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
Summary
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
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
Summary
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 |