To T. H. Huxley [11 or 18 May 1871]
Summary
Asks for a ticket for THH’s lecture at the Royal Institution for WED. With ED’s and HED’s forgeries of CD’s signature.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | [11 or 18] May 1871 |
Classmark: | Janet Huxley (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6541F |
From T. H. Huxley 20 February 1871
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Feb 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 324 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7494 |
From T. H. Huxley 30 July 1871
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 July 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 325 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7888 |
To T. H. Huxley 21 September [1871]
Summary
On Mivart’s Genesis of species, and THH’s intention to reply to it.
Chauncey Wright’s pamphlet [see 7940].
CD is revising Origin and will answer Mivart on incipient organs. "Pendulum is swinging against us, but will swing back again".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 21 Sept [1871] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 279) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7958 |
From T. H. Huxley 28 September 1871
Summary
Sends proof of article for Contemporary Review [18 (1871): 443–76].
Is grieved to hear that Mivart is author of Quarterly Review article. THH thought better of him than that.
Compares the Origin to Plato’s Republic: "it will remain fresh for two thousand years".
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Sept 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 43–46 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7973 |
To T. H. Huxley 30 September [1871]
Summary
On THH’s review [see 7977] of Mivart’s Genesis of species and the Quarterly Review article on Descent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 30 Sept [1871] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 283) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7976 |
To T. H. Huxley 5 October [1871]
Summary
Hooker admires THH’s review of Mivart [see 7977]. Most impressed by THH’s handling of metaphysics.
Hooker’s problems: family health and A. S. Ayrton [Commissioner of Works].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 5 Oct [1871] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 287) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7987 |
To T. H. Huxley 9 October [1871]
Summary
Asks whether THH has written on affinities of Eocene cetacean Zeuglodon. Wants to cite it in 6th ed. of Origin as in some slight degree an intermediate form, but does not know how far he may venture.
Has had more evidence of profound impression of Mivart’s book [Genesis of species].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 9 Oct [1871] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 289) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7995 |
From T. H. Huxley 10 October 1871
Summary
Answers CD on transitional forms. Has no doubt Zeuglodon is transitional form between Carnivora and Cetacea.
Met Mivart in Manchester. Some doubt that he was the author of Quarterly Review article.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Oct 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 326 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8000 |
From T. H. Huxley and H. A. Huxley 20 September 1871
Summary
Has received Chauncey Wright’s pamphlet [see 7940].
Has reviewed Quarterly Review article and 2d ed. of Genesis of species for the Contemporary Review [18 (1871): 443–76].
Mivart has hopelessly misunderstood Suarez [Disputiones (1630)] on evolution.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley; Henrietta Anne Heathorn; Henrietta Anne Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Sept 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 39–42 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7953 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
Huxley, T. H. | (5) |
Heathorn, H. A. | (1) |
Huxley, H. A. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
Huxley, T. H. | (5) |
Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
Huxley, T. H. | |
Heathorn, H. A. | (1) |
Huxley, H. A. | (1) |