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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,…
Matches: 8 hits
- … James (c) (3) Anderson-Henry, Isaac (17) …
- … A. A. van (2) Bence Jones, Henry (8) …
- … E. M. (6) Bonham-Carter, Henry (1) …
- … Charles (2) Bradshaw, Henry (1) …
- … Cattell, John (3) Cecil, Henry (2) …
- … A. A. L. P. (2) Coe, Henry (6) …
- … Cohn, F. J. (22) Colburn, Henry (3) …
- … Denison, C. L. (3) Denny, Henry (13) …
Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments
Summary
The year was marked by three deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend and supporter; Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and father of Darwin’s friend…
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- … intended for publication in Variation , to Thomas Henry Huxley for evaluation, and persuaded his …
- … July 1865] ). In July, he consulted the physician Henry Bence Jones, who put him on a strict …
- … references, probably from the Linnean Society ( letter to [Richard Kippist], 4 June [1865] ). The …
- … health had been particularly bad, Darwin sent Thomas Henry Huxley a fair copy of a manuscript in …
Darwin in letters, 1877: Flowers and honours
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Ever since the publication of Expression, Darwin’s research had centred firmly on botany. The year 1877 was no exception. The spring and early summer were spent completing Forms of flowers, his fifth book on a botanical topic. He then turned to the…
Matches: 17 hits
- … value, it is not likely that more than a few hundred copies w d . be sold’. His publisher knew …
- … to Down if it lay in my power and you thought it w d . help you.’ ‘I declare had it not been for …
- … on leaves and the distribution of the stomata’ (F. Darwin 1886). Alongside his work on bloom, …
- … in the foreman of the propagating department at Kew, Richard Irwin Lynch, who sent specimens and …
- … Hooker’s suspicion of ambitious gardeners ( letter from W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 25 August 1877 ). …
- … the vibratory flagella of some Infusoria’ ( letter from F. J. Cohn, 5 August 1877 ). Francis’s …
- … copies of Kosmos covering the German debate (letters to W. E. Gladstone, 2 October 1877 and …
- … of form and of motion was exact and lively’ ( letter from W. E. Gladstone, 23 October 1877 ). …
- … blood and thus keep back our civilization’ ( letter from W. B. Bowles, 17 May 1877 ). Bowles …
- … to hide the absence of humanity beneath’ ( letter from W. B. Bowles, 18 May 1877 ). More …
- … groups or ‘types’. A similar problem had been raised by Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin in a review of …
- … exhibit is in many cases purely physical’ ( letter from W. M. Moorsom, 10 September 1877 ). Darwin …
- … them drink so that they become quite tipsy’ ( letter to W. M. Moorsom, 11 September [1877] ). …
- … people and licensed by the state’ ( letter from W. M. Moorsom, 13 September [1877] ). The only …
- … any public bodies of England & that y r . own University w d . like to be the first…. the …
- … their activity at the ruins of a Roman villa near Thomas Farrar’s home in Surrey; and Farrer sent …
- … from the evening festivities held in his honour (Thomas Henry Huxley delivered a rousing speech at …
