DCP-LETT-2653A
Summary
Origin reached AG at Christmas. Louis Agassiz cannot abide the book and has publicly denounced it as atheism. AG feels bound to defend the book and counter the "demagogue" Agassiz. Has written a long article to this end [Am. J. Sci. and Arts 2d ser. 29 (1860): 153–84].
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Francis Boott |
| Date: | 16 Jan 1860 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2653A |
From Asa Gray [10 January 1860]
Summary
Agassiz denounces Origin as "atheistical";
AG is currently reviewing it [in Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 29 (1860): 153–84].
Jeffries Wyman praises it, though not a convert.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [10 Jan 1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 98 (ser. 2): 26a |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2631 |
From Asa Gray to J. D. Hooker 5 January 1860
Summary
Opinions on the Origin: AG thinks it masterly; Agassiz considers it very poor.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 5 Jan 1860 |
| Classmark: | DAR 98 (ser. 2): 20–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2638 |
From Asa Gray 23 January 1860
Summary
American edition of Origin. AG’s assessment of the book’s weak and strong points. Suggests Jeffries Wyman would be a useful source of facts and hints for CD.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Jan 1860 |
| Classmark: | DAR 98 (ser. 2): 22–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2663 |
From Asa Gray 20 February 1860
Summary
Arrangements for the American edition of Origin.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Feb 1860 |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (37) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2706 |
From Asa Gray [10 July 1860]
Summary
Cases of "dioecio-dimorphism" as in primroses are widespread. AG always considered them the first step toward bisexuality.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [10 July 1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 110 (ser. 2): 77 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2819 |
| letter | (6) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Boott, Francis | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (6) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Boott, Francis | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
