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To Charles Lyell   22 [December 1859]

Summary

Comments on Hooker’s introductory essay [in Flora Tasmaniae].

Cites C. V. Naudin’s article ["Considérations philosophiques sur l’espèce et la variété", Rev. Hortic. 4th ser. 1 (1852): 102–9].

Mentions letter from William Jardine criticising discussion of the Galapagos in the Origin.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  22 [Dec 1859]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.186)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2593

Matches: 16 hits

  • … To Charles Lyell   22 [December 1859] …
  • … Mss.B.D25.186) Charles Robert Darwin Down 22 [Dec 1859] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
  • … letter from William Jardine, 20 December 1859 . CD later took up the point about Galápagos …
  • … Dated by CD’s reference to the letter from William Jardine, 20 December 1859 . See …
  • … letters to Charles Lyell , 25 [November 1859] and [ …
  • … 10 December 1859] , and to Richard …
  • … Owen , 10 December [1859]. CD had intended to visit London from 22 to 24 December ( …
  • … letter to T.  H. Huxley, 16 December [1859] ). …
  • … CD refers to Hooker 1859 . Lyell had …
  • … written to Joseph Dalton Hooker on 19 December 1859 with praise for the work: ‘I have just …
  • … of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. …
  • … reading Hooker’s comments on it in Hooker 1859 , p. xi n. Hooker touched on the problem of …
  • … Lyell in relation to CD’s theory (see letters from Charles Lyell , 28 October 1859  and …
  • … 21 November 1859 ). See also Wilson ed. 1970, p.  340. It is not clear whether CD had …
  • … a copy of Origin through Hooker (see letters to J.  D. Hooker, 15 October [1859] and …
  • … 23 [December 1859] ). CD certainly thought that Naudin had, to some extent, anticipated …

To Charles Lyell   29 [December 1859]

Summary

Encloses letter concerning Edward Blyth’s application for a position with the China expedition.

Mentions reviews of the Origin. Guesses that Huxley wrote the Times review.

Alludes to discussion of relations between fossil and modern types [in Principles of geology 3: 144].

Discusses destruction of tropical forms in the glacial period.

Mentions letter from Dana concerning Dana’s illness.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  29 [Dec 1859]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.188)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2612

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  • … To Charles Lyell   29 [December 1859] …
  • … Mss.B.D25.188) Charles Robert Darwin Down 29 [Dec 1859] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
  • … 378. Natural selection , p.  550 n.  1. In 1859, James Dwight Dana suffered a nervous …
  • … to Europe ( Gilman 1899 , p.  177). See also letter to J.  D. Dana, 30 December [1859] . …
  • … see letter to W.  H. Sykes, 20 December [1859] ). CD’s enclosure has not been found. …
  • … Letter to W.  H. Sykes, 20 December [1859] . An anonymous review …
  • … appeared in The Times , 26 December 1859, p.  8. Thomas Henry Huxley was the author ( …
  • … see letters to J.  D. Hooker, 28 [December 1859] , and to T.   …
  • … H. Huxley,28 December [1859]). …
  • … Daily News , 26 December 1859, p.  2. Robert Chambers , with his brother William …
  • … The review appeared in Chambers’s Journal 2 (1859): 388. There is a copy in the Darwin …
  • … note has not been found. See letters to Richard Owen , 13 December [1859] , and to Charles …
  • … Lyell , 27 [December 1859]. C.  Moore 1858  and 1860. Origin , p.   …
  • … of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. …

To Charles Lyell   2 December [1859]

Summary

Comments on note from Charles Kingsley saying CD’s theory is not opposed to a high conception of the Deity.

Mentions negative views of Origin of Sedgwick, John Crawfurd, Roderick Murchison, John Phillips, and Joseph Prestwich.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  2 Dec [1859]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.181)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2565

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  • … To Charles Lyell   2 December [1859] …
  • … Mss.B.D25.181) Charles Robert Darwin Ilkley 2 Dec [1859] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
  • … 2d ed. , p.  481. See letter from Charles Kingsley, 18 November 1859 , and letter to …
  • … Charles Kingsley, 30 November [1859] . See …
  • … letter to John Murray, 2 December [1859] , n.  4. …
  • … CD had sent Adam Sedgwick’s letter of 24 November 1859  to Lyell. …
  • … See letter to Charles Lyell,29 [November 1859] . …
  • … Letter to Adam Sedgwick, 26 November [1859] . John Crawfurd’s letter has not been located. …
  • … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. Phillips, John. 1860. Life on the earth, its …
  • … Origin appeared in the Examiner , 3  December 1859, pp.  772–3. CD and Lyell had recently …
  • … and dogs in particular. See especially letters to Charles Lyell , 25 October [1859] and …
  • … 31 [October 1859] , and letters from …
  • … Charles Lyell , 28 October 1859  and …
  • … 21 November 1859 . Roderick Impey Murchison’s response to the ideas put forward in Origin …
  • … 322). See letter to John Phillips, 26 November [1859] . In his presidential address to the …

To Charles Lyell   27 [December 1859]

Summary

Mentions William Clift ["Report in regard to the fossil bones found in New Holland", Edinburgh New Philos. J. 10 (1830–1): 394–6].

