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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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- … Atkin, J. R. (1) Atkinson, Edward (4) …
- … A. D. (15) Bartlett, Edward (6) …
- … Thomas (2) Bradford, Edward (1) …
- … Carden, Robert (1) Cardwell, Edward (4) …
- … Crawte, G. F. (1) Cresy, Edward (1) …
- … Emery, Woodward (1) Enfield, Edward (1) …
- … Forbes, David (13) Forbes, Edward (10) …
- … George (1) Frankland, Edward (44) …
- … Fry, C. E. (1) Fry, Edward (1) Fry, …
- … Harris, C. (1) Harris, Edward (1) …
- … Hewett, Joseph (1) Hewitt, Edward (4) …
- … Charles (1) Hitchcock, Edward (1) …
- … Holder, J. B. (1) Holland, Edward (2) …
- … William (2) Horsman, Edward (1) …
- … Jones, A. H. (2) Jones, Edward (1) …
- … Ludwig, Rudolph (1) Lumb, Edward (4) …
- … Samuel (6) Newman, Edward (1) Newman …
- … Charles (1) Nicholson, Edward (1) …
- … Charlotte (1) Parfitt, Edward (2) …
- … Sabine, E. J. (1) Sabine, Edward (9) …
- … Stanley, E. H. (4) Stanley, Edward (1) …
- … Vines, S. H. (9) Vivian, Edward (2) …
- … Wagner, Moritz (2) Walford, Edward (2) …
- … Wilson, E. B. (2) Wilson, Edward (8) …
Women’s scientific participation
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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
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Darwin in letters, 1867: A civilised dispute
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Charles Darwin’s major achievement in 1867 was the completion of his large work, The variation of animals and plants under domestication (Variation). The importance of Darwin’s network of correspondents becomes vividly apparent in his work on expression in…
Women as a scientific audience
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Target audience? | Female readership | Reading Variation Darwin's letters, in particular those exchanged with his editors and publisher, reveal a lot about his intended audience. Regardless of whether or not women were deliberately targeted as a…
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Darwin in letters, 1851-1855: Death of a daughter
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The letters from these years reveal the main preoccupations of Darwin’s life with a new intensity. The period opens with a family tragedy in the death of Darwin’s oldest and favourite daughter, Anne, and it shows how, weary and mourning his dead child,…
The "wicked book": Origin at 157
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Origin is 157 years old. (Probably) the most famous book in science was published on 24 November 1859. To celebrate we have uploaded hundreds of new images of letters, bringing the total number you can look at here to over 9000 representing more than…
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- … Reade S. H. Vines George Waterhouse Edward Blyth J. V. Carus William …
Darwin in letters, 1856-1857: the 'Big Book'
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In May 1856, Darwin began writing up his 'species sketch’ in earnest. During this period, his working life was completely dominated by the preparation of his 'Big Book', which was to be called Natural selection. Using letters are the main…
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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- … . [Knapp] 1838] Read Gleanings in Natural History. By Edward Jesse, Surveyor of Her Majesty’s …
- … [John Paget 1839]— account of Dogs like wolves.— E. Blyth.— read Monograp der Kartoffeln …
- … from these portfolios is in DAR 205, the letter from William Edward Shuckard to which CD refers has …
- … 44 Probably Francis Boott. 45 Edward Forbes provided sketches and notes for the …
- … London. [Other eds.] *119: 15; 119: 22b Belcher, Edward. 1848. Narrative of the voyage …
- … domesticorum . Hafniæ. *128: 182 Bennett, Edward Turner, ed. 1837. The natural history …
- … … [By Gilbert White.] A new edition with notes by Edward Turner Bennett. London. [Abstract in DAR …
- … . Edinburgh. [Other eds.] 119: 21b Bevan, Edward. 1827. The honey-bee; its natural …
- … collected in Melville Island. Appendix XI in Parry, William Edward, A supplement to the …
- … and 12 atlases. Paris. *119: 5v. [Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton]. 1835. …
- … Trilobites. Translated from the German by Thomas Bell and Edward Forbes. London: Ray Society. …
- … ser. 6: 142–214. *119: 21v.; 119: 18a Clarke, Edward Daniel. 1810–23. Travels in …
- … of Oxford. London. [Other eds.] 119: 21b Eyre, Edward John. 1845. Journals of …
- … [Darwin Library.] 119: 18b; *128: 178 Forbes, Edward. 1841. A history of British …
- … London 2, pt 2: 483–534. 119: 22a Forbes, Edward and Hanley, Sylvanus. 1849–53. A …
- … etc. 2d ed. Tiguri. 128: 16 Gibbon, Edward. 1776–88. The history of the decline and …
- … ——. 1827. Memoirs of the life and writings of Edward Gibbon, composed by himself, and …
- … . London. [Other eds.] 119: 11b Gray, John Edward. 1843–52. Catalogue of the specimens …
- … Richard Williams . Edinburgh. 128: 9 Harcourt, Edward Vernon. 1851. A sketch of …
- … of letters . London. 119: 6a Hickson, William Edward. 1849. Review of Thomas Robert …
- … climate and physical agents. Appendix to vol. 2 of Belcher, Edward, Narrative of a voyage round …
- … London. [Darwin Library.] 119: 13a Hitchcock, Edward. 1841. Final report on the geology …
- … (1858) also in Darwin Library.] 128: 2 Holmes, Edward. 1845. The life of Mozart, …
- … the French. London. 119: 22a [Hook, Theodore Edward]. 1836. Gilbert Gurney . 3 vols. …
- … [by Elizabeth Juliana Sabine] under the superintendence of Edward Sabine. 2 vols. London. [Darwin …
- … . 3d ed., enlarged. London. *128: 159 Hyde, Edward, Earl of Clarendon. 1704. The …
- … notes. London. [Darwin Library.] 119: 13a Jesse, Edward. 1832–5. Gleanings in natural …
- … [Abstract in DAR 71: 68–9.] 119: 17a Lisle, Edward. 1757. Observations in husbandry . …
- … pts. Amsterdam. 128: 16 Rusticus, pseud. (Edward Newman). 1849. The letters of …
- … 2 vols. London. 119: 11b Shuckard, William Edward. 1837. Essay on the indigenous …
- … in DAR 91: 5.] *119: 5v. Smedley, Francis Edward. [1854–6]. Harry Coverdale’s …
Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex
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The quantity of Darwin’s correspondence increased dramatically in 1868 due largely to his ever-widening research on human evolution and sexual selection.Darwin’s theory of sexual selection as applied to human descent led him to investigate aspects of the…
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- … contempt of me. I feel convinced it is by Owen’. John Edward Gray, a colleague of Richard Owen’s in …
- … to throw off thick dictionaries by flexing. On 5 April , Edward Blyth, who had supplied Darwin …
- … Harrison Weir, 28 March 1868 ). Writing on the same day, Edward Hewitt reported that female …
- … in Japan ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 5 September 1868 ); Edward Wilson, a neighbour of Darwin’s, …
- … for the philosophy of the future.’ Further afield, Edward Wilson remarked on 14 October …