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List of correspondents
Summary
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,…
Matches: 28 hits
- … (1) Austen, J. T. (5) Austin, A. D. …
- … H. (7) Ball, John (5) Ball, Robert …
- … (1) Beaufort, Francis (5) Becher, A. B. …
- … (8) Beneden, Édouard van (5) Bennet, C. A. (b) …
- … Benson, W. H. (2) Bentham, George (66) …
- … (1) Birch, Samuel (5) Birkett, Thomas …
- … (2) Boner, Charles (5) Bonham-Carter, Alice …
- … (2) Bookseller. (5) Boole, M. E. (3) …
- … (29) Brace, C. L. (5) Bradfield, Thomas …
- … Browne, Walter (6) Brownen, George (1) …
- … Bush, John (3) Busk, George (18) …
- … (3) Canby, W. M. (5) Candolle, Alphonse de …
- … Carneri, Bartholomäus von (5) Carpenter, W. B. (19) …
- … (3) Clark, Andrew (5) Clark, J. W. (a) …
- … Claus, C. F. (9) Clendon, George, Jr (1) …
- … (2) Collingwood, Cuthbert (5) Colvile, J. W. …
- … Crookes, William (1) Cross, George (5) …
- … (4) Crotch, W. D. (5) Crowe, J. R. …
- … Cupples, A. J. (2) Cupples, George (56) …
- … Alexander (1) Dickie, George (3) …
- … Fox, W. D. (225) Francis, George (1) …
- … F. S. B. (10) Fraser, George (3) …
- … Gibbons, W. H. S. (1) Gibbs, George (1) …
- … Gordon, C. G. (1) Gordon, George (a) (3) …
- … Grenville, G. N. (1) Grey, George (3) …
- … Grove, G. (1) Grove, George (1) …
- … Gull, W. W. (1) Gulliver, George (3) …
- … Smyth, W. H. (1) Snow, George (1) …
Henrietta Darwin's diary
Summary
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…
Darwin in letters, 1881: Old friends and new admirers
Summary
In May 1881, Darwin, one of the best-known celebrities in England if not the world, began writing about all the eminent men he had met. He embarked on this task, which formed an addition to his autobiography, because he had nothing else to do. He had…
Matches: 10 hits
- … book on earthworms, published in October, was a boost. His 5-year-old grandson Bernard, who lived at …
- … Krause’s account and published it in Nature , and George Romanes wrote such a savage review of …
- … with his ‘sort of definition’ of intelligence to George Romanes. ‘I tried to observe what passed in …
- … the least conscious of it’ ( letter to Alexander Agassiz, 5 May 1881 ). His scientific friends, …
- … Times of 18 April, drawing the ire of antivivisectionists George Jesse and Frances Power Cobbe. …
- … When Robert Ball, Royal Astronomer of Ireland, praised George’s work, Darwin was so proud that he …
- … not only botanical matters but also news about Francis’s 5-year-old son, Bernard. Just ten days …
- … in some cases—recruiting the help of Lord Rayleigh, George Darwin, and Horace Darwin—the task of …
- … him on 18 June of the untimely death of the anatomist George Rolleston, but added, ‘when I look …
- … on 1 September, and his estate was settled by his executors George and William Darwin. For …
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…
Matches: 7 hits
- … more criticisms’, he wrote to the comparative anatomist St George Jackson Mivart ( letter to St G. …
- … appear’, complained Darwin ( letter to St G. J. Mivart, 5 January 1872 ). Piqued, Mivart flung …
- … accepted it at least in part ( letter to August Weismann, 5 April 1872 ). ‘I wanted some …
- … to believe it’ ( letter to Herman Müller, [before 5 May 1872] ). Müller had sent him a …
- … myself was standing’ ( letter to Hermann Müller, [before 5 May 1872] ). Finishing …
- … relay a message to the organiser, Airy’s own father, Sir George ( letter to Hubert Airy, 24 August …
- … to me, which have ever been made’ ( letter to Mary Treat, 5 January 1872 ). In June, Lady …
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…
Matches: 17 hits
- … and that – when the wind is blowing strong [ f.149r p.5 ] from the S.W. at the Madeiras – it …
- … mistake had been made – as thus – I have said that “At 5 p.m. it was supposed – that the Ship was …
- … – I must also reserve on this occasion. At King George’s Sound our arrival was left almost …
- … wound up with one of Special import – and on this of King George’s Sound – I have not neglected to …
- … of January [ f.163r p.33 ] 1836 at Hobarton from the 5 th to the 17 th of February and …
- … from the dark heaving waters of the Ocean, by a line of snow white breakers, or from the blue vault …
- … to those of St Helena and Ascension in the South Atlantic *[5] ) causing breakers almost equal in …
- … soil. But there is one charming bird – it is a small and snow white tern – which [ f.168r p.43 ] …
- … Isle by Mr Ross] The North + is a single low Island 5 or 6 miles long [about 2] and 3 or 4 miles …
- … and the Southern Islands [The Cocos] is about 3 or 4 [4 or 5] leagues wide. Through it the General …
- … ship Borneo, and found a good harbour, where he lay from the 5 th to the 9 th December 1825. …
- … of the Island timber. Two Englishmen (Thomas Deeley and George Bailey) of the part brought out with …
- … quite certain that the condition &c of the Colony at King George Sound (an older one than that …
- … [ f.203r p.109 ] “The country around King George Sound has a dull uniform aspect – there are no …
- … fetes &c for thy treatment by those scurvy creatures at King George Sound – but knowing that – …
- … of the always well meaning – tho’ often mistaken – George the Third – “that every child in his …
- … [ f.231v p.166 ] fall of rain and a general thaw of the snow and frost – on the vast …
