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Darwin in letters, 1880: Sensitivity and worms
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‘My heart & soul care for worms & nothing else in this world,’ Darwin wrote to his old Shrewsbury friend Henry Johnson on 14 November 1880. Darwin became fully devoted to earthworms in the spring of the year, just after finishing the manuscript of…
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- … to his old Shrewsbury friend Henry Johnson on 14 November 1880 . Darwin became fully devoted to …
- … of much value to me’ ( letter to C. H. Tindal, 5 January 1880 ). Darwin had employed a genealogist …
- … & even the world’ ( letter from J. L. Chester, 3 March 1880 ). Darwin’s sons George and …
- … of [William Alvey Darwin],’ George wrote on 28 May 1880 , ‘I … said you were anxious not to …
- … letter from W. E. Darwin to Charles and Emma Darwin, 22 July 1880 ). Sales of Erasmus …
- … coloured by controversy. The work had been co-authored with Ernst Krause, whose essay on Erasmus’s …
- … 1879, an issue produced in honour of Darwin’s birthday. Krause enlarged and revised the essay for …
- … Evolution old and new , which had appeared in May 1879. Krause wanted to correct Butler’s …
- … powder & shot’ ( Correspondence vol. 27, letter from Ernst Krause, 7 June 1879 , and …
- … an inconsistency in the preface, where Darwin stated that Krause’s piece had been written in 1879 …
- … I did not do so’ ( letter to Samuel Butler, 3 January 1880 ). At the top of Butler’s letter, Emma …
- … an article upon’ ( letter from W. E. Darwin, [28 January 1880] ). Butler had once been an …
- … the public’ ( letter from Samuel Butler, 21 January 1880 ). He stated his case in the Athen …
- … Henrietta ( letter to H. E. Litchfield, 1 February [1880] ). ‘The world will only know … that you …
- … she warned ( letter from H. E. Litchfield, [1 February 1880] ). ‘He is a virulent Salamander of a …
- … husband Richard ( letter from R. B. Litchfield, 1 February 1880 ). Even the great controversialist …
- … a horrid disease’ ( letter from T. H. Huxley, 3 February 1880 ). All went quiet until …
- … was repeated, and fresh accusations were brought against Krause for quoting passages of Buffon and …
- … the ‘mosquito inflated to an elephant’ ( letter from Ernst Krause, 9 December 1880 ). Again, …
- … behave so differently.’ ( Letter to Asa Gray, 17 February 1880 .) But Gray had based his …
- … agreed with Darwin’s ( letter from Asa Gray, 4 April 1880 ). Having finished the manuscript …
- … or publisher?’ ( letter from R. F. Cooke, 20 July 1880 ). ‘I must take the risk & loss on my …
- … lose some for science’ ( letter to R. F. Cooke, 21 July 1880 ). The worries were ill founded, …
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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- … Erasmus’s evolutionary ideas by the German science writer Ernst Krause. Darwin’s preoccupation with …
- … Darwin as ‘the deep thinker’, while friends such as Ernst Haeckel, who had rebutted the physician …
- … life’s work, which is crowned with glory’ ( letter from Ernst Haeckel, 9 February 1879 ). The …
- … February 1879 ). Carus Sterne was the pseudonym of Ernst Krause, editor of the journal …
- … theory of development in connection with Charles Darwin and Ernst Haeckel. Kosmos was, as …
- … 2 June 1879 ]). As one of Darwin’s most ardent admirers, Krause not only sent birthday greetings …
- … Darwin, Darwin decided to publish an English translation of Krause’s essay as a short book. …
- … 1804 Memoirs of the life of Dr. Darwin to send to Krause, warning him that Robert Waring Darwin, …
- … shamefully ignorant of my grandfathers life’ ( letter to Ernst Krause, 14 March 1879 ). …
- … work up these scanty materials in your account,’ he told Krause on 19 March , ‘because I must …
- … Darwin became increasingly worried that his preface and Krause’s revised essay might end up …
- … of the same man in one volume’, Darwin pointed out to Krause on 5 June , adding that although …
- … an introduction ‘almost indispensable’ ( letter from Ernst Krause, 7 June 1879 ). Darwin welcomed …
- … into ridicule. He hates scientific men’ ( letter to Ernst Krause, 14 May 1879 ). From the …
- … the views of the other botanists. He was glad to know that Ernst Stahl and Albert Bernhard Frank did …