Discusses relations between fossil and living types.

Discusses Hooker’s introductory essay [in Flora Tasmaniae]. Criticises Hooker’s views on flora of rising and sinking islands.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  27 [Dec 1859]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.187)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2608

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  • … To Charles Lyell   27 [December 1859] …
  • … Mss.B.D25.187) Charles Robert Darwin Down 27 [Dec 1859] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
  • … doubtful’. See letter to J.  D. Hooker, 26 [December 1859] . Naudin 1852 . See letters to …
  • … J.  D. Hooker, 23 [December 1859] and …
  • … 25 [December 1859] , and to Charles …
  • … Lyell , 22 [December 1859]. …
  • … of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. …
  • … see letter to Richard Owen, 13 December [1859] . CD refers to Clift 1831 . C.  Lyell …
  • … See letter to Richard Owen, 13 December [1859] . In Origin , p.  339, CD had referred to …
  • … with this remark ( Origin , p.  1). Hooker 1859 , p. viii. The passage is marked in CD’s …

To Charles Lyell   24 [November 1859]

Summary

Sales of Origin.

Discusses revisions for second edition. Mentions possible French translation.

Views of Quatrefages [de Bréau].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  24 [Nov 1859]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.178)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2547

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  • … To Charles Lyell   24 [November 1859] …
  • … Mss.B.D25.178) Charles Robert Darwin Ilkley 24 [Nov 1859] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
  • … A. Darwin, 23 November [1859] . The postscript was written on a separate slip of paper and …
  • … of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. …
  • … Dated by the relationship to the letter to John Murray, 24 November [1859] . …
  • … Letter from Charles Lyell, [22 November 1859] . See …
  • … letter to Charles Lyell, 20 September [1859] , in which CD mentioned that it was too late …
  • … letter from Charles Lyell, [22 November 1859] . In Journal of researches , p.   114, CD …
  • … See letter to John Murray, 14 November [1859] . The letter from Jean Louis Armand de …
  • … see letter to J.  L. A. de Quatrefages de Bréau, 5 December [1859]. See letter from E.   …

To Charles Lyell   23 November [1859]

Summary

Thanks CL for his decision to accept CD’s "doctrine of modification" [in Elements of geology, 6th ed. (1865)]. Believes it "morally impossible that investigators of truth, like you and Hooker, can be wholly wrong". Does not think CL’s decision will injure his works.

Thinks CL overrates importance of multiple origin of dogs.

Mentions sending copy of Origin to Herschel. Asks CL about Herschel’s reaction.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  23 Nov [1859]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.176)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2543

Matches: 10 hits

  • … To Charles Lyell   23 November [1859] …
  • … Mss.B.D25.176) Charles Robert Darwin Ilkley 23 Nov [1859] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
  • … of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. …
  • … the letter from Charles Lyell, [22 November 1859] , since it is only mentioned later, in …
  • … the letter to Charles Lyell, 24 [November 1859] . See …
  • … letter from Charles Lyell, 21 November 1859 . See letter to J.   …
  • … F. W. Herschel, 11 November [1859] . For John Frederick William Herschel’ …
  • … s response to Origin , see letter to Charles Lyell, [10 December 1859] . …
  • … the species question. CD refers to letters from Charles Lyell , 28 October 1859  and …
  • … 21 November 1859 , and to others that are now missing. At the time this …

To Charles Lyell   29 [November 1859]

Summary

Encloses letter from Adam Sedgwick [2548].

Mentions conversion of A. C. Ramsay.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  29 [Nov 1859]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.180)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2560

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  • … To Charles Lyell   29 [November 1859] …
  • … Mss.B.D25.180) Charles Robert Darwin Ilkley 29 [Nov 1859] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
  • … Letter from Adam Sedgwick, 24 November 1859 . The letter from Thomas Henry Huxley has not …
  • … been found, but see letter to T.  H. Huxley,27 November [1859] . See …
  • … letter to Charles Lyell, 24 [November 1859] . …

To Charles Lyell   20 September [1859]

Summary

Thanks CL for his favourable remarks to the Geological Section of the BAAS concerning the forthcoming publication of the Origin. Hopes CL will accept his view of species.

Comments on CL’s paper ["On the occurrence of works of human art in post-Pliocene deposits", Rep. BAAS 29 (1859): 93–5].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  20 Sept [1859]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.169)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2492

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  • … To Charles Lyell   20 September [1859] …
  • … Mss.B.D25.169) Charles Robert Darwin Down 20 Sept [1859] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
  • … occurrence of works of human art in post-Pliocene deposits", Rep. BAAS 29 (1859): 93–5]. …
  • … of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. …
  • … see letter to Charles Lyell, 24 [November 1859] ). Richard Owen discussed the evidence for …
  • … mammals, delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain on 12 April 1859 ( R.   …
  • … Owen 1859 , p.  113). …
  • … see letter to Charles Lyell, 25 September [1859] . See Wilson ed. 1970, pp.  265–86. After …
  • … the letter to Charles Lyell, 2 September [1859] , CD asked him how the deposits containing …

To Charles Lyell   25 September [1859]

Summary

Discusses text of Origin.

