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Darwin in letters, 1872: Job done?

Summary

'My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, 'is so nearly closed. . .  What little more I can do, shall be chiefly new work’, and the tenor of his correspondence throughout the year is one of wistful reminiscence, coupled with a keen eye…

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  • … ‘My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, ‘is so nearly closed. . .  What little more I can …
  • … as evolution’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace,  27 July [1872] ). By the end of the year Darwin …
  • … s.  6 d.  ( letter from R. F. Cooke, 12 February 1872 ). Always closely involved in …
  • … translator ( letter to J. J. Moulinié, 23 September 1872 ). He recapped the history of the French …
  • … of the year ( letter from C.-F. Reinwald, 23 November 1872 ). To persuade his US publisher, …
  • … Mivart ( letter to St G. J. Mivart,  11 January [1872] ). A worsening breach The …
  • … beautiful’ ( letter from A. R. Wallace, 3 March 1872 ). I consider that you have …
  • … Darwin ( letter to St G. J. Mivart, 5 January 1872 ). Piqued, Mivart flung back by return of post …
  • … errors’ ( letter from St G. J. Mivart, 6 January 1872 ). Darwin likened the affair to the …
  • … towards me’ ( letter to St G. J. Mivart, 8 January [1872] ).  Despite Darwin’s request that he …
  • … world’ ( letter from St G. J. Mivart,  10 January 1872 ).  Darwin, determined to have the last …
  • … acknowledge it ( letter to St G. J. Mivart, 11 January [1872] ). 'I hate controversy,’ Darwin …
  • … I do it badly’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 3 August [1872] ).  Darwin's theories under …
  • … the world moves!’ ( letter from Mary Treat, 13 December 1872 ).  'Here is a bee' …
  • … it at least in part ( letter to August Weismann, 5 April 1872 ). ‘I wanted some encouragement’, he …
  • … to believe it’ ( letter to Herman Müller, [before 5 May 1872] ).  Müller had sent him a …
  • … of natural and sexual selection to bees (H. Müller 1872), and with his reply Darwin enclosed an …
  • … standing’ ( letter to Hermann Müller, [before 5 May 1872] ). Finishing  Expression …
  • … doing nothing’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 22 October [1872] ). He was far from idle during their …
  • … to be more erect’ ( letter to Briton Riviere, 19 May [1872] ).  Riviere had been suggested to …
  • … clever book’ ( letter to J. M. Herbert, 21 November 1872 ) and invited Butler to dinner the …
  • … from Samuel Butler to Francis Darwin, [before 30 May 1872] , and letter from Samuel Butler, 30 …
  • … feels no doubts’ ( letter to F. C. Donders, 17 June 1872 ). Right up to the beginning of June, …
  • … Buckley Litchfield ( letter to H. E. Litchfield, 13 May 1872 ). Delivery to the press brought only …
  • … myself’ ( letter to H. E. Litchfield, 25 July 1872 ). A battle for the independence of …
  • … partisan reply ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 14 May 1872 ). On 13 June, a messenger arrived in …
  • … to letter from John Lubbock to W. E. Gladstone, 20 June 1872 ).  Darwin was quietly using his …
  • … to me’, Darwin complained in December ( letter from Paolo Mantegazza, 23 December 1872, CD note ), …

Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex

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The quantity of Darwin’s correspondence increased dramatically in 1868 due largely to his ever-widening research on human evolution and sexual selection.Darwin’s theory of sexual selection as applied to human descent led him to investigate aspects of the…

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  • … glowing acclaim, however, was from the Italian pathologist, Paolo Mantegazza, who described  …