To Henry Fawcett 6 December [1860]
Summary
Expresses his admiration for HF’s review of Origin in Macmillan’s Magazine (Fawcett 1860).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Fawcett |
Date: | 6 Dec [1860] |
Classmark: | Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3012F |
To Henry Fawcett 20 July 1861
Summary
"You could not possibly have told me anything which would have given me more satisfaction than what you say about Mr. Mill’s opinion." [See 2868.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Fawcett |
Date: | 20 July 1861 |
Classmark: | Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3215A |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Supplement, letter to Henry Fawcett, 6 December [1860] , and Fawcett 1860 ). Henrietta …
- … Supplement, letter to Henry Fawcett, 6 December [1860] and n. 6). Both Adam Sedgwick and …
- … Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Fawcett, Henry. 1860. A popular exposition of Mr Darwin …
- … 1860] and n. 5). Fawcett had told CD about a conversation he had had with John Stuart Mill in which Mill endorsed the logic of CD’s reasoning in Origin (see Correspondence vol. 9, letter from Henry …
To J. D. Hooker 6 December [1860]
Summary
Henry Fawcett’s article on Origin [Macmillan’s Mag. 3 (1860): 81–92] quotes JDH’s Oxford speech.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 6 Dec [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 79 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3011 |
To W. E. Darwin [8 December 1860]
Summary
Asks identity of [Henry] Fawcett, who wrote a capital article on the Origin in Macmillan’s Magazine [3 (1860): 81–92], "A popular exposition of Mr Darwin".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [8 Dec 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 60 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3014 |
From Henry Fawcett 16 July [1861]
Summary
Elaborates on his article ["A popular exposition of Mr Darwin on the origin of species", Macmillan’s Mag. 3 (1860): 81–92]. Was anxious to point out that CD’s method of investigation is philosophically correct. Asks permission to call.
Author: | Henry Fawcett |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 July [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 98 (ser. 2): 29–30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2868 |
To Asa Gray 14 December [1860]
Summary
Encloses note from Huxley [see 3022], who would be grateful for Chauncey Wright’s review.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 14 Dec [1860] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (39) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3023 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Press of Harvard University. Fawcett, Henry. 1860. A popular exposition of Mr Darwin on …
- … 1860] . William Henry Harvey’s letter to Asa Gray , dated 3 November 1860, is in the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University. Harvey commented on Gray’s review of Origin ([Gray] 1860b): ‘Almost thou persuadest me to be a Darwinite—not quite so, but thou persuadest me to be a Grayite. ’ The Boston publishing firm Ticknor and Fields had agreed to print Gray’s pamphlet, for distribution by Trübner and Company in London ( Dupree 1959 , p. 299). Probably Fawcett …
To T. H. Huxley 5 [December 1860]
Summary
Thanks THH for his note; pleased by what he says. Is too sensitive about shades of opinion of men like THH.
The Macmillan article on Origin [H. Fawcett, "A popular exposition of Mr Darwin on the origin of species", Macmillan’s Mag. 3 (1860): 81–92].
J. E. Gray’s misunderstanding of Origin.
Account of the encounter at Oxford BAAS meeting.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 5 [Dec 1860] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5:130) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3009 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Fawcett, Henry. 1860. A popular exposition of Mr Darwin …
- … Henry Fawcett’s article, entitled ‘A popular exposition of Mr. Darwin on the origin of species’, was published in the December 1860 …
- … Henry Fawcett’s article on Origin . See n. 4, below. Huxley’s letter has not been found. In the letter to T. H. Huxley, 2 December [1860] , …
To John Murray 5 December [1860]
Summary
Reminds JM that copies of diagram must be printed off [for Origin, 3d ed.]. It must be carefully reproduced or parts of the book will be as unintelligible as Hebrew. Hopes never again to have to make so many additions in order that many rather stupid reviewers will at least understand what he meant.
There is a good article on the Origin in Macmillan’s Magazine [by Henry Fawcett].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 5 Dec [1860] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.60–61) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3010 |
To Charles Lyell 4 December [1860]
Summary
Sale of Origin requires new edition [3d (Apr 1861)].
Further discussion of geological elevation and subsidence in Europe. Compares evidence to that of South America. His theory that semi-fluid matter underlies earth’s crust.
Mentions David Forbes’s explanation of South American nitrate deposits.
Has followed CL’s advice not to reply directly to reviewers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 4 Dec [1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.236) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3006 |
To Asa Gray 21 July [1861]
Summary
Is writing his paper on orchids.
Is surprised that AG gets little or no response with Drosera.
Describes the two forms of Primula and asks whether AG knows any analogous cases of dimorphism.
Reports that John Stuart Mill approves of CD’s scientific method.
Discusses American politics.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 21 July [1861] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (61) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3216 |
To Henry Fawcett 18 September [1861]
Summary
Comments on MS of HF’s address ["On the method of Mr Darwin in his treatise on the origin of species", Rep. BAAS (1861) pt 2: 141–3]. "How odd it is that anyone should not see that all observation must be for or against some view if it is to be of any service."
Describes his health.
The response to his views in Germany, Holland, and Russia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Fawcett |
Date: | 18 Sept [1861] |
Classmark: | Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3257 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Henry Fawcett. London: Smith, Elder. Thackray, John C. 1981. R. I. Murchison’s Siluria (1854 and later). Archives of Natural History 10: 37–43. Trautschold, Hermann Adolfovich. 1861. Übergänge und Zwischenvarietäten. [Reprinted from the Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 33 (1860): …
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