To St G. J. Mivart 11 January [1872]
Summary
CD believes that StGJM has been unfair in his criticisms and has misrepresented him; he begs him not to write again. "Agassiz has uttered splendid sarcasms on me, but I still feel quite friendly towards him. M. Flourens cd. not find words to express his contempt of me: Pictet & Hopkins argued with great force against me: Fleeming Jenkin covered me with first-rate ridicule; & his crticisms were true & most useful: but none of their writings have mortified me as yours have done …" [See 8154.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | St George Jackson Mivart |
| Date: | 11 Jan [1872] |
| Classmark: | Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8156A |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 10 January 1872 and n. 1. CD refers to Chauncey Wright . On Louis Agassiz’s disagreements with CD, see Lurie 1960 , pp. 252–302. See also Correspondence vol. 8, letter to Asa Gray, 11 August [1860] , and Correspondence vol. 16, letter to Louis Agassiz, 19 August 1868 . Marie Jean Pierre Flourens had written a book criticising Origin ( Flourens 1864 ; see also Correspondence vol. 12, …
