To St G. J. Mivart 21 January [1871]
Summary
Is obliged for StGJM’s book [On the genesis of species (1871)].
Would not have sent him vol. 1 [of Descent] if he had known that StGJM’s book was already published.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | St George Jackson Mivart |
| Date: | 21 Jan [1871] |
| Classmark: | Bonhams, New York (dealers) (11 June 2008) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7450A |
To St G. J. Mivart [23 January 1871]
Summary
Comments on StGJM’s book [Genesis of species (1871)]. Has no personal objection to a word of it, but regrets their views differ so much.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | St George Jackson Mivart |
| Date: | [23 Jan 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 95–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7453 |
To St G. J. Mivart 23 January [1871]
Summary
Acknowledges StGJM’s kind letter. [See 7451.]
Offers to alter the "dogmatic assertion" referred to on page 102 [of StGJM’s On the genesis of species] but in 5th ed. of Origin and in Variation CD finds only qualified expressions.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | St George Jackson Mivart |
| Date: | 23 Jan [1871] |
| Classmark: | Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7453A |
To St G. J. Mivart 26 January [1871]
Summary
CD apologises for having thought that StGJM’s religious feelings had led him to feel personal animosity towards him. [See 7454.]
He remembers having thought and written that belief in evolution is infinitely more important for science than belief in Natural Selection. For his own part he would have felt little interest in evolution apart from the explanation "in a general manner" of how each organism is so adapted to its conditions.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | St George Jackson Mivart |
| Date: | 26 Jan [1871] |
| Classmark: | Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7459A |
To St G. J. Mivart 28 January [1871]
Summary
He has found passage on false belief, Variation 2: 414, and does not think the whole with context is dogmatic. [Encloses copy of the passage.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | St George Jackson Mivart |
| Date: | 28 Jan [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 249: 96–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7462A |
