To Francis Darwin [28 February 1871]
Summary
Says Descent is "selling like Mad.––" Murray will print another 1500 or 2000 copies. Has received £630 for the 2500.
On Monday he visited Mivart, who is a charming man.
He seemed to be taken aback by CD’s points about the larynx and giraffe.
[See 7507 and 7519.]
He seemed to have forgotten CD’s argument regarding the formation of the greyhound.
Discussed the larynx and the silence of the Cetaceans.
If FD mentions any of this to [Marlborough Robert] Pryor, ask him not to mention it to anyone else "as it is perhaps rather a breach of confidence to repeat even to friends private conversation."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [28 Feb 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 271.4: 2 and 4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7520A |
Matches: 7 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Darwin, Francis …
- … To Francis Darwin [28 February 1871] …
- … See also letter to Francis Darwin, [after 21 January 1871] . …
- … 271.4: 2 and 4 Charles Robert Darwin London, Queen Anne St, 6 [28 Feb 1871] Francis Darwin …
- … to write a review of Mivart 1871a (see letter to Francis Darwin, 21 May [1871] ). …
- … 24 February [1871] . See letter to Francis Darwin, [after 21 January 1871] and n. 8. …
- … animals were kangaroos. See letter to Francis Darwin, [after 21 January 1871] and n. 5 ( …
From St George Jackson Mivart 24 February [1871]
Summary
Would be pleased if CD called.
| Author: | St George Jackson Mivart |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Feb [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 182 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5926 |
To R. F. Cooke 26 February [1871]
Summary
Suggests sending his book [Descent?] to Popular Science Review.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Date: | 26 Feb [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 281 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7517 |
To R. F. Cooke 14 February [1871]
Summary
Discusses presentation copies [of Descent]. Dallas returned proofs of index on Friday. Asks for John Stuart Mill’s address.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Date: | 14 Feb [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 279 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7481 |
To R. F. Cooke 10 February [1871]
Summary
Asks that a presentation copy [of Descent?] be sent to Edward Blyth. Comments on publication.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Date: | 10 Feb [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 278 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7480 |
From R. F. Cooke 3 February 1871
Summary
Encloses a letter [missing] from C. Reinwald, publisher of the French edition of Descent [1872].
Vincenzi [of Unione, Turin – publisher of Italian translation] has not yet paid the account.
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Feb 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 385 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7474 |
From R. F. Cooke 15 February 1871
Summary
Printing of Descent will be done this day. Cannot publish until next week.
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Feb 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 386 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7483 |
From John Murray 18 February [1871]
Summary
Bound copies [of Descent] have been dispatched to CD.
Robert Cooke, JM’s cousin and partner, has been nominated for Athenaeum; asks CD’s support.
Begs CD not to permit any notice by F. P. Cobbe to appear until after next week.
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Feb [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 387 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7486 |
To Asa Gray 5 February [1871]
Summary
Sends questions on expressions of Laura Bridgman.
Has finished Descent. Believes that parts, like that on moral sense, will aggravate AG.
Working on an essay on expression.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 5 Feb [1871] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (86) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7476 |
To J. D. Hooker 1 February [1871]
Summary
Returns pamphlets.
B. T. Lowne’s observation [Mon. Microsc. J. 4 (1870): 326–30] that boiling does not kill certain moulds is curious, but then how account for absence of all living things in Pasteur’s experiment?
Always delighted to see a word in favour of Pangenesis.
Thiselton-Dyer’s paper ["On spontaneous generation and evolution", Q. J. Microsc. Sci. 10 (1870): 333–54] is Spencerian.
The chemical conditions for first production of life are said to exist at present, but in some warm little pond today such matter would be absorbed or devoured, which would not have been the case before living creatures were formed.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 1 Feb [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 188–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7471 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Francis Galton, 9 January 1871 , n. 1. ) William Turner Thiselton-Dyer’s paper, ‘On spontaneous generation and evolution’, appeared in the October 1870 issue of the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science ( Thiselton-Dyer 1870 ). Thiselton-Dyer cited Herbert Spencer’s Principles of biology ( Spencer 1864–7 ) frequently in his paper and agreed with Spencer’s view that life developed from non-living matter by slow stages. Emma Darwin’ …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (2) |
| John Murray | (2) |
| Mivart, S. G. J. | (1) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| John Murray | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (5) |
| John Murray | (5) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
