From G. H. Darwin [27] March [1868]
Summary
Discusses law versus engineering and business as a career.
Supposes ARW will have "squashed" GHD’s criticisms of his notes on sterility.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [27] Mar [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6047 |
From G. H. Darwin 8 December 1868
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Dec 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6495 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Darwin, G. H. Darwin, C. R. …
- … From G. H. Darwin 8 December 1868 …
- … on Saturday. Your affectionate Son | G. H. Darwin I am utterly demoralised & can’t read …
- … Darwin and Marlborough Robert Pryor were both undergraduates at Trinity College, Cambridge. Nat. Sc. : natural science. Pryor was a scholar from 1868 ( Alum. Cantab. ). Francis had apparently received a bad cut to his thigh (see letter to G. H. Darwin, [ …
To G. H. Darwin [9 December 1868]
Summary
Asks GHD to look in William Thomson’s book [W. Thomson and P. G. Tait, Treatise on natural philosophy, vol. 1 (1867)] to see how many million years ago Thomson says earth’s crust solidified. CD is troubled by "brevity of the world", because pre-Silurian creatures must have lived during endless ages "else my views wd be wrong, which is impossible – Q.E.D.".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [9 Dec 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6496 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Darwin, G. H. …
- … To G. H. Darwin [9 December 1868] …
- … this letter and the letter from G. H. Darwin, 8 December 1868 . In 1868, the first …
- … and Lyell 1867–8 . See letter from G. H. Darwin, 8 December 1868 and n. 3. Lyell does …
- … Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), George went to Wales on 16 December 1868. CD had claimed in Origin , p. 307, that life existed before the Silurian period. CD refers to Richard Owen and the ‘derivative theory’ (see letter from G. H. Darwin, …
To G. H. Darwin [24 March 1868]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [24 Mar 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6044 |
Matches: 3 hits
To George Howard Darwin 24 January [1868]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 24 Jan [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5796 |
From G. H. Lewes 8 August 1868
Summary
Gratified by CD’s approval of his articles, which the public has not much liked.
Clarifies the obscure sentence CD criticised – forms having a different genesis can be similar.
Calls CD’s attention to Kovalevsky’s memoir on Amphioxus [Mem. Acad. Imp. Sci. St.-Pétersbourg 7th ser. 11 (1868) no.4]. K’s views are all in favour of CD’s and against GHL’s.
Author: | George Henry Lewes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Aug 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 31–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6309 |
From George Henry Lewes 2 March 1868
Summary
Is engaged on an article for Fortnightly Review on Variation ["Mr Darwin’s hypotheses", n.s. 9: 353–73, 611–28; n.s. 10: 61–80, 492–509]. Asks CD some questions.
While he agrees with natural selection, he believes many "organic details" develop irrespective of advantage.
Author: | George Henry Lewes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Mar 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: D5–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5969 |
From W. R. Grove 17 April 1868
Summary
He and another Bencher of Lincoln’s Inn have signed the necessary certificates for admission of CD’s son [George].
Author: | William Robert Grove |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Apr 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 234 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6127 |
From G. H. Lewes 30 July 1868
Summary
In consideration of CD’s health, withdraws his request for notes on GHL’s articles.
While in Freiburg, heard that August Weismann’s inaugural address on CD’s views [Über die Berechtigung der Darwin’schen Theorie (1868)] created a sensation.
Author: | George Henry Lewes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 July 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: D9–10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6297 |
From G. H. Lewes [17 November 1868]
Summary
Asks CD to propose him for Linnean Society.
Would like to have Lyell put his objections to GHL’s papers [Fortn. Rev. 9 (1868): 353–73, 611–28; 10 (1868): 61–80, 492–509] in the form of notes, so he can have them before him when he recasts his papers into a book.
Author: | George Henry Lewes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [17 Nov 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 106: D3–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6462 |
From G. H. Lewes 12 November 1868
Summary
Disappointed that he missed CD. Hopes still to see him in the flesh.
Has CD seen August Weismann’s inaugural address [see 6297]?
Author: | George Henry Lewes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Nov 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: D11–12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6458 |
To G. H. Lewes 28 July [1868]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Henry Lewes |
Date: | 28 July [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 41 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6293 |
From G. H. Lewes 26 July 1868
Summary
Replies to CD’s letter [missing]. He does intend to treat of Pangenesis "as the most remarkable hypothesis yet put forth".
His articles in Fortnightly Review have grown in number so that he plans to make a book of them. Asks CD to send him notes of his objections.
Author: | George Henry Lewes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 July 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: D7–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6290 |
To G. H. K. Thwaites 26 October [1868]
Summary
Encloses Queries about expression.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Henry Kendrick Thwaites |
Date: | 26 Oct [1868] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.335) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6431 |
To G. H. Lewes [13 November 1868]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Henry Lewes |
Date: | [13 Nov 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 43 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6459 |
To G. H. K. Thwaites 2 September 1868
Summary
Thanks GHKT and S. O. Glenie for information about fowls.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Henry Kendrick Thwaites |
Date: | 2 Sept 1868 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.354) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6344 |
To George Henry Kendrick Thwaites 31 January [1868]
Summary
Asks GHKT about eyes of screaming elephants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Henry Kendrick Thwaites |
Date: | 31 Jan [1868] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.325) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2670 |
To G. H. K. Thwaites 13 February [1868]
Summary
Asks whether mane in male of Macacus silenus protects it from bites or is merely ornamental.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Henry Kendrick Thwaites |
Date: | 13 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.341) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5872 |
To G. H. K. Thwaites 29 December 1868
Summary
Discusses experiments in breeding fowls.
Comments on letter from S. O. Glenie [see 6440] concerning the eyes of trumpeting elephants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Henry Kendrick Thwaites |
Date: | 29 Dec 1868 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.358) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6514 |
From G. H. K. Thwaites 16 October 1868
Author: | George Henry Kendrick Thwaites |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Oct 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 125 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6420 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (19) |
Lewes, G. H. | (6) |
Thwaites, G. H. K. | (3) |
Darwin, G. H. | (2) |
Wallace, A. R. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (21) |
Thwaites, G. H. K. | (8) |
Lewes, G. H. | (4) |
Darwin, G. H. | (3) |
Wallace, A. R. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (40) |
Thwaites, G. H. K. | (11) |
Lewes, G. H. | (10) |
Darwin, G. H. | (5) |
Wallace, A. R. | (4) |