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Edward Lumb

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Edward Lumb was born in Yorkshire. According to the memoirs of his daughter Anne, Lady Macdonell, he travelled to Buenos Aires aged sixteen with his merchant uncle, Charles Poynton, and after some fortunate enterprises set up in business there. In 1833…

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  • … in Yorkshire. According to the memoirs of his daughter Anne, Lady Macdonell, he travelled to Buenos …
  • … strange to sit in an English merchant’s house and watch a lady making tea amid English furnishings. …
  • … in Argentina and Uruguay. Edward Lumb gave Darwin a letter of introduction to them , and Mr and …
  • … correspondence after Darwin’s return to England, since a letter of 1847 refers to information …

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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  • … [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] …
  • … [Sleeman 1844] L d  Cloncurry Memm [Lawless 1849] Lady Lyell Sir J Heads Forest …
  • … Asiatic Society ]—contains very little Macleay’s letter to D r  Fleming [Macleay 1830] …
  • … Gosses. C t . of Devonshire [Gosse 1853] Lady Sale Affganihtan (?) [Sale 1843] …
  • … [Heer 1854].— Hooker has it.— Very important Hookers letter Jan. 1859 Yules Ava [Yule 1858] …
  • … 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 …
  • … to William Jackson Hooker. See  Correspondence  vol. 3, letter to J. D. Hooker, [5 or 12 November …
  • … 119: 21b Broughton, William Grant. 1832.  A letter in vindication of   the principles of …
  • … Regis: from   March 8, 1748–9, to February 6, 1761 . Salisbury and London. [Other eds.]  119: 9b …
  • … criminal trials.  Translated from the German … by Lady Duff Gordon. London.  *119: 22; 119: 21b …
  • … in Algiers . Translated from the German and French by Lady Duff Gordon. (Murray’s Home and Colonial …
  • … by Bekhur to   Garoo and the Lake Manasarowara: with a letter from … J.   G. Gerard, Esq. …
  • … 1830. On the dying struggle of the dichotomous sytem. In a letter to N. A. Vigors.  Philosophical …
  • … father, Abraham Schweidler.  Translated from the German by Lady Duff Gordon. London. [Other eds.]  …
  • … Montagu, Mary Wortley. 1837.  The letters and works of Lady   Mary Wortley Montagu . Edited by … …
  • … *119: 8v., 22v.; *128: 165 ——. 1850a. Letter to the Rev. John Bachman, on the question of …
  • … *119: 20v., 21; 119: 19a Sale, Florentia, Lady. 1843.  A journal of the disasters in   …
  • … art of improving the   breeds of domestic animals. In a letter addressed to the   Right Hon. Sir …
  • … A memoir of the Rev. Sydney Smith by his   daughter, Lady Holland. With a selection from his …
  • … 1820.  Remarks on the improvement of   cattle, &c. in a letter to Sir John Saunders Sebright, …