To J. S. Henslow 29 January [1860]
Summary
Measles has ben running through the house, but they are now quit of it.
Discusses plans for JSH to visit; eager to discuss Origin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | 29 Jan [1860] |
| Classmark: | RR Auction (dealers) (8 December 2021, lot 119) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2666F |
To John Murray 23 [January 1860]
Summary
Has agreed to permit P. T. A. Talandier to translate the Origin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 23 [Jan 1860] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.62–63) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2664 |
To J. D. Hooker 14 [January 1860]
Summary
CD has learned from Lyell that JDH reviewed Origin in Gardeners’ Chronicle writing in Lindley’s style.
Lyell is working on man.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 14 [Jan 1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 36 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2651 |
From Charles James Fox Bunbury 30 January 1860
Summary
On the Origin. Before expressing his disagreements, CJFB praises CD’s labour, patience, fairness, and other qualities which make the work "one of the most important that has ever appeared in Natural History". [See 2690.]
| Author: | Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Jan 1860 |
| Classmark: | DAR 98 (ser. 2): 26 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2669 |
To Asa Gray 28 January [1860]
Summary
If an American edition of Origin is considered worth while, CD would like AG’s reviews prefixed to it.
Will use all his strength to produce first part of his three-volume big work [Variation].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 28 Jan [1860] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (43) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2665 |
To T. H. Huxley [26 January 1860]
Summary
Has arranged with Baily the poulterer for pigeons for THH to exhibit at Royal Institution lecture.
E. A. Darwin will subscribe to H. Spencer’s book [First principles: a system of philosophy (1862)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | [26 Jan 1860] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 119) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2673 |
To John Murray [25 January 1860]
Summary
CD asks how soon JM will go to press with Journal [of researches]; thinks he had better look it over to see if progress of science has made any correction necessary.
P.S. Asa Gray has written that Origin has caused great excitement in U. S. Agassiz has denounced it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | [25 Jan 1860] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.64–67) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2632 |
To T. H. Huxley 21 [January 1860]
Summary
Sends copy of 2d ed. of Origin, with list of corrections.
Is at work on "fuller work" [Variation].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 21 [Jan 1860] |
| Classmark: | Janet Huxley (private collection); Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 102) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2660 |
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 |
| letter | (9) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Bunbury, C. J. F. | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
| Murray, John (b) | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
| Murray, John (b) | (2) |
| Bunbury, C. J. F. | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
