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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,…

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  • … Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. …
  • … (1) Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte …
  • … Bessey, C. E. (1) Beveridge, Peter (1) …
  • … Dareste, Camille (9) Darwin family (1) …
  • … Hellins, John (3) Henderson, Peter (2) …
  • … Alexander (4) Wallace, Peter (1) …

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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  • In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to
  • … (DAR 119) opens with five pages of text copied from Notebook C and carries on through 1851; the
  • used these notebooks extensively in dating and annotating Darwins letters; the full transcript
  • … *128). For clarity, the transcript does not record Darwins alterations. The spelling and
  • book had been consulted. Those cases where it appears that Darwin made a genuine deletion have been
  • a few instances, primarily in theBooks Readsections, Darwin recorded that a work had been
  • of the books listed in the other two notebooks. Sometimes Darwin recorded that an abstract of the
  • own. Soon after beginning his first reading notebook, Darwin began to separate the scientific
  • to be Read [DAR *119: Inside Front Cover] C. Darwin June 1 st . 1838
  • … [DAR *119: 2v.] Whites regular gradation in man [C. White 1799] Lindleys
  • 8 vo  p 181 [Latreille 1819]. see p. 17 Note Book C. for reference to authors about E. Indian
  • in brutes Blackwood June 1838 [J. F. Ferrie 1838]. H. C. Watson on Geog. distrib: of Brit: …
  • Wiegman has pub. German pamphlet on crossing oats &c [Wiegmann 1828] Horticultural
  • of every plant & countryRecommended by Lindleyprice about 36s.— Wiegmann. Archif fur
  • 183940] Jussieus introduct to Bot. price 6 s  [Jussieu 1842] …
  • … [Fellows 1839] Catherine 48 Life of Collins R.A. [Collins 1848] Phases of Faith
  • read The Hon ble  Cooke Journey to Oregon Bon. Price [Coke 1852] (amusing) read
  • notices pasted into the notebook. 26  Henry Peter Brougham, Baron Brougham and Vaux. …
  • of the most useful and necessary articles contained   in Peter Loeflings travels through Spain
  • districts . London119: 22b Brougham, Henry Peter. 1839Dissertations on subjects of
  • 1848Memoirs of the life of William   Collins, Esq., R.A.  2 vols. London.  *119: 23; 119: …
  • and critical remarks on works of   art.  [Edited by Peter Cunningham.] 3 vols. London.  *119: 21
  • by Richard Owen.  Vol. 4 of  The works of John Hunter, F.R.S. with notes . Edited by James F. …
  • Robert. 1843Memoirs of the life of John   Constable, R.A., composed chiefly of his letters. …
  • Peacock, George. 1855Life of Thomas Young, M.D., F.R.S.  London.  *128: 172; 128: 21
  • London. [Other eds.]  119: 5a; *128: 161 Plymley, Peterpseud.  (Sydney Smith). 1808.  …
  • London. [Other eds.]  *119: 14; 119: 11b Roget, Peter Mark. 1834Animal and vegetable
  • years 18478 . London128: 6 Thunberg, Carl Peter. 1784Flora Japonica . Lipsiae.  …