- … survived the ordeal as his paper was published by Sachs in 1880. Family matters Before …
- … 6 March [1879] ). When Darwin’s staunch German defender Ernst Haeckel was in England, he was …
- … to Darwin about ‘Darwinism in Germany’ ( letter from Ernst Haeckel, 30 August 1879 ). However, the …
Darwin in letters, 1881: Old friends and new admirers
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In May 1881, Darwin, one of the best-known celebrities in England if not the world, began writing about all the eminent men he had met. He embarked on this task, which formed an addition to his autobiography, because he had nothing else to do. He had…
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- … was interrupted by Samuel Butler’s renewed claim that Ernst Krause had used Butler’s book …
- … and that Darwin had concealed this in his preface to his and Krause’s 1879 book Erasmus Darwin . …
- … his accusations in Unconscious memory in November 1880 and in an abusive letter about Darwin in …
- … of the Darwin family consulted anxiously about whether Krause’s Kosmos article should be …
- … on 4 January , ‘would like its publication & call me & Krause liars’. Thomas …
- … Other friends rallied round. Francis Balfour translated Krause’s account and published it in …
- … 1881 ). On 18 May he described his work on earthworms to Krause : ‘The subject is of no …
- … scientific belief. However, he objected when biologists like Ernst Haeckel converted the Darwinian …
Life of Erasmus Darwin
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The Life of Erasmus Darwin (1879) was a curious departure for Darwin. It was intended as a biographical note to accompany an essay on Erasmus's scientific work by the German writer Ernst Krause. But Darwin became immersed in his grandfather's…
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- … an essay on Erasmus's scientific work by the German writer Ernst Krause. But Darwin became …
- … produced in his honour. The issue contained an essay by Ernst Krause on the evolutionary ideas of …
- … in Darwin's autobiographical 'Reflections'. After reading Krause's essay, Darwin …
- … ignorant of my grandfathers life ', Darwin wrote to Krause on 14 March 1879. He made contact …
- … '. While Darwin was writing his lengthy notice, Krause revised and greatly enlarged his …
- … text of the Life was a product of substantial revision. Krause's essay was considerably …
- … find the allusion to his own work in the final sentence of Krause's essay. He seized upon an …
- … stirred the pot with his next book Unconscious Memory (1880), devoting several entire chapters …
- … inserting a flysheet into unsold copies of the Life . Krause wrote a detailed defense, and George …
Volume 28 (1880) now published
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1880 opened and closed with an irksome controversy with Samuel Butler, prompted by the publication of Erasmus Darwin the previous year. Darwin became fully devoted to earthworms in the spring of the year, just after finishing the manuscript of Movement in…
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- … 1880 opened and closed with an irksome controversy with Samuel Butler, prompted …
- … available. Read more about Darwin's life in 1880 in our Life in letters …
- … Scientific Society after meeting Darwin at Down in July 1880. Forty-three members of the society …
- … of his most prized curiosities. They, and others, recognised 1880 as an important year, the year …
- … year began with controversy. Samuel Butler was outraged that Ernst Krause, in his book Erasmus …
- … & nothing else in this world In the autumn of 1880, after finishing work on the …
1879 Letters now online
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In 1879, Darwin continued his research on movement in plants and researched, wrote, and published a short biography of his grandfather Erasmus Darwin as an introduction to a translation of an essay by Ernst Krause on Erasmus’s scientific work. Darwin’s son…
John Murray
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Darwin's most famous book On the origin of species by means of natural selection (Origin) was published on 22 November 1859. The publisher was John Murray, who specialised in non-fiction, particularly politics, travel and science, and had published…
