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Darwin in letters, 1872: Job done?
Summary
'My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, 'is so nearly closed. . . What little more I can do, shall be chiefly new work’, and the tenor of his correspondence throughout the year is one of wistful reminiscence, coupled with a keen eye…
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- … What little more I can do, shall be chiefly new work’ ( letter to Francis Galton, 8 November [1872] …
- … anything more on 'so difficult a subject, as evolution’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 27 July …
- … best efforts, set the final price at 7 s. 6 d. ( letter from R. F. Cooke, 12 February 1872 ) …
- … condition as I can make it’, he wrote to the translator ( letter to J. J. Moulinié, 23 September …
- … translation remained unpublished at the end of the year ( letter from C.-F. Reinwald, 23 November …
- … to the comparative anatomist St George Jackson Mivart ( letter to St G. J. Mivart, 11 January …
- … comparison of Whale & duck most beautiful’ ( letter from A. R. Wallace, 3 March 1872 ) …
- … a person as I am made to appear’, complained Darwin ( letter to St G. J. Mivart, 5 January 1872 ). …
- … Darwin would renounce `fundamental intellectual errors’ ( letter from St G. J. Mivart, 6 January …
- … was silly enough to think he felt friendly towards me’ ( letter to St G. J. Mivart, 8 January [1872 …
- … hoping for reconciliation, if only `in another world’ ( letter from St G. J. Mivart, 10 January …
- … have been ungracious in him not to thank Mivart for his letter. He promised to send a copy of the …
- … partly in mind, `chiefly perhaps because I do it badly’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 3 August [1872] …
- … Darwinism is to be the theme. Surely the world moves!’ ( letter from Mary Treat, 13 December 1872 …
- … he felt particular anxiety, with another German zoologist, August Weismann, and was delighted to …
- … few naturalists in England seem inclined to believe it’ ( letter to Herman Müller, [before 5 May …
- … reached the buzzing place where I myself was standing’ ( letter to Hermann Müller, [before 5 May …
- … context, led Darwin to a second rare public intervention in August. Alfred Russel Wallace had been …
- … in Wallace’s defence ( letter to Nature , 3 August [1872] ). Although the two men …
- … are daily turning up’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 28 August [1872] ). Other correspondents …
- … of Wallace’s position ( letter from Anton Dohrn, 21 August 1872 ). Dohrn requested for the new …
- … Darwin gladly agreed to donate ( letter to Anton Dohrn, 24 August [1872] ). Exerting …
- … own father, Sir George ( letter to Hubert Airy, 24 August 1872 ). In January, Darwin wrote …
- … at last been satisfactorily commissioned and executed, by August Darwin had become embroiled in a …
- … them have it for love!!!’ ( letter from R. F. Cooke, 1 August 1872 ). It had been decided …
- … he needed no encouragement to do himself. On 23 August, the day after he finished going over …
Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex
Summary
The quantity of Darwin’s correspondence increased dramatically in 1868 due largely to his ever-widening research on human evolution and sexual selection.Darwin’s theory of sexual selection as applied to human descent led him to investigate aspects of the…
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- … in satisfying female preference in the mating process. In a letter to Alfred Russel Wallace in 1864, …
- … of changing the races of man’ (Correspondence vol. 12, letter to A. R. Wallace, 28 [May 1864] ). …
- … book would take the form of a ‘short essay’ on man ( letter to Ernst Haeckel, 3 July 1868 ). But …
- … as well say, he would drink a little and not too much’ ( letter to Albert Günther, 15 May [1868] ) …
- … would be a great loss to the Book’. But Darwin’s angry letter to Murray crossed one from Dallas to …
- … of labour to remuneration I shall look rather blank’ ( letter from W. S. Dallas, 8 January 1868 ). …
- … if I try to read a few pages feel fairly nauseated’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 February [1868] ). …
- … Darwin was clearly impressed by Lewes’s reviews. On 7 August 1868 , he wrote him a lengthy letter …
- … would strike me in the face, but not behind my back’ ( letter to John Murray, 25 February [1868] ) …
- … ignorant article… . It is a disgrace to the paper’ ( letter from A. R. Wallace, 24 February [1868] …
- … ‘he is a scamp & I begin to think a veritable ass’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 1 September [1868] …
- … wrote of the colour of duck claws on 17 April 1868 . The letter was addressed to ‘the Rev d C. …
- … proved very fruitful. On 1 May , Darwin received a letter from George Cupples, who was encouraged …
- … with the enthusiastic breeder, who apologised in a letter of 11–13 May 1868 for his ‘voluminuous …
- … of science On 27 February , Darwin sent a letter of thanks to the naturalist and …
- … he later added, ‘for it is clear that I have none’ ( letter to J. J. Weir, 30 May [1868] ). …
- … to various classes, a dim ray of light may be gained’ ( letter to H. T. Stainton, 21 February [1868 …
- … as well as of ‘victorious males getting wives’ ( letter to W. D. Fox, 25 February [1868] ). …
- … of females was remarked upon by other entomologists ( letter from Roland Trimen, 20 February 1868 …
- … in Victoria, Australia ( letter from R. B. Smyth, 13 August 1868 ); lengthy replies were received …
- … The British envoy in China, Robert Swinhoe, remarked on 4 August that Darwin’s queries had …
- … the lepidopterist Adolf Speyer and the plant geographer August Röse were ‘ardent followers of …
- … Molendo and Alexander Walther addressed themselves on 5 August to ‘the Reformator of Natural …
- … ‘scientifically reborn’ through Darwin’s writings. August Weismann sent Darwin a copy of his …
- … of Darwinian theory (Weismann 1868; letter to August Weismann, 22 October 1868 ). To the …
- … Darwin’s concluding paragraphs in Variation on 31 August : ‘The Theological diffculty of the …
- … against’ ( letter from G. D. Hinrichs, [before 13 August 1868] ). Finally, Darwin was induced to …
- … house all in love with you’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 23 August [1868] ). merely a …
- … had done nothing for his health ( letter to Asa Gray, 15 August [1868] ), but it did result in …
