To J. D. Hooker 6 January [1875]
Summary
Is not inclined to restrain himself from expressing his opinion of Mivart. Huxley’s article in Academy.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 6 Jan [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 365–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9805 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Essay review of the works of John Lubbock and Edward Burnett Tylor. ] Quarterly Review …
- … Review ( [Mivart] 1874 , p. 70). John Lubbock’s book was on British wild flowers ( …
- … John William. 1875. History of the conflict between religion and science. London: Henry S. King. [Mivart, St George Jackson. ] 1874b. Primitive man: Tylor and Lubbock. [ …
To E. B. Tylor [28 January 1875]
Summary
The review of EBT’s book ["Primitive Man: Tylor and Lubbock"] in the Quarterly Review [137: 40–77] last year contained a false and malicious attack on CD’s son George. CD knows it was written by St George Mivart. CD wishes to take every opportunity to say how false a man he considers him to be.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Burnett Tylor |
Date: | [28 Jan 1875] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 50254 ff. 81–2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9832 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Lubbock. [Essay review of the works of John Lubbock and Edward Burnett Tylor. ] Quarterly …
- … of the Royal Society of London in 1876. John Lubbock was also a member of the society. …
- … Lubbock in the Quarterly Review ( [Mivart] 1874 ). In the course of this work he made critical remarks about George Howard Darwin’s article on marriage ( ibid. , p. 70). See also Correspondence vol. 22, Appendix V. See letter to T. H. Huxley, 6 January 1875 and n. 1, and letter from J. D. Hooker, 16 January 1875 . John …
From E. B. Tylor 29 January [1875]
Summary
Does CD think it desirable for EBT’s wife to produce a new English translation of A. E. Brehm’s work [Illustrirtes Thierleben (1864–7)]?
Author: | Edward Burnett Tylor |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Jan [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 203 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9833 |
To St G. J. Mivart 12 January 1875
Summary
StGJM’s article in the Quarterly Review [137 (1874): 40–77] contains wholly false and malicious accusations against CD’s son George. Since StGJM has refused to make any sort of retraction, CD will not hold any future communication with him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | St George Jackson Mivart |
Date: | 12 Jan 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 97: C36 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9812 |
From J. D. Hooker 5 January 1875
Summary
Huxley strongly dissuades JDH from writing to Mivart because of his Presidency of Royal Society. JDH will hold his letter until he hears what Bentham says.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Jan 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 2–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9800 |
To Friedrich Max Müller 5 January 1875
Summary
Has read FMM’s article in Contemporary Review [25 (1875): 305–26].
Never suspected FMM was responsible for the Quarterly Review article ["Primitive man", Q. Rev. 137 (1874): 40–77]; knows it was written by Mivart.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friedrich Max Müller |
Date: | 5 Jan 1875 |
Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 89, October 2002) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9802 |
From J. D. Hooker 16 January 1875
Summary
JDH wins over Douglas Galton and Lord Henry Lennox on assistant secretary for himself.
Has called on Murray and told him Quarterly Review had disgraced itself by attacking George and CD.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Jan 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 9–10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9820 |
To T. H. Huxley 6 January 1875
Summary
Thanks THH for his article in the Academy and his defence of CD and G. H. Darwin against Mivart. Still thinks he should write plainly to Mivart.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 6 Jan 1875 |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 313) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9804 |
To J. D. Hooker 17 January [1875]
Summary
Astonished at JDH’s success versus Galton
and his attack on Murray is superb. Has written a formal letter to Mivart enumerating his offences.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 17 Jan [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 372–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9821 |
From Friedrich Max Müller 7 January 1875
Summary
FMM discusses his reply to George Darwin’s article [see 9711].
Intends within a year to place his whole argument before CD when, he hopes, his difficulties connected with the origin of language will be carefully considered by CD.
Author: | Friedrich Max Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Jan 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 285 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9808 |
From J. D. Hooker 7 January 1875
Summary
Tyndall, T. A. Hirst and Spencer dissuade him from writing to Mivart, but he will let him feel his disapproval.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Jan 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 4–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9807 |
From J. D. Hooker 3 January [1875]
Summary
Disapproves of Huxley’s article [review of Ernst Haeckel’s Anthropogenie] in Academy [7 (1875): 16–18].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Jan [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9797 |
To J. D. Hooker 8 January [1875]
Summary
JDH would be rash not to follow advice of his friends. [CD’s] wife and George oppose his writing to Mivart.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 8 Jan [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 367–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9809 |
letter | (13) |
Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Max Müller, Friedrich | (1) |
Tylor, E. B. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
Max Müller, Friedrich | (1) |
Mivart, S. G. J. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (13) |
Hooker, J. D. | (7) |
Max Müller, Friedrich | (2) |
Tylor, E. B. | (2) |
Huxley, T. H. | (1) |