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 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … 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 William Erasmus Darwin [4 March 1860]
Summary
Discusses the direction of WED’s studies.
Tells of the response to the Origin and the impact that it has made in England and abroad.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [4 Mar 1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 55 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2675 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … brother Montagu, who was 18 years old. Emma Darwin’s diary records that she went to London …
- … Museum, Down House. CD refers to Henrietta Emma Darwin and Leonard Darwin , and to Joseph …
- … the London physician Edward Headland . Emma Darwin’s diary records that Charles and Mary …
- … Emma probably refers to her childhood friends, Georgina and Ellen Harriet Tollet . See letter to H. G. Bronn, [ c. 25 February 1860]. [Wollaston] 1860 . Andrew Murray read a paper giving his criticisms of Origin at a meeting of the Royal Society of Edinburgh on 20 February 1860 ( Murray 1860a ). See also letters to Andrew Murray , 28 April [1860] and 28 [April 1860] . There are two copies of Murray’s review in the Darwin …
To T. H. Huxley 20 March [1860]
Summary
Invites THH to join Hooker at Down on 5 April.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 20 Mar [1860] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 160) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3093 |
To J. D. Hooker 3 March [1860]
Summary
CD’s list of fifteen converts. His opinions on opponents and supporters.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 3 Mar [1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 45 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2719 |
To J. D. Hooker 12 March [1860]
Summary
Lyell and CD would urge JDH to make his essays into a book, but see he has embarked on a huge project with G. Bentham [Genera plantarum, 3 vols. (1862–83)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 12 Mar [1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 46 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2728 |
To Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther 6 March [1860]
Summary
Reports on the snakes he collected in the Galapagos.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
| Date: | 6 Mar [1860] |
| Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2725 |
To F. M. Wedgwood 5 March [1860–9]
Summary
Thanks for a shell of an edible mollusc and also specimens of blind cave animals, which he will present in FW’s name to the British Museum.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frances Mosley (Fanny Frank) Mosley; Frances Mosley (Fanny Frank) Wedgwood |
| Date: | 5 Mar [1860–9] |
| Classmark: | Alan Wedgwood (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5984F |
To J. D. Hooker 18 [March 1860]
Summary
JDH coming to Down. Huxley will be invited.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 18 [Mar 1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 47 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2730 |
Matches: 1 hit
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
Addressee
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Günther, Albert | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Günther, Albert | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
