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People featured in the German and Austrian photograph album

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Biographical details of people from the Habsburg Empire that appeared in the album of German and Austrian scientists sent to Darwin on 12 February 1877. We are grateful to Johannes Mattes for providing these details and for permission to make his…

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  • … Biographical details of people from the Habsburg Empire that appeared in the album of German and …
  • … Geologist and palaeontologist Born into poor conditions, he studied geology and palaeontology …
  • … Geologist and palaeontologist Born into poor conditions, he learned shoemaking. After the …

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,…

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  • … the completion of his cirripede monographs. Our poor dear dear child has had a very …
  • … arguments & facts on both sides. I have a  number  of people helping me in every way, & …

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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  • … see examples of letters to Darwin from nearly 250 different people, and letters he wrote to 150 more …
  • … wicked book' . Closer and closer it held the poor fly in its embrace, until it …

Yokcushlu (Fuegia Basket)

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Yokcushlu was one of the Alakaluf, or canoe people from the western part of Tierra del Fuego. She was one of the hostages seized by Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, after the small boat used for surveying the narrow inlets of the coast of Tierra del…

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  • … Yokcushlu was one of the Alakaluf, or canoe people from the western part of Tierra del Fuego. She …
  • … to Tierra del Fuego to act as moral exemplars to their own people and interpreters for passing …
  • … with Elleparu and  Orundellico, met a select group of people, including FitzRoy’s relations, men …
  • … this, he ‘ went to bed quite melancholy at the fate of poor Fuegia Basket ’. This news about …
  • … Chapman, Anne. 2010.  European encounters with the Yamana people of Cape Horn, before and after …

Interview with Pietro Corsi

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Pietro Corsi is Professor of the History of Science at the University of Oxford. His book Evolution Before Darwin is due to be published in 2010 by Oxford University Press. Date of interview: 17 July 2009 Transcription 1: Introduction …

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  • … see, the French scene deserves close attention. I think that people have been working – and doing …
  • … , but let’s say, ?the Institution of Science?) and people have also assumed that the science which …
  • … each of these dictionaries there is a huge coverage of what people felt important for the …
  • … distorting our appreciation at a very basic level: what were people talking about? Now, that …
  • … public press. Not only that, but he also produced, or had people writing for him, articles showing …
  • … more the French government moves to the right wing, the more people try to start saying that …
  • … officer of the Napoleonic army becomes a kind of person who people have to trust to put the country …
  • … of the theatrical figure of the Napoleonic officer. He is poor, forced to go to prison for debts, …
  • … to curb atheism, but even more worried [of] subversion and people not being friendly to the …
  • … professional structure, of the Anglican clergymen. I found people endorsing moderate forms of …
  • … of Noah’s ark. It is surprising the extent to which these people knew about Continental science. …
  • … I still believe up to the mid-1830s not many English people knew German. (The evidence of that is …
  • … academic climbing to a completely different mindset. But people always try to say how original they …
  • … more important. Let me give you one instance. For people like John Fleming , the Scottish …
  • … atheism implicit in Lamarck. By 1830 in England, a lot of people are really worried that Lamarckian …
  • … By 1834, the issue was almost academic within a lot of people, and William Whewell, in 1837, wrongly …
  • … at is that by the time in which Darwin sets to read these people – Lamarck, Bory de Saint-Vincent, …
  • … more [part of a] burning debate, [a] hot debate, on which people feel things are at stake. So I …
  • … that. I simply say that he’s tried to think, who are the people who said something [about evolution …
  • … who said something. And naturally so, because by 1860 these people were curiosities, whereas if you …
  • … a seat at the Academy of Sciences in botany, not in zoology. People felt challenged. The earliest …
  • … I think that is totally not true. But nevertheless, people who say that Lamarck cut no ice in France …
  • … Lamarck has not said what Darwin said, even though some people say, well, within Darwin there …
  • … everyone believed that throughout Europe; very few people doubted that. The question is to what an …
  • … thesis as broad as that – ?French science declined? - people are now finding a lot of counter …

Fake Darwin: myths and misconceptions

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Many myths have persisted about Darwin's life and work. Here are a few of the more pervasive ones, with full debunking below...