Compares Eocene and modern climates.

Mentions Hooker’s view of his geographical [distribution] chapters.

Asks CL’s opinion of his statements on distribution during "glacial and preceding warmer periods".

Mentions chapters on geological record and embryology.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  25 Sept [1859]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.170)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2494

Matches: 10 hits

  • … To Charles Lyell   25 September [1859] …
  • … Mss.B.D25.170) Charles Robert Darwin Down 25 Sept [1859] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
  • … of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. …
  • … a few weeks earlier (see letters to Charles Lyell , 2 September [1859] , and to John …
  • … Murray , 2 September [1859]). There is a copy of the privately printed version of Lyell’s …
  • … changed: he did not set out for Ilkley until 2 October 1859 (‘Journal’; Appendix II). …
  • … See also letter to Charles Lyell, 30 September [1859] . …
  • … letter to Charles Lyell, 20 September [1859] ). The error was published unchanged in …
  • … Science meeting in Aberdeen (14–21 September 1859), Lyell stated that CD ‘appears to me to …
  • … to account. ’ ( Athenæum , 24 September 1859, p.   404). Lyell had read the proof- …

To Charles Lyell   2 September [1859]

Summary

CL’s research on flint tools.

Promises to send proof-sheets of Origin. Discusses his view of species.

Ill health of himself and his family.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  2 Sept [1859]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.167)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2486

Matches: 9 hits

  • … To Charles Lyell   2 September [1859] …
  • … Mss.B.D25.167) Charles Robert Darwin Down 2 Sept [1859] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
  • … postscript has been found, but see CD’s reply ( letter to A.  R. Wallace, 9 August 1859 ). …
  • … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. Owen, Richard. 1856. Description of a fossil …
  • … See letter to J.  D. Hooker, 22 [June 1859] . Lyell was president of the geology section …
  • … at Aberdeen, from 14 to 21 September 1859. He discussed the new finds relating to ‘ …
  • … address, which was reported in Athenæum , 24 September 1859, pp.  403–4. Lyell had visited …
  • … Abbeville, and Amiens in the summer of 1859. In his speech, he confirmed the discoveries …
  • … letter to John Murray, 2 September [1859] . The diagram, which illustrates the divergence …

To Charles Lyell   20 October [1859]

Summary

Comments on CL’s letters.

Discusses foreign animals naturalised in Australia and elsewhere.

Affirms man’s capacity to survive in Eocene climate.

Comments on American types.

Denies necessity for "continued intervention of creative power".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  20 Oct [1859]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.173)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2507

Matches: 7 hits

  • … To Charles Lyell   20 October [1859] …
  • … Mss.B.D25.173) Charles Robert Darwin Ilkley 20 Oct [1859] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
  • … of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. …
  • … See the letter from Charles Lyell, 4 October 1859 , and the letter to …
  • … Charles Lyell, 11 October [1859] . See also Origin , pp.  379–80. …
  • … see letter to Charles Lyell, 11 October [1859] ). See letter from Charles Lyell to T.   …
  • … H. Huxley, 17 June 1859 . CD still intended to publish his ‘big book’ on species ( Natural …

To Charles Lyell   [10 December 1859]

Summary

Discuss CL’s suggestions for revisions to the chapter on the geological record [Origin, ch. 9].

Henry Holland’s reaction to the book.

Comments on CL’s work on flint tools of early men.

Describes at length a conversation with Owen concerning Origin. Notes "that at bottom he goes immense way with us", but emphasises Owen’s unfriendly manner. Remarks that Owen accepted a relationship between bears and whales. "By Jove I believe he thinks a sort of Bear was the grandpapa of Whales!"

Has heard Herschel considered his book "the law of higgledy-piggledy".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  [10 Dec 1859]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.184)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2575

Matches: 11 hits

  • … To Charles Lyell   [10 December 1859] …
  • … Mss.B.D25.184) Charles Robert Darwin Down [10 Dec 1859] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
  • … letter to Charles Lyell, 25 [November 1859] ). CD sent a copy of Origin to John Frederick …
  • … William Herschel in November ( letter to J.  F. W. Herschel, 11 November [1859] ). …
  • … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. [Owen, Richard. ] 1860b. [Review of Origin & …
  • … CD’s visit to Lyell in London on 8 December 1859 en route to Down from Ilkley (‘Journal’; …
  • … See letter from Henry Holland, 10 December [1859] . CD refers to Lyell’s recent study of …
  • … the antiquity of man. During a visit in July 1859 to sites in Amiens and Liège, Lyell …
  • … probably discussed this work when they met on 8 December 1859. CD had sent Richard Owen …
  • … of Origin ( letter to Richard Owen, 11 November [1859] ). Owen’s position on transmutation …
  • … letter from Richard Owen,12 November 1859) . Owen’s relationship with Thomas Henry Huxley …

