To M. D. Conway 12 September [1873]
Summary
Thanks for strange debate, which CD returns. Principle of evolution has first-rate supporters in [Edward Sylvester?] Morse and Theodore Nicholas Gill.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Moncure Daniel Conway |
| Date: | 12 Sept [1873] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9051 |
To J. D. Hooker 12 September [1873]
Summary
Thanks JDH and Thiselton-Dyer for useful information.
Is surprised Mimosa albida is not sensitive to water. Asks that they try again, or lend it to him.
Remembers a walk in Brazil in great bed of Mimosa.
After JDH left, CD was very bad, with much loss of memory and severe shocks continually passing through his brain.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 12 Sept [1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 274–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9052 |
From James Crichton-Browne 12 September 1873
Summary
Thanks CD for his praise of West Riding Asylum Medical Reports.
Hopes CD will come to Asylum if he attends BAAS meeting at Bradford.
| Author: | James Crichton-Browne |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Sept 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 320 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9053 |
| letter | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Crichton-Browne, James | (1) |
| Conway, M. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Conway, M. D. | (1) |
| Crichton-Browne, James | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Darwin and the Church
Summary
The story of Charles Darwin’s involvement with the church is one that is told far too rarely. It shows another side of the man who is more often remembered for his personal struggles with faith, or for his role in large-scale controversies over the…
Matches: 1 hits
- … I never ought to think about—’ (letter to W. D. Fox, [9–12 August] 1835 ). Darwin’s doubts about …
