To Maria [1871–82]
Summary
Regrets he has not time to develop points touched on in her letter and that he does not understand what information she wants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Maria |
Date: | [1871–82] |
Classmark: | DAR 201: 24v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12386 |
To W. H. Flower [1871?]
Summary
Does not know rules for admission to museum [of the Royal College of Surgeons]. CD’s son [Francis] wishes much to inspect some of the preparations.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Henry Flower |
Date: | [1871?] |
Classmark: | B. J. Harrison (private collection); sold by Bonhams (dealers), 15 July 2004 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5767 |
To John Lubbock [1871 or later]
Summary
All the inhabitants of Down hope JL will endeavour to induce the Post Office to improve the telegraph service.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | [1871 or later] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 89 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7057 |
To Francis Darwin [after 21 January 1871]
Summary
Responds to Mivart’s Genesis of species. "I complain of his incessently speaking as if I trusted exclusively to natural selection … Mivart speaks in many places as if I entirely ignored the direct action of external conditions". Answers some of Mivart’s particular criticisms. Suggests FD read the letter to Marlborough Robert Pryor, as Pryor will never be able to read it himself.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [after 21 Jan 1871] |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (28 March 1983) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7425 |
To P. L. Sclater 4 January [1871]
Summary
Is infinitely obliged for a correction. "You men who do only or chiefly original work have an immense advantage over compilers like myself, as you can know what to trust." Wishes he had consulted PLS before using A. E. Brehm’s Thierleben woodcuts [for Descent]. PLS’s assistance has saved him from "endless blunders"; he now feels safe.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
Date: | 4 Jan [1871] |
Classmark: | Zoological Society of London (GB 0814 BADD (Darwin)) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7427 |
To J. B. Innes 13 January 1871
Summary
CD has forgotten about S. J. O. Horsman and the church organ and asks for any information that will help him inform his solicitors in connection with a document he has received and encloses. Will not apologise for what he said, but is ignorant of what it was.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
Date: | 13 Jan 1871 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7439 |
To J. B. Innes 18 January [1871]
Summary
CD’s anxiety about being examined in court if Horsman [former curate at Down] brings suit. He doubts it will happen, but if so will defend himself to utmost.
Has pleasant recollections of his relations with JBI.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
Date: | 18 Jan [1871] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7445 |
To A. R. Wallace 18 January [1871]
Summary
Sends ARW advance copy of vol. 1 [of Descent] for his review in Academy. Vol. 2 is delayed by index. "Do not swear at me more than you can help."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 18 Jan [1871] |
Classmark: | Manchester Libraries, Information and Archives (Autograph Letters: Stanley Withers Collection: 925.7 18 Jan 1872) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7446 |
To J. D. Hooker 21 January [1871]
Summary
Finished the last proofs of Descent a few days ago. "I shall be well abused."
St George Mivart’s Genesis [of species]: very good, unfortunately theological. Will tell heavily against natural selection but not against evolution, and this is "infinitely more important".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 21 Jan [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 186–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7448 |
To Albert Günther 21 January [1871]
Summary
Invites AG to stay at Down. Winwood Reade and, he hopes, Hooker and Robert Swinhoe will be there.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
Date: | 21 Jan [1871] |
Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library (13) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7450 |
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 William Bowman [before 26] January [1871]
Summary
Sends enclosure copied from letter of F. C. Donders [7207?] dealing with orbicular muscle. Asks about secretion of tears resulting from spasmodic action of orbicular muscle.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bowman, 1st baronet |
Date: | [before 26] Jan [1871] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7452 |
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 J. B. Innes 26 January [1871]
Summary
CD’s health has been poor.
Appreciates JBI’s letter and his expression of friendship.
In the opinion of a Q.C., Horsman has no case.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
Date: | 26 Jan [1871] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7455 |
To Erasmus Wilson [26 January – 3 February 1871]
Summary
Seeks information and observations on the contraction of the orbicular muscles as a consequence of skin irritation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William James Erasmus (Erasmus) Wilson |
Date: | [26 Jan – 3 Feb 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 91 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7459 |
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 George King 27 January [1871]
Summary
Obliged for specimens [of Paritium?].
Discusses difference between sport and parent tree.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George King |
Date: | 27 Jan [1871] |
Classmark: | Joseph R. Sakmyster, ADS Autographs (dealer) (no date) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7461 |
To W. S. Dallas 27 January [1871]
Summary
Accepts the proposed corrections of his spelling except for "chloèn". [WSD was preparing the index for Descent, vol. 2.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Sweetland Dallas |
Date: | 27 Jan [1871] |
Classmark: | Joline 1902, pp. 256–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7461A |
To Raphael Meldola 28 January [1871]
Summary
Thanks RM for information on case of hexadactyly [see RM’s paper, "Hexadactylism", Land and Water, 11 March 1871, p. 179.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
Date: | 28 Jan [1871] |
Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7462 |
letter | (29) |
Mivart, S. G. J. | (5) |
Cooke, R. F. | (4) |
John Murray | (4) |
Innes, J. B. | (3) |
Wallace, A. R. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Mivart, S. G. J. | (5) |
Cooke, R. F. | (4) |
John Murray | (4) |
Innes, J. B. | (3) |
Wallace, A. R. | (2) |
Bowman, William | (1) |
Carus, J. V. | (1) |
Dallas, W. S. | (1) |
Darwin, Francis | (1) |
Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
Flower, W. H. | (1) |
Günther, Albert | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
King, George | (1) |
Lubbock, John | (1) |
Maria | (1) |
Meldola, Raphael | (1) |
Pryor, M. R. | (1) |
Sclater, P. L. | (1) |
Wilson, Erasmus | (1) |