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DCP-LETT-2501F

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Cancelled: Known only from reference in letter to Charles Lyell, 11 October [1859]

Author:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [4 October 1859]
Classmark:  
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2501F

Matches: 3 hits

  • Lyell, Charles Darwin, C. R. …
  • Charles Lyell, 1st baronet [4 October 1859] Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … Cancelled: Known only from reference in letter to Charles Lyell, 11 October [1859] …

To Charles Lyell   22 February [1866]

Summary

Comments on errors [in Origin] pointed out in C. J. F. Bunbury’s letters.

Mentions CD’s notes on Drimys, Fuchsia, and fossil mammals of Brazilian caves.

Sorrowful that his work must be put aside because Murray wants a new [4th] edition of Origin. Remarks on changes to be made regarding Organ Mountains and Agassiz’s glacial markings.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  22 Feb [1866]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.314)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5015

Matches: 13 hits

  • … Darwin, C. R. Lyell, Charles
  • … To Charles Lyell   22 February [1866] …
  • … Mss.B.D25.314) Charles Robert Darwin Down 22 Feb [1866] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
  • … edition of Origin , see the letter to Charles Lyell, 15 February [1866] and n.  5. See …
  • … letter from C.  J.  F.  Bunbury to Charles Lyell, 20 February 1866 . For CD’s temporary …
  • … of Origin on this point, see the letter to Charles Lyell, 7 February [1866] and n.  7. …
  • … and the letter from C.  J.  F.  Bunbury to Charles Lyell, 20 February 1866 (see n.   …
  • … letter from C.  J.  F.  Bunbury to Charles Lyell, 20 February 1866 ) that Gaultheria , …
  • … views as expressed in the letter to Charles Lyell, 7 February [1866] , see the letter from …
  • … C.  J.  F.  Bunbury to Charles Lyell, 20 February 1866 , n.  13. CD’s notes on the …
  • … Cabot Cary Agassiz (see n.  2, above, letter to Charles Lyell, 7 February [1866] and n.   …
  • … 2, and letter to Charles Lyell, 15 February [1866] and n.  2). See letter from John …
  • … refers to Charles James Fox Bunbury and the letter from Bunbury to Lyell of 20 February  …

DCP-LETT-1912B

Summary

Cancelled: appears in 1917.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  5 July [1856]
Classmark:  Charles Lyell’s notebook 213: 101–2?
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1912B

Matches: 3 hits

DCP-LETT-1919A

Summary

Cancelled: appears in 1920.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  8 July [1856]
Classmark:  Charles Lyell’s notebook II: 95–8?
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1919A

Matches: 3 hits

To Charles Lyell   [9 April 1873]

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Hopes that Charles Lyell has enjoyed his excursion.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  [9 Apr 1873]
Classmark:  DAR 146: 327
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8552F

Matches: 4 hits

To Charles Lyell   23 November [1859]

Summary

Thanks CL for his decision to accept CD’s "doctrine of modification" [in Elements of geology, 6th ed. (1865)]. Believes it "morally impossible that investigators of truth, like you and Hooker, can be wholly wrong". Does not think CL’s decision will injure his works.

Thinks CL overrates importance of multiple origin of dogs.

Mentions sending copy of Origin to Herschel. Asks CL about Herschel’s reaction.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  23 Nov [1859]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.176)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2543

Matches: 10 hits

  • … Darwin, C. R. Lyell, Charles
  • … To Charles Lyell   23 November [1859] …
  • … Mss.B.D25.176) Charles Robert Darwin Ilkley 23 Nov [1859] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
  • … Bibliography Lyell, Charles. 1867–8. Principles of geology or the modern changes of the …
  • … not yet received the letter from Charles Lyell, [22 November 1859] , since it is …
  • … only mentioned later, in the letter to Charles Lyell, 24 [November 1859] . …
  • … See letter from Charles Lyell, 21 November 1859 . See letter to J.  F. W. …
  • … William Herschel’s response to Origin , see letter to Charles Lyell, [10 December 1859] . …
  • … question. CD refers to letters from Charles Lyell , 28 October 1859  and 21 November …
  • … I remain my dear Lyell | Your affect friend & disciple | Charles Darwin Sir J.  Herschel, …

To Charles Lyell   20 [June 1860]

Summary

Blyth’s effort to raise money for a Chinese expedition.

Comments on free-will in animals.

Says natural selection is not in the same category with Huxley’s "force" and "matter".

Discusses remarkable variation in period of gestation in dogs and ducks.

Discusses Arctic flora.

Has been working on orchids; they beat woodpeckers in adaptation.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  20 [June 1860]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.219)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2838

Matches: 7 hits

  • … Darwin, C. R. Lyell, Charles
  • … To Charles Lyell   20 [June 1860] …
  • … Mss.B.D25.219) Charles Robert Darwin Down 20 [June 1860] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
  • … of a passage from it in the letter to Charles Lyell, 14 [June 1860] . Lyell had apparently …
  • … asked to see the whole letter. Letter from Charles Lyell, 19 June 1860 . …
  • … See letter to Charles Lyell, 17 June [1860] , …
  • … and letter from Charles Lyell, 19 June 1860 . Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood was …

DCP-LETT-4383F

Author:  George Rolleston
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  
Classmark:  unknown
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4383F

Matches: 2 hits

To Charles Lyell   13 [August 1861]

Summary

Thanks CL for orchids acquired from a collector.

