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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: 6 hits

  • … (15) Bartlett, Edward (6) Bartlett, R. S. …
  • … (1) Boardman, A. F. (6) Boccardo, Gerolamo …
  • … Alice (2) Bonham-Carter, E. M. (6) …
  • … (1) Browne, Walter (6) Brownen, George …
  • … (17) Buckland, William (6) Buckler, William …
  • … (2) Child, G. W. (6) Children, J. G. …

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…

Matches: 14 hits

  • that the volume should be affordable: ‘do you not think 6s is too dear for a cheap Edit? Would not
  • Darwins best efforts, set the final price at 7 s.  6 d.  ( letter from RFCooke, 12
  • intellectual errors’ ( letter from St GJMivart, 6 January 1872 ). Darwin likened the
  • selection is somewhat under a cloud’, he wrote to JETaylor on 13 January , and he complained
  • than offended by `that clever book’ ( letter to JMHerbert, 21 November 1872 ) and invited
  • by her husband, Richard Buckley Litchfield ( letter to HELitchfield, 13 May 1872 ). Delivery
  • … 'I know that I am half-killed myself’ ( letter to HELitchfield, 25 July 1872 ). A
  • a week later ( enclosure to letter from John Lubbock to WEGladstone, 20 June 1872 ).  Darwin
  • effect on my mind’ ( letter to Chauncey Wright, 6 April 1872 ).  A competing theory on the
  • Lord Sackville Cecil, to attend a séance ( letter from MCStanley, 4 June 1872 ). There was
  • in his `Literary Banquet’ (letters from John Murray, 6 November [1872] and 9 November 1872 ). …
  • others described the way their hands blushed (letter from MISnow, 29 [November 1872 or later] …
  • than usual. One such old friend was Sarah Haliburton, née Owen, to whose sister, Fanny, Darwin had
  • life which surprised & gratified me more’ ( letter to JMHerbert, 21 November 1872 ).  Fox