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Darwin's health
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On 28 March 1849, ten years before Origin was published, Darwin wrote to his good friend Joseph Hooker from Great Malvern in Worcestershire, where Dr James Manby Gully ran a fashionable water-cure establishment. Darwin apologised for his delayed reply to…
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- … where Dr James Manby Gully ran a fashionable water-cure establishment. Darwin apologised for his …
- … to Malvern for three months while he took Dr Gully’s water cure. In Darwin’s letter to Hooker, he …
- … possibly like to hear about it.— I feel certain that the Water Cure is no quackery.— See the …
- … hydropathic treatments in a specially built bath. Yet, the water cure did not live up to its name. …
- … to W. D. Fox, 13 November [1858] ). He first visited the establishment of James Manby Gully at …
- … vols. 6 and 7). He also stayed at Lane’s new establishment in Sudbrook Park, Surrey, at the end of …
Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
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At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…
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- … on 2 September for more than a month at a hydropathic establishment in Malvern Wells, Worcestershire …
Darwin in letters, 1847-1850: Microscopes and barnacles
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Darwin's study of barnacles, begun in 1844, took him eight years to complete. The correspondence reveals how his interest in a species found during the Beagle voyage developed into an investigation of the comparative anatomy of other cirripedes and…
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- … took up residence at James Manby Gully’s hydropathic establishment in Malvern, Worcestershire. The …
The writing of "Origin"
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From a quiet rural existence at Down in Kent, filled with steady work on his ‘big book’ on the transmutation of species, Darwin was jolted into action in 1858 by the arrival of an unexpected letter (no longer extant) from Alfred Russel Wallace outlining a…
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- … begun to write the abstract, Darwin left for a hydropathic establishment at Ilkley in Yorkshire to …
- … Henrietta would benefit from the treatment at the new establishment, but in this he was disappointed …
Darwin in letters, 1858-1859: Origin
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The years 1858 and 1859 were, without doubt, the most momentous of Darwin’s life. From a quiet rural existence filled with steady work on his ‘big book’ on species, he was jolted into action by the arrival of an unexpected letter from Alfred Russel Wallace…
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- … begun to write the abstract, Darwin left for a hydropathic establishment at Ilkley in Yorkshire to …
- … Henrietta would benefit from the treatment at the new establishment, but in this he was disappointed …
Before Origin: the ‘big book’
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Darwin began ‘sorting notes for Species Theory’ on 9 September 1854, the very day he concluded his eight-year study of barnacles (Darwin's Journal). He had long considered the question of species. In 1842, he outlined a theory of transmutation in a…
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- … ‘lost’ a month of that year at Moor Park, a hydropathic establishment in Surrey. While there, he …
