Oliver, [17 March 1864] ). Though Darwin replied with his typical humility …
- … habits of climbing plants’ (‘Climbing plants’), which Darwin submitted to the Linnean Society in …
- … as in L. nissolia . Darwin wrote (‘Climbing plants’, p. 115): ‘If it be true that species become …
- … of the primrose and cowslip to the Bardfield oxlip ( P. elatior ), and published his results in an …
- … Menyanthes ( letter from Emma and Charles Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [20 May 1864] ), or his …
- … that nature ‘abhors self-fertilisation’ ( Orchids , p. 359), he continued studying the adaptations …
- … 5 September 1864 ). Fritz Müeller sent his book, Für Darwin , and Darwin had it translated by a …
- … in the fullest sense of the word’ (Kölliker 1864c, p. 200). Darwin was sufficiently concerned about …
- … but Lyell says when I read his discussion in the Elements [C. Lyell 1865] I shall recant for fifth …
- … on intellectual & moral qualities’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 28 [May 1864] ). …