To Charles Lyell   25 [November 1859]

Summary

Discusses corrections for second edition [of Origin]. Will leave out the reference to whale and bear. Discusses pheasant crosses. Success of the book.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  25 [Nov 1859]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.179)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2552

Matches: 8 hits

  • … To Charles Lyell   25 [November 1859] …
  • … Mss.B.D25.179) Charles Robert Darwin Ilkley 25 [Nov 1859] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
  • … of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. …
  • … over. ’ See letter from Charles Lyell, [22 November 1859] . CD refers to observations of …
  • … made during his stay at Moor Park in July 1859. He saw large numbers of ants labouring to …
  • … sterility and the laws of variation. See letters from Charles Lyell , 28 October 1859  and …
  • … 21 November 1859 . CD discussed his views on …
  • … in his letter to Charles Lyell, 23 November [1859] . In Origin , p.  253, CD stated that …

To Charles Lyell   [3 December 1859]

Summary

Encloses a letter from FitzRoy to the Times.

Mentions letter from W. B. Carpenter accepting single progenitor for major animal classes.

Speculates about Richard Owen’s opinion.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  [3 Dec 1859]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.182)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2567

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  • … To Charles Lyell   [3 December 1859] …
  • … Mss.B.D25.182) Charles Robert Darwin Ilkley [3 Dec 1859] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
  • … and large were excluded? ’ ’See letter to W.  B. Carpenter, 3 December [1859] . CD may be …
  • … the letter from Richard Owen, 12 November 1859 . Owen’s critical review of Origin appeared …
  • … see n.  2, below). The Times , 1 December 1859, p.  8, carried a letter signed ‘Senex’ …
  • … of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. …
  • … editor of the Athenæum , on 29 November 1859, a copy of which is in DAR 221. FitzRoy told …
  • … Origin published in Athenæum , 19 November 1859, pp.  659–60. He went on to say (DAR 221): …

To Charles Lyell   28 March [1859]

Summary

Has heard that CL has spoken to John Murray about publication [of Origin]. Encloses prospective title-page. Asks whether he ought to tell John Murray about unorthodoxy of the book.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  28 Mar [1859]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.163)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2437

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  • … To Charles Lyell   28 March [1859] …
  • … A Fellow of the Royal, Geological & Linn. Soc y . ———— ————London &c &c &c &c 1859 ———— …
  • … Mss.B.D25.163) Charles Robert Darwin Down 28 Mar [1859] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
  • … see K.   M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 285–315). See letter to John Phillips, 8 February [1859] . …

To Charles Lyell   30 September [1859]

Summary

Is sending off last proof-sheets of Origin.

Asks CL’s opinion of final chapter. Mentions difficulties of his argument.

Is too unwell to start for Ilkley.

Murray’s printing of 1250 copies seems too large to CD.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  30 Sept [1859]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.171)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2496

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  • … To Charles Lyell   30 September [1859] …
  • … Mss.B.D25.171) Charles Robert Darwin Down 30 Sept [1859] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
  • … see letter to John Murray, 24 November [1859] ). Lyell’s books were also published by …
  • … of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. …
  • … out what the problems were to be solved more difficult than solution Sept. 1859’. CD set …
  • … off for Ilkley, Yorkshire, on 2 October 1859 (‘Journal’; Appendix II). The orders for …

To Charles Lyell   30 March [1859]

Summary

CD is grateful to CL for his help in arranging with Murray for publication [of Origin]. Sorry Murray objects to term "abstract" in title, but will defer to him and CL.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  30 Mar [1859]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.164)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2439

Matches: 6 hits

  • … To Charles Lyell   30 March [1859] …
  • … Mss.B.D25.164) Charles Robert Darwin Down 30 Mar [1859] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
  • … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. Young, Robert M. 1985. Darwin’s metaphor: …
  • … See letter to Charles Lyell, 28 March [1859] . Entries in CD’s …
  • … book (Down House MS) for 6 and 9 April 1859 indicate that CD paid Mr Fletcher and John …
  • … to London with Henrietta Emma Darwin on1 April 1859 and returned to Down on 4 April. On 3  …

To Charles Lyell   [28 November 1859]

Summary

Asks how many kinds of supposed birds’ footprints were found in North American sandstone.