Discusses role of Providence in variation. Does CL honestly think it applies to variations in domestication? If not ordained there, sees no reason for it in nature either.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  13 [Aug 1861]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.260)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3230

Matches: 5 hits

  • … Darwin, C. R. Lyell, Charles
  • … To Charles Lyell   13 [August 1861] …
  • … Mss.B.D25.260) Charles Robert Darwin Torquay 13 [Aug 1861] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
  • … See letter to Charles Lyell, 6 August [1861] . CD mentioned Lyell’s assistance in sending …
  • … Orchis pyramidalis in Orchids , p.  41. See letter to Charles Lyell, [1 August 1861] . …

From Charles Lyell   9 May 1863

Summary

Has been to Osborne on the Isle of Wight to visit Queen Victoria, who had lots of questions about CD.

Author:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  9 May 1863
Classmark:  The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/B9)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4149F

Matches: 5 hits

  • Lyell, Charles Darwin, C. R. …
  • … From Charles Lyell   9 May 1863 …
  • … Bibliography Lyell, Charles. 1863a. The geological evidences of the antiquity of man with …
  • … Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/B9) Charles Lyell, 1st baronet London 9 May 1863 …
  • … also Correspondence vol. 11, letter to Charles Lyell, 6 March [1863] ). Lyell discussed …

To Charles Lyell   3 September [1874]

Summary

Discusses belief in immortality and a personal God.

Describes his holiday in Southampton.

Comments on papers of John Wesley Judd.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  3 Sept [1874]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.448)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9621

Matches: 7 hits

  • … Darwin, C. R. Lyell, Charles
  • … To Charles Lyell   3 September [1874] …
  • … Mss.B.D25.448) Charles Robert Darwin Down 3 Sept [1874] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
  • … 1862 . CD refers to John Wesley Judd . See letter from Charles Lyell, 1 September 1874 . …
  • … the relationship between this letter and the letter from Charles Lyell, 1 September 1874 . …
  • … Letter from Charles Lyell, 1 September 1874 . Maria Sophia Heathcote . …
  • … The postscript to the letter from Charles Lyell, 1 September 1874 , had not been found …

From Charles Lyell   4 August 1867

Summary

Comments on proof-sheets of Variation.

His revisions of Principles of geology, 10th ed.

Author:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  4 Aug 1867
Classmark:  K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 415–16
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5595

Matches: 7 hits

  • Lyell, Charles Darwin, C. R. …
  • … From Charles Lyell   4 August 1867 …
  • … K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 415–16 Charles Lyell, 1st baronet London, Harley St, 73 4 Aug …
  • … Bibliography Lyell, Charles. 1858. On the structure of lavas which have consolidated on …
  • … Royal Society of London 148: 703–86. Lyell, Charles. 1867–8. Principles of geology or the …
  • … and selection. Believe me, my dear Darwin, ever affectionately yours, | Charles Lyell. …
  • … to be sent to Lyell (see letter to Charles Lyell, 18 July [1867] ). CD had described …

To Charles Lyell   [5 and 7 October 1842]

Summary

Cancelled: same as DCP-LETT-649. Discusses growth of various species of coral. Explains significance of dead reefs.

Describes meeting of the Council of the Geological Society; the controversy involving Edward Charlesworth.

Mentions conversations with William Lonsdale about Lonsdale’s work on corals and the financial support for his work.

Murchison’s views on glaciation in Wales.

Agassiz’s observations at Glen Roy.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  5 and 7 Oct 1842
Classmark:  CUL DAR 146: 149
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-645

Matches: 3 hits

  • … Darwin, C. R. Lyell, Charles
  • … To Charles Lyell   [5 and 7 October 1842] …
  • … DAR 146: 149 Charles Robert Darwin Down 5 Oct 1842 7 Oct 1842 Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …

To Charles Lyell   10 May [1872]

Summary

Comments on CL’s Principles of geology, 11th ed.

Discusses natural selection in man.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  10 May [1872]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.415)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8314

Matches: 6 hits

  • … Darwin, C. R. Lyell, Charles
  • … To Charles Lyell   10 May [1872] …
  • … Mss.B.D25.415) Charles Robert Darwin Down 10 May [1872] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
  • … Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Lyell, Charles. 1830–3. Principles of geology, being an …
  • … operation. 3 vols. London: John Murray. Lyell, Charles. 1872. Principles of geology or the …
  • … remain my dear Lyell, Your ever faithful & now very old pupil | Charles Darwin …

From Charles Lyell   10 March 1866

Summary

Comments on cool-period MS. Still believes geographical changes principal cause of former changes of climate.

