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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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- … Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. …
- … Octavian (3) Blomefield, Leonard (42) …
- … Dareste, Camille (9) Darwin family (1) …
- … Darwin, Horace (30) Darwin, Leonard (37) …
- … Darwin, S. E. (47) Darwin, Sara (6) …
- … Horner, K. M. (5) Horner, Leonard (13) …
- … Jenyns, G. L. (1) Jenyns, Leonard (42) …
- … Ruck, M. A. (2) Rudd, Leonard (2) …
- … Adam (15) Sedgwick, Sara (6) …
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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- … There are summaries of all Darwin's letters from the year 1879 on this website. The full texts …
- … 27 of the print edition of The correspondence of Charles Darwin , published by Cambridge …
- … to publish a biographical account of his grandfather Erasmus Darwin to accompany a translation of an …
- … the sensitivity of the tips. Despite this breakthrough, when Darwin first mentioned the book to his …
- … 1879 ). He was also unsatisfied with his account of Erasmus Darwin, declaring, ‘My little biography …
- … a holiday in the Lake District in August did little to raise Darwin’s spirits. ‘I wish that my …
- … W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, [after 26] July [1879] ). From July, Darwin had an additional worry: the …
- … that his grandfather had felt the same way. In 1792, Erasmus Darwin had written: ‘The worst thing I …
- … contained a warmer note and the promise of future happiness: Darwin learned he was to be visited by …
- … Hacon, 31 December 1879 ). Seventy years old Darwin’s seventieth birthday on 12 …
- … the veteran of Modern Zoology’, but it was in Germany that Darwin was most fêted. A German …
- … ). The masters of Greiz College in Thuringia venerated Darwin as ‘the deep thinker’, while …
- … accepted in Germany. ‘On this festive day’, Haeckel told Darwin, ‘you can look back, with justified …
- … Hermann Müller wrote on 12 February to wish Darwin a ‘long and serene evening of life’. This …
- … on the theory of development in connection with Charles Darwin and Ernst Haeckel. Kosmos was, as …
- … it ‘very dull,—almost too dull to publish’, while Leonard Darwin considered that insufficient …
- … ( letter to G. H. Darwin, 12 July 1879 , and letter from Leonard Darwin, [before 12 July] 1879 …
- … research (first during his stay in Southampton with Sara and William Darwin in May and then while on …
- … Darwin found the inn ‘ very comfortable’, but told Leonard Darwin on 12 August that there …
- … when you are not likely to make money’ (Emma Darwin to Sara Darwin, [1 July 1879] (DAR 219.1: 123)). …
2.13 Edgar Boehm, statue in the NHM
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< Back to Introduction Edgar Boehm’s marble statue of Darwin in the Natural History Museum was commissioned by the committee of the Darwin Memorial Fund. This body had been set up by Darwin’s friends after his death in 1882, with the aim of providing…
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- … to Introduction Edgar Boehm’s marble statue of Darwin in the Natural History Museum was …
- … report shows that their donations did indeed range from the Darwin family’s £200 down to five …
- … a cost of £2,100, to pay for a bronze portrait medallion of Darwin in Westminster Abbey (also by …
- … sciences, and opened to the public in 1881, shortly before Darwin’s death. This government-funded …
- … was also a key aim. The introduction of the statue of Darwin on the central landing of the grand …
- … also symbolised acceptance by both church and state that Darwin, once anathematised as a threat to …
- … as a sign of the institution’s ‘official sanction’ of Darwin’s theories: rather, it was meant to …
- … which were directly explanatory of the scientific views of Darwin and his disciples. Richard Owen, …
- … central area of the hall were watched over by the figure of Darwin, and Boehm’s statue was even …
- … committee’s choice of Boehm to sculpt the portrait of Darwin could be construed as conservative and …
- … artist’. However, for many viewers, Boehm’s statue of Darwin, slightly over life size, seemed to …
- … his long legs crossed – an easy, unassuming pose seen in Leonard Darwin’s photograph of his father …
- … Fair ’s caricature . The collared cape or cloak that Darwin wore outdoors (depicted also in …
- … Moses , giving monumentality to the figure. Emma Darwin, always difficult to please with respect to …
- … think it was a strong likeness of him (Boehm had never seen Darwin in life), but the impressive …
- … in this context. She explained to her daughter-in-law Sara that Boehm’s characterisation of Darwin’s …
- … was very well received; the Times writer thought that Darwin seemed to ‘welcome all coming …
- … in 1927, but put back there in 2008, in time for the Darwin bicentenary celebrations of 2009. …
- … 1883, was given to Cambridge University by members of the Darwin family in 1891, and placed in the …
- … death by the Countess of Derby; her daughter presented it to Darwin’s son George, who lent it to the …
- … white marble, inscribed on the front of the base ‘CHARLES DARWIN’, and on the right side, ‘J.E. …
- … 2 (PH/3/1/781-797, 801-1588); vol. 3 (PH1/3/1/1589-2226). ‘Darwin memorial’, Times (17 June, …
- … June 1885, p. 5. ‘Unveiling the statue of the late Charles Darwin in the Natural History Museum, …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
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In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
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- … In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished …
- … used these notebooks extensively in dating and annotating Darwin’s letters; the full transcript …
- … *128). For clarity, the transcript does not record Darwin’s alterations. The spelling and …
- … book had been consulted. Those cases where it appears that Darwin made a genuine deletion have been …
- … a few instances, primarily in the ‘Books Read’ sections, Darwin recorded that a work had been …
- … of the books listed in the other two notebooks. Sometimes Darwin recorded that an abstract of the …
- … own. Soon after beginning his first reading notebook, Darwin began to separate the scientific …
- … the second reading notebook. Readers primarily interested in Darwin’s scientific reading, therefore, …
- … editors’ identification of the book or article to which Darwin refers. A full list of these works is …
- … page number (or numbers, as the case may be) on which Darwin’s entry is to be found. The …
- … in the bibliography that other editions were available to Darwin. While it is likely that Darwin …
- … where we are not certain that the work cited is the one Darwin intended, we have prefixed the …
- … mark. Complete or partial runs of journals which Darwin recorded as having read or skimmed …
- … to the journal appear, and the location of abstracts in the Darwin archive and journals included in …
- … no means a complete representation of the books and journals Darwin read. The Darwin archive …
- … are not found listed here. The description given by Francis Darwin of his father’s method of …
- … number and the general orientation of the works upon which Darwin drew, particularly in the process …
- … equestrian people of Paraguay . Translated from Latin [by Sara Coleridge]. 3 vols. London. 119: …
- … eds.] [Abstract in DAR 91: 13.] 119: 9b Horner, Leonard, ed. 1843. Memoirs and …
- … conflict . 3 vols. London. 128: 25 Jenyns, Leonard. 1838. Further remarks on the …
- … dit jardin. Augsbourg. 128: 16 [Knapp, John Leonard]. 1829. Journal of a …
- … waters. Philadelphia. 128: 8 Staunton, George Leonard. 1797. An authentic account of …