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  • … Many myths have persisted about Darwin's life and work. Here are a few of the more pervasive ones, …

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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  • … in Caucasus [R. K. Porter 1821–2] praised by Silliman poor Cyclop. of Anat.— Instinct by D r …
  • … [Bellamy 1839] chiefly on distribution of forms said to be Poor Sir. J. Edwards Botanical …
  • … S. Landors Imaginary Conversations [Landor 1824–9]— very poor Sir J 57  Browne’s Religio …
  • … d . Moores Life of Byron 6 volumes [T. Moore 1837].— poor.— —— T. Carlyles Chartism [Carlyle …
  • … [Austen 1814]. Sense & S [Austen 1811]. Rich d . 2 d . poor. Henry IV [Shakespeare:  King …
  • … & Arc wh. I rather liked.— Tale of Tub [Swift] 1704]. (poor). Inheritance & marriage [S. E. …
  • … R. K. Porter’s Travel to Persia [R. K. Porter 1821–2]— poor— 23 d . Bacon’s Essays [Bacon …
  • … 75  travels in W. America. Translat: [Michaux 1805] very poor. 20 th  Botanic Garden & …
  • … ] Oct 2 d  Journal of a Naturalist [Knapp] 1829] /poor/ extracted Nov 30. …
  • … of cultivated Vegetables 2. Vols. [H. Phillips 1822] (very poor) [DAR 119: 13b] …
  • … Spallanzani’s Travels in Sicily [Spallanzani 1798] (very poor) July 5 th  Owens Lectures on …
  • … of Visit to Mauritius & G. Good Hope [Backhouse 1844] very poor Oct 1 Owen on Mylodon …
  • … vol: 14 Thaleba by Southey [R. W. Southey 1801] (very poor) 30 th  Laings Tour in …
  • … —— Sir Stamford Raffles Memoirs [S. Raffles 1830]. (poor) —— Whately’s Remarks on Shakespeare …
  • … 8 th  Wilson Voyage Round Scotland [J. Wilson 1842] (poor) M. Gerard sur l’Espece extract …
  • … 22 d  Minding Geograph. Verberitung [Minding 1829]. (poor) April 3 d . Annal. des Sc. Nat …
  • … 23 d . Lawrence Lectures on Man [W. Lawrence 1819] } poor.— —— Visey Philosoph. d’Hist Nat. …
  • … Polit. Econ. Essay translated [Simonde de Sismondi 1847], poor Nov. 1. Goethe Autobiography …
  • … 28 th  Sir J. Barrow autobiography [Barrow 1847].— poor [DAR 119: 19a] 1847. …
  • … amusing March 10 John Galt Autobiography [Galt 1833] poor —— 20 th  Thiers French …
  • … —— Friend & Aids of Reflexion [Coleridge 1812 and 1825] (poor) Coleridge Sept 3 d  IV …
  • … Mary Woolstonecraft Tour in Sweden [Wollstonecraft 1796]. (poor) —— Phillips. Life of Curran …
  • … 2 d  Beckman’s History of Inventions [Beckmann 1797] (poor) —— Sir Fowle’s Buxton’s life …
  • … 1848] —— Diary of an Invalid [Matthews 1820] (poor) June Brooks Four Months amongst …
  • … Vol. VI Aug. M rs  Fry’s Life [Fry 1847] (poor) Sept. 5. Newman on the Soul [Newman …
  • … 1822.  An account of the Abipones,   an equestrian people of Paraguay . Translated from Latin …
  • … population shewn   to be connected with the food of the people . London. [Other eds.]  119: 13a …
  • … and of the origin, language, agriculture, .   . . of the people. Founded on a series of annual …
  • … ——. 1847.  First impressions of England and its people . London. [Other eds.]  119: 20a …
  • … in 1855; with   notices of the country, government and people . London.  *128: 157 …

