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Darwin in letters, 1872: Job done?

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'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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  • … ‘My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, ‘is so nearly closed. . .  What little more I can
  • as evolution’ ( letter to ARWallace,  27 July [1872] ). By the end of the year Darwin
  • s.  6 d.  ( letter from RFCooke, 12 February 1872 ). Always closely involved in
  • translator ( letter to JJMoulinié, 23 September 1872 ). He recapped the history of the French
  • of the year ( letter from C.-FReinwald, 23 November 1872 ). To persuade his US publisher, …
  • Mivart ( letter to St GJMivart,  11 January [1872] ). A worsening breach The
  • beautiful’ ( letter from ARWallace, 3 March 1872 ). I consider that you have
  • Darwin ( letter to St GJMivart, 5 January 1872 ). Piqued, Mivart flung back by return of post
  • errors’ ( letter from St GJMivart, 6 January 1872 ). Darwin likened the affair to the
  • towards me’ ( letter to St GJMivart, 8 January [1872] ).  Despite Darwins request that he
  • world’ ( letter from St GJMivart,  10 January 1872 ).  Darwin, determined to have the last
  • acknowledge it ( letter to St GJMivart, 11 January [1872] ). 'I hate controversy,’ Darwin
  • I do it badly’ ( letter to ARWallace, 3 August [1872] ).  Darwin's theories under
  • the world moves!’ ( letter from Mary Treat, 13 December 1872 ).  'Here is a bee' …
  • it at least in part ( letter to August Weismann, 5 April 1872 ). ‘I wanted some encouragement’, he
  • to believe it’ ( letter to Herman Müller, [before 5 May 1872] ).  Müller had sent him a
  • of natural and sexual selection to bees (HMüller 1872), and with his reply Darwin enclosed an
  • standing’ ( letter to Hermann Müller, [before 5 May 1872] ). Finishing  Expression
  • doing nothing’ ( letter to THHuxley, 22 October [1872] ). He was far from idle during their
  • and outspoken supporter of Darwinism, William Winwood Reade, Darwin was revising his manuscript on
  • to be more erect’ ( letter to Briton Riviere, 19 May [1872] ).  Riviere had been suggested to
  • clever book’ ( letter to JMHerbert, 21 November 1872 ) and invited Butler to dinner the
  • from Samuel Butler to Francis Darwin, [before 30 May 1872] , and letter from Samuel Butler, 30
  • feels no doubts’ ( letter to FCDonders, 17 June 1872 ). Right up to the beginning of June, …
  • Buckley Litchfield ( letter to HELitchfield, 13 May 1872 ). Delivery to the press brought only
  • myself’ ( letter to HELitchfield, 25 July 1872 ). A battle for the independence of
  • a week later ( enclosure to letter from John Lubbock to WEGladstone, 20 June 1872 ).  Darwin
  • use of the microscope led his head to `fail’ ( letter to WDFox, 29 October [1872] ) he had
  • by hearing about Panagæus!’ Darwin wrote ( letter to WDFox,  16 July [1872] ).  I

Women as a scientific audience

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Target audience? | Female readership | Reading Variation Darwin's letters, in particular those exchanged with his editors and publisher, reveal a lot about his intended audience. Regardless of whether or not women were deliberately targeted as a…

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  • … of indelicate content. Letter 8335 - Reade, W. W. to Darwin, [16 May 1872] …
  • … interest of women. Letter 8341 - Reade, W. W. to Darwin, [20 May 1872] …
  • … 8611 - Cupples, A. J. to Darwin, E., [8 November 1872] Ann Cupples asks Emma to …

Darwin’s queries on expression

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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…

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  • … Darwin, Francis [before 30 June 1872] New University …
  • … Galton, Francis 7 Nov 1872 Rutland Gate, London, …
  • … Meyer, A.B. 25 April 1872 Manila, Philippin Islands …
  • … Reade, Winwood W. 7 Sept 1872 11 St Mary Abbot' …
  • … Reade, Winwood W. 5 Nov 1872 13 Alfred Place, …

Science: A Man’s World?

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Discussion Questions|Letters Darwin's correspondence show that many nineteenth-century women participated in the world of science, be it as experimenters, observers, editors, critics, producers, or consumers. Despite this, much of the…

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  • … not read the pamphlet herself. Letter 8335 - Reade, W. W. to Darwin, [16 May 1872] …
  • … Letter 8341 - Reade, W. W. to Darwin, [20 May 1872] Reade tells Darwin of his …

Darwin in letters,1870: Human evolution

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The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the year at work on the Descent of Man & Selection in relation to Sex’.  Descent was the culmination of over three decades of observations and reflections on…

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  • … on emotion; it would eventually appear as a separate book in 1872 ( Expression of the emotions in …

Descent

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There are more than five hundred letters associated with the research and writing of Darwin’s book, Descent of man and selection in relation to sex (Descent). They trace not only the tortuous route to eventual publication, but the development of Darwin’s…

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  • … such new correspondent was the travel-writer William Winwood Reade who had first contacted Darwin …
  • … as The expression of the emotions in man and animals (1872).  ‘ As you are interested …

Darwin in letters, 1871: An emptying nest

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The year 1871 was an extremely busy and productive one for Darwin, with the publication in February of his long-awaited book on human evolution, Descent of man. The other main preoccupation of the year was the preparation of his manuscript on expression.…

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  • … 1871 ). The African explorer and writer William Winwood Reade thought the publication of so bold a …