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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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- … Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. …
- … G. E. (1) Beaufort, Francis (5) …
- … Boole, M. E. (3) Boott, Francis (7) …
- … Dareste, Camille (9) Darwin family (1) …
- … Darwin, E. L. (1) Darwin, Elizabeth (9) …
- … Darwin, S. E. (47) Darwin, Sara (6) …
- … James (a) (5) Drysdale, Elizabeth (1) …
- … Everest, Robert (1) Ewbank, Francis (1) …
- … Fox, W. D. (225) Francis, George (1) …
- … Galton, Erasmus (1) Galton, Francis (118) …
- … Archibald (1) Lloyd, Francis (1) …
- … Parker, Charles (2) Parker, Francis (1) …
- … Adam (15) Sedgwick, Sara (6) …
- … Walford, Edward (2) Walker, Francis (6) …
- … George (2) Warner, Francis (1) …
- … Charlotte (2) Wedgwood, Elizabeth (11) …
- … F. M. (2) Wedgwood, Francis (4) …
- … (2) Wemyss-Charteris-Douglas, Francis (1) …
- … White, Adam (2) White, Francis Buchanan (3) …

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 …
- … 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 …
- … with Charles Darwin and Ernst Haeckel. Kosmos was, as Francis Darwin reported from Germany that …
- … the children correctly’, mentioning in particular that Francis Galton was the son of one of Erasmus …
- … to contradict false statements that had been published by Francis Galton’s aunt, Mary Anne …
- … for Captain Robert FitzRoy on the Beagle voyage, Francis Beaufort of the Admiralty described the …
- … Darwin, 28 May [1879] ). On the Galton side of the family, Elizabeth Anne Wheler, who was pleased …
- … research (first during his stay in Southampton with Sara and William Darwin in May and then while on …
- … In August, Bernard accompanied his grandparents, Aunt Elizabeth (Bessy) Darwin, and Henrietta and …
- … when you are not likely to make money’ (Emma Darwin to Sara Darwin, [1 July 1879] (DAR 219.1: 123)). …

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 …
- … are not found listed here. The description given by Francis Darwin of his father’s method of …
- … Darwin Library (AC.34). Darwin’s books were bequeathed to Francis Darwin, who, in 1908, gave all but …
- … to be available to scholars using the archive. Books that Francis Darwin had kept were left to his …
- … 1828] 31 An analysis of British Ferns. G. W. Francis 4 s [Francis 1837]— plates of …
- … th . Hume’s Hist of England [Hume 1763]. to beginning of Elizabeth. Sept 14 th . 4 first …
- … work is listed again on p. [22]. 44 Probably Francis Boott. 45 Edward …
- … on chemistry (Liebig 1851). 50 Probably Elizabeth Wedgwood. 51 This …
- … Africa . London. *119: 18v.; 119: 14a Bacon, Francis. 1825–36. The works of Francis …
- … of the Devereux, Earls of Essex, in the reigns of Elizabeth, James I., and Charles I., 1540 …
- … equestrian people of Paraguay . Translated from Latin [by Sara Coleridge]. 3 vols. London. 119: …
- … of England from the fall of Wolsey to the death of Elizabeth. 12 vols. London. 1856–70. 128: …