Boat Memory

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Boat Memory was one of the indigenous people from Tierra del Fuego brought back to England by Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, in 1830, but he remains as ghostly a figure as his name. What he was called by his own people is unknown, but the name Boat…

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  • … Boat Memory was one of the indigenous people from Tierra del Fuego brought back to England by Robert …
  • … ghostly a figure as his name. What he was called by his own people is unknown, but the name Boat …
  • … Boat Memory, a member of the Alakaluf tribe, or canoe people from the western part of Tierra del …
  • … to Tierra del Fuego to act as moral exemplars to their own people and as interpreters for passing …
  • … following tribute to the young man he had abducted: ‘This poor fellow was a very great favourite …
  • … Chapman, Anne. 2010.  European encounters with the Yamana people of Cape Horn, before and after …

Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson

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[f.146r Title page] Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle Supplement / to the 2nd 3rd and Appendix Volumes of the First / Edition Written / for and in the name of the Author of those / Volumes By J.C. Ross. / Sometime Master of a…

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  • … according to their usual practice – they kill all the old people, and men who fall into their hands …
  • … – those Settlements were all originally made – or those people who have voluntarily gone to those …
  • … their flocks – extorting first fruits and tithes from the poor people, whom they scarcely see, once …
  • … The democratic inclinations – to wit – of People whom I also represent as being Royalists par …
  • … was colonized – we have not as yet seen or heard of such people as “New South Welshmen” or “women” – …
  • … in the month of December, on board a Schooner, with these people and wrote to his brother – who was …
  • … round to Eastward of Madeira Island, and take him and these people from the Schooner lying there on …
  • … Salmond of the Bombay Marine) inquired concerning these people's condition “oh – they are my …
  • … documents were taken on board the ship and delivered to the people by the hands of two of the office …
  • … had formerly been.” The clerks said nothing – and the people not understanding the English writing – …
  • … subject. In reality – not more than five of these people had ever been legally purchased by …
  • … and fully understood by them. But most certainly they (these people) would not have listened in …
  • … Cape Colony Mr Hare purchased a farm-estate and set these people to work on it under an overseer or …
  • … – induced Mr H. to resolve on quitting and taking these people off with him – whilst he would be …
  • … of which that bay is situated) there to embark him and the people. In Hout Bay he kept her lying …
  • … Oporto, spoke the language – and liked the custom of the people) after passing the Cape – he changed …
  • … and put in to Croee for more – there two men of these people swam ashore in the night – and made …
  • … reasons “that he was carrying hither and thither those people – and treating them as slaves which …
  • … to run the risk again.” “Oh! Then land me and my people at once – I will send you on to Java with …
  • … Next morning he landed and found Mr Hare with a few of these people (whom he designated …
  • … the glory of him who could declare that “He delivered the poor that cried to him and broke the …
  • … something in the way of redeeming his errors viz “the poor people seemed poor and their houses …
  • … – surely that must have been the case – if they seemed poor – par excellence! 2 ndly …
  • … for admission to be members of their clubs &c common and poor men ought to march in boldly and …
  • … Solomon himself. But after my interference in favour of “poor Brisbane” at the Falklands – had …
  • … and plucking the spoil out of their teeth" delivering the poor that cried unto him for help – …
  • … (from my Appendix volume) given above *[39] A poor woman takes a basket of eggs to market …

Darwin in letters, 1871: An emptying nest

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The year 1871 was an extremely busy and productive one for Darwin, with the publication in February of his long-awaited book on human evolution, Descent of man. The other main preoccupation of the year was the preparation of his manuscript on expression.…

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  • … sold in a week. ‘Murray says he is “torn to pieces” by people wanting copies’, Darwin wrote to his …
  • … , and enclosed one of himself, adding that it made a ‘very poor return’ ( letter to Hinrich Nitsche …
  • … Francis Galton, 13 September 1871 ). A return to poor health During the summer months …
  • … ). On 23 September he informed Murray that owing to poor health he had done nothing for six …
  • … Roderick Impey Murchison, and the earl of Derby. Given his poor state of health for much of the …