Making progress on second edition of Origin.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  [28 Nov 1859]
Classmark:  Sotheby’s (dealers) (6 July 1977)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2559

Matches: 7 hits

  • … To Charles Lyell   [28 November 1859] …
  • … 6 July 1977) Charles Robert Darwin Ilkley [28 Nov 1859] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
  • … of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. …
  • … the letter was written after 24 November 1859, the day CD first heard from John Murray …
  • … see letter to John Murray, 24 November [1859] ). The two remaining Mondays prior to CD …
  • … of whales ( Origin , pp.  303–4). See letters to Charles Lyell ,20 September [1859] and …
  • … 24 [November 1859]. In Origin 2d ed. , p.  304, CD inserted a sentence about the discovery …

To Charles Lyell   21 June [1859]

Summary

Discusses S. S. Haldeman’s paper ["Enumeration of the recent freshwater Mollusca", Boston J. Nat. Hist. 4 (1844): 468–84].

Centres of species origin.

Describes his corrections of Origin.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  21 June [1859]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.165)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2470

Matches: 5 hits

  • … To Charles Lyell   21 June [1859] …
  • … Mss.B.D25.165) Charles Robert Darwin Down 21 June [1859] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
  • … a long entry, made on or about 17 June 1859, considering the progression of fossil forms ( …
  • … Charles Lyell to T.  H. Huxley, 17 June 1859 . CD had read Haldeman 1843–4  in May 1845 ( …
  • … of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. …

To Charles Lyell   14 January [1860]

Summary

Review of Origin in Gardeners’ Chronicle [31 Dec 1859].

Criticises views of J. G. Jeffreys on non-migration of shells. Cites case of Galapagos shells.

Mentions Edward Forbes’s theory of submerged continental extensions. Cites Hooker’s [introductory] essay [in Flora Tasmaniae (1860)] for evidence against any recent connection between Australia and New Zealand.

Discusses Huxley’s views of hybrid sterility.

Questions whether Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire believed in species change. Mentions views of Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire.

The distribution of cave insects.

CD’s study of man.

The problems of locating French and German translators.

Huxley’s criticism of Owen’s views on human classification.

The sale of Origin.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  14 Jan [1860]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.192)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2650

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  • … Murray , 31 March [1859]. Louise …
  • … Swanton Belloc had contacted CD in November 1859 offering to translate Origin into French. …
  • … Correspondence vol.  7, letter to John Murray, 14 November [1859] . See following letter. …
  • … Origin in Gardeners’ Chronicle [31 Dec 1859]. Criticises views of J. G. Jeffreys on non- …
  • … 7, letter to J.  G.  Jeffreys, 29 December [1859] ). Jeffreys 1856 . There is an annotated …
  • … of Origin , see Correspondence vol.  7, letters to Charles Lyell , 28 March [1859] and …
  • … 30 March [1859] , and to John …
  • … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. Variation : The variation of animals and …
  • … Charles Lyell, 25 June [1856] ). Hooker 1859 , p.  lxxxvii. In his copy (Darwin Library– …
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The writing of "Origin"

Summary

From a quiet rural existence at Down in Kent, filled with steady work on his ‘big book’ on the transmutation of species, Darwin was jolted into action in 1858 by the arrival of an unexpected letter (no longer extant) from Alfred Russel Wallace outlining a…

Matches: 21 hits

  • … hopes.— (letter to Charles Lyell,  25 [November 1859] ) The year 1858 opened with …
  • … the writing of this ‘abstract’ continued until March 1859; the resulting volume was published in …
  • … instinct the previous March. By the middle of March 1859, Darwin had finished the last …
  • … upon Lyell for advice (letter to Charles Lyell, 28 March [1859] ). Lyell suggested the firm of …
  • … plan of his book (see letter from Elwin to Murray, 3 May 1859 , and letter to John Murray, 6 …
  • … the forthcoming book (letter to Charles Lyell, 30 March [1859] ). Darwin next considered calling …
  • … and varieties’ (letters to Charles Lyell, 28 March [1859] , and to John Murray, 10 September …
  • … Appendix II). Twice in 1858 and three times in 1859 he had gone to Moor Park in Surrey for a week’s …
  • … than when I came’ (letter to W. D. Fox, [16 November 1859] ). It was during his stay at Ilkley …
  • … rag is worth anything?’ (letter to T. H. Huxley, 2 June [1859] ). But as critical letters began …
  • … of induction’ (letter from Adam Sedgwick, 24 November 1859 ). Equally painful was the news that …
  • … (letter to Charles Lyell, [10 December 1859] ). To each of his critics, Darwin replied by resting …
  • … to me to do.’ (letter to Adam Sedgwick, 26 November [1859] ). Even his strongest …
  • … of Darwin’s theory (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 6 May 1859 ). Among the older scientists, only …
  • … the origin of mankind. As he wrote to Darwin on 3 October 1859 , ‘the case of Man and his Races …
  • … to their mercies’ (letter to J. D. Hooker, [22 November 1859] ). Late in December, to Darwin’s …
  • …  were the man.’ (letter to T. H. Huxley, 28 December [1859] ). Huxley admitted his authorship to …
  • … without good cause.’ (letter to John Murray, 2 December [1859] ). At Murray’s trade sale …
  • … had made’ (letter from Charles Kingsley, 18 November 1859 ). This and the two references to the …
  • … try to make out truth’ (letter to W. D. Fox, 24 [March 1859] ). Yet he desperately wanted people …
  • … on our side.—’ (letter to J. D. Hooker, 14 December [1859] ). …

