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Darwin in letters, 1874: A turbulent year
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The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early months working on second editions of Coral reefs and Descent of man; the rest of the year was mostly devoted to further research on insectivorous plants. A…
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- … The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the …
- … be done by observation during prolonged intervals’ ( letter to D. T. Gardner, [ c . 27 August …
- … pleasures of shooting and collecting beetles ( letter from W. D. Fox, 8 May [1874] ). Such …
- … And … one looks backwards much more than forwards’ ( letter to W. D. Fox, 11 May [1874] ). …
- … was an illusory hope.— I feel very old & helpless’ ( letter to B. J. Sulivan, 6 January [1874] …
- … inferred that he was well from his silence on the matter ( letter from Ernst Haeckel, 26 October …
- … in such rubbish’, he confided to Joseph Dalton Hooker ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 18 January [1874] …
- … that Mr Williams was ‘a cheat and an imposter’ ( letter from T. H. Huxley, 27 January 1874 ). …
- … his, ‘& that he was thus free to perform his antics’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 29 January [1874 …
- … Darwin had allowed ‘a spirit séance’ at his home ( letter from T. G. Appleton, 2 April 1874 ). …
- … edition, published in 1842 ( Correspondence vol. 21, letter to Smith, Elder & Co., 17 …
- … had given up the idea of a medical career, and moved back to Down with Amy to become Darwin’s …
- … local disputes that the Darwins had with the vicar of Down, George Sketchley Ffinden, including one …
- … Gardens and gardeners Darwin’s garden at Down continued to be a source of inspiration. In …
- … capacities of young animals that he invited him to lunch at Down. He reported to his son George that …
- … Darwin took care of his close friend Hooker, who stayed at Down after his wife Frances Harriet died …
- … naturaliste autour du monde (Naturalist’s journey on board the Beagle) in December ( letter from …
St George Jackson Mivart
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In the second half of 1874, Darwin’s peace was disturbed by an anonymous article in the Quarterly Review suggesting that his son George was opposed to the institution of marriage and in favour of ‘unrestrained licentiousness’. Darwin suspected, correctly,…
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- … In 1874, the Catholic zoologist St George Jackson Mivart caused Darwin and his son …
- … appeared to have created very little stir, until, in July 1874, Mivart published an anonymous review …
- … might not be defended on the principles advocated by the school to which this writer belongs. This …
- … it for publication in the next issue of the Quarterly ( letter from G. H. Darwin, 29 July 1874 …
- … kind of thing Murray would be likely to wish to circulate ( letter to G. H. Darwin, 1 August [1874] …
- … them explicitly, he might be thought to endorse them ( letter from G. H. Darwin, 5 August 1874 ). …
- … of encouraging licentiousness. A postscript to Darwin’s letter, which may belong to another letter, …
- … identity: St George Jackson Mivart. George took on board Darwin’s comments and sent a fair copy of …
- … George’s letter to Murray with his letter of 11 August 1874 , and was no doubt relieved to …
- … to all he asked ( letter from John Murray, 12 August 1874 ). In October, George’s letter …
- … might not be defended on the principles advocated by the school to which this writer belongs. This …
- … be the last to deny) in harmony with the teaching of that school which, regarding temporal welfare …
- … might not be defended on the principles advocated by the school to which this writer belongs,’ by no …
- … interpretation which he puts upon our words. We spoke of the school, and not of an individual. But …
- … I know a most highly cultured & intellectual man, of the school I intended to oppose, who …
- … was to come & shake hands with him he should hurck him down & go into a tremendous passion …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
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In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
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- … of the same notebook, with the text of each written upside down with respect to the other. The …
- … Catalogue of the library of Charles Darwin now in the Botany School, Cambridge (1908)), remained …
- … points very good. Smart 17 Beginning of a New School of metaphysic. [Smart 1839] about …
- … [Reimarius 1760] The Highlands & Western Isl ds letter to Sir W Scott [MacCulloch 1824 …
- … 1834–40]: In Portfolio of “abstracts” 34 —letter from Skuckard of books on Silk Worm …
- … Livingston on Sheep [Livingston 1809]. Communicat to Board of Agriculture. vol 6 quoted by …
