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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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- … (1) Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte …
4.7 'Vanity Fair', caricature
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< Back to Introduction A letter to Darwin from his publisher John Murray of 10 May 1871 informed him, ‘Your portrait is earnestly desired – by the Editor of Vanity Fair. I hope Mr Darwin may consent to follow the example of Murchison – Bismark [sic] …
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…
Darwin in letters, 1871: An emptying nest
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The year 1871 was an extremely busy and productive one for Darwin, with the publication in February of his long-awaited book on human evolution, Descent of man. The other main preoccupation of the year was the preparation of his manuscript on expression.…
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- … Sweetland Dallas, on 27 January , ‘Good God how glad I shall be when I can drive the whole of the …
- … condemnation. Darwin had expected controversy. ‘I shall be well abused’, he wrote to his …
- … one of the reasons behind the book’s popularity: ‘I hear that Ladies think it delightful reading, …
- … & yet feel no shade of animosity,—& that is a thing which I sh d feel very proud of, if …
- … about the darker races arising through degeneration: ‘I hold to the old belief that a man was made a …
- … me to such conclusions about negros & slavery as yours do: I consider myself a good way ahead of …
- … able to reflect on his past conduct would say to himself, I ought (as indeed we say for him) to have …
- … on 25 February : ‘Speaking in my private capacity … I think the course of all modern thought is ` …
- … which appeared just prior to Descent in early 1871. ‘I daresay it will tell heavily against …
- … had been corrupted by his devotion to Roman Catholicism: ‘I suppose that accursed religious bigotry …
- … of the year was the completion of Expression . ‘I care for nothing in the world except. laughing. …
- … of her remarks on the subject of blushing to Darwin): ‘I have long thought that Shakspear was in …
- … occasion penning just two lines to Alfred Russel Wallace, ‘I am so giddy I can hardly sit up, so no …
- … 23 July , ‘her loss will be so terrible to us all, that I am so selfish I cannot rejoice properly …
Darwin in letters, 1864: Failing health
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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…
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- … 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 …
- … 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 …
- … 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 …
- … Crombie Ramsay, Joseph Beete Jukes, and Roderick Impey Murchison that were first presented at the …
- … extent of the power of glaciers in shaping the landscape: ‘I have now come round again, to Ramsay’s …
- … but in his letter of 29 May [1864] , Wallace replied: ‘I shall always maintain it [the theory of …
