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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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- … "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. …
- … Higginson, T. W. (5) Hildebrand, Friedrich (39) …
- … Ludwig, Camilla (3) Ludwig, Friedrich (3) …
- … George (29) Max Müller, Friedrich (6) …
- … Rolfe, R. M. (9) Rolle, Friedrich (12) …
- … Tiddeman, R. H. (1) Tiemann, Friedrich (1) …
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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- … when grown together for several years ( To Édouard Bornet, 1 December 1866 ). Darwin began a …
- … in divergent climatic conditions’ ( From Fritz Müller, 1 December 1866 ). Darwin’s interest was …
- … copies were mostly positive in their reaction to the book. Hildebrand wrote that ‘a peep into it has …
- … that it is again of very great value for science’ ( From Friedrich Hildebrand, 6 December 1876 ). …
- … the adaptation for wide dissemination of plants.’ ( From Friedrich Hildebrand, 18 January 1877 ). …
Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
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At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…
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- … Lyell, 17 March [1863] ). In January 1863, the geologist Friedrich Rolle, who had recently …
- … of reactions to his theory in Germany ( see letter from Friedrich Rolle, 26 January 1863 ). Darwin …
- … ). He reminded Huxley again of the German botanist Karl Friedrich von Gärtner’s experiments, which …
- … on orchids written by a German correspondent, the botanist Friedrich Hildebrand, to be published in …
- … experiments with the same results ( see letter from Friedrich Hildebrand, 16 July 1863 ). …
Women’s scientific participation
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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
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- … Letter 3634 - Darwin to Gray, A., [1 July 1862] Darwin tells American naturalist Asa …
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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- … I cannot bear to think of the future The year 1876 started out sedately enough with …
- … has won only 2490 games’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 28 January 1876 ). Francis Darwin, happily …
- … life. But the calm was not to last, and the second half of 1876 was marked by anxiety and deep grief …
- … to think of the future’, Darwin confessed to William on 11 September just hours after Amy’s …
- … in him for ‘new matter’ (letter to Asa Gray, 28 January 1876). The preparation of the second edition …
- … Climbing plants ( letter from R. F. Cooke, 23 February 1876 ). When Smith, Elder and Company …
- … observed to Carus. ( Letter to J. V. Carus, 24 April 1876. ) Darwin focused instead on the …
- … ‘advantages of crossing’ (letter to Asa Gray, 28 January 1876). Revising Orchids was less a …
- … vol. 23, letter from Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg, 20 September 1875 ). He began to compile an account …
- … with his new research in mind: ‘During this autumn of 1876 I shall publish on the “Effects of Cross …
- … “nunc dimittis.”’ (‘Recollections’, pp. 418–19). Darwin remained firm in his resolution to …
- … however, continued to be raised in various ways. On 10 January, Charles O’Shaughnessy , an Irish …
- … pamphlet, Darwin confounded (C. O’Shaughnessy 1876), which, he informed Darwin, ‘completely …
- … and it is the correct one’ ( letter from Nemo, [1876?] ). Combatting enemies... …
- … disguised his views as to the bestiality of man’ (Mivart 1876, p. 144). Not only was the comment …
- … had succeeded in giving him pain ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 17 June 1876 ). Although Mivart had …
- … Mivart made a slanderous attack on George Darwin in late 1874 in an anonymous article, which …
- … least foundation’, Darwin told Alfred Russel Wallace on 17 June . It was the still raw memory of …
- … end of the previous year. He had been incensed in December 1875 when the zoologist Edwin Ray …
- … a zoologist ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 29 January 1876 ). Both aims were achieved, and in Darwin’s …
- … in London’ ( letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, [4 February 1876] ). 'The heat of battle& …
- … The controversial issue had occupied Darwin for much of 1875. In January 1876, a Royal Commission …
- … from Hermann Muller, 6 December 1876 and 28 December 1876). Friedrich Hildebrand recognised its …
- … the origin of species and varieties’ ( letter from Friedrich Hildebrand, 6 December 1876 , and …
- … stigma’, he told Gray on 4 December. Darwin also adopted Friedrich Hildebrand’s term ‘heterostyle’ …
Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex
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The quantity of Darwin’s correspondence increased dramatically in 1868 due largely to his ever-widening research on human evolution and sexual selection.Darwin’s theory of sexual selection as applied to human descent led him to investigate aspects of the…
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- … begin to think a veritable ass’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 1 September [1868] ). I am …
- … Darwin’s network of informers proved very fruitful. On 1 May , Darwin received a letter from …
- … Support for Darwin in Germany was equally enthusiastic. Friedrich Hildebrand sent his praise for …
Darwin's in letters, 1873: Animal or vegetable?
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Having laboured for nearly five years on human evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of emotions, Darwin was able to devote 1873 almost exclusively to his beloved plants. He resumed work on the digestive powers of sundews and Venus fly traps, and…
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- … received detailed observations from Fritz Müller in Brazil, Friedrich Hildebrand in Germany, and …
- … had recently been criticised for this by the philologist Friedrich Max Müller in a series of …
- … of the arguments opposed to this belief” ( letter to Friedrich Max Müller, 3 July 1873 ). …
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…
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- … renewing contact with correspondents such as Daniel Oliver, Friedrich Hildebrand, Fritz Müller, and …
- … red cabbage were traced over time: ‘Bristle was gummed to 1 Cot. & beyond it a triangular bit of …
- … in the album, and a series of poems by the Austrian writer Friedrich Adler (see Appendix VI). One …
Darwin in letters, 1864: Failing health
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On receiving a photograph from Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July 1864: ‘the venerable beard gives the look of your having suffered, and … of having grown older’. Because of poor health, Because of poor health, Darwin…
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- … with Gray, Philip Henry Gosse, George Chichester Oxenden, Friedrich Hildebrand, and others mentioned …
- … at the new botanic garden in Castleton, Jamaica. Darwin and Friedrich Hildebrand in Germany compared …
Darwin in letters, 1867: A civilised dispute
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Charles Darwin’s major achievement in 1867 was the completion of his large work, The variation of animals and plants under domestication (Variation). The importance of Darwin’s network of correspondents becomes vividly apparent in his work on expression in…
