To Charles Lyell 10 November [1856]
Summary
Illnesses of Mrs Horner and Emma Darwin.
Death of Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood.
Mentions work on his "Big Book" [Natural selection].
Remarks on J. A. H. de Bosquet’s discovery of a Chthamalus in the Chalk.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 10 Nov [1856] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.140) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1984 |
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 |
To Charles Lyell 10 January [1855]
Summary
Discusses views of Daniel Sharpe on foliation and cleavage. Recalls his own previous discussion [in South America].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 10 Jan [1855] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.110) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1626 |
To Charles Lyell 10 September [1861]
Summary
Absence of organic remains in many deposits.
Discusses presence of marine animals near icebergs.
Comments on former geological state of England.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 10 Sept [1861] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.263) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3249 |
To Charles Lyell 10 April [1860]
Summary
W. B. Carpenter’s review of Origin [in Br. & Foreign Med.-Chir. Rev. 25 (1860): 367–404] "very good and well balanced, but not brilliant".
"There is a brilliant review by Huxley" [Westminster Rev. 17 (1860): 541–70].
Asa Gray sends good case of selection producing black pigs in Virginia.
Great blow to CD that CL cannot admit potency of natural selection.
Owen’s review in Edinburgh Review [111 (1860): 487–532] "extremely malignant, clever".
Patrick Matthew has published extract in Gardeners’ Chronicle [7 Apr 1860] from his Naval timber and arboriculture [1831], a complete but not developed anticipation of natural selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 10 Apr [1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.206) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2754 |
To Charles Lyell [10 December 1859]
Summary
Discuss CL’s suggestions for revisions to the chapter on the geological record [Origin, ch. 9].
Henry Holland’s reaction to the book.
Comments on CL’s work on flint tools of early men.
Describes at length a conversation with Owen concerning Origin. Notes "that at bottom he goes immense way with us", but emphasises Owen’s unfriendly manner. Remarks that Owen accepted a relationship between bears and whales. "By Jove I believe he thinks a sort of Bear was the grandpapa of Whales!"
Has heard Herschel considered his book "the law of higgledy-piggledy".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [10 Dec 1859] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.184) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2575 |
To Charles Lyell 10 January [1860]
Summary
Comments on corrections [in Origin, 2d ed. (1860)], especially on use of Wallace’s name.
Discusses human evolution with respect to CL’s work. Cites expression as a source of evidence.
Andrew Murray’s criticisms of the Origin involving blind insects in caves [Edinburgh New Philos. J. n.s. 11 (1860): 141–51].
Humorously describes human ancestors.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 10 Jan [1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.191) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2647 |
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 |
From Robert Bastard James to Charles Lyell [c. 10 March 1838]
Summary
Sends four samples of dust blown on board his ship from the coast of Africa, nearly 400 miles away, during four days in March 1838. Gives careful descriptions and relates the tests he made of it [see Collected papers 1: 200].
Author: | Robert Bastard James |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [c. 10 Mar 1838] |
Classmark: | DAR 168: 43 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-405 |
To Charles Lyell 13 April [1857]
Summary
CD returns a letter from Wollaston.
Although opposed to the Forbesian doctrine [of continental extension] as a general rule, CD would have no objection to its being proved in some cases. Does not think Wollaston has proved it; nor can anyone until more is known about the means of distribution of insects – but the identity of the two faunas is certainly interesting.
His health is very poor and his "everlasting species-Book" quite overwhelms him with work. It is beyond his powers, but he hopes to live to finish it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 13 Apr [1857] |
Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Gen.109/702) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2077 |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle [13 April 1860]
Summary
CD acknowledges that Patrick Matthew, in his appendix to Naval timber and arboriculture (1831), anticipated by many years CD’s explanation of the origin of species by natural selection. CD was ignorant of the work. If another edition of Origin is called for, CD will insert a notice to the foregoing effect.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
Date: | [13 Apr 1860] |
Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, 21 April 1860, pp. 362–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2766 |
From Henrietta Anne Huxley 1 January 1865
Summary
Has just been shown CD’s remarks on Tennyson. Upbraids CD for "Owen-like quotation" out of context, and getting source wrong. "If ""facts"" in Origin are of this sort I agree with Bishop of Oxford."
Author: | Henrietta Anne Heathorn; Henrietta Anne Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Jan 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 284 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4733 |
To J. D. Hooker 13 [April 1860]
Summary
Sends a letter concerning priority [of Patrick Matthew] for JDH to read and post.
Angered at Owen’s review.
Huxley’s Royal Institution lecture ends well.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 13 [Apr 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 48 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2758 |
To Richard Owen 10 December [1859]
Summary
Sends source of description of swimming bear catching insects [Samuel Hearne, A journey from Prince of Wales’s Fort in Hudson’s Bay to the northern ocean … (1795); see Origin, p. 184].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Owen |
Date: | 10 Dec [1859] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/211, 213) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2576 |
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 |
To Charles Lyell 4 [January 1860]
Summary
Praises CL’s work on human species.
A critical review of Origin in Saturday Review [24 Dec 1859].
A letter from J. G. Jeffreys criticises CD’s geological statements.
A note from William Whewell concerning Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 4 [Jan 1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.190) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2637 |
To Daniel Mackintosh 9 October 1879
Summary
Comments on DM’s ["Drift deposits of west of England", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 35 (1879): 425–55].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Mackintosh |
Date: | 9 Oct 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 333 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12252 |
From Hugh Falconer 23 June 1861
Summary
Offers CD a live Proteus anguinus from Adelsberg cave. In his hands it will have a fair chance of developing into "some type of Columbidae (say a pouter or tumbler)".
The Origin is universally praised in Italy and Germany, even by those who disagree with it.
Author: | Hugh Falconer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 June 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 3–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3194 |
To Charles Lyell 15 April [1860]
Summary
Has resolved not to correct Owen’s misrepresentations in his review of Origin.
Discusses at length the theological implications of natural selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 15 Apr [1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.208) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2761 |
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