- … M rs Fry’s Life [Fry 1847] Horace Walpoles letter to C t . of Ossory [Walpole 1848] …
- … Asiatic Society ]—contains very little Macleay’s letter to D r Fleming [Macleay 1830] …
- … 1721]—— nothing—— May. Communications to the Board of Agriculture [ Communications to the …
- … der Kartoffeln [Putsche 1819]. —— Mem: of Board of Agriculture of New York [ Memoirs of …
- … & vars. [Sweet 1820–30] Hort. Soc.? New York Board of Agriculture [ Memoirs of the Board …
- … [Heer 1854].— Hooker has it.— Very important Hookers letter Jan. 1859 Yules Ava [Yule 1858] …
- … of the material from these portfolios is in DAR 205, the letter from William Edward Shuckard to …
- … 53 These two entries were written upside down at the bottom of the page. 54 The …
- … ( Notebooks , pp. 319–28). 55 The letter was addressed to Nicholas Aylward Vigors …
- … to William Jackson Hooker. See Correspondence vol. 3, letter to J. D. Hooker, [5 or 12 November …
- … relative to Merino sheep. Communications to the Board of Agriculture, on subjects relative to …
- … design . (Bridgewater Treatise no. 4.) London. [9th ed. (1874) in Darwin Library.] 119: 5a …
- … 119: 21b Broughton, William Grant. 1832. A letter in vindication of the principles of …
- … Travels in Siberia: including excursions northwards, down the Obi, to the Polar Circle, and …
- … Marshall, William. 1818. A review of the reports to the Board of Agriculture; from the …
- … 1848. Narrative of events in Borneo and Celebes, down to the occupation of Labuan: from the …
- … Smart, Benjamin Humphrey. 1839. Beginnings of a new school of metaphysics: three essays in one …
- … 1841–8. 119: 22a Communications to the Board of Agriculture on subjects relative to …
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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- … What little more I can do, shall be chiefly new work’ ( letter to Francis Galton, 8 November [1872] …
- … anything more on 'so difficult a subject, as evolution’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 27 July …
- … best efforts, set the final price at 7 s. 6 d. ( letter from R. F. Cooke, 12 February 1872 ) …
- … condition as I can make it’, he wrote to the translator ( letter to J. J. Moulinié, 23 September …
- … translation remained unpublished at the end of the year ( letter from C.-F. Reinwald, 23 November …
- … to the comparative anatomist St George Jackson Mivart ( letter to St G. J. Mivart, 11 January …
- … comparison of Whale & duck most beautiful’ ( letter from A. R. Wallace, 3 March 1872 ) …
- … of letters saw relations between them irretrievably break down. Mivart’s book had been followed by a …
- … a person as I am made to appear’, complained Darwin ( letter to St G. J. Mivart, 5 January 1872 ). …
- … Darwin would renounce `fundamental intellectual errors’ ( letter from St G. J. Mivart, 6 January …
- … was silly enough to think he felt friendly towards me’ ( letter to St G. J. Mivart, 8 January [1872 …
- … hoping for reconciliation, if only `in another world’ ( letter from St G. J. Mivart, 10 January …
- … have been ungracious in him not to thank Mivart for his letter. He promised to send a copy of the …
- … partly in mind, `chiefly perhaps because I do it badly’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 3 August [1872] …
- … and Darwin, directing operations from the safe retreat of Down House, received these bulletins from …
- … Darwinism is to be the theme. Surely the world moves!’ ( letter from Mary Treat, 13 December 1872 …
- … to find that Weismann accepted it at least in part ( letter to August Weismann, 5 April 1872 ). ‘I …
- … few naturalists in England seem inclined to believe it’ ( letter to Herman Müller, [before 5 May …
- … reached the buzzing place where I myself was standing’ ( letter to Hermann Müller, [before 5 May …
- … ‘as for myself it is dreadful doing nothing’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 22 October [1872] ). He was …
- … and researching photographic processes. Returning to Down at the end of March, he now devoted …
- … to stand closer (a serried mass) and to be more erect’ ( letter to Briton Riviere, 19 May [1872] ) …
- … and grandson of Darwin’s former headmaster at Shrewsbury school. Butler, whose later championship …
- … and amused rather than offended by `that clever book’ ( letter to J. M. Herbert, 21 November 1872 …
- … wrote offering Arthur May’s drawings shortly afterwards ( letter from Samuel Butler to Francis …
- … 'exactly where, from his ignorance, he feels no doubts’ ( letter to F. C. Donders, 17 June …
- … Wright to publish on Mivart’s views, Darwin was a sounding board for Wright’s papers on the …
- … , was anxious to encourage foreign editions by keeping down the costs. `Is not each country to pay …
- … Ruck, the sister of an old schoolfriend; he married Amy in 1874. Francis, still a medical student …
