To Asa Gray 26 November [1860]
Summary
Has reread AG’s third Atlantic Monthly article. It is admirable, but CD cannot go as far as AG on design.
Mentions other opinions and reviews of Origin.
Relates some experiments on Drosera showing its extreme sensitivity; requests some observations on orchids.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 26 Nov [1860] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (27) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2998 |
To Asa Gray 7 January [1860]
Summary
Comments on AG’s memoir on Japanese plants [see 2599]; relationship of Japanese flora to N. American.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 7 Jan [1860] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (15) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2645 |
To Asa Gray 11 December [1860]
Summary
The pamphlet of AG’s Origin reviews [Natural selection not inconsistent with natural theology (1861)]. CD will bear half the costs of publishing.
Will write to Huxley about Chauncey Wright’s review of Origin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 11 Dec [1860] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (38) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3017 |
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- … letters to Asa Gray , 19 October [1860] and 24 October [1860] . Gray apparently asked CD whether he thought Thomas Henry Huxley would be interested in publishing an article on CD’s theory by his friend Chauncey Wright . Huxley had recently taken over the principal editorship of the Natural History Review . See letter to T. H. …
To Asa Gray 11 August [1860]
Summary
Agassiz is strongly opposed to Origin, but CD thinks K. E. von Baer may come out in support.
Discusses the possibility of favourable monstrosities in the light of Theophilus Parsons’ essay ["On the origin of species", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 30 (1860): 1–13].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 11 Aug [1860] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (35) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2896 |
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- … 6 August 1860 . Wagner 1860b . See letter to T. H. Huxley, 8 August [1860] and n. 5. …
- … 1860]. Agassiz 1860 , p. 143. The sentence reads: ‘If species do not exist at all, as the supporters of the transmutation theory maintain, how can they vary? and if individuals alone exist, how can the differences which may be observed among them prove the variability of species? ’ In his copy of the review (Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL), CD marked the passage and added in pencil: ‘exist only temporarily’. See Winsor 1979 . See letter from T. H. Huxley, …
To Asa Gray 1 February [1860]
Summary
CD is glad there is to be an American edition of Origin printed from the corrected 2d English edition.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 1 Feb [1860] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (44) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2676 |
To Asa Gray 19 October [1860]
Summary
Is thinking of publishing AG’s three-part Origin review [from Atlantic Monthly] in England.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 19 Oct [1860] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (32) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2955 |
To Asa Gray 22 May [1860]
Summary
Opinions and reviews of Origin.
CD’s view on design in nature; although he does not believe in the necessity of design, he finds it hard to conclude that everything is the result of "brute force".
Comments on Owen’s review of Origin [Edinburgh Rev. 111 (1860): 487–532].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 22 May [1860] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (26 and 37a) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2814 |
To Asa Gray 17 February [1861]
Summary
Distribution of AG’s pamphlet.
Insectivorous plants.
Informs AG of his [CD’s] notice on Pumilio in Gardeners’ Chronicle [5 Jan 1861; Collected papers 2: 36–8].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 17 Feb [1861] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (54) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3064 |
To Asa Gray 31 October [1860]
Summary
Talks of getting copies of AG’s Atlantic Monthly articles for distribution in England.
Describes the pollinating mechanisms of Orchis pyramidalis and Spiranthes autumnalis.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 31 Oct [1860] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (45 and 124a) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2969 |
To Asa Gray [8 or 9 February 1860]
Summary
Sends historical preface and corrections for American edition of Origin;
would have liked AG’s review [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 29 (1860): 153–84] at the head.
Agrees with AG’s assessment of weak points.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | [8 or 9 Feb 1860] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (11) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2701 |
To Asa Gray 10 September [1860]
Summary
Has received second part of AG’s Atlantic Monthly article ["Darwin on the origin of species", 6 (1860): 109–16, 229–39], and would like to have it reprinted in England with the first part.
Regrets no reviewer has touched upon embryology, which he feels provides one of his strongest arguments.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 10 Sept [1860] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (34) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2910 |
To Asa Gray 8 June [1860]
Summary
Discusses recent reviews of Origin and has made a note on Owen’s [see 2737].
Has become interested in the floral structures of orchids.
Notes his recent observations on Primula; believes he has found male and female forms.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 8 June [1860] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (40) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2825 |
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- … letters to J. D. Hooker, 5 June [1860] , and to Charles Lyell , 6 June [1860]. William Henry Harvey was a close friend of Gray’s and had corresponded with him about Origin ( Dupree 1959 , p. 278). [R. Owen] 1860a, which reviewed Origin and Hooker 1859 , attacked Thomas Henry Huxley’s February 1860 lecture on species at the Royal Institution ( T. H. …
To Asa Gray 22 July [1860]
Summary
Greatly praises AG’s discussion of Origin in Proc. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. [4 (1860): 411–15; 424–6].
Mentions other reviews of Origin; believes the BAAS meeting at Oxford greatly advanced the subject. Has heard his views are gaining ground in Germany.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 22 July [1860] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (30) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2876 |
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- … 1860] . CD’s annotated copies of all three articles from the Atlantic Monthly ([Gray] 1860b) are in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. Gray’s article ‘Darwin and his reviewers’ appeared in the October issue. [Wilberforce] 1860 . CD believed that Richard Owen had helped Samuel Wilberforce write the review (see letters to J. D. Hooker, [20? July 1860] , and to T. H. Huxley, …
To Asa Gray 13 September [1864]
Summary
Has finished Climbing plants;
resuming work on Variation.
Sends abstract of John Scott’s paper [see 4332].
Has received review of Herbert Spencer but cannot believe AG wrote it unless he has muddled his brains with metaphysics.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 13 Sept [1864] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (89) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4611 |
