To Charles Lyell 7 June [1853]
Summary
Describes meeting of Geological Society [1 June 1853].
Mentions his criticism of Murchison’s lecture on flints.
Describes Robert Chambers’ "On the glacial phenomena in Scotland" [Edinburgh New Philos. J. 54 (1853): 229–82].
Mentions controversial election of members to the Royal Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 7 June [1853] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.107) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1518 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … 1955. The world that Fred made: an autobiography. London: Chatto & Windus. Emma Darwin ( …
- … 1904): Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. A century of family letters. Edited by …
- … 2 vols. Cambridge: privately printed by Cambridge University Press. 1904. Emma Darwin ( …
- … 1915): Emma Darwin: a century of family letters, 1792–1896. Edited by Henrietta …
- … Wedgwood and Wedgwood 1980 , pp. 321–2; Emma Darwin (1904) , p. 338). Following Emma’s …
- … in 1891 at the infirmary of the workhouse in Cambridge in Emma Darwin (1904) , 2: 404–5. …
- … In the later edition of Emma Darwin (1915) , she noted only Elizabeth’s birth. Gwen …
- … which observations on the Darwin children are recorded, Emma noted that Elizabeth’s speech …
- … Darwin, 24 [February 1852] , CD reported that Elizabeth ‘shivers & makes as many extraordinary grimaces as ever’. Elizabeth lived with CD and Emma …
- … Emma having gone for a few days to her sisters. On July 1 st . we go for a month, the whole posse comitatus of us, to the Isle of Wight: & on our return I hope to go to press with my weariful cirripedes. My kindest remembrances to Lady Lyell. Ever most truly Your’s | Charles Darwin …
To Charles Lyell [1 August 1861]
Summary
Mentions Dutch translation [of Origin].
Discusses evolutionary origin of sexuality.
Asa Gray’s suggestion that variation was directed by a higher power and Herschel’s view of providential arrangement in nature.
Compares variation in domestic and wild species.
Asks CL for introductions for his son William in Southampton, where he has joined a bank.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [1 Aug 1861] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.259) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3223 |
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- … et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Emma Darwin ( …
- … 1915): Emma Darwin: a century of family letters, 1792–1896. Edited by Henrietta …
- … endorsement. The first of August fell on a Thursday in 1861. Emma Darwin’s diary records …
- … that she and Henrietta Emma Darwin , accompanied by Hope Elizabeth Wedgwood (the youngest …
- … Litchfield, this was the only tour Emma Darwin ‘ever took without the family in all …
- … her married life. ’ ( Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 178). Frances Elizabeth Longfellow , wife of …
To Charles Lyell 28 August [1860]
Summary
The adultery of Lady [Harriet Spencer] Grey and Captain Keppell.
A new species of elephant discovered by Hugh Falconer.
Comments on excellent review by Asa Gray [Atlantic Monthly 6 (1860): 229–39].
Still believes dogs descended from several wild stocks.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 28 Aug [1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.224) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2900 |
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- … Emma Darwin’s letter to Mary Elizabeth Lyell , …
- … dated 28 August [1860], is printed in Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 177. …
- … Emma Darwin’s diary records that CD went to London on 21 August 1860. George Grey , who …
- … George Grey and the Keppel affair. Historical Studies 16 (1974–5): 192–215. Emma Darwin ( …
- … 1915): Emma Darwin: a century of family letters, 1792–1896. Edited by Henrietta …
To Charles Lyell [12 November 1838]
Summary
Announces his engagement to Emma Wedgwood.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [12 Nov 1838] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.12) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-432 |
To Charles Lyell 10 November [1856]
Summary
Illnesses of Mrs Horner and Emma Darwin.
Death of Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood.
Mentions work on his "Big Book" [Natural selection].
