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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: 26 hits

  • … (1) Athenæum (11) Atkin, J. R. (1) …
  • … A. D. (15) Bartlett, Edward (6) …
  • … Blyth, E. K. (1) Blyth, Edward (64) …
  • … (3) Bosquet, J. A. H. de (11) Bostock, John …
  • … Thomas (2) Bradford, Edward (1) …
  • … (2) Breitenbach, Wilhelm (11) Brent, B. P. …
  • … (2) Bunbury, C. J. F. (11) Bunbury, F. J. …
  • … Carden, Robert (1) Cardwell, Edward (4) …
  • … (1) Caspary, Robert (11) Cassell Petter & …
  • … Crawte, G. F. (1) Cresy, Edward (1) …
  • … (40) Crick, W. D. (11) Crier, John …
  • … (1) Crocker, C. W. (11) Crocq, Jean …
  • … (1) Dobell, H. B. (11) Dobson, G. E. …
  • … Emery, Woodward (1) Enfield, Edward (1) …
  • … (7) Farrar, F. W. (11) Farrer, T. H. …
  • … Forbes, David (13) Forbes, Edward (10) …
  • … George (1) Frankland, Edward (44) …
  • … Fry, C. E. (1) Fry, Edward (1) Fry, …
  • … (280) Gray, G. R. (11) Gray, J. E. …
  • … Harris, C. (1) Harris, Edward (1) …
  • … (1) Harvey, W. H. (11) Harward, John …
  • … Hewett, Joseph (1) Hewitt, Edward (4) …
  • … Charles (1) Hitchcock, Edward (1) …
  • … (289) Hyatt, Alpheus (11) Hyndman, G. C. …
  • … (1) Lewes, G. H. (11) Lewin, Friend …
  • … (3) Lynch, R. I. (11) Lónyay, Menyhért …

Darwin’s queries on expression

Summary

When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations more widely and composed a list of queries on human expression. A number of handwritten copies were sent out in 1867 (see, for example, letter to Fritz Muller…

Matches: 12 hits

  • … Blair, R.H. 11 July 1871 Worcester College for the …
  • … Chaumont, F.S.B.F. de 11 March 1871 Woolston, …
  • … 9 Nov 1870 11 St Mary Abbot's Terrace, London, England …
  • … 1 Feb 1871 11 St Mary Abbot's Terrace, London, England   …
  • … 7 Sept 1872 11 St Mary Abbot's Terrace, London, England …
  • … 1 Feb. 1871 11 Saint Mary Abbot's Terrace, Kensington. W., London, …
  • … Sulivan, B.J. 11 Jan 1867 Bournemouth, England …
  • … Wallace, A. R. 11 March [1867] 9 St. Mark’s Crescent …
  • … by H.N.B. Erskine Wilson, Edward 8 Nov …
  • … not found Wilson, Edward 19 Feb 1868 …
  • … letter not found Wilson, Edward 22 Feb …
  • … send query around Wilson, Edward 14 Oct …

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…

Matches: 27 hits

  • … [G. Montagu 180213]— facts about close species. Wilsons American Ornithology [A. Wilson
  • 3v.] Hunter has written Quarto work on Physiology 11  besides the paper collected by Owen
  • … . [Knapp] 1838] Read Gleanings in Natural History. By Edward Jesse, Surveyor of Her Majestys
  • 1831]. Book I. ch. 7 & Book II. Ch. 8. Book. VII. ch 8, 11. read 1 st . vol of Lamarck. …
  • in the Himalayan Provinces by W. Moorcroft. Edited by Wilson 1841 [Moorcroft and Trebeck 1841
  • 1834b]. 9. Columbidæ (Pigeons.) [Selby 1835] 11. Ruminating Animals (Deer, Antelopes, …
  • …   History ] Vol. 4: p. 377 to end. June 8 th  Wilson Voyage Round Scotland [J. Wilson
  • Grammonts Memoirs [Gramont 1714] light & poor Nov 11. Bamford life of Radicle [Bamford
  • letters on Chemistry [Liebig 1851]. Nov. 15 th  Wilson Voyage. Scotland [J. Wilson 1842] …
  • … (in relation to Köelreuter) in Revue Horticole No 911 89  1853 [Lecoq 1853]. Reviewed in
  • farm. 93 Feb. Highland Agricultural Report for J. Wilson origin of Domestic animals. 94
  • Nat. Hist Zoologist [ Zoologist ] vols. before 11 & 12.— 106 Thumberg Travels
  • Home Tour. (various parts) [G. Head 1837] good —— 11. Oersteds Soul of Naturersted 1847] …
  • … . Esmond. by Thackeray [Thackeray 1852] (Poor) Nov. 11. Sir Hudson Lowes life and letters [H
  • Society of Bengal ]. Vol. I. (1832) 2. 3. 4. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. (1843). not much except Blyth. …
  • 1852] [DAR 128: 7] 1854 Jan 11 th . Pulsky Red, Black & White
  • from these portfolios is in DAR 205, the letter from William Edward Shuckard to which CD refers has
  • 44  Probably Francis Boott. 45  Edward Forbes provided sketches and notes for the
  • paper has not been identified. It is possible that James Wilsons work on the origin of domestic
  • London. [Other eds.]  *119: 15; 119: 22b Belcher, Edward. 1848Narrative of the voyage
  • domesticorum . Hafniæ.  *128: 182 Bennett, Edward Turner, ed. 1837The natural history
  • … …  [By Gilbert White.] A new edition with notes by Edward Turner Bennett. London. [Abstract in DAR
  • … . Edinburgh. [Other eds.]  119: 21b Bevan, Edward. 1827. The honey-bee; its natural
  • to the Hebrides . A new edition, greatly enlarged, by John Wilson Croker. 5 vols. London119: 4a
  • collected in Melville Island. Appendix XI in Parry, William EdwardA   supplement to the
  • and 12 atlases. Paris.  *119: 5v. [Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton]. 1835.  …
  • Trilobites.  Translated from the German by Thomas Bell and Edward Forbes. London: Ray Society. …

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…

Matches: 9 hits

  • … contempt of me. I feel convinced it is by Owen’. John Edward Gray, a colleague of Richard Owen’s in …
  • … to throw off thick dictionaries by flexing. On 5 April , Edward Blyth, who had supplied Darwin …
  • … the enthusiastic breeder, who apologised in a letter of 11–13 May 1868 for his ‘voluminuous zeal …
  • … Weir, 30 May [1868] ). Sexual selection On 11 February , Darwin wrote to the …
  • … views differed. Of deer-hounds, Cupples wrote between 11 and 13 May , ‘much depends on the …
  • … Harrison Weir, 28 March 1868 ). Writing on the same day, Edward Hewitt reported that female …
  • … in Japan ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 5 September 1868 ); Edward Wilson, a neighbour of Darwin’s, …
  • … for the philosophy of the future.’ Further afield, Edward Wilson remarked on 14 October …
  • … ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 1 September [1868], n. 11 ). ‘I am not sure’, Darwin reflected in a …