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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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  • The years 1858 and 1859 were, without doubt, the most momentous of Darwins life. From a quiet rural
  • he was jolted into action by the arrival of an unexpected letter from Alfred Russel Wallace. This
  • and prompted the composition and publication, in November 1859, of Darwins major treatise  On the
  • …  exceeded my wildest hopes By the end of 1859, Darwins work was being discussed in
  • … ‘When I was in spirits’, he told Lyell at the end of 1859, ‘I sometimes fancied that my book w  d
  • has  infinitely  exceeded my wildest hopes.—’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 25 [November 1859] ). …
  • The 'big book' The year 1858 opened with Darwin hard at work preparing hisbig
  • his ninth chapter, on hybridism, on 29 December 1857, Darwin began in January 1858 to prepare the
  • appropriate. The correspondence shows that at any one time Darwin was engaged in a number of
  • to choose from the load of curious facts on record.—’ ( letter to W. D. Fox, 31 January [1858] ). …
  • as evidence for what actually occurred in nature ( see letter to Asa Gray, 4 April [1858] , and  …
  • throwing away what you have seen,’ he told Hooker in his letter of 8 [June 1858] , ‘yet I have
  • his work was interrupted by the arrival of the now-famous letter from Alfred Russel Wallace, …
  • selection. Darwins shock and dismay is evident in the letter he subsequently wrote to Charles Lyell
  • Even his terms now stand as Heads of my Chapters.’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 18 [June 1858] ). …
  • the writing of thisabstractcontinued until March 1859; the resulting volume was published in
  • Botanic Gardens at Kew (see Appendix VII). The year 1859 began auspiciously with Darwin
  • 1854) ( Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society  15 (1859): xxv). One of the most
  • D. Hooker, 6 May 1859 ). Among the older scientists, only Leonard Horner gave his unqualified
  • illhealth revived as first Henrietta and then Elizabeth and Leonard suffered similar symptoms. With
  • of one of his own youthful captures, he sent off to the  Entomologist’s Weekly Intelligencer  a