Orundellico (Jemmy Button)

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Orundellico was one of the Yahgan, or canoe people of the southern part of Tierra del Fuego.  He was the fourth hostage taken by Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, in 1830 following the theft of the small surveying boat. This fourteen-year old boy was…

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  • … Orundellico was one of the Yahgan, or canoe people of the southern part of Tierra del Fuego.  He was …
  • … sense of sympathy. Even though, as a member of a seafaring people, he could not understand Darwin’s …
  • … 1864 he discovered that an epidemic had killed many of his people, including his father. Despite …
  • … Chapman, Anne. 2010.  European encounters with the Yamana people of Cape Horn, before and after …

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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  • … round the week before & distributing papers & talking to the people if allowed. In some …
  • … to by the missioners. There were some funny scenes—one poor woman was seized hold of by two men—one …
  • … about. I hope I have been worth while to my own dear people— but they are so good. Just at …
  • … to cultivate my mind— & last to try & make up to my people for losing me— to show the …
  • … am quite sure to begin with that it is not because of other people. If no human being was ever to …
  • … is the difficulty I feel in looking in the face leaving my people. It will be giving it up. I can be …
  • … 13 children  is  serious—especially as they are very poor—but don’t let me dread so much. I have …

Interview with Randal Keynes

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Randal Keynes is a great-great-grandson of Charles Darwin, and the author of Annie’s Box (Fourth Estate, 2001), which discusses Darwin’s home life, his relationship with his wife and children, and the ways in which these influenced his feelings about…

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  • … had an idea which he knew was going to be shocking to many people, and it's pretty clear that …
  • … in which his ideas were going to have great value to other people. He thought he might have ideas …
  • … . We have things we can work out from letters that other people wrote to him, especially Emma. We …
  • … of the Origin of Species , only then, really, did people start asking him for his views. And …
  • … faith: why - the points I've made - easy or difficult; why people made it - the challenge of …
  • … I find it difficult to think of it as a real idea - that people really believed it - but I think we …
  • … very clear in his own writing and in his letters to other people: always questioning, always …
  • … say. The first thing is that he was quite clear with other people in the village, other gentry in …
  • … a social institution to be supported because it guided other people - he was a man of his time: he …
  • … a purely scientific observation, is presented by many people as a piece of autobiography. In …

Darwin’s observations on his children

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Charles Darwin’s observations on the development of his children, began the research that culminated in his book The Expression of the emotions in man and animals, published in 1872, and his article ‘A biographical sketch of an infant’, published in Mind…

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  • … those best situated to observe expressions made by children, people of different races, lunatics, …
  • … 2 d . In imitation, made sound closely resembling “poor” 24  November 15 th . Stared …
  • … several times in reproving voice. “Doddy wont give poor Papa a kiss,—naughty Doddy”. He …
  • … at a new toy across the room.— 30v.  (a) People, I think, do not frown when looking at  …
  • … Younger children, such as Annie now a year old, look at people with a degree of fixedness which …
  • … to which he pithily answered “wont”— I then said, “poor papa must”—upon which he cried “no no” & …
  • … & I had not yet come there; he several times repeated “poor Papa at home” & turned down the …
  • … seemed to wish to excite the emotion again & went on saying Poor Mamma Poor Mammy. Willy then …
  • … in bed said suddenly Mamma Willy is so sorry 40v.  for poor Bessy.— the water is coming out of my …
  • … 43v.  Papa— Lizzy come & stay here. — Shant stay here. People say I’m man’s— stay in man’s room …
  • … cross & crying “Papa I think I’ve got a stomach ache. P. Poor Bony. Turning to him indignantly …

Orchids

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Why Orchids? Darwin  wrote in his Autobiography, ‘During the summer of 1839, and, I believe, during the previous summer, I was led to attend to the cross-fertilisation of flowers by the aid of insects, from having come to the conclusion in my…

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  • … with my larger work; & of late from a very unhappy cause, my poor eldest daughter about 16 years …
  • … ‘ The subject of propagation is interesting to most people, & is treated in my paper so that …

