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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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- … restrict himself to ‘more confined & easy subjects’. A month earlier, on 23 February , he had …
- … of his book on earthworms, published in October, was a boost. His 5-year-old grandson Bernard, who …
- … had concealed this in his preface to his and Krause’s 1879 book Erasmus Darwin . Although Darwin …
- … on 8 December. Krause countered Butler’s accusations in a review of Unconscious memory in …
- … Kosmos article should be translated and also appear in a British journal. Darwin could see that …
- … seasoned journalist and editor Leslie Stephen. There was ‘a hopeless division of opinion’ within the …
- … , hoping that he did not think them ‘all gone mad on such a small matter’. The following day, Darwin …
- … avoid being pained at being publicly called in ones old age a liar, owing to having unintentionally …
- … avoided, even though he wished ‘to give Somebody such a slap in the face as he would have cause to …
- … try to banish the thoughts, & say to myself that so good a judge, as Leslie Stephen thinks …
- … published it in Nature , and George Romanes wrote such a savage review of Unconscious memory …
- … Wallace, co-discoverer of natural selection, had received a civil list pension. ‘I hardly ever …
- … heard on 8 January that Wallace would receive £200 a year, he wrote to Darwin, ‘I congratulate …
- … an opinion of the ‘little scientific work’ he had done. Buckley’s delight was evident when she …
- … of pleasure in the early months of 1881. This book had been a major undertaking for both Darwin and …
- … other books, Movement in plants did not generate a large correspondence. It was mainly those who …
- … Germany; and I doubted much whether I was not quite as great a sinner as those whom I have blamed.’ …
- … he was sending his printers ‘in 3 or 4 weeks the M.S. of a quite small book of little moment’. …
- … had ‘much bigger souls than anyone wd suppose’, and a month later he was confident enough to state: …
- … patted one of the Fuegians on the shoulder (l etter from B. J. Sulivan, 18 March 1881 ). …
- … expressing their wish to visit Darwin ( letter from E. B. Aveling, 27 September [1881] ). …
- … Encyclopaedia Britannica , telling the author, Arabella Buckley, on 11 July that he regretted …
- … Leopold Würtenberger, who had received £100 from Darwin in 1879 to continue his work on the …
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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- … and observations. Financial support for science was a recurring issue, as Darwin tried to secure a …
- … book, Erasmus Darwin , had been published in November 1879. It was received well by his relations …
- … life and other bits of family history. On 1 January , a distant cousin, Charles Harrison Tindal, …
- … about the eagerness of the two learned divines to see a pig’s body opened is very amusing’, Darwin …
- … to C. H. Tindal, 5 January 1880 ). Darwin had employed a genealogist, Joseph Lemuel Chester, to …
- … away in archives and registry offices, and produced a twenty-page history of the Darwin family …
- … obliged to meet some of the distant relations and conciliate a few whose ancestors had not featured …
- … in to the thick of all these cousins & think I must pay a round of visits.’ One cousin, Reginald …
- … he had written for the German journal Kosmos in February 1879, an issue produced in honour of …
- … Correspondence vol. 27, letter from Ernst Krause, 7 June 1879 , and letter to Ernst Krause, 9 …
- … Darwin stated that Krause’s piece had been written in 1879 (before Evolution old and new was …
- … of the viper in the tone of the letter, I fancy he wants a grievance to hang an article upon’ ( …
- … natural selection and the apparent lack of purpose that such a theory implied. He found inspiration …
- … 1880 ). He stated his case in the Athen æum , a leading literary weekly. He accused Darwin of …
- … had raised the plant from seeds sent by Asa Gray in December 1879. His observations differed, …
- … by Gray in an article and textbook (A. Gray 1877 and A. Gray 1879, pp. 20–1). ‘I think you cannot …
- … vol. 27, letter from J. D. Hooker, 18 December 1879 ). For some years, Wallace’s main source of …
Suggested reading
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Contemporary writing Anon., The English matron: A practical manual for young wives, (London, 1846). Anon., The English gentlewoman: A practical manual for young ladies on their entrance to society, (Third edition, London, 1846). Becker, L. E.…
