From Hensleigh Wedgwood [before 3 March 1871]
Summary
On "moral sense" in Descent.
| Author: | Hensleigh Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 3 Mar 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 88: 41–53 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7470 |
To Ernst Haeckel 3 March 1871
Summary
Comments on Descent.
EH’s refusal of position at Vienna.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Date: | 3 Mar 1871 |
| Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1-52/25 [9878] |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7534 |
To Joseph Wolf 3 March 1871
Summary
Asks for a drawing from life of a "laughing monkey" (Cynopithecus niger) for Expression [p. 136].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Wolf |
| Date: | 3 Mar 1871 |
| Classmark: | Palmer 1895, p. 193 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7535 |
From A. F. Baillie 3 March 1871
Summary
Rereading Journal of researches, particularly on Buenos Aires and varieties of cattle observed there [pp. 145–6]. Reports a case of a cow in which the characters of the niata and two other breeds were combined.
| Author: | Alexander Francis Baillie |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Mar 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 18 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7536 |
To Hensleigh Wedgwood 3 March [1871]
Summary
Admits pointer illustration is faulty.
Discusses shame, remorse, social instincts, approbation, and other topics discussed in Descent, ch. 4. "But as yet I nail my colours to the mast."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hensleigh Wedgwood |
| Date: | 3 Mar [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 88: 24, 54–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7537 |
From J. J. Moulinié 3 March 1871
Summary
French translation of Descent all but complete.
Hopes translation of Origin will soon be finished.
| Author: | Jean Jacques Moulinié |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Mar 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 275 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7538 |
To J. J. Aubertin 3 March [1871]
Summary
Invites him to visit.
Miss Butler is dead.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John James Aubertin |
| Date: | 3 Mar [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 25 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7539 |
From Herbert Spencer 3 March 1871
Summary
Thanks CD for copy of Descent; wishes it had appeared earlier so that he could have made use of the facts in his Principles of psychology [2d ed. (1870–2)].
| Author: | Herbert Spencer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Mar 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 228 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7540 |
From T. H. Farrer 3 March 1871
Summary
On private property, with regard to tools and arms; comments on Maine’s book and the history of law regarding property.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Mar 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 87: 165–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7541 |
From Hensleigh Wedgwood [3–9 March 1871]
Summary
Agrees that social instinct or love for fellows is the beginning of moral feeling. Responds to CD’s letter [7537].
| Author: | Hensleigh Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [3–9 Mar 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 88: 56–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7542 |
From G. H. Darwin [3–9 March 1871]
Summary
Comments on points made in Hensleigh Wedgwood’s letter [7470] on moral sense in Descent.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [3–9 Mar 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 88: 37–40 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7561 |
| letter | (11) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Wedgwood, Hensleigh | (2) |
| Baillie, A. F. | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Aubertin, J. J. | (1) |
| Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Hensleigh | (1) |
| Wolf, Joseph | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
| Wedgwood, Hensleigh | (3) |
| Aubertin, J. J. | (1) |
| Baillie, A. F. | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
Bay of Islands, New Zealand
Summary
In praise of missionaries
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- … Writes of his trip across the Pacific Ocean and his 10 days on Tahiti and defends the work of …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
Summary
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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- … Nat. de la Provence [Darluc 1782–6] 8vo. 1782. Tom I p. 303 to 329 gives account of migratory sheep …
