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Darwin in letters, 1851-1855: Death of a daughter
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The letters from these years reveal the main preoccupations of Darwin’s life with a new intensity. The period opens with a family tragedy in the death of Darwin’s oldest and favourite daughter, Anne, and it shows how, weary and mourning his dead child,…
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- … letters from these years reveal the main preoccupations of Darwin’s life with a new intensity. The …
- … life but I trust happy The anguish felt by Darwin is painfully expressed in letters …
- … speak of her again. Yet the family gradually recovered, Darwin’s monographs were printed, and Darwin …
- … to the cirripedes. Before turning to his species work, Darwin somewhat ruefully recorded in his …
- … monographs by natural history societies, though welcomed by Darwin, did not run smoothly. …
- … when, in 1853, he was awarded a Royal Medal by the Royal Society of London for his contributions to …
- … the Correspondence describes the major achievements of Darwin’s cirripede work as a whole and …
- … Fossil Cirripedia (1854), again published by the Ray Society and the Palaeontographical Society. …
- … in Germany at the forefront of work in invertebrate zoology, Darwin began a correspondence with …
- … provided the foundations for a relationship with Darwin that soon developed into a valued friendship …
- … as revealed in a series of letters pertaining to the Royal Society. In April 1854, when his …
- … when he first wrote out his species essay in full. In 1850, he had written to Hooker ( …
- … classification Hybridism, domestic animals & plants &c &c &c) to see how far they …
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 Darwin’s letters; the full transcript …
- … *128). For clarity, the transcript does not record Darwin’s 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 the ‘Books Read’ sections, Darwin recorded that a work had been …
- … copy of the catalogue of scientific books in the Royal Society of London (Royal Society of London …
- … to be Read [DAR *119: Inside Front Cover] C. Darwin June 1 st . 1838 …
- … [DAR *119: 2v.] White’s regular gradation in man [C. White 1799] Lindley’s …
- … 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: …
- … Transact 15 [ Transactions of the Horticultural Society ] Mr Coxe “view of the …
- … Transactions [ ?Memoirs of the Caledonian Horticultural Society ]: Asa Gray & Torrey …
- … [ Journal of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India ; Proceedings of the …
- … Memoirs of Plumer Ward by Hon Phipps [E. Phipps 1850] L d . Harveys Memoirs [Hervey 1848] …
- … & will lend me— Pickering Races of Man [Pickering 1850]. (has a good chapter). …
- … [Fellows 1839] Catherine 48 Life of Collins R.A. [Collins 1848] Phases of Faith …
- … Miss. Fennimore Cooper. Rural Scenes in N.A [Cooper 1850] G. Cummings South African Huntsmans …
- … Superior [Agassiz 1850] Nov. Memoirs of Pal. Soc [ Palaeontographical Society. Monograph …
- … 1848. Memoirs of the life of William Collins, Esq., R.A. 2 vols. London. *119: 23; 119: …
- … by Richard Owen. Vol. 4 of The works of John Hunter, F.R.S. with notes . Edited by James F. …
- … Robert. 1843. Memoirs of the life of John Constable, R.A., composed chiefly of his letters. …
- … Peacock, George. 1855. Life of Thomas Young, M.D., F.R.S. London. *128: 172; 128: 21 …
- … by F. Rozier. Paris. 1773–93. 119: 10a Palaeontographical Society. Monograph Series . …
