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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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  • … Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. …
  • … (1) Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte …
  • … Boott, Francis (7) Boott, Mary (1) …
  • … Butler, H. M. (2) Butler, Mary (3) …
  • … Charles, R. F. (2) Charlton, Mary (1) …
  • … J. H. (1) Congreve, Mary (1) Conway, …
  • … Dareste, Camille (9) Darwin family (1) …
  • … Jean-Henri (6) Fairfax, Mary (2) …
  • … Greg, W. R. (6) Greig, Mary (2) …
  • … Jukes, J. B. (9) Jung, Mary (2) …
  • … Lubbock, John (174) Lubbock, Mary (1) …
  • … Solicitor (1) Somerville, Mary (2) …

Darwin’s reading notebooks

Summary

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 Darwins letters; the full transcript
  • … *128). For clarity, the transcript does not record Darwins 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 theBooks Readsections, Darwin recorded that a work had been
  • of the books listed in the other two notebooks. Sometimes Darwin recorded that an abstract of the
  • to be Read [DAR *119: Inside Front Cover] C. Darwin June 1 st . 1838
  • … [DAR *119: 2v.] Whites regular gradation in man [C. White 1799] Lindleys
  • 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: …
  • Goldsmiths life by Forster [Forster 1848] M rs  Somervilles Geography [M. Somerville 1848] …
  • … [Fellows 1839] Catherine 48 Life of Collins R.A. [Collins 1848] Phases of Faith
  • 2 d . vols. —— 30 th . Smollets William & Mary. & Anne [Smollett 1805].— …
  • 119: 14a] 1844 May 26 th  L d  Somerville Facts on sheep & Husbandry
  • … & Southey [Cottle 1847]— very good— —— Mary Woolstonecraft Tour in Sweden [Wollstonecraft
  • … —— 12 Autobiography of a Working Man. A Somerville [A. Somerville 1848] (excellent) 28. M. …
  • The improvisatore; or,   life in Italy . Translated by Mary Howitt. London119: 15b
  • of   every-day life . Translated from the Swedish by Mary Howitt. 2 vols. London119: 13b
  • cares and family joys . Translated from the Swedish by Mary Howitt. 2 vols. London119: 12b
  • of every-day life: a diary . Translated from the Swedish by Mary Howitt. London119: 13b
  • 1848Memoirs 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. 1843Memoirs of the life of John   Constable, R.A., composed chiefly of his letters. …
  • Peacock, George. 1855Life of Thomas Young, M.D., F.R.S.  London.  *128: 172; 128: 21