To F. W. Farrar 2 November [1865]
Summary
Has enjoyed FWF’s volume [Chapters on language]. Had found Max Müller’s theory obscure and weak.
Believes FWF would come to agree with him on species if he studied general questions in natural history. To argue for immutability of species on the basis of geology resembles a wise savage in a nation with no books saying his language has never changed.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frederic William Farrar |
| Date: | 2 Nov [1865] |
| Classmark: | University of Virginia Library, Special Collections (3314 1: 80) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4929 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … book has been increased from Mr Hensleigh Wedgwood, whom you often quote, being my brother …
- … Dictionary of English etymology , Hensleigh Wedgwood defended the view that the original …
- … Correspondence vol. 6, letter from Hensleigh Wedgwood, [before 29 September 1857] , and …
- … Correspondence vol. 8, letter from Hensleigh Wedgwood, [January? 1860] . In a letter to …
From Eliza Meteyard 25 April 1865
Summary
Sends CD the first volume of her Life of Josiah Wedgwood [2 vols. (1865–6)].
| Author: | Eliza Meteyard |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Apr 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 160 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4819 |
From E. A. Darwin [20 November 1865?]
Summary
John Brent [book?] has come, and he will send it.
Hopes CD will visit again.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [20 Nov 1865?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B39 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4938 |
From Asa Gray 15 and 17 May 1865
Summary
Reports Lincoln’s murder.
The end of Civil War is in sight.
Must look at dimorphism in Plantago.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 and 17 May 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 147 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4833 |
From E. A. Darwin 24 August [1865]
Summary
Sends an allotment of shares which he presumes are Emma’s.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Aug [1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B36 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4885 |
Document type
| letter | (5) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Farrar, F. W. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (2) |
| Farrar, F. W. | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Meteyard, Eliza | (1) |
