From C. J. F. Bunbury to Charles Lyell 20 February 1866
Summary
Discusses CD’s and J. D. Hooker’s letters to Lyell concerning Louis Agassiz’s theory of the glaciation of the Amazon basin in Brazil.
Author: | Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 20 Feb 1866 |
Classmark: | F. J. Bunbury ed. 1891–3, Later life 1: 144–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5011F |
Matches: 12 hits
- … and western South America (see letter to Charles Lyell, 7 February [1866] ), Bunbury’s …
- … Gaylussacia (DAR 50: E47). See also letter to Charles Lyell, 22 February [1866] , n. 2. …
- … subsidence of the Amazon basin (see letter to Charles Lyell, 7 February [1866] and n. 5). …
- … period of global cooling (see the letter to Charles Lyell, 7 February [1866] and n. 25). …
- … pp. 268 and 271). See the letter to Charles Lyell, 7 February [1866] and n. 16. In his …
- … The reference is to the letter from CD to Charles Lyell, 7 February [1866] , possibly …
- … the letter to Charles Lyell, 15 February [1866] and, probably, to the letter from Joseph …
- … in CD’s letter to Charles Lyell, 15 February [1866] . The letter from Hooker has not been …
- … see the letter to Charles Lyell, 7 February [1866] and nn. 7 and 8. See also letter …
- … to Charles Lyell, 7 February [1866] and n. 8). See letter to Charles Lyell, 7 February [ …
- … Charles Lyell, 3 February 1866 . CD had described Hypericum , Drosera , and Habenaria as ‘temperate’ genera (see letter …
- … Charles Lyell, 15 February [1866] and n. 5. For Bunbury’s earlier remarks on the plant species of the Serra dos Orgãos occurring elsewhere in Brazil, see the letter …
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: 7 hits
- … fourth edition of Origin , see the letter to Charles Lyell, 15 February [1866] and n. 5. …
- … CD’s views as expressed in the letter to Charles Lyell, 7 February [1866] , see the letter …
- … Cabot Cary Agassiz (see n. 2, above, letter to Charles Lyell, 7 February [1866] and n. …
- … refers to Charles James Fox Bunbury and the letter from Bunbury to Lyell of 20 February …
- … Charles Lyell, 20 February 1866 . For CD’s temporary alteration to the text of Origin on this point, see the letter …
- … this letter and the letter from C. J. F. Bunbury to Charles Lyell, 20 February 1866 ( …
- … and letter to Charles Lyell, 15 February [1866] and n. 2). See letter from John Murray, …
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: 4 hits
- … 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 . …
- … from Charles Lyell, 1 September 1874 , had not been found when the letter was published in …
- … Charles Lyell, 1 September 1874 . Maria Sophia Heathcote . The postscript to the letter …
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 |
DCP-LETT-2501F
Summary
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 |
To J. D. Hooker 5 July [1856]
Summary
Troubled by JDH’s connection between Antarctic island flora and Fuegia, which CD sees as part of a general relation to southern circumpolar flora. Encloses list [not found] of plants from Tristan d’Acunha.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 5 July [1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 167 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1919 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … was written in the morning and that he had also written to Charles Lyell (see letter …
- … Hooker, 5 [July 1856] . A. de Candolle 1855 . Letter to Charles Lyell, 25 June [1856] . …
- … Letter from Charles Lyell, [1 July 1856] . See letter …
- … to Charles Lyell, 5 July [1856] ). The original order of the letters has been preserved …
- … to Charles Lyell, 5 July [1856] . CD reiterated this intention in his letter to J. D. …
To Charles Lyell 25 February [1860]
Summary
Comments on CL’s reaction to the Origin. Mentions reactions of other scientists.
Discusses fertility of Aspicarpa.
Criticises Herbert Spencer’s views on population.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 25 Feb [1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.201) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2714 |
From J. D. Hooker 21 February 1866
Summary
Had Busks and Lyells to dinner.
