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List of correspondents

Summary

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,…

Matches: 11 hits

  • … child of God" (1) Abberley, John (1) …
  • … Adams, A. L. (1) Addison, John (1) …
  • … Allen, J. A. (b) (1) Allen, John (1) …
  • … C. J. (3) Andrews, John (1) Ann. …
  • … Balfour, J. H. (7) Ball, John (5) …
  • … Becher, A. B. (1) Beck, John (2) …
  • … Beckhard, Martin (1) Beddoe, John (3) …
  • … (1) Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte …
  • … C. H. (8) Blackwall, John (4) …
  • … Chapman, John (4) Charles, R. F. (2) …
  • … Philippi, R. A. (1) Phillips, John (21) …

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: 10 hits

  • … The Emigrant, Head [F. B. Head 1846] St. John’s Highlands [C. W. G. Saint John 1846] …
  • … 1848] Cuming Lion Hunter [Cumming 1850] Sir C. Phillips Recollections of Curran [C. …
  • … B.M. 6. 6. Black Edin. Longman [Ramsay 1848] St. John’s Nat. Hist. of Sutherlanshire, Murray …
  • … Boswell’s life of Johnsons [Boswell 1831] 4 vols 25 Phillips Geology [J. Phillips 1837–9] …
  • … & several reviews [Carlyle 1838–9] Nov 8 th  Murchison Silurian System [Murchison 1839] …
  • … & Forsyth on Forest Trees [Boutcher 1775 and Forsyth 1791] Phillips History of cultivated …
  • …  Huxley says I ought to read Murchinson’s Siluria [Murchison 1854]— I  must  read it. & …
  • … by Richard Owen.  Vol. 4 of  The works of John Hunter, F.R.S. with notes . Edited by James F. …
  • … 128: 14 Kitto, John. 1845.  Deafness . Series I of  The lost senses . 2 pts. London.  …
  • … Robert. 1843.  Memoirs of the life of John   Constable, R.A., composed chiefly of his letters. …

Darwin in letters, 1864: Failing health

Summary

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…

Matches: 26 hits

  • … his investigations into their movements. Hurrah! I have been 52 hours without vomiting!! …
  • … close friend, the botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker: ‘Hurrah! I have been 52 hours without vomiting!!’. …
  • … Buckland, Darwin described his symptoms in some detail: ‘I have suffered from almost incessant …
  • … any excitement brings on whizzing & fainting feelings, when I cannot speak; & much of this …
  • … , Darwin wrote to Hooker: ‘The only approach to work which I can do is to look at tendrils & …
  • … origin of climbing plants. In early February, he wrote: ‘I can show beautiful gradation by which  …
  • … and in his request to Hooker for another specimen: ‘I want it fearfully for it is a leaf climber …
  • … the completion of his first draft of the paper, he noted: ‘I have been pleased to find what a …
  • … 22 October [1864] , Darwin triumphantly wrote to Hooker: ‘I will fight you to the death, that as …
  • … painstaking observations, writing on 14 April [1864] , ‘I can do as much pollen work as ever you …
  • … of a paper by another of his orchid correspondents, John Traherne Moggridge, who in June sent him …
  • … of insect pollinators in 1864 and following years. John Scott again Much of Darwin’s …
  • … plight of another of Darwin’s fellow orchid-experimenters, John Scott. Their correspondence had been …
  • … five years. Scott felt that his superiors, James McNab and John Hutton Balfour, no longer treated …
  • … the very d—l, & where two or three are gathered together I would rather not be in  the midst …
  • … Hooker thought he was unfitted for the struggle for life: ‘I could cry like a child when appeals for …
  • … indomitable perseverance, and his knowledge’ ( letter to John Scott, 10 June 1864 ). Hooker met …
  • … support ‘on the grounds of science’ ( letter to John Scott, 9 April 1864 ), but Scott declined …
  • … 5 September 1864 ). Fritz Müeller sent his book,  Für Darwin , and Darwin had it translated by a …
  • … been transformed by reading Origin : ‘Of all the books I have ever read, not a single one has come …
  • … (Walsh 1864b). Darwin congratulated Walsh: ‘I am delighted at the manner in which you have bearded …
  • … 1864 ). A notably rambling and long letter arrived from John Beck, a Shrewsbury schoolfellow of …
  • … by a merciful deity for the use of humankind ( letter from John Beck, 6 October 1864 ). …
  • … his brother Erasmus told him of a subscription fund for John William Colenso, bishop of Natal, South …
  • … Crombie Ramsay, Joseph Beete Jukes, and Roderick Impey Murchison that were first presented at the …
  • … of the Royal Society, Edward Sabine, to the geologist John Phillips revealed Sabine’s fears that in …