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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) Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte …

Darwin in letters,1866: Survival of the fittest

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The year 1866 began well for Charles Darwin, as his health, after several years of illness, was now considerably improved. In February, Darwin received a request from his publisher, John Murray, for a new edition of  Origin. Darwin got the fourth…

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  • … featured in the presidential address by William Robert Grove at the annual meeting of the British …
  • … in another speech at the Nottingham meeting. William Robert Grove had approached Hooker in May for …
  • … replied with a modified list, adding Fritz Müller’s  Für Darwin , and a recent fossil discovery in …

Henrietta Darwin's diary

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Darwin's daughter Henrietta kept a diary for a few momentous weeks in 1871. This was the year in which Descent of Man, the most controversial of her father's books after Origin itself, appeared, a book which she had helped him write. The small…

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  • … Darwin | March 1871 1871 March— Sea Grove Bournemouth I came to the Langtons …
  • … of the excitement— There was a special service which began w a hymn sung kneeling. Screaming was …
  • … of words. March 26th/71 Had a long talk w Sno on education first in which Sno quoted G …

Darwin and the Church

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The story of Charles Darwin’s involvement with the church is one that is told far too rarely. It shows another side of the man who is more often remembered for his personal struggles with faith, or for his role in large-scale controversies over the…

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  • … of a very quiet parsonage, & I can see it even through a grove of Palms.—’ (letter to Caroline …