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To J. D. Hooker   3 May [1859]

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CD favours occurrence of reversions, although lack of experiments forces one to vague opinions. Reversions oppose only the inheritance not the occurrence of variation. Discusses relation of reversion, direct influence of conditions, and selection.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  3 May [1859]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 13
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2457

Matches: 13 hits

  • … To J.  D. Hooker   3 May [1859] …
  • … DAR 115: 13 Charles Robert Darwin Down 3 May [1859] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … and n.  10, below. Hooker had visited Down on 21 April 1859 ( Emma Darwin’s diary). For …
  • … Read 14 December 1858 and 11 January 1859. ] Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and …
  • … of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. …
  • … reversion of cultivated plants, see Hooker 1859 , pp. viii–ix. The paragraph on ‘ general …
  • … and horses ( Origin , pp.  159–67). See letters to J.  D. Hooker, 7 April [1859] and …
  • … 12 [April 1859] . Hooker considered that the manifestation of variability somehow …
  • … of reversion. In his essay ( Hooker 1859 , pp. vii–viii n. ), he discussed the point in …
  • … widely from the original type’ ( Hooker 1859 ,p. viii n. ). The same example was used by …
  • … of the reversion of cabbages in Hooker 1859 , p. ix. John Peter Gassiot had been appointed …
  • … also letter to J.  D. Hooker, 11 April [1859] . The remarks were made by Samuel Haughton , …
  • … meeting of the society on 9 February 1859 and reported in the Journal of the Geological …

To Charles Lyell   25 September [1859]

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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 J. D. Hooker   11 March [1859]

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Sends MS [of Origin] on geographical distribution. Wants JDH to correct facts and say what he most vehemently objects to.

Has received JDH’s note on plant embryology.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  11 Mar [1859]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 7
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2429

Matches: 6 hits

  • … D. Hooker, [9 March 1859] . …
  • … To J.  D. Hooker   11 March [1859] …
  • … DAR 115: 7 Charles Robert Darwin Down 11 Mar [1859] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. …
  • … See letter to J.  D. Hooker, 2 March [1859] . Hooker had read CD’s manuscript of part of …
  • … in Origin . The second chapter was written for Origin early in 1859. See letter from J.   …

To John Murray   2 December [1859]

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All sheets [of Origin, 2d ed.] are ready. Has made a few corrections

and inserted Charles Kingsley’s sentence in answer to those who may think the book is irreligious.

Insists page numbering be kept uniform with 1st edition.

Intends to start immediately on the "larger work", with a distinct title.

Fears reviews will be unfavourable but is confident his views will ultimately prevail.

Asks about plans for French edition.

Thanks JM for his exertions on behalf of sales of Origin.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Murray
Date:  2 Dec [1859]
Classmark:  National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.51–53)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2566

Matches: 8 hits

  • … To John Murray   2 December [1859] …
  • … Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.51–53) Charles Robert Darwin Ilkley 2 Dec [1859] John Murray …
  • … See letter from Charles Kingsley, 18 November 1859 , and letter to …
  • … Charles Kingsley, 30 November [1859] . See …
  • … letters to John Murray , 14 November [1859] , 24  …
  • … November [1859] , and …
  • … 4 December [1859] ; and to J.  L. …
  • … A. de Quatrefages de Bréau, 5 December [1859]. Origin 2d ed. , p.  304. Origin 2d ed. , …

To J. D. Hooker   22 [June 1859]

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CD making extensive corrections on proofs of Origin. Worries that style is too dry.

