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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,…

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  • … "A child of God" (1) Abberley, John (1) …
  • … James (c) (3) Anderson-Henry, Isaac (17) …
  • … A. A. van (2) Bence Jones, Henry (8) …
  • … E. M. (6) Bonham-Carter, Henry (1) …
  • … Charles (2) Bradshaw, Henry (1) …
  • … Cattell, John (3) Cecil, Henry (2) …
  • … A. A. L. P. (2) Coe, Henry (6) …
  • … Cohn, F. J. (22) Colburn, Henry (3) …
  • … Denison, C. L. (3) Denny, Henry (13) …
  • … Dorrell, Mr. (2) Doubleday, Henry (13) …
  • … Edwards, Ernest (1) Edwards, Henry (5) …
  • … Farrer, William (1) Faulds, Henry (2) …
  • … Gill, T. N. (1) Gillman, Henry (2) …
  • … Grove, W. R. (12) Groves, Henry (3) …
  • … Hennell, S. S. (1) Hennessy, Henry (1) …

Women’s scientific participation

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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…

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  • … Letter 3634 - Darwin to Gray, A., [1 July 1862] Darwin tells American naturalist Asa …
  • … Doubleday, H. to Darwin, [22 April 1868] Naturalist Henry Doubleday details his experiments …

Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex

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The quantity of Darwin’s correspondence increased dramatically in 1868 due largely to his ever-widening research on human evolution and sexual selection.Darwin’s theory of sexual selection as applied to human descent led him to investigate aspects of the…

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  • … in three parts in the  Pall Mall Gazette , was by George Henry Lewes, well-known in London’s …
  • … begin to think a veritable ass’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 1 September [1868] ). I am …
  • … facts that they hoped might be of interest. Charles Henry Binstead, a civil engineer in Yorkshire, …
  • … On 11 February , Darwin wrote to the entomologist Henry Walter Bates, ‘I have just found that I …
  • … September . Darwin annotated a letter sent on 3 April by Henry Doubleday that contained a …
  • … expression of natives faces as I meet them,’ wrote George Henry Kendrick Thwaites on 1 April …
  • … Darwin began a long correspondence on orchids with Thomas Henry Farrer, permanent secretary to the …
  • … the ascendant. His great public defender in England, Thomas Henry Huxley, remarked on 12 September …

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
  • to read in Notebook C ( Notebooks , pp. 31928). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in
  • A previous transcript of the reading notebooks (Vorzimmer 1977) included only theBooks Read’ …
  • by the manuscript number being preceded by an asterisk (*119 and *128). For clarity, the
  • in an alphabetical listing of books read. This notebook (DAR 120) is a catalogue, arranged
  • made. This refers, as stated in the Autobiography  (p. 137), to the abstracts he prepared of
  • … [Youatt 1847]. Westminster Rev. Oct. 49. Article on Doubledays Theory on Pop. praised by
  • 1814]. Sense & S [Austen 1811]. Rich d . 2 d . poor. Henry IV [ShakespeareKing Richard
  • Voyage to St Kilda [M. Martin 1698]. nothing —— Doubleday on Population [Doubleday 1842] …
  • 1857] (the best Travels I ever read) Sept. Froude Henry VIII [Froude 1856]. 4 vols very
  • printed notices pasted into the notebook. 26  Henry Peter Brougham, Baron Brougham and
  • in December, 1841 . Oxford119: 13b Atkinson, Henry George and Martineau, Harriet. 1851
  • in DAR 71: 1501.]  128: 18 Borrow, George Henry. 1843The Bible in Spain; or, the   …
  • 128: 9 Brooks, J. Tyrwhittpseud.  (Henry Vizetelly). 1849Four   months among the
  • the gold districts . London119: 22b Brougham, Henry Peter. 1839Dissertations on
  • 71: 1257.]  *119: 18v.; 119: 8a, 21a Buckle, Henry Thomas. 1857History of
  • tribes.  London119: 21a Burgess, Thomas Henry. 1839The physiology or mechanism   …
  • … [Other eds.]  *119: 5v., 11v.; 119: 9a Cline, Henry. 1829Observations on the breeding
  • …   observations . London119: 7a Cockburn, Henry. 1852Life of Lord Jeffrey, with a
  • … [Other eds.]  *128: 180; 128: 5, 21 Coke, Henry John. 1852A ride over the Rocky
  • talk of the late   Samuel Taylor Coleridge . Edited by [Henry Nelson Coleridge]. 2 vols. London. …
  • … [by Sara Coleridge]. 3 vols. London119: 1a Doubleday, Thomas. 1842The true law of