Darwin in letters, 1858-1859: Origin

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The years 1858 and 1859 were, without doubt, the most momentous of Darwin’s life. From a quiet rural existence filled with steady work on his ‘big book’ on species, he was jolted into action by the arrival of an unexpected letter from Alfred Russel Wallace…

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  • … The years 1858 and 1859 were, without doubt, the most momentous of Darwin’s life. From a quiet …
  • … and prompted the composition and publication, in November 1859, of Darwin’s major treatise  On the …
  • …  exceeded my wildest hopes By the end of 1859, Darwin’s work was being discussed in …
  • … ‘When I was in spirits’, he told Lyell at the end of 1859, ‘I sometimes fancied that my book w  d …
  • … hopes.—’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 25 [November 1859] ). This transformation in Darwin’s personal …
  • … the writing of this ‘abstract’ continued until March 1859; the resulting volume was published in …
  • … Botanic Gardens at Kew (see Appendix VII). The year 1859 began auspiciously with Darwin …
  • … 1854) ( Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society  15 (1859): xxv). One of the most …
  • … theory. As he wrote in his introductory essay (Hooker 1859, p. ii): 'In the present Essay I …
  • … to test such a theory. His essay, published in December 1859, was the first serious study of the …
  • … the other’s ideas (see letters to J. D. Hooker, 2 March [1859] , 11 March [1859] , and 7 …
  • … upon Lyell for advice ( letter to Charles Lyell, 28 March [1859] ). Lyell suggested the firm of …
  • … plan of his book (see letter from Elwin to Murray, 3 May 1859 , and letter to John Murray, 6 …
  • … the forthcoming book ( letter to Charles Lyell, 30 March [1859] ). Darwin next considered calling …
  • … and varieties’ (letters to Charles Lyell, 28 March [1859] , and to John Murray, 10 September …
  • … Appendix II). Twice in 1858 and three times in 1859 he had gone to Moor Park in Surrey for a week’s …
  • … than when I came’ ( letter to W. D. Fox, [16 November 1859] ). It was during his stay at Ilkley …
  • … rag is worth anything?’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 2 June [1859] ). But as critical letters began …
  • … of induction’ ( letter from Adam Sedgwick, 24 November 1859 ). Equally painful was the news that …
  • … ( letter to Charles Lyell, [10 December 1859] ). To each of his critics, Darwin replied by resting …
  • … to me to do.’ ( letter to Adam Sedgwick, 26 November [1859] ). Even his strongest …
  • … of Darwin’s theory ( see letter to J. D. Hooker, 6 May 1859 ). Among the older scientists, only …
  • … the origin of mankind. As he wrote to Darwin on 3 October 1859, ‘the case of Man and his Races & …
  • … to their mercies’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [22 November 1859] ). Late in December, to Darwin’s …
  • …  were the man.’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 28 December [1859] ). Huxley admitted his authorship to …

Rewriting Origin - the later editions

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For such an iconic work, the text of Origin was far from static. It was a living thing that Darwin continued to shape for the rest of his life, refining his ‘one long argument’ through a further five English editions.  Many of his changes were made in…

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  • … dates: 1 st edition published, 24 November 1859 2d English edition: printing …
  • … heard that a new edition was already needed on 24 November 1859, the same day that the first …
  • … As he read the proof sheets from September to November 1859, Lyell buried Darwin under a blizzard of …

Controversy

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The best-known controversies over Darwinian theory took place in public or in printed reviews. Many of these were highly polemical, presenting an over-simplified picture of the disputes. Letters, however, show that the responses to Darwin were extremely…

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  • … Letter 2525 — Darwin, C. R. to Sedgwick, Adam, 11 Nov 1859 Darwin writes to Sedgwick to tell …
  • … Letter 2548 — Sedgwick, Adam to Darwin, C. R., 24 Nov 1859 Adam Sedgwick thanks Darwin for …
  • … Letter 2555 — Darwin, C. R. to Sedgwick, Adam, 26 Nov [1859] Darwin says Sedgwick could not …
  • … Letter 2526 — Owen, Richard to Darwin, C. R., 12 Nov 1859 Owen says to Darwin he will welcome …
  • … Letter 2575 — Darwin, C. R. to Lyell, Charles, [10 Dec 1859] Darwin discusses with King' …
  • … Letter 2580 — Darwin, C. R. to Owen, Richard, 13 Dec [1859] Darwin responds to Owen’s remarks …

On the Origin of Species

Summary

From a quiet rural existence at Down in Kent, filled with steady work on his ‘big book’ on the transmutation of species, Darwin was jolted into action in 1858 by the arrival of an unexpected letter (no longer extant) from Alfred Russel Wallace outlining a…

