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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: 7 hits
- … (3) Alglave, Émile (8) Alice (2) …
- … (1) Ansted, D. T. (8) Anthropological Society, …
- … (2) Bence Jones, Henry (8) Beneden, Édouard …
- … (2) Blackley, C. H. (8) Blackwall, John …
- … (1) Gould, John (8) Gower, W. H. (1) …
- … Ludlow, J. M. F. (5) Ludwig, Camilla (3) …
- … W. P. (1) Pattrick, Camilla (3) …

Darwin in letters, 1864: Failing health
Summary
On receiving a photograph from Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July 1864: ‘the venerable beard gives the look of your having suffered, and … of having grown older’. Because of poor health, Because of poor health, Darwin…
Matches: 5 hits
- … leaves produce tendrils’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [8 February 1864] ). Darwin’s excitement …
- … very careful treatment’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 8 April 1864 ). Nevertheless, Hooker solicited …
- … it ‘quasi a commentary’ to the materialist philosophy of Ludwig Buchner ( letter from Hermann Kindt …
- … had it translated by a former governess at Down House, Camilla Ludwig. From Ernst Haeckel, Darwin …
- … latest ‘outburst of bigotry’ ( letter to Hugh Falconer, 8 November [1864] ). Although …

Darwin’s reading notebooks
Summary
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…
Matches: 16 hits
- … 39. tom. 4. p. 273. Latreille Geographie des Insectes 8 vo p 181 [Latreille 1819]. see p. …
- … de Serres Cavernes d’Ossements 7 th Ed. 10 8 vo . [Serres 1838] good to trace Europ. forms …
- … by Loudon [Loudon 1831]. Book I. ch. 7 & Book II. Ch. 8. Book. VII. ch 8, 11. read 1 st …
- … Lacordaire Introduction Entomologique [Lacordaire 1834–8]: Reptiles [Duméril and Bibron 1834–54]: …
- … Mem. of Helvetic Soc. of Neuchatel on Jura. 1846, or 7, or 8 [?Marcou 1845]. 46 Morris good …
- … 1838] Walter Scott’s life [Lockhart 1837–8] 1 st 2 nd & 7 th vols. …
- … on Geology of France [Dufrénoy and Élie de Beaumont 1830–8] & C Prevost on l’Ile Julie [Prévost …
- … 1839 Jan 10 All life of W. Scott [Lockhart 1837–8] except 5 th vol. 19 Mungo …
- … hermaphroditism—good letters of M r Knight July 8 th M.S. Voyage of Kolff to the …
- … Works & several reviews [Carlyle 1838–9] Nov 8 th Murchison Silurian System [Murchison …
- … of the Bath and West of England Society ]. 1 st to 8 th vol. inclusive 1 st . series …
- … Pallas Travels [Pallas 1802–3] (wretched) ——8 th Brand’s dissert. [Linnaeus 1781c] …
- … E. Ferrier] 1824 and 1818].— 18 th . 7 th & 8 th . Vol of Hume’s England [Hume …
- … Botanica [Linnaeus 1751] (references at end) June 8 th . Evelyn’s Sylva [Evelyn 1664]. …
- … Review 18: 1–46. 119: 9b [Jenkin, Henrietta Camilla]. 1859. Cousin Stella; or, …
- … *128: 182 Varnhagen von Ense, Karl August Ludwig Philipp. Sketches of German life, and …