From J. D. Hooker 26 March 1871
Summary
Answers CD’s questions.
Reception of Descent. Evolution accepted everywhere; descent of man accepted calmly.
Morocco plans.
Fears for Huxley, who is overworked.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Mar 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 65–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7627 |
From John Morley 26 March 1871
Summary
Thanks for CD’s letter on his review of Descent in the Pall Mall Gazette [21 Mar 1871].
| Author: | John Morley, Viscount Morley of Blackburn |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Mar 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 242 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7628 |
To James Crichton-Browne 26 March [1871]
Summary
Has sent photographs of insane woman to be engraved. Assumes JC-B has no objection.
Is making immense use of JC-B’s MS. The book ought to be described as "by Darwin & Browne".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
| Date: | 26 Mar [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 341 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8253 |
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| letter | (3) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Morley, John | (1) |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Crichton-Browne, James | (1) |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Crichton-Browne, James | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Morley, John | (1) |
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Darwin in public and private
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Extracts from Darwin's published works, in particular Descent of man, and selected letters, explore Darwin's views on the operation of sexual selection in humans, and both his publicly and privately expressed views on its practical implications…
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- … and less selfishness…” Descent (1871), vol. 2, pp. 326 – 327. 5) “The chief distinction …
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