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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,…

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  • … child of God" (1) Abberley, John (1) …
  • … Adams, A. L. (1) Addison, John (1) …
  • … Allen, J. A. (b) (1) Allen, John (1) …
  • … C. J. (3) Andrews, John (1) Ann. …
  • … (1) Austen, J. T. (5) Austin, A. D. …
  • … Balfour, J. H. (7) Ball, John (5) …
  • … (1) Beaufort, Francis (5) Becher, A. B. …
  • … Beckhard, Martin (1) Beddoe, John (3) …
  • … (8) Beneden, Édouard van (5) Bennet, C. A. (b) …
  • … (1) Birch, Samuel (5) Birkett, Thomas …
  • … C. H. (8) Blackwall, John (4) …
  • … (2) Boner, Charles (5) Bonham-Carter, Alice …
  • … (2) Bookseller. (5) Boole, M. E. (3) …
  • … J. A. H. de (11) Bostock, John (1) …
  • … (29) Brace, C. L. (5) Bradfield, Thomas …
  • … Bridgman, W. K. (3) Brigg, John (1) …
  • … Busch, Otto (1) Bush, John (3) Busk, …
  • … (3) Canby, W. M. (5) Candolle, Alphonse de …
  • … Carneri, Bartholomäus von (5) Carpenter, W. B. (19) …
  • … Caton, J. D. (9) Cattell, John (3) …
  • … the Exchequer (1) Chapman, John (4) …
  • … (3) Clark, Andrew (5) Clark, J. W. (a) …
  • … Coe, Henry (6) Coghlan, John (2) …
  • … Colburn, Henry (3) Colby, John (3) …
  • … (2) Collingwood, Cuthbert (5) Colvile, J. W. …
  • … (1) Cross, George (5) Cross, R. A. …
  • … (4) Crotch, W. D. (5) Crowe, J. R. …
  • … Fordman, Richard (1) Fordyce, John (2) …

Fake Darwin: myths and misconceptions

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Many myths have persisted about Darwin's life and work. Here are a few of the more pervasive ones, with full debunking below...

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  • … Many myths have persisted about Darwin's life and work. Here are a few of the more pervasive ones, …

Darwin in letters, 1879: Tracing roots

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Darwin spent a considerable part of 1879 in the eighteenth century. His journey back in time started when he decided to publish a biographical account of his grandfather Erasmus Darwin to accompany a translation of an essay on Erasmus’s evolutionary ideas…

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  • … same man in one volume’, Darwin pointed out to Krause on 5 June , adding that although Krause’s …
  • … beyond his ‘tether’ ( letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 5 June 1879 , and letter to G. H. Darwin, …
  • … in Coniston, Darwin was invited to meet the local celebrity, John Ruskin. Marshall wrote on 7 …
  • … Darwin with information, suggestions, and questions. On 5 February, a stonemason, Thomas Maston, …
  • … vague probabilities’ ( letter to Nicolai Mengden, 5 June 1879 ). On the very day that Emma …
  • … revealed him to be an atheist, Darwin told the clergyman John Fordyce on 7 May , ‘It seems to me …
  • … circulated the book within his family. He also heard from John Fletcher Moulton, who, after some …

What did Darwin believe?

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What did Darwin really believe about God? the Christian revelation? the implications of his theory of evolution for religious faith? These questions were asked again and again in the years following the publication of Origin of species (1859). They are…

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  • … is perhaps his most revealing response, a letter in 1879 to John Fordyce, an author of works on …
  • … several leading Unitarian clergymen, James Martineau and John James Taylor, as well as the religious …
  • … letter to Galatians, chapter six: ‘read [verses] 4, 5, 6, as practical’. Some of the Biblical …
  • … opinion as formed’. As Darwin would later reveal to Fordyce and other correspondents, his …
  • … him following the death of Huxley’s first son, Noel, aged 5. Kingsley offered Huxley the consolation …
  • … of animals and plants under domestication  (London: John Murray). Darwin, Charles. 1871.  …
  • … of the genuineness of the gospels (Boston) Tayler, John James. Unitarian clergyman and …