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 |
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- … Mss.B.D25.173) Charles Robert Darwin Ilkley 20 Oct [1859] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
- … To Charles Lyell 20 October [1859] …
- … See the letter from Charles Lyell, 4 October 1859 , and the letter to …
- … 11 October [1859] ). See letter from Charles Lyell to T. H. Huxley, 17 June 1859 . CD …
- … 1859] . See also Origin , pp. 379–80. CD alludes to an aphorism of Sydney Smith (see letter to Charles Lyell, …
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 |
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- … Mss.B.D25.176) Charles Robert Darwin Ilkley 23 Nov [1859] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
- … To Charles Lyell 23 November [1859] …
- … received the letter from Charles Lyell, [22 November 1859] , since it is only mentioned …
- … CD refers to letters from Charles Lyell , 28 October 1859 and 21 November 1859 , and to …
- … in the letter to Charles Lyell, 24 [November 1859] . See letter from Charles Lyell, 21 …
- … 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, [ …
- … Lyell, Charles. 1867–8. Principles of geology or the modern changes of the earth and its inhabitants considered as illustrative of geology. 10th edition. 2 vols. London: John Murray. Origin : On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 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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- … Mss.B.D25.169) Charles Robert Darwin Down 20 Sept [1859] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
- … To Charles Lyell 20 September [1859] …
- … edition (see letter to Charles Lyell, 24 [November 1859] ). Richard Owen discussed the …
- … located, but see letter to Charles Lyell, 25 September [1859] . See Wilson ed. 1970, pp. …
- … Lyell 1859b ). In the letter to Charles Lyell, 2 September [1859] , CD asked him how the …
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 |
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- … Mss.B.D25.179) Charles Robert Darwin Ilkley 25 [Nov 1859] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
- … To Charles Lyell 25 [November 1859] …
- … over. ’ See letter from Charles Lyell, [22 November 1859] . CD refers to observations of …
- … of variation. See letters from Charles Lyell , 28 October 1859 and 21 November 1859 . CD …
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 |
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- … Mss.B.D25.170) Charles Robert Darwin Down 25 Sept [1859] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
- … To Charles Lyell 25 September [1859] …
- … weeks earlier (see letters to Charles Lyell , 2 September [1859] , and to John Murray , 2 …
- … formations ( letter to Charles Lyell, 20 September [1859] ). The error was published …
- … 2 October 1859 (‘Journal’; Appendix II). See also letter to Charles Lyell, 30 September [ …
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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- … Mss.B.D25.181) Charles Robert Darwin Ilkley 2 Dec [1859] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
- … To Charles Lyell 2 December [1859] …
- … See especially letters to Charles Lyell , 25 October [1859] and 31 [October 1859] , and …
- … s letter of 24 November 1859 to Lyell. See letter to Charles Lyell,29 [November 1859] . …
DCP-LETT-2501F
Summary
Cancelled: Known only from reference in letter to Charles Lyell, 11 October [1859]
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [4 October 1859] |
Classmark: | |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2501F |
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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- … Mss.B.D25.178) Charles Robert Darwin Ilkley 24 [Nov 1859] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
- … To Charles Lyell 24 [November 1859] …
- … to the letter to John Murray, 24 November [1859] . Letter from Charles Lyell, [22 …
- … November 1859] . See letter to Charles Lyell, 20 …
- … 1859] , in which CD mentioned that it was too late to correct a statement in Origin , pp. 303–4, about the existence of whale fossils in Secondary formations. The example was deleted from subsequent editions (Peckham ed. 1959, p. 509). See letter from Charles Lyell, [ …
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 |
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 |
To Charles Lyell 28 [June 1859]
Summary
Thanks CL for copy of his paper ["Structure of lavas", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 148 (1858): 703–86].
Promises him a copy of Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 28 [June 1859] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.166) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2473 |
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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 |
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- … Mss.B.D25.186) Charles Robert Darwin Down 22 [Dec 1859] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
- … To Charles Lyell 22 [December 1859] …
- … CD’s theory (see letters from Charles Lyell , 28 October 1859 and 21 November 1859 ). See …
- … Jardine, 20 December 1859 . See letters to Charles Lyell , 25 [November 1859] and [10 …
- … Charles Victor Naudin’s work (see Correspondence vol. 5, letter to J. D. Hooker, 6 November [1855] ). Lyell probably drew CD’s attention to the work after reading Hooker’s comments on it in Hooker 1859 , …
To Charles Lyell 31 [October 1859]
Summary
Further discussion of origin of domestic dog breeds.
Effects of crossing separate races.
Comments on rate of artificial and natural selection.
The origin of pigeon breeds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 31 [Oct 1859] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.175) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2513 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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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- … Mss.B.D25.188) Charles Robert Darwin Down 29 [Dec 1859] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
- … To Charles Lyell 29 [December 1859] …
- … 1859] , and to T. H. Huxley,28 December [1859]). Daily News , 26 December 1859, p. 2. Robert Chambers , with his brother William Chambers , was the proprietor and editor of Chambers’s Journal . The review appeared in Chambers’s Journal 2 (1859): 388. There is a copy in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. Chambers’s note has not been found. See letters to Richard Owen , 13 December [1859] , and to Charles Lyell , …
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 |
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 |
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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- … Mss.B.D25.187) Charles Robert Darwin Down 27 [Dec 1859] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
- … To Charles Lyell 27 [December 1859] …
- … 1859] . Naudin 1852 . See letters to J. D. Hooker, 23 [December 1859] and 25 [December 1859] , and to Charles Lyell , …
- … 1859] . In Origin , p. 339, CD had referred to his own early work on the succession of types rather than citing Charles Lyell …
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