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Darwin in letters, 1879: Tracing roots

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Darwin spent a considerable part of 1879 in the eighteenth century. His journey back in time started when he decided to publish a biographical account of his grandfather Erasmus Darwin to accompany a translation of an essay on Erasmus’s evolutionary ideas…

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  • … at first vehemently & ignorantly opposed’. On 2 April, Nicolai Mengden, the 17-year-old son …
  • … between conflicting vague probabilities’ ( letter to Nicolai Mengden, 5 June 1879 ). On the …

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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  • … Krefft, Gerard (15) Krohn, Nicolai (2) …
  • … Mendola, Antonio (2) Mengden, Nicolai (4) …