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Darwin in letters, 1869: Forward on all fronts

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At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of  Origin. He may have resented the interruption to his work on sexual selection and human evolution, but he spent forty-six days on the task. Much of the…

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  • … incorporating his latest revisions (Moulinié trans. 1873).  Reinwald and Moulinié had been engaged …
  • … and diversify in 1869. A gardener to the king of Prussia, Adolf Reuter, sent beautiful sketches of …
  • … small stone to [Darwin’s] great building’ ( letter from Adolf Reuter,  23 September 1869 ). The …

Diagrams and drawings in letters

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Over 850 illustrations from the printed volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin have been added to the online transcripts of the letters. The contents include maps, diagrams, drawings, sketches and photographs, covering geological, botanical,…

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  • … Trimen on the coloration of moths,  26 March 1868 Adolf Reuter's sketches of  …
  • … in different species of  Gasteria ,  7 December 1873 F. F. Hallett's rough sketch …
  • … in a letter from Asa Gray,   4 April 1880 Adolf Ernst's sketch of the flower of  …