Remarks on J. A. H. de Bosquet’s discovery of a Chthamalus in the Chalk.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 10 Nov [1856] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.140) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1984 |
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To Charles Lyell 12 September [1860]
Summary
Additional response, at length, to CL’s criticisms of natural selection. Comments on failure of rodents to develop in Australia. Argues that most species become extinct and do not develop. Discusses variability, especially variability of rudimentary organs. Extinction among ammonites. Survival of Ornithorhynchus. Descent of marsupials and placentals. Emphasises embryological argument for descent of species.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 12 Sept [1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.226) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2915 |
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- … Bibliography Emma Darwin ( …
- … 1915): Emma Darwin: a century of family letters, 1792–1896. Edited by Henrietta …
- … was probably enclosed in a letter from Emma Darwin to Mary Elizabeth Lyell (see letter to …
- … 27 August 1845; it is printed in Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 96. Emma had quoted some remarks …
- … Emma’s & returned them to her. — Etty has a wish to try the sea, & we all start there in about a week. — I have been of late shamefully idle; ie observing instead of writing & how much better fun observing is than writing. — Yours affect | C. Darwin …
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 14 August [1863]
Summary
Congratulates CL on finding Arctic shells.
Comments on paper by E. B. Hunt ["On the origin, growth, substructure and chronology of the Florida reef", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 35 (1863): 197–210].
Mentions J. D. Dana’s health.
George Bentham’s statement on species [Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (1863): xi–xxix].
Praises Bates’s book [Naturalist on the river Amazons (1863)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 14 Aug [1863] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.296) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4267 |
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- … 25–51, 165–86, 329–38; 13 (1852): 34–41, 185–95, 338–50; 14 (1852): 76–84. Emma Darwin ( …
- … 1915): Emma Darwin: a century of family letters, 1792–1896. Edited by Henrietta …
- … D. Fox, 23 May [1863] ). According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), CD was at Malvern …
- … widower of Charlotte Wedgwood ( Emma Darwin (1915) , 2: 180–1). Henry Walter Bates’s …
- … Emma’s sister: I believe that the marriage will answer well to both. — If you have not read Bates’ book; I think it would interest you. He is second only to Humboldt in describing a Tropical forest. Talking of reading I have never yet got the Edinburgh, in which I suppose you are cut up. — With kind remembrance to Lady Lyell— Ever yours | C. Darwin …
To Charles Lyell 12 [March 1860]
Summary
Discusses the intellectual development of the ancient Greeks as an objection to evolution and gives his reply.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 12 [Mar 1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.203) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5032 |
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- … Lyell had visited Down from 9 to 12 March 1860 ( Emma Darwin’s diary). Probably a …
- … reference to Georgina and Ellen Harriet Tollet , childhood friends of Emma Darwin . …
- … Emma recorded in her diary on 10 March 1860 that the ‘Tollets’ came and stayed until 14 March. CD’s sister Emily Catherine Darwin …
To Charles Lyell 25 April [1873]
Summary
Offers condolences on the death of CL’s wife.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 25 Apr [1873] |
Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell Collection Coll-203/B1/ Lyell Temp Box 3.1 Folder_6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8884 |
To Charles Lyell [7 May 1863]
Summary
Falconer’s letter [attacking CL, Athenæum 4 Apr 1863, pp. 459–60] is most unjust.
Regrets his letter [to Athenæum, on heterogeny] now criticised by Owen.
Comments on article by Samuel Haughton [On the form of cells made by wasps – with an appendix on the origin of species (1863)].
Mentions forthcoming reviews by Asa Gray [in Am. J. Sci.].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [7 May 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 46 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4145 |
To Charles Lyell 8 [May 1860]
Summary
Did not know about separation between Silurian and Cambrian.
Cannot attend Geological Society meeting.
Etty [Henrietta Darwin] ill.
Sedgwick in his attack at Cambridge Philosophical Society states "there must be [on CD’s theory] large genera not varying".
Discusses migration of plants and animals from Old World to New.
Views of Asa Gray on Aster.
Mentions flora of coal period.
