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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,…

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  • … C. J. (3) Andrews, John (1) Ann. …
  • … Balfour, J. H. (7) Ball, John (5) …
  • … Beckhard, Martin (1) Beddoe, John (3) …
  • … C. H. (8) Blackwall, John (4) …
  • … J. A. H. de (11) Bostock, John (1) …
  • … Bridgman, W. K. (3) Brigg, John (1) …
  • … Busch, Otto (1) Bush, John (3) Busk, …
  • … Caton, J. D. (9) Cattell, John (3) …
  • … the Exchequer (1) Chapman, John (4) …
  • … Coe, Henry (6) Coghlan, John (2) …
  • … Colburn, Henry (3) Colby, John (3) …
  • … Pearce, Horace (1) Pearson, John (a) (1) …

2.23 Hope Pinker statue, Oxford Museum

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< Back to Introduction Henry Richard Hope Pinker’s life-size statue of Darwin was installed in the Oxford University Museum on 14 June 1899. It was the latest in a series of statues of great scientific thinkers, the ‘Founders and Improvers of Natural…

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  • … putting up of a statue to Darwin!’ – Wallace intended ‘a kind, careful but positive refusal’ …
  • … supporters in Oxford. The Professor of Physiology John Burdon Sanderson wrote to Tylor to suggest, …
  • … ‘dull, photographic’ quality of his portraits. Yet Karl Pearson assured the sculptor in 1906 that …
  • … vision of the building and its functions that Acland and John Ruskin had conceived half a century …
  • … style of a bust (ditto, HRHP/LPM/UVW41). Letter from Karl Pearson to Hope Pinker, 2 Dec. 1906, about …
  • … (eds), More Letters of Charles Darwin , 2 vols (London: John Murray, 1903), vol. 1, p. 38. Anon., …
  • … Press, 1909), pp. 118–120. Edward Tyas Cook, The Life of John Ruskin, 2 nd ed . , 2 vols …
  • … of Leiden, 2016, at leidenuniv.nl, accessed September 2019. John Holmes, Temple of Science: The …
  • … Museum of Natural History, 2020), pp. 136, 148–149. John Holmes, Temple of Science: The Pre …

3.1 Antoine Claudet, daguerreotype

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< Back to Introduction This daguerreotype of Darwin with his firstborn child, William, was, according to a label on the glass, taken on 23 August 1842, just before the family moved from London to Down. It is generally attributed to the French…

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  • which was then normal wear for boys of his age, and Darwin, a smiling and fond father, is holding
  • at Newnham Grange, Cambridge. When it was reproduced in Karl Pearsons Life of Francis Galton in
  • The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin , 3 vols (London: John Murray, 1887, 1888), vol. 3, pp. 233
  • p. 44, no. 238. Henrietta Litchfield (ed.), Emma Darwin: A Century of Family Letters, 17921896 , …
  • Creation: The True Story of Charles Darwin (London: John Murray, 2009), pp. 5960. Julius Bryant, …

3.3 Maull and Polyblank photo 2

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< Back to Introduction Despite the difficulties that arose in relation to Maull and Polyblank’s first photograph of Darwin, another one was produced, this time showing him in three-quarter view. It was evidently not taken at the same session as the…

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  • … Monthly Magazine 69:413 (Oct. 1884), p. 762, illustrating  ‘A reminiscence of Mr. Darwin’ [by …
  • … (eds), More Letters of Charles Darwin , 2 vols (London: John Murray, 1903), vol. 2, illus. facing …