To Charles Lovegrove 14 December [1859–71]
Summary
Acknowledges contribution to Down Coal and Clothing Club.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lovegrove |
| Date: | 14 Dec [1859-71] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13822 |
To John Higgins 4 December 1859
Summary
Acknowledges receipt of £241 19s. 10d.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Higgins |
| Date: | 4 Dec 1859 |
| Classmark: | Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (10 April 2019, lot 138) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2570F |
To John Higgins 26 December 1859
Summary
Discusses purchase of additional land.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Higgins |
| Date: | 26 Dec 1859 |
| Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/3/2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2605 |
To Francis Galton 13 December [1859]
Summary
Thanks FG for comments [on Origin].
Acknowledges error involving rhinoceros.
Thinks female fowls select victorious or most beautiful cock.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Galton |
| Date: | 13 Dec [1859] |
| Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/5) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2581 |
To Leonard Horner 23 December [1859]
Summary
Much pleased that LH approves of Origin.
"Ilkley [Wells] did me extraordinary good."
Wants to know C. J. F. Bunbury’s opinion of Origin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leonard Horner |
| Date: | 23 Dec [1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 145: 140 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2596 |
From Francis Galton 9 December 1859
Summary
Congratulates CD on Origin; has been "initiated into an entirely new province of knowledge".
Notes error involving rhinoceros.
Encloses other notes.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Dec 1859 |
| Classmark: | DAR 98: B16 and DAR 106: D22 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2573 |
To Asa Gray 21 December [1859]
Summary
Would welcome American edition of Origin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 21 Dec [1859] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (16) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2592 |
To Charles Kingsley 1 December [1859]
Summary
Is very glad CK wrote the article My Winter Garden (Kingsley 1858), which CD enjoyed.
Thinks CK should read abstracts of Living Cirripedia (1851) and Living Cirripedia (1854), and then, if he is particularly interested, borrow the actual volumes, rather than purchase them.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Kingsley |
| Date: | 1 Dec [1859] |
| Classmark: | University of Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library (MSS gen 30.058) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2564F |
To John Lubbock 17 December [1859]
Summary
Local affairs and finances.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 17 Dec [1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 31 (EH 88206480) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2586 |
From William Jardine 20 December 1859
Summary
Cannot agree with all of CD’s views [in Origin].
Thinks too much is made of the Galapagos. The peculiarity of their ornithology will break down.
Offers to answer any questions on ornithology.
| Author: | William Jardine |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Dec 1859 |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 278 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2590 |
To Charles James Fox Bunbury 3 December [1859]
Summary
Thanks for note; correcting proofs for 2d ed. [of Origin].
"If your are at all staggered I shall be quite interested."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th baronet |
| Date: | 3 Dec [1859] |
| Classmark: | Carnegie Book Shop (dealers) (catalogue 359) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2569 |
To John Murray 10 December 1859
Summary
Sends receipt for bill for £180 due 27 May 1860 [for Origin].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 10 Dec 1859 |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42153 ff.22–23) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2577 |
To John Murray 26 [December 1859]
Summary
Has sent off last proof of 2d ed. of Origin. Assumes JM has remembered the diagram. Asks that remaining clean sheets be sent to Asa Gray.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 26 [Dec 1859] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.48–48A) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2607 |
To Charles Lyell 29 [December 1859]
Summary
Encloses letter concerning Edward Blyth’s application for a position with the China expedition.
Mentions reviews of the Origin. Guesses that Huxley wrote the Times review.
Alludes to discussion of relations between fossil and modern types [in Principles of geology 3: 144].
Discusses destruction of tropical forms in the glacial period.
Mentions letter from Dana concerning Dana’s illness.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 29 [Dec 1859] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.188) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2612 |
To Hugh Falconer 17 December [1859]
Summary
Suggests HF investigate hippopotamus tooth.
Has heard HF is very antagonistic to his views on species. Cannot believe a false theory would explain so many classes of facts.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
| Date: | 17 Dec [1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 22 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2587 |
To John Murray 4 December [1859]
Summary
Thanks JM for trouble taken with French edition [of Journal of researches].
Is glad 3000 copies of 2d ed. [of Origin] will be printed.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 4 Dec [1859] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 f.47) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2570 |
To T. H. Huxley [9 December 1859]
Summary
Sends enclosure [unspecified].
Reminds THH to mention [German] translation [of Origin] when he writes to R. A. von Kölliker.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | [9 Dec 1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 145: 189 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2574 |
To John Murray 24 December [1859]
Summary
Thanks JM for present of McClintock’s work [Sir Francis Leopold McClintock, The voyage of the "Fox" in the Arctic seas (1859)], which he and his wife look forward to reading.
Asks to be told when reprint [of Origin] is ready.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 24 Dec [1859] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42153 ff.24–25) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2597 |
To J. D. Hooker 29 [December 1859]
Summary
Queries possible misprint in JDH’s introduction to Flora Tasmaniae.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 29 [Dec 1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 34 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2613 |
To Charles Lyell [3 December 1859]
Summary
Encloses a letter from FitzRoy to the Times.
Mentions letter from W. B. Carpenter accepting single progenitor for major animal classes.
Speculates about Richard Owen’s opinion.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [3 Dec 1859] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.182) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2567 |
| letter | (52) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (47) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Galton, Francis | (1) |
| Holland, Henry | (1) |
| Jardine, William | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (7) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (7) |
| Lyell, Charles | (6) |
| Murray, John (b) | (6) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Hooker, J. D. | (9) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (7) |
| Lyell, Charles | (6) |
| Murray, John (b) | (6) |
| Galton, Francis | (2) |
| Gray, Asa | (2) |
| Higgins, John | (2) |
| Lubbock, John | (2) |
| Owen, Richard | (2) |
| Bunbury, C. J. F. | (1) |
| Carpenter, W. B. | (1) |
| Dana, J. D. | (1) |
| Falconer, Hugh | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Holland, Henry | (1) |
| Horner, Leonard | (1) |
| Jardine, William | (1) |
| Jeffreys, J. G. | (1) |
| Kingsley, Charles | (1) |
| Lovegrove, Charles | (1) |
| Pictet de la Rive, F. J. | (1) |
| Quatrefages de Bréau, Armand de Quatrefages | (1) |
| Sykes, W. H. | (1) |
