From David Forbes 18 February 1871
Summary
Thanks for copy of Descent.
| Author: | David Forbes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Feb 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 146 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7487 |
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 |
To A. R. Wallace 24 March [1871]
Summary
On the flourishing sales of their respective books. Mentions reviews of Descent in Pall Mall Gazette [21 Mar 1871] and in the Spectator [11 Mar 1871, pp. 288–9; 18 Mar 1871, pp. 319–20].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 24 Mar [1871] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7616 |
To Frederick Greenwood 24 March [1871]
Summary
Encloses a letter [7617] to be forwarded to the author of the review of Descent in Pall Mall Gazette.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frederick Greenwood |
| Date: | 24 Mar [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 146: 409, ML 1: 324 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7621 |
To John Murray 20 March 1871
Summary
Pleased with sum the reprint [of Descent] has produced. Terms of payment accepted.
Thanks JM for Nonconformist [review of Descent, 32 (1871): 240–1].
Would like to see other out-of-way reviews – especially religious.
Other reviews favourable, including Wallace’s [see 7569], which is admirable.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 20 Mar 1871 |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 250–1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7603 |
To H. E. Darwin 20 March 1871
Summary
Reports on sales and reception of his book [Descent]. Thanks HED for her help.
Wallace’s article in the Academy [2 (1870–1): 177–82] shows CD has had no influence on him; the review has had hardly any influence on CD.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | 20 Mar 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 153: 77 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7605 |
From H. E. Darwin 21 March [1871]
Summary
Is delighted at the sale of Descent. What CD says about her help pleases her very much and the proposed gift as a memorial will be very precious to her. Is looking forward to seeing the family in London. Comments on a letter comparing CD's appearance to an ape. Is surprised CD has had no effect on Wallace: 'It seems to me his mind can’t be so clear as u used to think it'. Has worked out why she is dissatisfied with T. H. Huxley's essay ‘On the physical basis of life’ (T. H. Huxley 1869).
| Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Mar [1871] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 44) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7605F |
From John Wood 19 April 1871
Summary
Movement of hair; action of occipito-frontalis muscle.
| Author: | John Wood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 142 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7699 |
From Charles and Emma Darwin to F. J. Wedgwood [after 11 March 1871]
Summary
A draft letter [but sent in the original state by Emma Darwin]. Approves of FJW’s notice of his views.
CD has slightly revised parts in view of both approving and disapproving critics, but still remains convinced about his fundamental notions.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frances Julia (Snow) Wedgwood |
| Date: | [after 11 Mar 1871?] |
| Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 57–31570) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8127 |
From W. W. Reade 18 September 1871
Summary
There is a primary law of growth and innate improvement. Natural selection is a secondary law that operates to "arrange the details". This is not Lamarckian, because will is not involved.
Thanks for Chauncey Wright’s pamphlet [Darwinism (1871)].
Amused by critics who say CD is metaphysically unsophisticated.
| Author: | William Winwood Reade |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Sept 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 49 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7950 |
From L. A. J. Quetelet 11 January 1871
Summary
Sends diploma of election to the Royal Belgian Academy.
| Author: | Lambert Adolphe Jacques (Adolphe) Quetelet; Société Royale des Sciences, des Lettres, et des Beaux-arts de Belgique |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Jan 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 175: 13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7437 |
To William Ogle 13 April [1871]
Summary
Reports further observations on contraction of platysma. Has been assisted by J. Wood. [See Expression, pp. 302, 303.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Ogle |
| Date: | 13 Apr [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.5: 11 (EH 88205909) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7679 |
From G. H. Darwin [17 July 1871]
Summary
Discusses legal matters; CD’s will and setting up trusts for Henrietta Darwin’s forthcoming marriage.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [17 July 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 21 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7841 |
From J. D. Hooker 22 December 1871
Summary
Philosophical Club dinner.
Lyell contradicts W. B. Carpenter on current in Straits of Gibraltar.
James Orton’s report on fossil shells found by L. Agassiz 2000 miles up the Amazon. Their identification disposes of the glacial hypothesis.
No news yet from Gladstone on Ayrton affair.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Dec 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 99–100 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8117 |
From F. S. B. F. de Chaumont to W. E. Darwin 11 March 1871
Summary
In response to queries on expression, which WED had asked on CD’s behalf, reports on shrugging and pouting observed in his children.
| Author: | Francis Stephen Bennet François de Chaumont |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Mar 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 135 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7573 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 11 th . 1871 My dear Darwin, I am very sorry I missed you today— M rs . de Chaumont was too unwell to see anybody having been all the morning in bed with a very bad cold— I intended to have answered your former notes but waited until I could supply positive information, of which I am sorry to say I have little to offer— First with regard to the shrug :— Our eldest child, Helen, aged 4 years, 16 th . December last—shrugged her shoulders at the age of between 16 and 18 …
From Arthur Nicols 15 April 1871
Summary
Objects to the negative reviews of Descent, notably in the Athenæum and the Times.
The exceptions are the Academy, Nature, and his own, in the Field [37 (1871): 210].
| Author: | Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 57 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7687 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 18 March 1871. For reviews of Descent , see Correspondence vol. 19, Appendix V. John R. Leifchild reviewed Descent in the Athenæum ( [Leifchild] 1871 ); there was an anonymous review in The Times , 7 April 1871, p. 3, and 8 April 1871, p. 5. An anonymous review appeared in the Saturday Review , 4 and 11 …
From W. W. Reade 20 September 1871
Summary
Surprised at Mivart’s harsh review [Q. Rev. 131 (1871): 47–90], considering courteous tone of his book. Assures CD he has not been converted by Mivart.
| Author: | William Winwood Reade |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Sept 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 50 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7955 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 18, letter from W. W. Reade, 3 September 1870 ; ODNB. ) Reade refers to Samuel White Baker and Nile tributaries of Abyssinia ( S. W. Baker 1867 , p. 189). CD cited Baker for this information in Origin 6th ed. , p. 178. Reade’s Martyrdom of man ( Reade 1872 ) was published in May 1872 ( Athenæum , 11 …
To R. F. Cooke 12 January [1871]
Summary
Has no idea about length of index [for Descent]. W. S. Dallas wrote it would take ten days more. Asks how many presentation copies he may have. Lists journals to receive review copies.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Date: | 12 Jan [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 274 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7438 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 11, letter from Hugh Falconer, 8 January [1863] ). The title of the journal was Popular Science Review. For reviews of Descent , see Correspondence vol. 19, Appendix V. For CD’s complaint about books being sold with pages uncut, see Correspondence vol. 15, letter to Athenæum , 1 January 1867. He received Charles Lyell’s The student’s elements of geology ( Lyell 1871 ) in December 1870 ( Correspondence vol. 18, …
From Francis Galton 9 January 1871
Summary
Definite results have been delayed, but he is optimistic.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Jan 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: A23–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7432 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 11 December 1869 , and Galton 1871 . According to CD’s hypothesis, each cell in an organism produces particles (gemmules) that are capable of generating new cells; the gemmules circulate throughout the organism until aggregated either by the reproductive organs or for the reconstruction of parts ( Variation 2: 357–404). Galton evidently assumed that all gemmules circulated in the blood, and that transfusion of blood would therefore transfer hereditary information from the donor to the recipient. For accounts of the experiments, see also Pearson 1914–30 , 2: 156–66, and Bulmer 2003 , pp. 116–18. …
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| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (1) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Greenwood, Frederick | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (18) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (2) |
| Litchfield, H. E. | (2) |
| Reade, W. W. | (2) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (1) |
