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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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  • … to his old Shrewsbury friend Henry Johnson on  14 November 1880 . Darwin became fully devoted to …
  • … pension for Alfred Russel Wallace, and continued his aid for James Torbitt and the quest for a …
  • … of much value to me’ ( letter to C. H. Tindal, 5 January 1880 ). Darwin had employed a genealogist …
  • … & even the world’ ( letter from J. L. Chester, 3 March 1880 ). Darwin’s sons George and …
  • … of [William Alvey Darwin],’ George wrote on 28 May 1880 , ‘I … said you were anxious not to …
  • … letter from W. E. Darwin to Charles and Emma Darwin, 22 July 1880 ). Sales of Erasmus …
  • … new was published). Butler wrote to Darwin on 2 January 1880 for an explanation: ‘Among the …
  • … I did not do so’ ( letter to Samuel Butler, 3 January 1880 ). At the top of Butler’s letter, Emma …
  • … an article upon’ ( letter from W. E. Darwin, [28 January 1880] ). Butler had once been an …
  • … the public’ ( letter from Samuel Butler, 21 January 1880 ). He stated his case in the Athen …
  • … Henrietta ( letter to H. E. Litchfield, 1 February [1880] ). ‘The world will only know … that you …
  • … she warned ( letter from H. E. Litchfield, [1 February 1880] ). ‘He is a virulent Salamander of a …
  • … husband Richard ( letter from R. B. Litchfield, 1 February 1880 ). Even the great controversialist …
  • … a horrid disease’ ( letter from T. H. Huxley, 3 February 1880 ). All went quiet until …
  • … to an elephant’ ( letter from Ernst Krause, 9 December 1880 ). Again, Darwin felt compelled to …
  • … behave so differently.’ ( Letter to Asa Gray, 17 February 1880 .) But Gray had based his …
  • … agreed with Darwin’s ( letter from Asa Gray, 4 April 1880 ). Having finished the manuscript …
  • … or publisher?’ ( letter from R. F. Cooke, 20 July 1880 ). ‘I must take the risk & loss on my …
  • … lose some for science’ ( letter to R. F. Cooke, 21 July 1880 ). The worries were ill founded, …
  • … scale’, Darwin wrote to Alphonse de Candolle on 28 May 1880 . Readers trained in zoology realised …
  • … ( letter from F. M. Balfour, [22 November 1880] ). George Romanes, who had worked on the nerves of …
  • … would have been amply gratified”‘ ( 21 November [1880] ). ‘I had quite forgotten my old ambition …
  • … to see anybody’ ( letter to S. H. Haliburton, 13 December 1880 ). Instinct and worms …
  • … has amused me’ ( letter to W. C. McIntosh, 18 June 1880 ). Members of the family were enlisted to …
  • … ( letter from Horace Darwin to Emma Darwin, [18 September 1880] ). Darwin’s Wedgwood nieces, Sophy …
  • … Darwin had tried for four years to aid the Irish businessman James Torbitt in his efforts to breed a …
  • … subscriptions were raised, with Darwin, Thomas Farrer, and James Caird leading the campaign. In …
  • … worth some millions per annum to England’ ( letter from James Torbitt, 5 March 1880 ). Darwin met …
  • … men care only about their party quarrels’ ( letter to James Torbitt, 9 May 1880 ). Politicians …
  • … flooded with disease-proof new varieties’ ( letter from James Torbitt, 23 December 1880 , …