From Blanche and Alice 27 May 1878
Summary
Request an autograph.
| Author: | Blanche; Alice |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 May 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 144 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11531 |
From Alice and Blanche 31 May 1878
Summary
Thank CD for autograph.
| Author: | Blanche; Alice |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 May 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 145 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11537 |
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List of correspondents
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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,…
Henrietta Darwin's diary
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Darwin's daughter Henrietta kept a diary for a few momentous weeks in 1871. This was the year in which Descent of Man, the most controversial of her father's books after Origin itself, appeared, a book which she had helped him write. The small…
Thomas Burgess
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As well as its complement of sailors, the Beagle also carried a Royal Marine sergeant and seven marines, one of whom was Thomas Burgess. When the Beagle set sail he was twenty one, having been born in October 1810 to Israel and Hannah Burgess of Lancashire…
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- … in Poynton, five miles east of Handforth, and three-year old Alice and eleven-month old Arthur had …
- … a policeman, his wife was collecting tolls, and Thomas, Alice, and Arthur were employed as silk …
- … the police, but four children were still living at home: Alice, a ribbon weaver, Arthur, a stone …
Biodiversity and its histories
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The Darwin Correspondence Project was co-sponsor of Biodiversity and its Histories, which brought together scholars and researchers in ecology, politics, geography, anthropology, cultural history, and history and philosophy of science, to explore how…
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- … history of natural history Alice Vadrot (University of Cambridge): …
Darwin in letters, 1872: Job done?
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'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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- … a sequel to his moderately successful children’s book, Alice’s adventures in Wonderland , …
