La presencia de Darwin en William Henry Hudson

W. H. Hudson tuvo un contacto muy temprano con El origen de las especies; probablemente haya leído el libro el mismo año de su aparición (1859). Esta lectura lo acercó a una filosofía naturalista que, a la vez, lo alejó de la formación materna en cuestión religiosa, y lo condujo a asumir una posición evolucionista crítica. De hecho, contradijo observaciones de Darwin que éste revisó, además de mencionarlo en la segunda edición de El origen de las especies (1888). Asimismo, son numerosas las citas que Hudson hace de Darwin en sus textos. Aunque pueden marcarse diferencias, ciertos tópicos generales del evolucionismo, son fácilmente reconocibles a lo largo de su producción. El trabajo pretende avanzar sobre estos aspectos para identificar cuán profundamente caló en su concepción del mundo la perspectiva evolucionista.

Letters from Benjamin Welles to John Henry Tudor, 1799-1801

Benjamin Welles wrote these six letters to his friend and classmate, John Henry Tudor, between 1799 and 1801. Four of the letters are dated, and the dates of the other two can be deduced from their contents. Welles wrote Tudor four times in September 1799, at the onset of their senior year at Harvard, in an attempt to clear up hurt feelings and false rumors that he believed had caused a chill in their friendship. The cause of the rift is never fully explained, though Welles alludes to "a viper" and "villainous hypocrite" who apparently spread rumors and fueled discord between the two friends. In one letter, Welles asserts that "College is a rascal's Elysium - or the feeling man's hell." In another he writes: "College, Tudor, is a furnace to the phlegmatic, & a Greenland to thee feeling man; it has an atmosphere which breathes contagion to the soul [...] Villains fatten here. College is the embryo of hell." Whatever their discord, the wounds were apparently eventually healed; in a letter written June 26, 1800, Welles writes to ask Tudor about his impending speech at Commencement exercises. In an October 29, 1801 letter, Welles writes to Tudor in Philadelphia (where he appears to have traveled in attempts to recover his failing health) and expresses strong wishes for his friend's recovery and return to Boston. This letter also contains news of their classmate Washington Allston's meeting with painters Henry Fuseli and Benjamin West.

Henry P. Tappan, D.D., L.L.D. President of the University of Michigan

14x10 cm. engraving. Engraved for Bernard's American journal of education/

The memoirs of Philip de Commines, Lord of Argenton: containing the histories of Louis XI, and Charles VIII. kings of France and of Charles the Bold, duke of Burgundy. To which is added, The scandalous chronicle, or Secret history of Louis XI., by Jean de Troyes.

Mode of access: Internet.

The last of the Valois, and accession of Henry of Navarre, 1559-1589.

Mode of access: Internet.

The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Imprint of v. 2-3 varies slightly; v. 2 dated 1882.

On the study of the Greek and Latin languages : an introductory lecture, delivered in the University of London, November 1, 1831.

Mode of access: Internet.

The remains of the late Lord Viscount Royston : with a memoir of his life by the Rev. Henry Pepys.

Includes his translation of the Cassandra of Lycophron, extracts of "Nothing" and letters.

The writings of Henry David Thoreau ...

[v. 1] A week on the Concord and Merrimack rivers.--[v. 2] Walden.--[v. 3] The Maine woods.--[v. 4] Cape Cod and Miscellanies.--[v. 5] Excursions and Poems.--v. 6. Familiar letters, ed. by F. B. Sanborn. Enl. ed.--[v. 7-20] Journal, ed. by B. Torrey, 1837-1846, 1850-Nov. 3, 1861.

The works of Henry Mackenzie, esq. ...

I. Man of feeling. Man of the world.--II. Man of the world (cont.)--III. Julia de Roubigné.--IV. Papers from The Mirror.--V. Papers from The Mirror (cont.) Papers from The Lounger.--VI. Papers from The Lounger (cont.)--VII. Papers from The Lounger (cont.) Life of Dr. Blacklock. Life of Lord Abercromby. Life of William Tytler. Review of the principal proceedings of the Parliament of 1784.--VIII. Poems. Dramatic pieces: The prince of Tunis. The Spanish father. False shame, or The white hypocrit.

The poetical works of Henry Taylor.

Plays.

On the increase of royal power in France under Philip Augustus, 1179-1223 /

Vita.

[Census reports] Tenth census. June 1, 1880.

Published also as House, Misc. doc. 42, pt. 1-22, 47th Cong., 2d sess.