Doubts about Joseph Prestwich’s discovery [of flint tools].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  22 [June 1859]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 18
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2471

Matches: 9 hits

  • … To J.  D. Hooker   22 [June 1859] …
  • … DAR 115: 18 Charles Robert Darwin Down 22 [June 1859] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … Royal Society on 26 May (see n.  2, above). See letters to J.  D. Hooker, 6 May [1859] and …
  • … 2 July [1859] . …
  • … a meeting of the Royal Society on 26 May 1859, Joseph Prestwich announced the discovery of …
  • … Wright published in the Athenæum , 18 June 1859, p.  809, on ‘Flint implements in the …
  • … 2 June by John Evans ( Athenæum , 11 June 1859, pp.  781–2). Wright noted that hundreds of …
  • … time chipping. ’ ( Athenæum , 18 June 1859, p.  809). Boucher de Crèvecoeur de Perthes had …
  • … this report to visit Abbeville in 1858 and 1859 and confirmed his findings. CD refers to …

To A. C. Ramsay   [26 June 1859]

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Has finished ACR’s article ["The old glaciers of Switzerland and N. Wales" in Peaks, passes, and glaciers, ed. J. Ball (1859)]. Asks the authority for glacial drifts in Siberia. Wishes ACR would examine the Glen Roy parallel roads and settle the problem.

Asks if it is certain that traces of organic remains have been found in Long Mynd beds.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Date:  [26 June 1859]
Classmark:  Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2842

Matches: 10 hits

  • … To A.  C. Ramsay   [26 June 1859] …
  • … and Medicine Archives Charles Robert Darwin Down [26 June 1859] Andrew Crombie Ramsay …
  • … Peaks, passes, and glaciers , ed. J. Ball (1859)]. Asks the authority for glacial drifts …
  • … The Sunday between the letters to A.  C. Ramsay, 24 June [1859] and …
  • … 1 July [1859] . …
  • … Ramsay 1859 . CD’s copy of a differently paginated reprint is in the Darwin Pamphlet …
  • … See letter to A.  C. Ramsay, 24 June [1859] . The second part of Ramsay’s text described …
  • … former ice-action in the region. Ramsay 1859 , pp.  451–2. The passage is marked in CD’s …
  • … a note. See Ramsay 1860 , pp.  90–1. Ramsay 1859 , p.  459. Ramsay proposed that the Welsh …
  • … classic’ study of the area. See Ramsay 1859 , p.  448. Ramsay’s interpretation of glacial …

From Hugh Falconer   25 October and 12 November [1859]

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The antlers of 800 deer of the glacial period have been found in a cave. They show great variety of form, but gradation from one to the other can be traced when all are laid out. Suggests CD study changes that have taken place in the species since glacial period.

Has ordered the wicked book [Origin] CD has been so long a-hatching.

Author:  Hugh Falconer
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  25 Oct and 12 Nov 1859
Classmark:  DAR 47: 215–17
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2511

Matches: 9 hits

  • … From Hugh Falconer   25 October and 12 November [1859] …
  • … DAR 47: 215–17 Hugh Falconer London, Sackville St, 31 25 Oct 1859 12 …
  • … Nov 1859 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … s letter to Hugh Falconer, 11 November [1859] , had arrived, which mentioned that CD had …
  • … in Ilkley, Yorkshire, until 7 December 1859 (‘Journal’; Appendix II). CD refers to chapter …
  • … of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. …
  • … the Advancement of Science at the meeting in Aberdeen in September 1859 (see letters to …
  • … Charles Lyell , 2 September [1859] and …
  • … 20 September [1859] ). Lyell expressed his belief that the worked flints discovered in …

To John Murray   18 May [1859]

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His health has suddenly failed. He is leaving home for one week’s rest.

Has informed William Clowes that he will begin correcting on the 27th.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Murray
Date:  18 May [1859]
Classmark:  John Wilson (dealer) (no date)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2463A

Matches: 5 hits

  • … To John Murray   18 May [1859] …
  • … John Wilson (dealer) (no date) Charles Robert Darwin Down 18 May [1859] John Murray …
  • … by the relationship to the letter to J.  D. Hooker, 18 [May 1859] . See letter to J.   …
  • … D. Hooker 18 [May 1859] . CD visited Moor …
  • … hydropathic establishment from 21 to 28 May 1859 (‘Journal’; Appendix II). William Clowes …

To J. D. Hooker   [23 October 1859]

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Congratulates JDH on finishing his introductory essay [to Flora Tasmaniae].