Has been elected to Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 8 [May 1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.211) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2788 |
To Charles Lyell [15 or 22 September 1843]
Summary
Mentions expected birth of child [Henrietta Emma].
BAAS meeting.
Comments on letters from G. R. Waterhouse and William Lonsdale.
Describes survival of apparently "fossil" seeds sent by W. Kemp.
Is at work on MS [of Volcanic islands].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [15 or 22] Sept 1843 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.32) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-696 |
To Charles Lyell 8[–9] September [1866]
Summary
Disappointed to put off CL’s visit because of illness of CD’s sister [Susan], but hopes to see him in October.
Thanks for lending pamphlet [L. Agassiz, Geology of the Amazons]. Agassiz has written "wild nonsense".
Refers to a translation of Pictet and Humbert’s "capital" paper on fossil fish ["Recent researches on the fossil fishes of Mount Lebanon", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 18 (1866): 237].
Hooker’s lecture at BAAS Nottingham meeting.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 8[–9] Sept [1866] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.319) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5208 |
To Charles Lyell 20 July [1861]
Summary
Mentions George Maw’s "good review" of Origin [Zoologist 19 (1861): 7577–611].
Relates remark by J. S. Mill concerning soundness of logic and method of Origin.
Is at work [on Orchids and Variation].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 20 July [1861] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.258) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3215 |
To Charles Lyell 1 September [1860]
Summary
Discusses at length CL’s criticisms of natural selection.
Comments on possible former connection between the Galapagos and South America.
Discounts survival of mammals on atolls.
Discusses reptile origin of mammals.
Discounts development of a mammal on an island and the descent of mammals from a bird.
The antiquity of islands.
Comments on bats of New Zealand. Geographical distribution of seals. Discusses Amblyrhynchus.
Glad CL will read his MS on origin of dogs [Variation 1: 15–43].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 1 Sept [1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.225) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2903 |
To Charles Lyell [9 November 1873 or 26 April or 6 December 1874]
Summary
Arranges a visit to CL.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [9 Nov] 1873 or [26 Apr or 6 Dec] 1874 |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 30) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8715 |
To Charles Lyell 22 January [1865]
Summary
Criticises Duke of Argyll’s address [to the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1864)] and demurs on Argyll’s "new birth" theory.
Agrees with CL on beauty.
Enjoyed hearing of Princess Royal’s discussion [on Darwinism].
CD’s illness.
CL’s advice on chapter [of Variation] on dogs was excellent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 22 Jan [1865] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.304) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4752 |
To Charles Lyell 12 [February 1860]
Summary
Encloses letters from H. G. Bronn, Asa Gray, and C. J. F. Bunbury, concerning the Origin.
Will send review by Gray and a notice by Bronn.
Says Bronn will superintend the German translation.
Comments on lecture by Huxley [at Royal Institution, 10 Feb 1860, Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 3 (1858–62): 195–200]. Has remonstrated with him for saying sterility is "a universal and infallible criterion of species".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 12 [Feb 1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.196) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2693 |
To Charles Lyell [8 June 1850]
Summary
Discusses depths at which ripple-marks appear on sea-floor.
Personal and social comment.
Mentions receiving Agassiz’s Lake Superior [1850].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [8 June 1850] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.94) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1337 |
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- … is not that an immense Honour! [From Emma Darwin to M. E. Lyell] My dear Mary I suppose …
- … Elizabeth Darwin , then nine years old. Emma Darwin’s diary records that, on 25 May, ‘Miss …
- … Darwin Library–CUL. CD recorded it in his list of books read on 16 August 1850 (DAR 119; Correspondence vol. 4, Appendix IV). Emma’ …
- … Emma sends many thanks to Lady Lyell for her letter full of news to us. We are not in the least surprised at her not recognizing Annie, considering how little likely it was that she should be there. — I am very glad that you approved of my Paper. — Yours most sincerely | C. Darwin …