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3.18 Elliott and Fry photos, c.1869-1871

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< Back to Introduction The leading photographic firm of Elliott and Fry seems to have portrayed Darwin at Down House on several occasions. In November 1869 Darwin told A. B. Meyer, who wanted photographs of both him and Wallace for a German…

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  • … 1869, and which in summer 1871: the indication in Darwin’s letter, quoted above, that one of the …
  • … Revd John Vaughan’s article on the ‘Boyhood of Charles Darwin’ in The Boy’s Own Paper, 15:743 (8 …
  • … Janet Browne, ‘”I could have retched all night”: Charles Darwin and his body’, in Christopher …

How to manage it: To J. D. Hooker, [17 June 1865]

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Sometimes, what stands out in a Darwin letter is not what is in it, but what is left out or just implied because the recipient would have known what Darwin was referring to. It is frustrating to spend hours looking but fail to identify something mentioned…

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  • … Sometimes, what stands out in a Darwin letter is not what is in it, but what is left out or just …
  • … but fail to identify something mentioned or alluded to in a letter, but incredibly satisfying to …
  • … work and a dash of luck is found in a relatively short letter written by Darwin in June 1865 to his …
  • … Henrietta’s interest in a ‘controversy’ discussed in a letter from their mutual friend Thomas Huxley …
  • … print unbearable.  The first step was to look at the letter from Hooker to which this letter