Lyell’s position on mutability appears more positive in his letters to JDH than in those to CD. Considers JDH a convert.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  [23 Oct 1859]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 24
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2509

Matches: 11 hits

  • … To J.  D. Hooker   [23 October 1859] …
  • … DAR 115: 24 Charles Robert Darwin Ilkley [23 Oct 1859] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … three weeks. He left Down on 2 October 1859 (‘Journal’; Correspondence vol. 7, Appendix …
  • … II). CD read the proof-sheets of Hooker 1859  at intervals during the summer. See letter …
  • … to T.  H. Huxley, 15 October [1859] . For CD’s and Huxley’s previous correspondence on …
  • … dealt with the fossil flora of Australia ( Hooker 1859 , pp. c–cvi). See also letter to …
  • … J.  D. Hooker, [27 October or 3 November 1859] . Edmund Smith was the medical practitioner …
  • … of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. …
  • … has not been found; it was probably a reply to CD’s letter of 15 October [1859] . See …
  • … the letter from Charles Lyell, 22 October 1859 , and n. 7. CD intended to forward copies …
  • … letter to J.  D. Hooker, 15 October [1859] , for two of his suggestions. [Hooker] 1856. …

To J. D. Hooker   2 July [1859]

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Returns JDH’s proofs. He is so involved in Origin he cannot judge force of JDH’s arguments. Some detailed comments.

Haldeman’s old paper [see 2470] clever, but does not have natural selection. Explaining adaptation has always seemed turning point of theory of natural selection.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  2 July [1859]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 19
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2475

Matches: 12 hits

  • … To J.  D. Hooker   2 July [1859] …
  • … DAR 115: 19 Charles Robert Darwin Down 2 July [1859] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … Henslow was to be married to R.  Cary Barnard on2 August 1859 ( Gentleman’s Magazine n.s. …
  • … 7 (1859): 303). CD’s experiments on the fertilisation of Corydalis lutea are recorded in …
  • … CD was reading the proof-sheets of Hooker 1859  at intervals during the summer. Hooker …
  • … than into dry and excessive ones’ ( Hooker 1859 , p. xvii). In the published text, the …
  • … flowering plants. The passage ( Hooker 1859 , p. xx n. ) reads: These [fossil wood-boring …
  • … to which CD refers reads ( Hooker 1859 , p. xxiii): Regarded from the classificatory point …
  • … views on progressive development ( Hooker 1859 , p. xxiv), CD was not cited with regard to …
  • … s work on flint tools. See letter to J.  D. Hooker, 22 [June 1859] . Haldeman 1843–4 . …
  • … also letter to Charles Lyell, 21 June [1859] . The Copley and Royal Medals were awarded …
  • … 1858. See letter to J.  D. Hooker, 6 May [1859] . Frances Harriet Hooker’s younger sister …

To J. D. Hooker   28 [December 1859]

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CD has written to Asa Gray criticising J. D. Dana’s arguments for a warm period subsequent to glacial period.

Remembers it is Alphonse de Candolle who states that many species are not true species.

Did Huxley write the excellent review in the Times?

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  28 [Dec 1859]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 30
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2610

Matches: 9 hits

  • … To J.  D. Hooker   28 [December 1859] …
  • … DAR 115: 30 Charles Robert Darwin Down 28 [Dec 1859] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … Darwin Library–CUL. The Times , 26 December 1859, p.  8. CD was correct in believing that …
  • … for review is given in LL 2: 255. See also letter to T.  H. Huxley, 28 December [1859] . …
  • … in A.  Gray 1858–9 . See letters to Asa Gray , 24 December [1859] and n.  6, and to J.   …
  • … D. Hooker, 26 [December 1859]. …
  • … Letter to Asa Gray, 24 December [1859] . Hooker seems to have asked CD for the source of …
  • … Read 14 December 1858 and 11 January 1859. ] Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and …
  • … life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. Wollaston, Thomas Vernon. 1856. On the …

To W. E. Darwin   [13 February 1859]