Matches: 2 hits

  • … (letter to Charles Lyell,  25 [November 1859] ). From a quiet rural existence at Down in …
  • … and prompted the composition and publication, in November 1859, of Darwin’s major treatise On the …

Francis Galton

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Galton was a naturalist, statistician, and evolutionary theorist. He was a second cousin of Darwin’s, having descended from his grandfather, Erasmus. Born in Birmingham in 1822, Galton studied medicine at King’s College, London, and also read mathematics…

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  • … into an entirely new province of knowledge’ ( 9 December 1859 ). He soon became interested in …

Darwin and Fatherhood

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Charles Darwin married Emma Wedgwood in 1839 and over the next seventeen years the couple had ten children. It is often assumed that Darwin was an exceptional Victorian father. But how extraordinary was he? The Correspondence Project allows an unusually…

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  • … by inheritance.’  (Darwin to W. D. Fox,  23 September [1859] ). He believed that five of his …
  • … and especially billiards were favourite family games, and in 1859 he ended a letter to his oldest …
  • … game of Billiards’. (Darwin to his son William,  7 July [1859] ). Whole family outings were …

Women as a scientific audience

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Target audience? | Female readership | Reading Variation Darwin's letters, in particular those exchanged with his editors and publisher, reveal a lot about his intended audience. Regardless of whether or not women were deliberately targeted as a…

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  • … Letter 2447 - Darwin to Murray, J., [5 April 1859] Darwin sends a manuscript copy of …
  • … Letter 2461 - Darwin to Hooker, J. D., [11 May 1859] Darwin expresses anxiety over …

John Lubbock

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John Lubbock was eight years old when the Darwins moved into the neighbouring property of Down House, Down, Kent; the total of one hundred and seventy surviving letters he went on to exchange with Darwin is a large number considering that the two men lived…

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  • … or against me. ( to John Lubbock, 14 December [1859] ) When Origin was …

Dramatisation script

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Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007

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  • … should not be in conflict. A TREMENDOUS FURORE: 1859-1860 In which Darwin distributes …
  • … 12 OCTOBER 1857 60 A GRAY TO JD HOOKER, SUMMER 1859 61 A GRAY TO JD HOOKER, …

Darwin on race and gender

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Darwin’s views on race and gender are intertwined, and mingled also with those of class. In Descent of man, he tried to explain the origin of human races, and many of the differences between the sexes, with a single theory: sexual selection. Sexual…

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  • … 11 April 1833 Letter to C. R. Lyell, 11 October [1859] Letter to Charles …

The Lyell–Lubbock dispute

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In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book Prehistoric times, accused Lyell of plagiarism. The dispute caused great dismay among many of their mutual scientific friends, some of whom took immediate action…

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  • … but his views were generally derided. 1  In 1859, Lyell visited several sites in …
  • … that these were indeed implements of early humans (C. Lyell 1859). In September 1860 he visited …
  • … in French, earlier reports written in Danish (Morlot 1859, Forchhammer et al. 1851–5); Lubbock …
  • … for their work in the Brixham cave explorations of 1858 and 1859. 5 Another controversy arose …
  • … its appearance in print; first in French, dated Berne, Sept. 1859, in the ‘Mémoires de la Société …
  • … zoologist M. Claparède had also conversed with me in 1859 on the researches of the best Danish …
  • … gave me an abstract for my use, in a letter dated December 1859. He referred me chiefly to ‘Oversigt …
  • … and Edinburgh: Williams & Norgate. Lyell, Charles. 1859. On the occurrence of works of …
  • … vols. London: John Murray. Morlot, Charles Adolphe. 1859. Etudes géologico-archéologiques en …
  • … struggle for life . By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. Owen, Richard. 1863. Ape …

Instinct and the Evolution of Mind

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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Slave-making ants For Darwin, slave-making ants were a powerful example of the force of instinct. He used the case of the ant Formica sanguinea in the On the Origin of Species to show how instinct operates—how…

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  • … After Origin of Species was published in 1859, friends, acquaintances, and strangers …
  • … Darwin, Charles. On the Origin of Species . 1859. London: John Murray. (See: Chapter 7 “Instinct” …
  • … Letter 2456 —Frederick Smith to Darwin, 30 Apr 1859 Here Smith answers a number of Darwin …

Darwin & Glen Roy

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Although Darwin was best known for his geological work in South America and other remote Beagle destinations, he made one noteworthy attempt to explain a puzzling feature of British geology.  In 1838, two years after returning from the voyage, he travelled…

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  • … [after September 20 1847] To A.C. Ramsay, 1 July [1859] From Thomas Jamieson, …

Women’s scientific participation

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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…

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  • … Letter 2447 - Darwin to Murray, J., [5 April 1859] Darwin asks his publisher, John …
  • … Letter 2461  - Darwin to Hooker, J. D., [11 May 1859] Darwin expresses anxiety over …
  • … Letter 2475  - Darwin to Hooker, J. D., [2 July 1859] Darwin returns the manuscript of …
  • … Letter 2501   - Lyell, C. to Darwin, [3 October 1859] Lyell offers praise and …

