F2565    Periodical contribution:     Darwin, C. R. 1897. [Letter to Karl Marx and recollection of Darwin by Aveling]. In E. B. Aveling, Charles Darwin and Karl Marx: a comparison. Twenteith Century Press.   Text   PDF

rested and smoked a cigarette, Darwin himself at once led the talk to religion. Now, although a man's views on speculative subjects have, in a sense, nothing to do with his scientific work and beliefs, either in biology or Socialism, it is always of interest to know what are the religious views of any great thinker. Darwin's first question to us was, Why do you call yourselves Atheists, and say there is no God? A question showing that, absorbed in his biological studies, he was not in touch with

F181    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1875. Voyage d'un naturaliste autour du monde fait a bord du navire le Beagle de 1831 a 1836. Translated by E. Barbier. Paris: C. Reinwald.   Text   Image   PDF

d'abord quand on pénètre pour la première fois dans la société de ces pays : ce sont les manières dignes et polies que l'on remarque dans toutes les classes, le goût excellent dont les femmes font preuve en matière de costume et l'égalité parfaite qui règne partout. Les boutiquiers les plus infimes avaient coutume de dîner avec le général Rosas quand il se trouvait à son camp sur le rio Colorado. Le fils d'un major, à Bahia-Blanca, gagnait sa vie en fabricant des cigarettes et il m'aurait

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had talked enough. He generally obeyed in five or ten minutes went away to the study, there he rested by reading aloud. A very similar description applies to luncheon time, except that he was then at the table. At dinner he always left the room with the ladies, saying as he left You must excuse me now, I always make myself an old woman. After he had gone we very frequently smoked cigarettes had coffee. 40

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bedroom lay on the sofa smoked a cigarette. [B33]

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people being interested by them. Of course He generally thanked for a book without reading it as most people do. This led him into a mistake once — A Rev Ingo Someone sent him a religious volume called The Ingoldsby Letters, and in acknowledging it he said that his sons had often laughed over it — meaning the Ingoldsby Legends. When letters were finished he went up to his bedroom to rest — lying on the sofa and smoking a cigarette; and listening to a novel or other book not scientific. 31 = 19

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. There were certain people he always offered a pinch to — old Mr. George Norman1 being one of them. Smoking he only took to of late years — he only smoked little Turkish cigarettes — one at 3 o'clock and another (at) 6 [o'clock]. On both [occasions] 1 Darwin's neighbor in Kent, George Norman, a writer of finance, shared with Darwin an affinity for snuff Paul van Helvert John van Wyhe, Darwin: A Companion, 2021.. In a letter to his sister Charlotte on 24 July 1881, George Romanes writes of a

F1452.1    Book:     Darwin, Francis ed. 1887. The life and letters of Charles Darwin, including an autobiographical chapter. vol. 1. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF

check; the clink of the lid of the snuff jar was a very familiar sound. Sometimes when he was in the drawing-room, it would occur to him that the study fire must be burning low, and when some of us offered to see after it, it would turn out that he also wished to get a pinch of snuff. Smoking he only took to permanently of late years, though on his Pampas rides he learned to smoke with the Gauchos, and I have heard him speak of the great comfort of a cup of mat and a cigarette when he halted

F1452.1    Book:     Darwin, Francis ed. 1887. The life and letters of Charles Darwin, including an autobiographical chapter. vol. 1. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF

well the way in which he would anticipate the pleasure of having a novel read to him, as he lay down, or lighted his cigarette. He took a vivid interest both in plot and characters, and would on no account know before-hand, how a story finished; he considered looking at the end of a novel as a feminine vice. He could not enjoy any story with a tragical end, for this reason he did not keenly appreciate George Eliot, though he often spoke warmly in praise of 'Silas [page] 12

F1461    Book:     Darwin, Francis ed. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life told in an autobiographical chapter, and in a selected series of his published letters [abridged edition]. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF

years. And I have a dim recollection of his saying, Thank God, you'll have bread and cheese, when I was so young that I was inclined to take it literally. When letters were finished, about three in the afternoon, he rested in his bedroom, lying on the sofa, smoking a cigarette, and listening to a novel or other book not scientific. He only smoked when resting, whereas snuff was a stimulant, and was taken during working hours. He took snuff for many years of his life, having learnt the habit at

F2113    Book contribution:     Darwin, C. R. 1896. [Recollections of Darwin]. In E. R. Lankester. 'Charles Robert Darwin'. In C. D. Warner ed. Library of the world's best literature ancient and modern. New York: R. S. Peale & J. A. Hill, vol. 2, pp. 4385-4393.   Text   PDF

letter to Hooker (September 26th, 1862) is particularly interesting, as recording one of the most important discoveries of his later years,—confirmed by the subsequent researches of Gardiner and others,—and as containing a pretty confession of his jealous desire to exalt the status of plants. Often he spoke and wrote in his letters of individual plants with which he was experimenting as little rascals. Darwin shared with other great men whose natures approach perfection, an unusual sympathy

A546    Periodical contribution:     Anon. 1909. A visit to Darwin's village: reminiscences of some of his humble friends. Evening News (12 February): 4.   Text   Image

Parsons, is also given up to the girls. The mistress wondered what Darwin would think of the new phase of his house, and we agreed that he would probably be delighted. I saw the bedroom where Darwin spent so many tormented nights, and thought with reverence of the courage and force that led him to his achievements through so much pain. I had been told to look up Mr. John Lewis in the village, who used to do all the carpentry and joining work for the house. I found him in his cottage, a short, hale man

A557    Book:     Darwin, Bernard. 1941. Pack clouds away. London: Collins.   Text   Image

tune and Miss Lottie Collins pranced on to the stage with the inimitable air of conviction, the buoyant certainty of welcome which only the stars of the music hall possess, and dashed straightway into those remarkable words: You should see me out with Pa Very prim and particular. It must have been two years or so later that I dined in hall at Trinity with Mr. Duff, and he made me do two things I had never done before, drink a glass of port and smoke a cigarette. When I reported these facts on