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Discusses events at Moor Park and domestic matters.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  [13 Feb 1859]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 35
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2414

Matches: 8 hits

  • … To W.  E. Darwin   [13 February 1859] …
  • … DAR 210.6: 35 Charles Robert Darwin Moor Park [13 Feb 1859] William Erasmus Darwin …
  • … G.  went to school’ on 2 February 1859. George Howard Darwin had entered Clapham Grammar …
  • … in London ( Post Office London directory 1859). CD had apparently already ordered a much …
  • … see letter to G.  H. Darwin, 24 [February 1859] ). Emma Darwin’s diary records that ‘ …
  • … received a payment of £28 from CD on 2 May 1859 ‘for furniture & various expenses last …
  • … who also tutored in mathematics. See letter to W.  E. Darwin, [5 May 1859] and n.  6. …
  • … stayed at Moor Park until 19 February 1859 (see ‘Journal’; Appendix II). For descriptions …

To John Lubbock   [6 February 1859]

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JL’s brother’s accident.

Thinks JL should tackle systematics of anomalous insects from studies of internal organs.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:  [6 Feb 1859]
Classmark:  DAR 263: 26 (EH 88206475)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2408

Matches: 8 hits

  • … To John Lubbock   [6 February 1859] …
  • … Charles Robert Darwin Moor Park [6 Feb 1859] John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron …
  • … Bibliography Lubbock, John. 1859. On the ova and pseudova of Insects. Philosophical …
  • … description of the ovarium of Pulex in Lubbock 1859 . CD discussed this paper with Lubbock …
  • … in an earlier paper ( Lubbock 1857a ). See letter from John Lubbock, 8 February 1859 . …
  • … to Hartfield, Sussex, on 7 February 1859 ( Emma Darwin’s diary). Henrietta had been ill …
  • … Emma Darwin’s diary records that CD had a second ‘attack’ on 2 February 1859. CD arrived …
  • … Moor Park hydropathic establishment on 5 February 1859 (‘Journal’; Appendix II). Lubbock …

From A. C. Ramsay   [27–30 June 1859]

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No doubt about worm-holes in the Long Mynd, and they are certainly lower than J. Barrande’s primordial zone. Fossils in Laurentian gneiss.

Author:  Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [27–30 June 1859]
Classmark:  DAR 205.9: 400
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2845

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  • … From A.  C. Ramsay   [27–30 June 1859] …
  • … DAR 205.9: 400 Andrew Crombie Ramsay unstated [27–30 June 1859] Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … review of Rogers 1858  appeared in two parts in the Saturday Review , 30 April 1859, pp.   …
  • … 530–1, and 28 May 1859, pp.  658–60. …
  • … The review may have been by Ramsay, for in 1859 he began contributing geological articles …
  • … The letter was written between the letters to A.  C. Ramsay, [26 June 1859] and …
  • … 1 July [1859] . CD had called Ramsay’s attention to differences between Ramsay’s and Louis …
  • … See letter to A.  C. Ramsay, 24 June [1859] and n.  5. John William Salter , who worked …

To T. H. Huxley   24 [November 1859]

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Murray has sold out Origin; wants a new edition immediately.

Asks THH to check whether Geoffroy de St Hilaire is correct [form of name].

Would be grateful for THH’s impressions on the truth of natural selection.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:  24 [Nov 1859]
Classmark:  DAR 261.11: 4 (EH 88205939)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2550

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  • … To T.  H. Huxley   24 [November 1859] …
  • … DAR 261.11: 4 (EH 88205939) Charles Robert Darwin Ilkley 24 [Nov 1859] Thomas Henry Huxley …
  • … forwarded to Ilkley. See letter from T.  H. Huxley, 23 November 1859 , and letter to T.   …
  • … H. Huxley, 25 November [1859] . …
  • … of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. …
  • … of 1250 copies ( Athenæum ,26 November 1859, p.  706). Instead of printing more copies, …

To T. H. Huxley   13 [March 1859]

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Thanks for THH’s examples of serially modified and homologous parts in Radiata. Cannot understand how he forgot such cases.

