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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,…
Matches: 11 hits
- … child of God" (1) Abberley, John (1) …
- … Adams, A. L. (1) Addison, John (1) …
- … Allen, J. A. (b) (1) Allen, John (1) …
- … C. J. (3) Andrews, John (1) Ann. …
- … (1) Asher, G. M. (7) Ashley, Miss (1 …
- … (16) Balfour, J. H. (7) Ball, John …
- … (36) Baxter, William (7) Baynes, H. M. …
- … Becher, A. B. (1) Beck, John (2) …
- … (1) Blair, R. A. (7) Blair, R. H. (4 …
- … Job, R. A. (1) John Murray (181) …
- … Murphy, James (1) Murray, Andrew (15) …
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…
Matches: 20 hits
- … on 'so difficult a subject, as evolution’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 27 July [1872] ). …
- … to spread my views’, he wrote to his publisher, John Murray, on 30 January , shortly after …
- … The public are accustomed to novels for 1s’, he wrote to Murray on 8 January , but Murray …
- … and despite Darwin’s best efforts, set the final price at 7 s. 6 d. ( letter from R. F. Cooke …
- … unpublished at the end of the year ( letter from C.-F. Reinwald, 23 November 1872 ). To …
- … the new edition in the United States, Darwin arranged with Murray to have it stereotyped. Before the …
- … Whale & duck most beautiful’ ( letter from A. R. Wallace, 3 March 1872 ). I …
- … `chiefly perhaps because I do it badly’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 3 August [1872] ). …
- … from his ignorance, he feels no doubts’ ( letter to F. C. Donders, 17 June 1872 ). Right up to the …
- … Hooker’s cause was taken up by his friends, in particular John Lubbock and John Tyndall, as one …
- … to Gladstone a week later ( enclosure to letter from John Lubbock to W. E. Gladstone, 20 June 1872 …
- … & new views which are daily turning up’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 28 August [1872] ). …
- … photographic plates with his overseas publishers, and with John Murray’s assistant, the excitable …
- … to pay something for the privilege . . . ?’ queried Cooke despairingly, `or have you agreed to …
- … numbers required led to increasingly frantic letters from Cooke: 'We are in a precious quondary …
- … & have not taken care of ourselves’ ( letter from R. F. Cooke, 20 November 1872 ). A …
- … of the booksellers, encouraged an originally cautious John Murray to gamble on the book’s success: & …
- … supply; the initial print run of 5000 was increased to 7000, but although the printers had the text …
- … in the face of a disappointed public ( letter from R. F. Cooke, 25 November 1872 ). Among those …
- … 4 November 1872 , and letter to J. S. Craig, 7 November 1872 ). But recognition was far from …
Darwin in letters, 1881: Old friends and new admirers
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In May 1881, Darwin, one of the best-known celebrities in England if not the world, began writing about all the eminent men he had met. He embarked on this task, which formed an addition to his autobiography, because he had nothing else to do. He had…
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- … 31 January [1881] and 19 February [1881] ). On 7 March , Darwin sent his discussion of the …
- … its own individual experience ( letter from G. J. Romanes, 7 March 1881 ). The difficulty with …
- … eager to send his draft to the printers without delay, asked John Murray, his publisher, to make an …
- … laboratory. The Lake District may have reminded Darwin of John Ruskin, who lived there. Sending the …
- … ). His scientific friends, however, did not agree. Both John Lubbock and Hooker asked for Darwin’s …
- … about the year 1840(?) on all our minds’ ( letter to John Lubbock, [18 September 1881] ). When …
- … on 27 May . Romanes assured Darwin that the artist, John Collier, Huxley’s son-in-law, was ‘such a …
- … judge this seems true’, Darwin reported to Romanes on 7 August . Family joys An …
- … in 1881, the year ended with the happy news of a birth. On 7 December, Charles and Emma Darwin’s …
- … Darwin told his old Cambridge University friend John Price on 27 December . As Darwin rejoiced in …
Darwin in letters, 1874: A turbulent year
