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Virginia Isitt: Darwin’s secretary?

Summary

In an undated and incomplete draft letter to a “Miss I.”, Emma Darwin appears to be arranging for Miss I. to come to Down for a trial period as a secretary. When the letter first came to light, no one had heard of the mysterious “Miss I.” and, as far as we…

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  • … I have received from my niece your letter to her (in which you say you wd like to undertake the …
  • … Mr D[arwin]. In an undated and incomplete draft letter to a “Miss I.”, Emma Darwin …
  • … that a formal post was even considered. The letter  (editorial expansions in square …
  • … one is taking 1/2 the tool room. . . . I am going down this m[ornin]g to see if I can soften any one …
  • … secretary. The niece that Emma mentions in her draft letter to Miss Isitt was probably Julia …

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…

Matches: 9 hits

  • … [Reimarius 1760] The Highlands & Western Isl ds  letter to Sir W Scott [MacCulloch 1824 …
  • … 1834–40]: In Portfolio of “abstracts” 34  —letter from Skuckard of books on Silk Worm …
  • … M rs  Fry’s Life [Fry 1847] Horace Walpoles letter to C t . of Ossory [Walpole 1848] …
  • … Asiatic Society ]—contains very little Macleay’s letter to D r  Fleming [Macleay 1830] …
  • … (read) Rev d  Baden Powel on the Unity of Worlds [Powell 1855]—discusses Vestiges [Chambers …
  • … [Heer 1854].— Hooker has it.— Very important Hookers letter Jan. 1859 Yules Ava [Yule 1858] …
  • … Physiolog. Comparee [Colin 1854–6].— Jan. 10. B. Powell. Unity of Worlds [Powell 1855]. …
  • … of the material from these portfolios is in DAR 205, the letter from William Edward Shuckard to …
  • … ( Notebooks , pp. 319–28). 55  The letter was addressed to Nicholas Aylward Vigors …