Author:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  10 Mar 1866
Classmark:  K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 408–9
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5031

Matches: 16 hits

  • Lyell, Charles Darwin, C. R. …
  • … From Charles Lyell   10 March 1866 …
  • … K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 408–9 Charles Lyell, 1st baronet London, Harley St, 53 10 Mar …
  • … Society, special publications, 143. Lyell, Charles. 1830–3. Principles of geology, being …
  • … operation. 3 vols. London: John Murray. Lyell, Charles. 1867–8. Principles of geology or …
  • … as paleontology proves to have been the case. Ever most truly yours, | Charles Lyell. …
  • … for additions to editions of Origin (see letter to Charles Lyell, 8 March [1866] and nn.   …
  • … 8 and 9; see also letter to Charles Lyell, [3 March 1866] and n.  6). Lyell refers to …
  • … to Principles of geology , by Charles Lyell. London: Penguin Books. Times atlas : ‘The …
  • … refers to the letters from C.  J.  F.  Bunbury to Charles Lyell , 3 February 1866 and 20  …
  • … February 1866, the letters to Charles Lyell , 7 February [1866] , 15 February [1866] , and …
  • … Mountains of Brazil (see letter to Charles Lyell, 7 February [1866] ). In the manuscript …
  • … Correspondence vol.  7, letter to Charles Lyell, 18 [June 1858] and n.  3, and Appendixes …
  • … former climate change (see letter to Charles Lyell, 8 March [1866] and nn.  6 and 7). In …
  • … 1866 . Lyell had sought comment from CD, Joseph Dalton Hooker , and Charles James Fox …
  • Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Leeder, M. R. 1998. Lyell’ …

From Charles Lyell   24 April 1874

Summary

Will subscribe £25 towards F. A. Dohrn’s Zoological Station at Naples.

Author:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  24 Apr 1874
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Lyell correspondence Mss.B.L981)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9426F

Matches: 3 hits

From Charles Lyell   [after 3 October 1860]

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CD would have carried the public more if he had explained adaptations by multiple causes, some unknown and some well known, i.e., natural selection.

Discusses Hooker’s views of extinction on St Helena.

Work on antiquity of man suspended.

Stopped by 11th edition of Principles of geology [1872].

Author:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [after 3 Oct 1860]
Classmark:  DAR 205.9: 397
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2937

Matches: 7 hits

  • Lyell, Charles Darwin, C. R. …
  • … From Charles Lyell   [after 3 October 1860] …
  • … DAR 205.9: 397 Charles Lyell, 1st baronet unstated [after 3 Oct 1860] Charles Robert …
  • … Bibliography Lyell, Charles. 1865. Elements of geology, or the ancient changes of the …
  • … edition, revised. London: John Murray. Lyell, Charles. 1867–8. Principles of geology or …
  • … by the relationship to the letter to Charles Lyell, 3 October [1860] , in which CD asks …
  • … long-buried seeds. See also letter to Charles Lyell, 26 [September 1860] . The number of …

To Charles Lyell   1 December [1866]

Summary

Thanks CL for copy of his "grand book" [Principles of geology, 10th ed., vol. 1 (1867)]. Congratulates him on additions.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  1 Dec [1866]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.322)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5289

Matches: 6 hits

  • … Darwin, C. R. Lyell, Charles
  • … To Charles Lyell   1 December [1866] …
  • … Society (Mss.B.D25.322) Charles Robert Darwin Down 1 Dec [1866] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
  • … Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Lyell, Charles. 1867–8. Principles of geology or the …
  • … Darwin from his affectionate friend Charles Lyell Nov r . 29. 1866’. CD refers to an …
  • Lyell 1867–8 ) was published in November 1866 ( Publishers’ Circular , 15 November 1866, p.  722). The inscription in CD’s copy (Darwin Library–CUL) reads, ‘ Charles

To Charles Lyell   20 October [1859]

Summary

Comments on CL’s letters.

Discusses foreign animals naturalised in Australia and elsewhere.

Affirms man’s capacity to survive in Eocene climate.

Comments on American types.

Denies necessity for "continued intervention of creative power".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  20 Oct [1859]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.173)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2507

Matches: 7 hits

  • … Darwin, C. R. Lyell, Charles
  • … To Charles Lyell   20 October [1859] …
  • … Mss.B.D25.173) Charles Robert Darwin Ilkley 20 Oct [1859] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
  • … See the letter from Charles Lyell, 4 October 1859 , …
  • … and the letter to Charles Lyell, 11 October [1859] . See also Origin , pp.   …
  • … alludes to an aphorism of Sydney Smith (see letter to Charles Lyell, 11 October [1859] ). …
  • … See letter from Charles Lyell to T.  H. Huxley, 17 June 1859 . CD still intended to …

To Charles Lyell   [21? June 1848]

Summary

Comments on apology by Chambers for using some of CD’s material without acknowledgment in discussing Glen Roy. His opinion of Chambers’ book [Ancient sea-margins (1848)].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  [21? June 1848]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.75)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1181

Matches: 4 hits

  • … Darwin, C. R. Lyell, Charles
  • … To Charles Lyell   [21? June 1848] …
  • … Mss.B.D25.75) Charles Robert Darwin Down [21? June 1848] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
  • … The Wednesday after letter to Charles Lyell, [16 June 1848] . …
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