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123 ‘two powerful enemies’: Ibid., p.426.

124 ‘affrighted at this struggle’: Darwin’s copy of AH Personal Narrative 1814–1829, vol.4, p.437; see also vol.5, p.590, CUL, DAR.LIB:T.301.

125 ‘What hourly carnage’: Ibid., vol.5, p.590

126 ‘are bound together’: Darwin, 1838, Harman 2009, p.226.

127 tree of life: Darwin, Notebook B, p.36f, CUL MS.DAR.121.

128 Darwin marks inspiration to tangled bank: Darwin’s copy of AH Personal Narrative 1814–29, vol.4, pp.505–6, CUL, DAR.LIB:T.301.

129 ‘The beasts of the forest’ (footnote): Ibid.

130 ‘It is interesting to’: Darwin 1859, p.489.

Chapter 18: Humboldt’s Cosmos

1

‘The mad frenzy’: AH to Varnhagen, 27 October 1834, AH Varnhagen Letters 1860, p.15.

2

‘book on Nature’: AH to Varnhagen, 24 October 1834, ibid., p.19.

3

‘sword in the’: AH to Johann Georg von Cotta, 28 February 1838, AH Cotta Letters 2009, p.204.

4

‘opus of my life’: AH to Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, 14 July 1833, AH Bessel Letters 1994, p.82.

5

‘both heaven and’: AH to Varnhagen, 24 October 1834, AH Varnhagen Letters 1860, p.18; ancient Greek: AH Cosmos 1845–52, vol.1, p.56; AH Kosmos 1845–50, vol.1, pp.61–2.

6

army of helpers: for example Hooker to AH, 4 December 1847 and Robert Brown to AH, 12 August 1834, AH, Gr. Kasten 12, Envelope ‘Geographie der Pflanzen’; list of Polynesian plants from Jules Dumont d’Urville: AH, gr. Kasten 13, no.27, Stabi Berlin NL AH; AH to Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, 20 December 1828 and 14 July 1833, AH Bessel Letters 1994, pp.50–54, 84; AH to P.G. Lejeune Dirichlet, after May 1851, AH Dirichlet Letters 1982, p.93; AH to August Böckh, 14 May 1849, AH Böckh Letters 2011, p.189; Werner 2004, p.159.

7

Chinese and dairy products: Kark Gützlaff to AH, n.d., AH, kl.Kasten 3b, no.112; for palm species in Nepal, Robert Brown to AH, 12 August 1834, AH, gr. Kasten 12, no.103, Stabi Berlin NL AH.

8

‘to pursue one’: AH to Karl Zell, 21 May 1836, Schwarz 2000, no page numbers.

9

‘This time you won’t’: Herman Abich about Humboldt, 1853, Beck 1959, p.346; for novelist in Algiers, see Laube 1875, p.334.

10

‘the material grows’: AH to Johann Georg von Cotta, 28 February 1838; see also 18 September 1843, AH Cotta Letters 2009, pp.204, 249.

11

‘a kind of impossible’: AH to Gauß, 23 March 1847, AH Gauß Letters 1977, p.98.

12

box with geology material: AH, Gr. Kasten 11, Stabi Berlin NL AH.

13

chaotic finances, exact research: AH to Johann Georg von Cotta, 16 April 1852, AH Cotta Letters 2009, p.482; AH to Alexander Mendelssohn, 24 December 1853, AH Mendelssohn Letters 2011, p.253.

14

‘very important’: AH, gr. Kasten 12, no.96, Stabi Berlin NL AH.

15

‘important, to follow up’: AH, gr. Kasten 8, envelope including no.6–11a, Stabi Berlin NL AH.

16

dried piece of moss: AH, gr. Kasten 12, no.124, Stabi Berlin NL AH.

17

plants from Himalaya: AH, gr. Kasten 12, no.112, Stabi Berlin NL AH.

18

‘Luftmeer’: AH, gr. Kasten 12, envelope including no.32–47 Stabi Berlin NL AH.

19

material on antiquity: AH, gr Kasten 8, no.124–168, Stabi Berlin NL AH.

20

tables of temperatures: AH, kl. Kasten 3b, no.121, Stabi Berlin NL AH.

21

Hebrew poetry: AH, kl. Kasten 3b, no.125, Stabi Berlin NL AH.

22

‘loose ends’: Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg, Frankfurt, May 1832, Beck 1959, p.128.

23

‘had become frozen’: AH to Heinrich Christian Schumacher, 10 November 1846, AH Schumacher Letters 1979, p.85.

24

mere ‘picture gallery’: AH to WH, 14 July 1829, AH Letters Russia 2009, p.146.

25

‘royal court’: Adolf Bernhard Marx about Humboldt, Beck 1969, p.253.

26

‘all turned to him’: Ibid.

27

listened to every syllable: Sir Charles Hallé, 1840s, Hallé 1896, p.100.

28

not able to interject word: Ludwig Börne, 12 October 1830, Clark and Lubrich 2012, p.82.

29

‘certain Prussian savant’: Honoré Balzac,

Administrative Adventures of a Wonderful Idea

, 1834, Clark and Lubrich 2012, p.89.

30

‘It was a duet’: Sir Charles Hallé, 1840s, Hallé 1896, p.100.

31

AH at university: Robert Avé-Lallemant, 1833; Ernst Kossak about AH, December 1834, Beck 1959, pp.134, 141; Emil du Bois-Reymond, 3 August 1883, AH du Bois-Reymond Letters 1997, p.201; Franz Lieber, 14 September 1869, AH Letters USA 2004, p.581.

32

‘Alexander is skipping’: Biermann and Schwarz 1999a, p.188.

33

‘little, illiterate, and’: AH to Varnhagen, 24 April 1837, AH Varnhagen Letters 1860, p.27.

34

Wilhelm’s last years and death: Geier 2010, p.298ff.

35

‘I never had believed’: AH to Varnhagen, 5 April 1835, AH Varnhagen Letters 1860, p.21.

36

‘half of myself’: AH to Jean Antoine Letronne, 18 April 1835, Bruhns 1873, vol.2, p.183.

37

‘Pity me; I am’: AH to Gide, 10 April 1835, ibid.

38

‘Everything is bleak’: AH to Bunsen, 24 May 1836, AH Bunsen Letters 2006, pp.35–6.

39

AH to Paris for research: AH to Johann Georg von Cotta, 25 December 1844, AH Cotta Letters 2009, p.269; AH to Bunsen, 3 October 1847, AH Bunsen Letters 2006, p.103 and AH to Caroline von Wolzogen, 12 June 1835, Biermann 1987, p.206.

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‘concentrated sunshine’: AH to Heinrich Christian Schumacher, 2 March 1836, AH Schumacher Letters 1979, p.52.

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