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Darwin in letters, 1879: Tracing roots
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Darwin spent a considerable part of 1879 in the eighteenth century. His journey back in time started when he decided to publish a biographical account of his grandfather Erasmus Darwin to accompany a translation of an essay on Erasmus’s evolutionary ideas…
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- … Erasmus’s evolutionary ideas by the German science writer Ernst Krause. Darwin’s preoccupation with …
- … Darwin as ‘the deep thinker’, while friends such as Ernst Haeckel, who had rebutted the physician …
- … life’s work, which is crowned with glory’ ( letter from Ernst Haeckel, 9 February 1879 ). The …
- … February 1879 ). Carus Sterne was the pseudonym of Ernst Krause, editor of the journal …
- … theory of development in connection with Charles Darwin and Ernst Haeckel. Kosmos was, as …
- … 2 June 1879 ]). As one of Darwin’s most ardent admirers, Krause not only sent birthday greetings …
- … Darwin, Darwin decided to publish an English translation of Krause’s essay as a short book. …
- … 1804 Memoirs of the life of Dr. Darwin to send to Krause, warning him that Robert Waring Darwin, …
- … shamefully ignorant of my grandfathers life’ ( letter to Ernst Krause, 14 March 1879 ). …
- … work up these scanty materials in your account,’ he told Krause on 19 March , ‘because I must …
- … made a strange discovery;’ he told Reginald Darwin on 8 April , ‘for an old box from my father …
- … Darwin became increasingly worried that his preface and Krause’s revised essay might end up …
- … of the same man in one volume’, Darwin pointed out to Krause on 5 June , adding that although …
- … an introduction ‘almost indispensable’ ( letter from Ernst Krause, 7 June 1879 ). Darwin welcomed …
- … into ridicule. He hates scientific men’ ( letter to Ernst Krause, 14 May 1879 ). From the …
- … the views of the other botanists. He was glad to know that Ernst Stahl and Albert Bernhard Frank did …
- … to curtail the correspondence, Emma Darwin replied on 8 April stating that Darwin was too busy …
- … 6 March [1879] ). When Darwin’s staunch German defender Ernst Haeckel was in England, he was …
- … to Darwin about ‘Darwinism in Germany’ ( letter from Ernst Haeckel, 30 August 1879 ). However, the …
Darwin in letters, 1880: Sensitivity and worms
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‘My heart & soul care for worms & nothing else in this world,’ Darwin wrote to his old Shrewsbury friend Henry Johnson on 14 November 1880. Darwin became fully devoted to earthworms in the spring of the year, just after finishing the manuscript of…
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- … coloured by controversy. The work had been co-authored with Ernst Krause, whose essay on Erasmus’s …
- … 1879, an issue produced in honour of Darwin’s birthday. Krause enlarged and revised the essay for …
- … Evolution old and new , which had appeared in May 1879. Krause wanted to correct Butler’s …
- … powder & shot’ ( Correspondence vol. 27, letter from Ernst Krause, 7 June 1879 , and …
- … an inconsistency in the preface, where Darwin stated that Krause’s piece had been written in 1879 …
- … was repeated, and fresh accusations were brought against Krause for quoting passages of Buffon and …
- … the ‘mosquito inflated to an elephant’ ( letter from Ernst Krause, 9 December 1880 ). Again, …
- … the light frightens them’ ( letter to Sophy Wedgwood, 8 October [1880] ). The role of …
- … Galton, 7 April 1880 , and letter from Francis Galton, 8 April 1880 ). Darwin was queried about …
Darwin in letters, 1881: Old friends and new admirers
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In May 1881, Darwin, one of the best-known celebrities in England if not the world, began writing about all the eminent men he had met. He embarked on this task, which formed an addition to his autobiography, because he had nothing else to do. He had…
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- … was interrupted by Samuel Butler’s renewed claim that Ernst Krause had used Butler’s book …
- … and that Darwin had concealed this in his preface to his and Krause’s 1879 book Erasmus Darwin . …
- … letter about Darwin in the St James’s Gazette on 8 December. Krause countered Butler’s …
- … of the Darwin family consulted anxiously about whether Krause’s Kosmos article should be …
- … on 4 January , ‘would like its publication & call me & Krause liars’. Thomas …
- … Other friends rallied round. Francis Balfour translated Krause’s account and published it in …
- … vol. 28, Appendix VI). When Huxley heard on 8 January that Wallace would receive £200 a year, …
- … totally & entirely’. Wallace also received the news on 8 January (his 58th birthday) and …
- … behaviour were trustworthy ( letter to Francis Galton, 8 March [1881] ). Although results from …
- … 1881 ). On 18 May he described his work on earthworms to Krause : ‘The subject is of no …
- … scientific belief. However, he objected when biologists like Ernst Haeckel converted the Darwinian …
- … now wish that I had not done so’ ( letter to J. V. Carus, 8 December 1881 ). The …
- … of ammonites, and persistently tried to scrounge another £80 as a loan, received £30 as a gift on …
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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- … (3) Alglave, Émile (8) Alice (2) …
- … (1) Ansted, D. T. (8) Anthropological Society, …
- … (2) Bence Jones, Henry (8) Beneden, Édouard …
- … (2) Blackley, C. H. (8) Blackwall, John …
- … James (1) Dieffenbach, Ernst (13) …
- … Ercolani, G. B. (2) Ernst, Adolf (9) …
- … (1) Gould, John (8) Gower, W. H. (1) …
- … Haeckel, Agnes (1) Haeckel, Ernst (98) …
- … S. M. (2) Hesse-Wartegg, Ernst von (3) …
- … Kraus, Carl (b) (3) Krause, Ernst (94) …
- … Pfeiffer, E. J. (2) Pfitzer, Ernst (1) …
Darwin in letters, 1877: Flowers and honours
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Ever since the publication of Expression, Darwin’s research had centred firmly on botany. The year 1877 was no exception. The spring and early summer were spent completing Forms of flowers, his fifth book on a botanical topic. He then turned to the…
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- … about dried flowers’, Darwin complained to Asa Gray on 8 March , ‘I never look at one without …
- … of colour sense. Darwin had written to the editor Ernst Ludwig Krause on 30 June 1877 , ‘I have …
- … remember declaring that they were colour blind’. Krause included these remarks, which did not appear …
- … at the end of the translation of Darwin’s article. Krause had argued, in keeping with Darwin’s own …
- … der Entwickelungslehre in Verbindung mit Charles Darwin und Ernst Haeckel (Journal for uniform …
- … by institution. The most prominent ‘torchbearer’ was Ernst Haeckel, whose portrait appeared first …
- … ancestry. The German zoologist and physician Carl Theodor Ernst von Siebold sent photographs of a …
- … ). An American banker, William Burrows Bowles, having read Ernst Haeckel on ‘Pithecanthropus alalus’ …
Darwin’s student booklist
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In October 1825 Charles Darwin and his older brother, Erasmus, went to study medicine in Edinburgh, where their father, Robert Waring Darwin, had trained as a doctor in the 1780’s. Erasmus had already graduated from Cambridge and was continuing his studies…
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- … 1879 Darwin judged it ‘a wretched production’ (letter to Ernst Krause, 19 March 1879 ); Darwin …
- … Franklins Journal to the North. Pole. 2 Vol. 8 Vo. 1 Cochrane Travels in Columbia. 2 2 …
- … Journal. 13 Bostocks Physiology 14 2 Vol 8 Vo. Cuviers theory of the earth. 15 …
- … DAR 271.1: 5 Notes 1 Franklin 1823. 8 Vo: octavo. 2 Cochrane 1825. …
