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Darwin in letters, 1861: Gaining allies

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The year 1861 marked an important change in the direction of Darwin’s work. He had weathered the storm that followed the publication of Origin, and felt cautiously optimistic about the ultimate acceptance of his ideas. The letters from this year provide an…

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  • … of notes on variation at Down House. During the summer of 1860, he had become interested in  …
  • … . Having learned from his publisher John Murray in November 1860 that a new edition of  Origin …
  • … Darwin also found the review by the young geologist Frederick Wollaston Hutton particularly striking …
  • … praise in 1861. He had been disappointed to learn of John Frederick William Herschel’s initial cool …
  • … 3 January [1861] ). Friends and family The bond between Huxley and Darwin was …
  • … fourth child, remained desolate over the death in September 1860 of their first-born, Noel, he and …
  • … in the voyage of the  Beagle  is well known. As late as 1860, Henslow had defended Darwin against …
  • … form of typhus fever’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 11 May 1860 ). This hope was realised. By the end …
  • … America that threatened peace in Britain in 1861. The end of 1860 and the beginning of 1861 saw …

Darwin’s reading notebooks

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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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  • … 1851; the second (DAR 128) continues the list from 1852 to 1860, when, except for a few odd entries, …
  • … [Macclintock 1859] [DAR *128: 153] 1860 Owen in Trans. Zoolog. Soc. Vol …
  • … of a Naturalist in Australasia. 1. 1. 0 [G. Bennett 1860] Read 114 Village Bells [Manning] …
  • … in India [Hodson 1859] (Excellent) June 20. Carlyles Frederick the Great [Carlyle 1858–65] …
  • … to end of VI. vol.— [DAR 128: 26] 1860 Quatrefages on Maladies of Silk …
  • … . 1 & 2. 1854 & 1855.— [DAR 128: 27] 1860 Friends in Council [Helps …
  • … DAR 71: 29–30.]  *119: 6v.; 119: 20a Bennett, Frederick Debell. 1840.  Narrative of a …
  • …  2 vols. London.  *119: 12v. Bennett, George. 1860.  Gatherings of a naturalist in   …
  • … *119: 15; 119: 17b ——. 1858–65.  History of Frederick II. of Prussia,   called Frederick
  • …  2 vols. London.  *119: 23; 119: 22b ——. 1860.  The woman in white . New York and London …
  • … [Darwin Library.]  *128: 167 [Ferrier, James Frederick]. 1838. An introduction to the …
  • … in DAR 116.]  *119: 4v.; 119: 4a Herschel, John Frederick William. 1831.  A preliminary …
  • …  4th ser. 6: 5–73.  *128: 157 Neale, Frederick Arthur. 1851.  Narrative of a residence at …
  • … . 2 vols. Edinburgh and London.  128: 27 Olmsted, Frederick Law. 1856.  A journey in the …
  • … 71: 149.]  *128: 173; 128: 18 Samuelson, James. 1860.  The honey-bee; its natural history …
  • … [Darwin Library.]  * 119: 15v.; 119: 12a Smith, Frederick. 1855.  Catalogue of British …
  • … feeding, and medical treatment of swine . London. [2d ed. (1860) in Darwin Library.]  *119: 22v. …
  • … companion) . London. 1848–61. [Nos. from 1855, 1856, and 1860 in Darwin Library.]  *128: 153 …
  • … series, 1847–51. Fourth series, 1852–9. New series, 1860–.  *128: 151 Scientific Memoirs …