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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…
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- … On the origin of species , intended to be Darwin’s last, and of Expression of the emotions …
- … a subject, as evolution’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 27 July [1872] ). By the end of the …
- … and papers, and the latter formed the subject of Darwin’s last book, The formation of …
- … , published in the year before his death. Despite Darwin’s declared intention to take up new work, …
- … , shortly after correcting the proofs, and Darwin’s concern for the consolidation of his legacy is …
- … editions were costly to incorporate, and despite Darwin’s best efforts, set the final price at 7 s. …
- … he wrote to the translator ( letter to J. J. Moulinié, 23 September 1872 ). He recapped the …
- … let alone the fifth. Printing of the proofs of Moulinié’s translation of the fifth English edition …
- … This complex operation, combined with Moulinié’s increasingly poor health, led to yet further delay, …
- … at the end of the year ( letter from C.-F. Reinwald, 23 November 1872 ). To persuade his US …
- … be reset. The investment in stereotype reinforced Darwin’s intention to make no further changes to …
- … relations between them irretrievably break down. Mivart’s book had been followed by a highly …
- … the theories of natural and sexual selection to bees (H. Müller 1872), and with his reply Darwin …
- … for myself it is dreadful doing nothing’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 22 October [1872] ). He was far …
- … by `that clever book’ ( letter to J. M. Herbert, 21 November 1872 ) and invited Butler to dinner …
- … by her husband, Richard Buckley Litchfield ( letter to H. E. Litchfield, 13 May 1872 ). Delivery …
- … 'I know that I am half-killed myself’ ( letter to H. E. Litchfield, 25 July 1872 ). A …
- … enclosure to letter from John Lubbock to W. E. Gladstone, 20 June 1872 ). Darwin was quietly using …
- … . Lubbock called for discussion in the House of Commons on 21 July, and Derby addressed the Lords …
- … Charlton Bastian’s recent book on the origin of life (H. C. Bastian 1872; Wallace 1872d) left him …
- … which are daily turning up’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 28 August [1872] ). Other …
- … of Wallace’s position ( letter from Anton Dohrn, 21 August 1872 ). Dohrn requested for the new …
- … Darwin gladly agreed to donate ( letter to Anton Dohrn, 24 August [1872] ). Exerting …
- … pleasant letters & never answer them’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 22 October [1872] ). But not …
- … and family members than usual. One such old friend was Sarah Haliburton, née Owen, to whose sister, …
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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- … Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. …
- … Émile (8) Alice (2) Alison, R. E. …
- … (1) Allen, Thomas (2) Allman, G. J. …
- … (1) Appleton, C. E. C. B. (2) Appleton, T. G. …
- … (5) Austin, A. D. (2) Austin, C. F. …
- … Barnard, Anne (2) Barnes, K. S. (1) …
- … W. F. (1) Barrois, J. H. (2) …
- … Batalin, A. F. (2) Bate, C. S. (21) …
- … Bates, Frederick (2) Bates, H. W. (91) …
- … Frédéric (1) Baumhauer, E. H. von (2) …
- … H. F. (1) Billings, J. S. (2) …
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…
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- … to adapt to varying conditions. The implications of Darwin’s work for the boundary between animals …
- … animal instincts by George John Romanes drew upon Darwin’s early observations of infants, family …
- … Controversy and Erasmus Darwin Darwin’s most recent book, Erasmus Darwin , had been …
- … generations. He continued to receive letters about Erasmus’s life and other bits of family history. …
- … Tindal, sent a cache of letters from two of Darwin’s grandfather’s clerical friends, full of lively …
- … the eagerness of the two learned divines to see a pig’s body opened is very amusing’, Darwin replied …
- … ( letter from J. L. Chester, 3 March 1880 ). Darwin’s sons George and Leonard also continued to …
- … old and new was published). Butler wrote to Darwin on 2 January 1880 for an explanation: …
- … me is to hide the enlarged root, at least at first, beneath 2½ inches of soil as a protection …
- … to his publisher’s business partner Robert Cooke on 23 April , ‘My family shake their heads in …