Agassiz’s Essay on classification [1859] utterly impracticable rubbish.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:  13 [Mar 1859]
Classmark:  Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 258)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2430

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  • … To T.  H. Huxley   13 [March 1859] …
  • … Archives (Huxley 5: 258) Charles Robert Darwin Down 13 [Mar 1859] Thomas Henry Huxley …
  • … forgot such cases. Agassiz’s Essay on classification [1859] utterly impracticable rubbish. …
  • … of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. …
  • … by the relationship to the letter to T.  H. Huxley, 8 March [1859] . Letter from T.   …
  • … H. Huxley, [9–12 March 1859] . See Origin , pp.  437–8. The reference is to …
  • … which was reissued as a single volume in 1859 under the title An essay on classification . …

From John Murray   2 November 1859

Summary

By this post he sends for approval specimen copy of CD’s book [Origin of species]. At 14 s., 1250 copies will yield £240, two-thirds of which will go to author. Arrangements for early copies.

Author:  John Murray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  2 Nov 1859
Classmark:  National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 41913 pp. 53–4)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2513A

Matches: 8 hits

  • … From John Murray   2 November 1859
  • … John Murray Archive) (Ms. 41913 pp. 53–4) John Murray 2 Nov 1859 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. …
  • … in Peckham ed. 1959,p.  775. See also letters to John Murray , 15 October [1859] and [ …
  • … 3 November 1859] . CD received £180 as his share of the profits from the first edition of …
  • … he had made to the proof-sheets. See letters to John Murray , 14 June [1859] and …
  • … 15 October [1859] . Murray’s version of CD’s address was not quite right: the correct …
  • … Nov. 2. 1859 My dear Sir By this day’s post I send you a specimen copy of your book bound— …

To W. E. Darwin   14 [March 1859]

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Writes of events at Down: mostly of playing billiards on their new table.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  14 [Mar 1859]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 40
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2431

Matches: 9 hits

  • … To W.  E. Darwin   14 [March 1859] …
  • … DAR 210.6: 40 Charles Robert Darwin Down 14 [Mar 1859] William Erasmus Darwin …
  • … Wedgwood visited Down from 10 to 14 March 1859 ( Emma Darwin’s diary). CD had recently …
  • … See letter to G.  H. Darwin, 24 [February 1859] . Joseph Parslow was the butler at Down …
  • … had been engaged by Emma Darwin in January 1859 as a governess for the children in place …
  • … go on Wednesday. CD recorded on 19 March 1859: ‘Began relooking over first M.S.  Ch s . & …
  • … II). See letter to John Innes, 4 March [1859] . George Varenne Reed , rector of Hayes, …
  • … from melancholia, left Down on 26 January 1859 to take up another position (CD’s Account …
  • … s employment was terminated on 16 March 1859 ( Emma Darwin’s diary) because of an incident …

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 T. H. Huxley   [5 December 1859]

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Thanks for THH’s review of Origin in Macmillan’s Magazine ["Time and life: Mr Darwin’s Origin of Species", 1 (1859–60): 142–8]. Reception of natural selection will depend on whether it explains the recognised laws in the several fields of natural history.

Domestic variation.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:  [5 Dec 1859]
Classmark:  Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 78)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2572

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  • … To T.  H. Huxley   [5 December 1859] …
  • … Archives (Huxley 5: 78) Charles Robert Darwin Ilkley [5 Dec 1859] Thomas Henry Huxley …
  • … See letter to Charles Lyell, 2 December [1859] . Huxley’s letter has not been found, but …
  • … see letter to T.  H. Huxley, 27 November [1859] . …
  • … of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. …
  • … life: Mr Darwin’s Origin of Species ", 1 (1859–60): 142–8]. Reception of natural selection …
  • … as he noted, from his lecture of 3 June 1859 at the Royal Institution of Great Britain …
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The writing of "Origin"

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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…

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  • … 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

Summary

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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