To Chauncey Wright 23 September [1871]1
Down, Beckenham Kent
Sept 23d
My dear Sir:—
The enclosed, I daresay, relates to your pamphlet. I sent a copy to Kingsley.—2 I have despatched about 220 copies to all persons, whom I cd think of & to the Societies— Copies have also been sent to all Reviews. I have had 2 or 3 letters from persons, who guessed I had sent them copies, expressing much interest in your article.—3 I heard yesterday that Huxley has already sent M.S. review of Mivart to the Contemporary & he attacks Mivarts Divinity & Metaphysics.—4
In Haste | yours very sincerely | C. Darwin
I am convinced that your paper will do our cause real good service.— Mivart is even affecting the opinions of Naturalists in Italy.5
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Descent: The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871.
Huxley, Thomas Henry. 1871b. Mr. Darwin’s critics. Contemporary Review 18: 443–76.
Mivart, St George Jackson. 1871a. On the genesis of species. London: Macmillan and Co.
[Mivart, St George Jackson.] 1871c. Darwin’s Descent of man. Quarterly Review 131: 47–90.
Wright, Chauncey. 1871a. The genesis of species. [Essay review of St G. J. Mivart’s Genesis of species.] North American Review 113: 63–103.
Wright, Chauncey. 1871b. Darwinism: being an examination of Mr. St. George Mivart’s ‘Genesis of species’. [Reprint of ‘The genesis of species’, North American Review 113 (1871): 63–103, with an appendix.] London: John Murray.
Summary
Forwards a letter. Has distributed 220 copies of the pamphlet [Darwinism 1871].
Thomas Henry Huxley has sent review of St George Jackson Mivart’s On the genesis of species and his review of Descent in Quarterly Review (Mivart 1871a and [Mivart] 1871c) to the Contemporary Review [18 (1871): 443–76] .
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7964F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Chauncey Wright
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Massachusetts Historical Society (George E. Nitzsche Unitariana collection, box 4)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7964F,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7964F.xml