Dramatisation script

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Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007

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  • … so will Mrs Hooker, be most sorry for us when you hear that poor Baby died yesterday evening. I hope …
  • … was scarlet fever. It was the most blessed relief to see his poor little innocent face resume its …
  • … barely able to suppress his anger. He is in his 70s and in poor health. SEDGWICK:   …
  • … close in age to Darwin and Gray. AGASSIZ: Poor! GRAY: The fact [is] he growls …
  • … he ever got in his life. In the presence of nearly 1000 people. I spoke only once, the last of all, …
  • … influence in England desires to have us a weak and divided people, and would do a good deal to …
  • … eyes open with astonishment and asked HORACE: Did people formerly really believe that …
  • … limits. To this he shrugged his shoulders with pity for the poor people who ‘formerly’ believed in …
  • … [another] Boy with the collecting mania and it has taken the poor form of collecting Postage stamps. …
  • … us old souls. GRAY:   137   Some young people here, of Mrs. Gray’s family take to …
  • … no one in England will speak for years in favour of the people governing themselves. [Hooker says] …
  • … say so to Gray. And what the deuce I am to do to stop the poor fellow having trouble of posting them …
  • … so much, as I feared was inevitable. This was to us with poor Annie the one great comfort… Trust to …
  • … Now the tally with my wife in backgammon stands thus: She, poor creature, has won only 2490 games, …
  • … indeed sad, inexpressibly grieved and bleeding at heart for poor dear Hooker in his bereavement. …
  • … I know I would much sooner die than suffer such a loss… Poor Hooker came here directly after the …
  • … of old age. You get left so alone, especially childless people, like Mrs Gray and I. But we slip …

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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  • … landowner, depending on the personalities and abilities of people involved. Although he was not the …
  • … an increase in the role of the secular state in education, poor relief, and the administration of …
  • … all I have seen of M r  Innes’ conduct towards the poor & sick, I think he would make an …
  • … reasons justifying his absence, Horsman complained of the poor accommodation that was available to …

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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  • … exchanged reminiscences, and laments about advancing age and poor health, with family friends from …
  • … complex operation, combined with Moulinié’s increasingly poor health, led to yet further delay, and …
  • … is steadily gaining ground among the masses and thinking people of this country’, wrote Mary Treat …

Essay: Natural selection & natural theology

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—by Asa Gray NATURAL SELECTION NOT INCONSISTENT WITH NATURAL THEOLOGY. Atlantic Monthly for July, August, and October, 1860, reprinted in 1861. I Novelties are enticing to most people; to us they are simply annoying. We cling to a long-accepted…

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  • … in 1861. I Novelties are enticing to most people; to us they are simply annoying. …
  • … association of our ancestors of the olden time with ‘our poor relations’ of the quadrumanous family …
  • … present time. To complete the connection of these primitive people with the fossil ages, the French …
  • … human races may perhaps be traced through the intervening people of the stone age, who were …
  • … that he by no means expects to convince old and experienced people, whose minds are stocked with a …
  • … belief nor unbelief. But your intellectually short-sighted people are apt to be preternaturally …
  • … or the other of every mooted question. In fact, most people, and some philosophers, refuse to …
  • … carried out, is doubtless tantamount to atheism. Yet most people believe that some were designed and …
  • … is probably the popular conception. Perhaps most thoughtful people oscillate from the middle view …
  • … indeed of voluntary efforts as a cause of change, and even poor Lamarck need not be caricatured. He …
  • … that respect upon a level with a considerable proportion of poor humanity,’ nor indulge the hope, or …

Darwin on childhood

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On his engagement to his cousin, Emma Wedgwood, in 1838, Darwin wrote down his recollections of his early childhood.  Life. Written August–– 1838 My earliest recollection, the date of which I can approximately tell, and which must have been before…

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  • … are connected with fear, at Parkfields  [1]  with poor Betty Harvey I remember with horror her …
  • … contempt of myself that I was vain––namely thinking that people were admiring me in one instance for …
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