Origin

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Darwin’s most famous work, Origin, had an inauspicious beginning. It grew out of his wish to establish priority for the species theory he had spent over twenty years researching. Darwin never intended to write Origin, and had resisted suggestions in 1856…

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  • … across tropics ’. When Hooker’s essay was published in 1859, it was one of the first publications …
  • … as by far the most capable judge in Europe. ’ By April 1859, he was able to tell Wallace that ‘ …
  • … Abstract ’ would not be finished until around April 1859. But this was an optimistic estimate. …
  • … of favoured races” ’, he told Lyell. On 31 March 1859, Darwin wrote to Murray describing his work …
  • … the work of correcting proofs continued over the summer of 1859, Darwin had to take the water cure …
  • … never shirked a difficulty’, he told Lyell on 20 September 1859, ‘ I am foolishly anxious for your …
  • … of Science meeting held in Aberdeen from 14 to 21 September 1859. Darwin was confident that in time …
  • … and negative, to his work flowed in. By early December 1859, he admitted that he needed to ‘ think …

Religion

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Design|Personal Belief|Beauty|The Church Perhaps the most notorious realm of controversy over evolution in Darwin's day was religion. The same can be said of the evolution controversy today; however the nature of the disputes and the manner in…

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  • … Letter 2534 — Kingsley, Charles to Darwin, C. R., 18 Nov 1859 Clergyman Charles Kingsley …
  • … Letter 2548 — Sedgwick, Adam to Darwin, C. R., 24 Nov 1859 Woodwardian Professor of geology, …

Darwin in public and private

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Extracts from Darwin's published works, in particular Descent of man, and selected letters, explore Darwin's views on the operation of sexual selection in humans, and both his publicly and privately expressed views on its practical implications…

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  • … in the struggle for life , (London: John Murray, 1st ed., 1859), p. 88. 2) “There is one …
  • … 489 – Darwin to Wedgwood, E., [20 January 1859] Darwin writes to his fiancée, Emma, …

Darwin’s reading notebooks

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In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…

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  • … Hooker has it.— Very important Hookers letter Jan. 1859 Yules Ava [Yule 1858] (Innes) Hairy …
  • … The Dog in health & Disease by Stonehenge—Longman 1859 [Stonehenge 1859].— on Toy–Dogs …
  • … [Combe 1828] Macclintocks Arctic Voyage [Macclintock 1859] [DAR *128: 153] …
  • … [G. Bennett 1860] Read 114 Village Bells [Manning] 1859] } Fanny The Woman in White …
  • … Republic [Motley 1855] [DAR 128: 24] 1859 Pagets Lectures on Pathology …
  • … 1803] (nothing) [DAR 128: 25] 1859 Feb. 28 Olmstead S. States [Olmsted …
  • … Mast [R. H. Dana [1840] (good) Bertrams [Trollope 1859] & Adam Bede [Eliot 1859] …
  • … (many novels) Dec: Dana to Cuba & back [R. H. Dana 1859] —— Cruize in Japanese …
  • … on Maladies of Silk-worm [Quatrefages de Bréau 1859] Owen Lecture on Classification [R. Owen …
  • … March. 8 Houdins the conjurer Life [Robert-Houdin [1859] 19 MacClintocks Narrative …
  • … Gesellschaft für die gesammten Naturwissenschaften . In 1859 he was the coauthor, with E. Desor, …
  • … des progrès de la géologie de   1834 à 1845(–1859) . 8 vols. Paris. [Vol. 1 (1847) in Darwin …
  • … at sea . New York. [Other eds.]  128: 25 ——. 1859.  To Cuba and back. A vacation voyage …
  • … Eliot, George,  pseud . (Marian Evans Cross). 1859.  Adam   Bede . 3 vols. Edinburgh. [Other …
  • …  (1849): 381–420. [Separately printed in 2 vols. (Paris, 1859) in Darwin Library.]  *128: 177 …
  • … 119: 16a Hodson, William Stephen Raikes. 1859.  Twelve years of a   soldier’s life in …
  • … 1–46.  119: 9b [Jenkin, Henrietta Camilla]. 1859.  Cousin Stella; or,   conflict . 3 …
  • … Library.]  119: 9a Macclintock, Francis Leopold. 1859.  The voyage of the   “Fox” in …

John Murray

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Darwin's most famous book On the origin of species by means of natural selection (Origin) was published on 22 November 1859. The publisher was John Murray, who specialised in non-fiction, particularly politics, travel and science, and had published…

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  • … natural selection (Origin)  was published on 22 November 1859. The publisher was John Murray, who …
  • … cousin and business partner, the earliest letters date from 1859, the year of the publication of  …
  • … you may not repent of having undertaken it’ (15 October [1859] Letter 2506 ). Murray decided on a …
  • … & proud at the appearance of my child’ ([3 November 1859] Letter 2514 ). In the event, all …
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