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From James Paget   7 July 1875

Summary

Thanks for Insectivorous plants.

Intrigued by the analogy between fairy-rings and annular skin diseases, e.g., herpes and psoriasis.

Author:  James Paget, 1st baronet
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  7 July 1875
Classmark:  DAR 174: 9
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10048

From James Paget   14 August 1875

Summary

Encloses copy of description of an outgrown stump. Refers to letter [missing] in which CD reports on a case of amputation. Would like to check J. Simpson’s cases before thinking everything is settled.

Author:  James Paget, 1st baronet
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  14 Aug 1875
Classmark:  DAR 174: 10
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10117

From James Paget   30 May 1876

Summary

Instructs CD that his son [William] should take a holiday following his concussion.

Author:  James Paget, 1st baronet
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  30 May 1876
Classmark:  DAR 210.9: 12
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10518

From James Paget   25 July 1879

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Regrets that he cannot send the promised volume [Biographie médicale, 7 vols, 1820–5, biographical appendix to Dictionaire des sciences medicales]. Offers to have his son make an abstract of the biography [of Erasmus Darwin].

Author:  James Paget, 1st baronet
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  25 July 1879
Classmark:  DAR 99: 194
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12172

From James Paget   18 November 1879

Summary

Thanks for Erasmus Darwin. It is a rare life and an unmatched illustration of the transmission of intellectual strength.

Author:  James Paget, 1st baronet
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  18 Nov 1879
Classmark:  DAR 174: 11
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12328

From James Paget   12 November 1880

Summary

Sends a copy of his lecture Elemental pathology: an address on elemental pathology delivered in the pathological section of the British Medical Association (Paget 1880).

Author:  James Paget, 1st baronet
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  12 Nov 1880
Classmark:  Skinner, Inc. (dealers) (Auction 3103T, 6 August 2018)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12809F

From James Paget   3 December 1880

Summary

Thanks CD for his note and his new book [Movement in plants].

Makes him feel "we must go beyond plants for a really elemental pathology".

Wishes he knew enough about crystals to work at them.

Author:  James Paget, 1st baronet
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  3 Dec 1880
Classmark:  DAR 174: 12
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12886

From James Paget   1 June 1881

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Asks CD to lunch to meet the Prince of Wales.

Author:  James Paget, 1st baronet
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  1 June 1881
Classmark:  DAR 202: 116
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13188

From James Paget   1 December 1881

Summary

Thanks for Earthworms. Is going to Nice for a few weeks to recuperate.

Author:  James Paget, 1st baronet
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  1 Dec 1881
Classmark:  The Royal College of Surgeons of England (MS0026/7/4)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13525F

From James Paget   7 February 1863

Summary

Forwards a book [Horace Dobell, Lectures on the germs and vestiges of disease (1861)] and a genealogical table at the author’s request.

Author:  James Paget, 1st baronet
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  7 Feb 1863
Classmark:  DAR 174: 4
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3971

From James Paget   16 March 1863

Summary

Sends two [unidentified] papers on inheritance of medical malformations. Suggests that besides the inheritance of specific variations, the tendency to show variations in the same organ system (stomach, nervous, etc.) may also be inherited.

Author:  James Paget, 1st baronet
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  16 Mar 1863
Classmark:  DAR 174: 5
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4045

From James Paget   9 July 1867

Summary

Will seek answers to CD’s questions on expression. Observing patients’ blushing. Is CD interested in the platysma during screaming under chloroform?

Author:  James Paget, 1st baronet
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  9 July 1867
Classmark:  DAR 174: 6
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5582

From James Paget   29 January 1868

Summary

Thanks for Variation. Expects to be made more ashamed by his ignorance of the "influence of inheritance on the variations and mixtures of disease".

Author:  James Paget, 1st baronet
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  29 Jan 1868
Classmark:  DAR 174: 7
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5812

From James Paget   [1869]

Summary

"I enclose a note from Lord Fitzwilliam about his horse with zebra-marks. The case seems as striking as I believed."

Author:  James Paget, 1st baronet
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [1869]
Classmark:  Paget ed. 1901, p. 408
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6533

From James Paget   [1872]

Summary

"I am at work on the nervous mimicry of organic disease: I have some hope that, during my work, I may fall on some facts which may be of interest to you, and you may be sure that I shall send them to you."

Author:  James Paget, 1st baronet
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [1872]
Classmark:  S. Paget ed. 1901, p. 408
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8130

From James Paget   [1873]

Summary

"Sir William Gull has just brought me the enclosed quotations from Chaucer, as illustrations of the closure of the eyes in effort. [In "The Nun’s priest’s tale" in Canterbury tales the fox tricks Chanticleer into crowing, whereupon Chanticleer closes his eyes to make the effort (and gets seized by the fox).] He begs me to send them to you.

I have lately seen a terrier who very distinctly frowns during mental excitement – not always with anger, but often, I think, with anxiety, as in expecting food."

Author:  James Paget, 1st baronet
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [1873]
Classmark:  S. Paget ed. 1901, p. 408
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8713

From James Paget   17 January 1873

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Describes a patient’s ears with peculiar tufts of hair in places where he has never seen them before. Encloses sketch.

Author:  James Paget, 1st baronet
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  17 Jan 1873
Classmark:  DAR 87: 56–8
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8739

From James Paget   12 May 1875

Summary

A letter introducing T. F. Burgers, President of the Transvaal Republic.

Author:  James Paget, 1st baronet
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  12 May 1875
Classmark:  DAR 174: 8
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9977
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