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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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Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
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At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…
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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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- … a Radical [Bamford 1841] [DAR *119: 21v.] Gosse Canadian naturalist [Gosse 1840] …
- … separately—Forbes is going to publish one. 45 Gosse. Birds of Jamaica [Gosse 1847], …
- … Versuch einer Gesichte Vienna 1852 [Unger 1852]. 86 p.p. 364. 8 vo (Much on Distribution of …
- … [?Lowe 1853] Gosses. C t . of Devonshire [Gosse 1853] Lady Sale Affganihtan (?) …
- … 1848] quoted in Braun Rejuvenescence [Braun 1853] p. 317 [DAR *128: 176] Moores …
- … Belon Hist de la nature des Oiseaux 1555 [Belon 1555] p 264 Quails at sea with seeds.— See for …
- … d'Horticulture de Paris ] vol. 1 1855. (I have read p. 209 to 268.) 99 Great work by …
- … [DAR *128: 167] Revue Horticol Imp. 1852. p. 102. Naudin Consid. Phil. sur l’espèce [Naudin …
- … 1842–3] Linn. Soc.? must be read.— not in Royal. Gosse Birds of Jamaica [Gosse 1847]— account …
- … Botany Nat. Hist. of East Tartary [Hablizl] 1789]. p. 581. R. Soc. Cat. Acosta Nat. …
- … [J. Phillips and Salter 1846]. Revue Horticole 1852 p. 102 Naudin on Nat. Selection [Naudin …
- … of Nature [A. von Humboldt 1849].— March 26. Gosse’s Sojourn in Jamaica [Gosse 1851] …
- … 8] 1854 Jan 15. Seeman’s Narrative of H.M.S. Herald [Seeman 1853]. Feb 6. …
- … animaux invertebres [Macquart 1850]. —— 8 th Gosse Naturalist Rambles Coast of Devon …
- … Belcher, Edward. 1848. Narrative of the voyage of H.M.S. Samarang during the years 1843–46; …
- … Narrative of a voyage round the world, performed in H.M.S. Sulphur, 1836–42 . 2 vols. …
- … . Pt 1 of The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror in …
- … Beete. 1847. Narrative of the surveying voyage of H.M.S. Fly … in the Torres Strait, New …
- … Keppel, Henry. 1846. The expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido for the suppression of piracy; …
- … ——. 1853. A visit to the Indian Archipelago, in H.M.S. Mæander, with portions of the private …
- … Macgillivray, John. 1852. Narrative of the voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, commanded by the late …
- … … Together with a narrative of the operations of H.M.S. Iris. 2 vols. London. *119: 22 …
- … shores of Africa, Arabia and Madagascar; performed in H.M. Ships Leven and Barracouta . Edited …
2.8 Alphonse Legros medallion
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< Back to Introduction The painter, printmaker and sculptor Alphonse Legros created this bronze medallion with a profile portrait of Darwin in 1881, shortly before the latter’s death. According to a friend of Legros, the writer Thomas Okey, it was…
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- … wrote of Legros’s ‘Gothic spirit’, while Edmund Gosse found images like this medallion simply …
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…
