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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,…
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- … "A child of God" (1) Abberley, John (1) …
- … (2) Aitken, Thomas (1) Albano, Louisa …
- … (2) Allen, Frances (1) Allen, Grant …
- … (4) Althaus, Julius (1) Ambrose, J. L. …
- … Busby, James (1) Busch, Otto (1) …
- … Carus, J. V. (168) Caspari, Otto (1) …
- … Hague, J. D. (5) Hahn, Otto (3) …
- … Krakauer, Alfred (1) Kratz, Otto (2) …
- … Orton, James (7) Otto, Hermann (1) …
- … W. F. R. (2) Staudinger, Otto (3) …
- … Youmans, E. L. (2) Zacharias, Otto (12) …
Cross and self fertilisation
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The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom, published on 10 November 1876, was the result of a decade-long project to provide evidence for Darwin’s belief that ‘‘Nature thus tells us, in the most emphatic manner, that she abhors…
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Darwin in letters, 1876: In the midst of life
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1876 was the year in which the Darwins became grandparents for the first time. And tragically lost their daughter-in-law, Amy, who died just days after her son's birth. All the letters from 1876 are now published in volume 24 of The Correspondence…
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- … was reluctant to do so, as he confessed to Darwin on 1 June : ‘the heat of battle is not the time …
- … reassure Darwin that the introduction was far from dull. Otto Zacharias, a young German journalist …
- … , was also told that the book was dull ( letter to Otto Zacharias, 5 October [1876] ). Darwin …
Darwin in letters, 1875: Pulling strings
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‘I am getting sick of insectivorous plants’, Darwin confessed in January 1875. He had worked on the subject intermittently since 1859, and had been steadily engaged on a book manuscript for nine months; January also saw the conclusion of a bitter dispute…
Darwin in letters, 1877: Flowers and honours
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Ever since the publication of Expression, Darwin’s research had centred firmly on botany. The year 1877 was no exception. The spring and early summer were spent completing Forms of flowers, his fifth book on a botanical topic. He then turned to the…
