Talk:Correspondence of Charles Darwin

Karl Marx

I've restored *Karl Marx to the list, though from D&M pp. 601-602 it appears that the extent of their correspondence was that in 1873 Marx sent a copy of a new edition of Das Kapital (in German) inscribed from a "sincere admirer", and Darwin struggled to read something of a work "so different" from his own, then courteously responded wishing he was "more worthy to receive it, by understanding more of political economy", and no doubt their respective efforts towards the "extension of knowledge" would "in the long run..... add to the happiness of mankind." Rather overoptimistic, perhaps, but worthy of inclusion? .. dave souza, talk 21:32, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Blackwell

Suprised to see Antoinette Brown Blackwell here. From what source did you get her name? -SusanLesch (talk) 09:43, 27 November 2009 (UTC)

She was added to the list with this edit. The Correspondence Society have made their search more awkward, but it appears that there was one as yet untranscribed letter from Darwin thanking her for Studies in general science,[1] so presumably she sent him a copy. Her very brief bio page says little.[2] . . . dave souza, talk 10:36, 27 November 2009 (UTC)

Because this article says "100 or more" I got excited. I overlooked "with asterisks", sorry. -SusanLesch (talk) 18:46, 27 November 2009 (UTC)

Patrick Matthew

SuueDee continues to attempt to add a notation to this individual's name in the list of correspondence. SuueDee, there are two issues with your attempt. First, this list, by consensus, only lists the names of the individuals with whom Darin corresponded. Therefore adding the title of Matthew's book is inappropriate. Second, when you added it, you caused a format break with the wikilink to Matthew's Wikipedia article. Either of those reasons would get you reverted. Simply because you think his title belongs in the list is not a valid reason to override consensus. Hope this explains why you keep getting reverted. Onel5969 ^{TT me} 13:21, 31 July 2015 (UTC)