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List of correspondents

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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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  • … (1) Abney, W. de W. (3) Accademia dei Lincei …
  • … (1) Ainslie, O. A. (3) Airy, Hubert …
  • … (4) Alberts, Maurice (3) Albrecht, R. F. …
  • … (1) Ambrose, J. L. (3) American Academy of …
  • … (1) Anderson, James (c) (3) Anderson-Henry, …
  • … (1) Badger, E. W. (3) Baer, K. E. von …
  • … (1) Balch, C. L. (3) Baldwin, J. D. …
  • … (5) Ball, Robert (3) Ball, Valentine …

Darwin in letters, 1882: Nothing too great or too small

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In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and for the first time in decades he was not working on another book. He remained active in botanical research, however. Building on his recent studies in plant…

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  • … of any one plant or animal!’ ( letter to Henry Groves, 3 April 1882 ). He wrote to an American in …
  • … microscope affects my heart’ ( letter to Henry Groves, 3 April 1882 ). Earthworms and …
  • … (Emma Darwin to G. H. Darwin, [ c . 28 March 1882] (DAR 210.3: 45)). Huxley urged Darwin to …
  • … can be placed to look after your machinery (I daren’t say automaton ) critically’ ( letter from …
  • … a real cordial to me.— I have felt better today than for 3 weeks & have had as yet no pain.— …
  • … from Emma Darwin to G. H. Darwin, 6 April 1882 (DAR 210.3: 46)). Despite his declining condition, …
  • … about an earthworm from Venezuela ( letter to Adolf Ernst, 3 April 1882 ). He sent a cheque for a …
  • … us this our modest request!’ ( letter from J. L. Ambrose, 3 April 1882 ). Darwin immediately sent …
  • … my intruding myself on you’ ( letter to Wilhelm Dunker, 3 March [1850] ). In the mid-1850s, …

3.14 Julia Margaret Cameron, photos

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< Back to Introduction In the summer of 1868 Darwin took a holiday on the Isle of Wight with his immediate family, his brother Erasmus, and his friend Joseph Hooker. The family’s accommodation at Freshwater was rented from the photographer Julia…

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  • … Isis , 100:3 (Sept. 2009), pp. 542–570 (p. 563). Kathryn Hughes, Victorians Undone: Tales of the …