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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

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To Charles Lyell   10 May [1872]

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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

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To Charles Lyell   10 January [1855]

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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

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To Charles Lyell   10 September [1861]

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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

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To Charles Lyell   10 April [1860]

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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

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To Charles Lyell   [10 December 1859]

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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

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To Charles Lyell   10 January [1860]

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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

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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

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  • … From Charles Lyell   10 March 1866 …
  • … ed. 1881, 2: 408–9 Charles Lyell, 1st baronet London, Harley St, 53 10 Mar 1866 Charles …

King, S. W. (1821–68)

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  • … London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96. 10 Lyell, Charles Saxlingham Nethergate Norfolk …

From Robert Bastard James to Charles Lyell   [c. 10 March 1838]

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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

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  • … DAR 168: 43 Robert Bastard James unstated [c. 10 Mar 1838] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
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To Charles Lyell   13 April [1857]

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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

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  • … 27 June 1856]. See letter to Charles Lyell, 10 November [1856] , n.  4. CD left for Edward …

To Gardeners’ Chronicle   [13 April 1860]

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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

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  • … See following letter and letter to Charles Lyell, 10 April [1860] . For a transcription of …

From Henrietta Anne Huxley   1 January 1865

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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

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  • … 9 April [1860] ; see also letter to Charles Lyell, 10 April [1860] ). The reference is to …

To J. D. Hooker   13 [April 1860]

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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

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  • … but see CD’s reply ( letter to Charles Lyell, 10 April [1860] ). Richard Owen attacked …

To Richard Owen   10 December [1859]

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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

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  • … on this subject in the letter to Charles Lyell,[10 December 1859] . Hearne 1795 . CD had …

To Charles Lyell   23 November [1859]

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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

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  • … William Herschel’s response to Origin , see letter to Charles Lyell, [10 December 1859] . …

To Charles Lyell   4 [January 1860]

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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

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  • … Hooker was the author (see letters to Charles Lyell , 10 January [1860] , and to J.  D.   …

To Daniel Mackintosh   9 October 1879

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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

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  • … also Correspondence vol. 9, letter to Charles Lyell, 10 September [1861] and n. 8. CD had …

From Hugh Falconer   23 June 1861

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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

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  • … see Correspondence vol.  8, letters to Charles Lyell , 10 January [1860] , and to Andrew …

To Charles Lyell   15 April [1860]

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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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  • … H.  Huxley, 9 April [1860] , and to Charles Lyell , 10 April [1860]. CD was mistaken about …
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