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The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early months working on second editions of Coral reefs and Descent of man; the rest of the year was mostly devoted to further research on insectivorous plants. A…
Matches: 12 hits
- … had been in two volumes and had cost twenty-four shillings.) Murray’s partner, Robert Francis Cooke, …
- … Quarterly Review discussing works on primitive man by John Lubbock and Edward Burnett Tylor. It …
- … of anonymous reviews. Its proprietor was none other than John Murray, Darwin’s publisher. So …
- … wording of both the letter to the editor and the letter to Murray to accompany it. The depth of …
- … a new publisher’ and advised that Darwin should not push Murray to the point of cutting off …
- … & it had been refused’ ( letter from G. H. Darwin, [6 or 7 August 1874] ). When the letter was …
- … to review me in a hostile spirit’ ( letter to John Murray, 11 August 1874 ). Darwin was …
- … number of the Review & in the same type’ ( letter from John Murray, 12 August 1874 ). George …
- … anonymous reviews. While staying with Hooker over Christmas, John Tyndall, professor at and …
- … as ‘the natural outflow of his character’ ( letter from John Tyndall, 28 December 1874 ). …
- … from the moment of being hatched ( letter to Nature , 7 and 11 May [1874] ; Spalding 1872a). …
- … from his sons George and Francis ( letter to Anton Dohrn, 7 March 1874 ). Dohrn replied …
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…
Matches: 11 hits
- … seeds of Ipomœa. I remember saying the contrary to you & M r Smith at Kew. But the result is …
- … relationship had lessened the fertility of the offspring (F. Müller 1868b, p. 629). Darwin urged …
- … 11 March [1873] ). In April 1873, the publisher John Murray announced in the Athenæum …
- … plagued by foreign Translators, Reviewers, &c.’ ( To John Murray, 4 May [1873] ). In reply to …
- … add new researches on this subject. ( To J. V. Carus 7 February 1875 ). In fact, Darwin had …
- … the set of all my works, I would suggest 1,500’ ( To R. F. Cooke, 16 September 1876 ). In the …
- … first grandchild, a son born to Amy and Francis Darwin on 7 September, suddenly turned to tragedy …
- … not expect that more than 6 or 700 would sell.’ ( To John Murray, 15 November 1876 ). In fact, …
- … of hybrids, has not yet been produced’ ( From A. R. Wallace, 13 December 1876 ). No reply to this …
- … 1877, the edition was ‘nearly exhausted’ ( From R. F. Cooke, 16 March 1877 ). In November 1877, …
- … W. Rimpau, 10 December 1877 ). By the end of February 1878, Murray was ready to print the second …
Movement in Plants
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The power of movement in plants, published on 7 November 1880, was the final large botanical work that Darwin wrote. It was the only work in which the assistance of one of his children, Francis Darwin, is mentioned on the title page. The research for this…
Matches: 16 hits
- … The power of movement in plants , published on 7 November 1880, was the final large botanical work …
- … the works in a single volume ( letter to J. V. Carus, 7 February 1875 ). While Climbing plants …
- … that exhibited all three types of movement ( letter from R. I. Lynch, [before 28 July 1877] ). ‘ …
- … described and illustrated Horace’s machine in a paper (F. Darwin 1880, pp. 449–55). …
- … and died within a couple of days ( letter from A. F. Batalin, 28 February 1879 ). Darwin was …
- … to translate the paper into German, and it appeared in 1880 (F. Darwin 1880b). In the same letter, …
- … turgescence and growth ( letter from Hugo de Vries, 7 August 1879 ). Darwin replied, ‘ I thank …
- … the curious mode of germination ’ and concluded, ‘ M r Rattan seems to be a real good observer, …
- … of ‘Circumnutating Movements of Plants’, he told Robert Cooke of John Murray publishers, before …
- … about the number of copies they should print ( letter to John Murray, 10 July 1880 ). Moreover, …
- … the length of the book was projected at 600 pages, which, Cooke pointed out was ‘a good deal more’ …
- … who care for physiological Botany in this country ’. Cooke’s reply was not encouraging; taking into …
