From John and Emma Pender [before 23 June 1870]
| Author: | John Pender; Emma Denison; Emma Pender |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 23 June 1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 53.2: 168v |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7240F |
To Williams & Norgate 1 November [1877–9?]
Summary
Asks to be sent Dr Frank’s Die Natur: wagerechte Richtung von Pflanzentheilen.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
| Date: | 1 Nov [1877-9] |
| Classmark: | Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (November 2005) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10234F |
From John Michels 9 December 1877
Summary
Sends a drawing [missing] of alleged fossil man found in Colorado. JM is certain it is a hoax perpetrated by P. T. Barnum. It was designed to conform to CD’s well-known views of man’s ancestor.
| Author: | John Michels |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Dec 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 176 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11272 |
From A. R. Wallace 29 May [1864]
Summary
Argues the antiquity of the human species because natural selection acts differently with respect to men. Changes in man are largely confined to head and brain. Warfare and sex are very uncertain as means of selection.
Gives CD complete credit for theory of natural selection.
Is beginning his narrative of his travels.
Lyell argues against tracing man as far back as Miocene times. R. I. Murchison’s argument that Africa is the oldest existing land implies that Africa is the place to look for early man.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 May [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B14–19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4514 |
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- … C. Darwin and Wallace 1858, and to Origin. See also Correspondence vol. 7. See letter to A. R. Wallace, 28 [May 1864] and n. 19. Wallace’s next publication on the topic was a revision of his 1864 paper, including some new conclusions, in the essay ‘The limits of natural selection as applied to man’, published in Wallace 1870 , …
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| Michels, John | (1) |
| Pender, Emma | (1) |
| Pender, John | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Williams & Norgate | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Denison, Emma | (1) |
| Michels, John | (1) |
| Pender, Emma | (1) |
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