To Charles Lyell 30 July [1860]
Summary
Comments on BAAS meeting: "our side seems to have got on very well". Asa Gray, too, is fighting nobly.
Comments on review [by Samuel Wilberforce] in the Quarterly [Rev. 108 (1860): 225–64].
Mentions a favourable review in the London Review.
Wonders if German translation [of the Origin] by Bronn has drawn attention to the subject.
The Natural History Review to be edited by Huxley and others.
Expects CL’s book [Antiquity of man (1863)] to be a bombshell.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 30 July [1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.222) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2881 |
To James Dwight Dana 30 July [1860]
Summary
Has been able to do nothing in science of late due to illness [of Henrietta].
When JDD reads Origin, CD knows he will be opposed to it, but he will be liberal and philosophical, which is more than he can say for his English opponents.
Has not yet seen L. Agassiz’s attack, but in principle avoids answering.
No one understands Origin so well as Asa Gray.
At BAAS meeting at Oxford, CD’s side seems almost to have got the best of the battle.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Dwight Dana |
Date: | 30 July [1860] |
Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 44) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2882 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 30 July [1860]
Summary
Thanks for information on pigeon hatching
and on drones.
Believes occasional crosses indispensable.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 30 July [1860] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2883 |
To Frederick Watkins 30 July [1860]
Summary
Though his book [Origin] has been abused and criticised as well as praised, its effect on good workers in science convinces him that in the main he is on the right road.
In reply to FW’s question, CD says his [CD’s] arguments are valid that all animals are descended from four or five primordial forms; analogy and weak reasons go to show they have descended from some single prototype.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Frederick Watkins |
Date: | 30 July [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 293 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2884 |
To W. E. Darwin [30 July 1860]
Summary
Tells of Etty’s [Henrietta]’s illness and progress; their future plans.
Mentions some responses to the Origin; the naturalists are fighting over it in North America.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [30 July 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 56 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2885 |
To T. H. Huxley [30? July 1860]
Summary
Relates anecdote concerning the blind Henry Fawcett and the Bishop of Oxford; Fawcett proclaimed, within the other’s hearing, that the Bishop had not read the Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | [30? July 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 145 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2887 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
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Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
Dana, J. D. | (1) |
Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Darwin and working from home
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Ever wondered how Darwin worked? As part of our For the Curious series of simple interactives, ‘Darwin working from home’ lets you explore objects from Darwin’s study and garden at Down House to learn how he worked and what he had to say about it. And not…
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Henrietta Darwin's diary
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Darwin's daughter Henrietta kept a diary for a few momentous weeks in 1871. This was the year in which Descent of Man, the most controversial of her father's books after Origin itself, appeared, a book which she had helped him write. The small…
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Bartholomew James Sulivan
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On Christmas Day 1866, Bartholomew Sulivan sat down to write a typically long and chatty letter to his old friend, Charles Darwin, commiserating on shared ill-health, glorying in the achievements of their children, offering to collect plant specimens, and…
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