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To W. B. Dawkins 12 April [1871]
Summary
Sends contribution of £5 to Settle Cave Exploration Fund.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Boyd Dawkins |
| Date: | 12 Apr [1871] |
| Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 22) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6695 |
From John Murray 12 April [1871]
Summary
Asks CD’s opinion of a request from Loescher of Turin. Thinks Loescher should have named his translator.
Does CD know the name of the Times reviewer?
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Apr [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 395 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7676 |
From George Fraser 12 April 1871
Summary
On sexual selection in butterflies. [See GF’s article in Nature 3 (1870–1): 489; also Descent (1875): 312.]
| Author: | George Rae Thomson (George) Fraser |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 89: 100–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7677 |
To James Crichton-Browne 12 April 1871
Summary
Discusses blushing. CD believes confusion of mind alone can account for it. Sends MS for JC-B’s comments and corrections.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
| Date: | 12 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 338 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7678 |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Fraser, George | (1) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Crichton-Browne, James | (1) |
| Dawkins, W. B. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Crichton-Browne, James | (1) |
| Dawkins, W. B. | (1) |
| Fraser, George | (1) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
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St George Jackson Mivart
Summary
In the second half of 1874, Darwin’s peace was disturbed by an anonymous article in the Quarterly Review suggesting that his son George was opposed to the institution of marriage and in favour of ‘unrestrained licentiousness’. Darwin suspected, correctly,…
Matches: 19 hits
- … it for publication in the next issue of the Quarterly ( letter from G. H. Darwin, 29 July 1874 …
- … kind of thing Murray would be likely to wish to circulate ( letter to G. H. Darwin, 1 August [1874] …
- … them explicitly, he might be thought to endorse them ( letter from G. H. Darwin, 5 August 1874 ). …
- … of encouraging licentiousness. A postscript to Darwin’s letter, which may belong to another letter, …
- … on board Darwin’s comments and sent a fair copy of his letter with his letter of 6 [August] 1874 …
- … or ‘groundless.’ Mr. Darwin’s own words are (p. 412): ‘The object of this article is to point out …
- … of words having been used in a Pickwickian sense’ ( letter to John Murray, 18 October 1874 ). In …
- … Huxley’s protégé, and Huxley’s reaction was savage ( letter to G. H. Darwin, [6 December 1874] ). …
- … have Mivart admit his authorship of the attack on George ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 14 December 1874 …
- … unjustifiably attacked a friend of mine.’ ( Enclosure to letter from J. D. Hooker, 21 December 1874 …
- … , felt to be due to Mr Darwin. For when I read his letter in August, I certainly felt that he …
- … Archives) Huxley did not share this letter with Darwin but wrote to him, ‘he not …
- … he is not devoid of all the instincts of a gentleman’ ( letter from T. H. Huxley, 23 December 1874 …
- … of London.) Mivart swiftly replied to Huxley’s letter : again, Darwin did not see this. …
- … Confidential Dear Huxley, I thank you for your letter of yesterday’s date as also for …
- … in my own name. The way however, in which you take my letter makes it necessary for me, in …
- … delayed through no fault of mine. Thus, as I said in my letter, I did not feel in August as I have …
- … This was the misunderstanding I dreaded & to which my last letter referred. As to the …
- … to Mr Darwin Senior because, from his expression in the last letter I received from him, I thought …
Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition
Summary
Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn. That lost list is recreated here.
Matches: 5 hits
- … make any such changes to the existing German edition (see letter from H. G. Bronn, [before 11 …
- … number of small corrections & a few of importance’ (see letter to H. G. Bronn, 11 March [1862] …
- … that the remainder be included in the new edition; in his letter to Bronn of 25 April [1862 ], he …
- … possible use in a new American edition of Origin (see letter from E. Schweizerbart’sche …
- … in Origin 4th ed., pp. 450–1. 48. p. 412. This sentence also appears in Origin 4th …