- … printing more copies or raising the price ( letter from R. F. Cooke, 20 July 1880 ). Darwin …
- … as soon as stereotypes of the text were available from Murray ( letter from D. Appleton & Co., …
- … and asked about the cost of these ( letter to R. F. Cooke, 16 October 1880 ). Cooke replied that …
- … publication will not cost me quite so much as I expected. Murray has sold 800 copies. The Times …
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…
Matches: 7 hits
- … had been founded in March 1876 by the London physiologist John Scott Burdon Sanderson to discuss how …
- … Darwin rejoiced to hear that the Cambridge astronomer John Couch Adams not only approved of George’s …
- … the more shocking because associated with a happy event. On 7 September, Charles and Emma became …
- … value’, was ‘extremely dry’, he informed Robert Cooke on 16 September . Darwin was apologetic …
- … at the pre-publication sale dinner held by his publisher, John Murray ( letter to John Murray, 15 …
- … ). In England, the clergyman botanist George Henslow, son of John Stevens Henslow, Darwin’s …
- … harmony with yours’ ( letter from George Henslow, [ c. 7 December 1876] ). A more typical …
Darwin in letters, 1880: Sensitivity and worms
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‘My heart & soul care for worms & nothing else in this world,’ Darwin wrote to his old Shrewsbury friend Henry Johnson on 14 November 1880. Darwin became fully devoted to earthworms in the spring of the year, just after finishing the manuscript of…
Matches: 7 hits
- … in zoology. New studies of animal instincts by George John Romanes drew upon Darwin’s early …
- … ( Correspondence vol. 27, letter from Ernst Krause, 7 June 1879 , and letter to Ernst Krause …
- … writing to his publisher’s business partner Robert Cooke on 23 April , ‘My family shake their …
- … study to public-school pupils ( letter to Francis Galton, 7 April 1880 , and letter from Francis …
- … of Epping Forest’. In October, Darwin had discussions with John Lubbock and Huxley and was …
- … B. Buckley, 31 October [1880] ). Buckley reported back on 7 November : ‘At first he hesitated …
- … the year’s end, a Christmas card from another old friend, John Maurice Herbert, inspired happy …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
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In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
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- … at the end of Congo voyage [R. Brown 1818]. (Hooker 923) 7 read Decandolle Philosophie …
- … 1835] read Marcel de Serres Cavernes d’Ossements 7 th Ed. 10 8 vo . [Serres 1838] …
- … de S t Hilaire 1832 [I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1832–7] contains all his fathers views Quoted by …
- … 3 vols. 8vo. et atlas de 20 planches. ibid, 1832–36. £1 7 s . 25 [I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire …
- … The Emigrant, Head [F. B. Head 1846] St. John’s Highlands [C. W. G. Saint John 1846] …
- … 1766] Count Dandalo on silk worm Eng. Translat 1825—Murray [Dandolo 1825] /good/ M rs …
- … B.M. 6. 6. Black Edin. Longman [Ramsay 1848] St. John’s Nat. Hist. of Sutherlanshire, Murray …
- … Liebigs Lectures on Chemistry [Liebig 1851]. Sir John Davies. China during the War and Peace …
- … ] to end of Vol: XVIII & Part I. of V. 19 (1843) 25. Murray Domestic Poultry.— Domestic …
- … d . Series. vol 3. p. 1 to 312 30 th Colquhoun (John) The Moor & the Loch [Colquhoun …
- … Buffon [Milne-Edwards 1834–40]. March 5 th St. John’s Highlands [Saint John 1846] 8 …
- … an Eastern King [Knighton] 1855] read The Hon ble Cooke Journey to Oregon Bon. Price [Coke …
- … many vols. I have read.— [DAR *128: 149] Murray Geograph. Distrib. Price William …
- … up the River Amazon, including a residence at Pará . (Murray’s Home and Colonial Library.) …
- … by Richard Owen. Vol. 4 of The works of John Hunter, F.R.S. with notes . Edited by James F. …
- … Translated from the German and French by Lady Duff Gordon. (Murray’s Home and Colonial Library.) …
- … Robert. 1843. Memoirs of the life of John Constable, R.A., composed chiefly of his letters. …