Examines and criticises evidence for CD’s hypothesis that the glacial period was not one of universal cold. Physicists deny its possibility.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Feb 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 59, 62–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5013 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … Croll 1865a , pp. 271, 436). See letter to Charles Lyell, 15 February [1866] . Hooker’s …
- … colder from pole to pole (see the letter to Charles Lyell, 15 February [1866] , n. 9). In …
- … warmer than CD had believed (see letter to Charles Lyell, 15 February [1866] and n. 4). …
- … Origin , pp. 365–82. See the letter to Charles Lyell, 15 February [1866] . The prevailing …
- … to Charles Lyell, 15 February [1866] ; that letter was in turn prompted by CD’s reading a …
- … See letter from C. J. F. Bunbury to Charles Lyell, 3 February 1866 , and the letters …
- … to Charles Lyell , 7 February [1866] and 15 February [1866] . See also letter from C. …
- … Charles Lyell, 20 February 1866 . Hooker’s comments were apparently prompted by reading CD’s letter …
- … Amazon basin, see the letter from C. J. F. Bunbury to Charles Lyell, 3 February 1866 …
- … Charles and Mary Elizabeth Lyell . Both families lived in Harley Street ( Post Office London directory ), but Mary Lyell did not invite the Busks to social gatherings (see Correspondence vol. 13, letter …
To Charles Lyell 22 January [1865]
Summary
Criticises Duke of Argyll’s address [to the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1864)] and demurs on Argyll’s "new birth" theory.
Agrees with CL on beauty.
Enjoyed hearing of Princess Royal’s discussion [on Darwinism].
CD’s illness.
CL’s advice on chapter [of Variation] on dogs was excellent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 22 Jan [1865] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.304) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4752 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … the relationship between this letter and the letter from Charles Lyell, 16 January 1865 . …
- … D. Campbell 1864 , p. 286). See letter from Charles Lyell, 16 January 1865 and n. 6. …
- … 1860 (see Correspondence vol. 8, letter to Charles Lyell, 11 August [1860] , and letter …
- … 1864 ); see letter from Charles Lyell, 16 January 1865 . See letter from Charles Lyell, …
- … ibid. , p. 31). C. Lyell 1865 . See letter from Charles Lyell, 16 January 1865 and n. …
- … Charles Lyell, 16 January 1865 . Victoria Adelaide Mary Louise, Queen Victoria’s daughter. Lyell had written about her interest in CD’s theory in his letter …
- … Charles Lyell, 18 September 1860 ). Lyell had had difficulties accepting CD’s view, first expressed in Origin , p. 17, that the various breeds of dogs had descended from several distinct species rather than from a single progenitor (see Correspondence vol. 7). Lyell returned CD’s manuscript at the end of September, and remarked in his letter …
To J. D. Hooker 17 March [1863]
Summary
Lyell’s Antiquity of man lacks originality.
Statements in Lyell provoke CD to determine exact publication date of Origin and JDH’s introductory essay [to Flora Tasmaniae].
CD now believes in repeated periods of global cooling and migration.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 17 Mar [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 187 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4048 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Hooker, [15 March 1863] . See letter to Charles Lyell, 17 March [1863] . See letter from …
- … his work in C. Lyell 1863a (see letter from Charles Lyell, 11 March 1863 and n. 13). …
- … Correspondence vol. 7). See letter to Charles Lyell, 6 March [1863] and n. 35. The …
- … one harbour of refuge’. See also letter to Charles Lyell, 6 March [1863] and n. 27. See …
- … it was enclosed with the letter from Charles Lyell, 15 March 1863 . See also letter …
- … Charles Lyell, 17 March [1863] . The reference has not been identified. T. H. Huxley 1863b . See letter …
From Charles Lyell 15 March 1863
Summary
Lyell has received compliments for letting readers draw own inferences [on species question]. Now feels he earlier did Lamarck injustice. [CD’s] substitution of variety-making power for volition [as in Lamarck] in some respects only a change of names.
Thinks Huxley taking on too many responsibilities.
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Mar 1863 |
Classmark: | K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 364–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4041 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … was omitted from the transcription. See also letter to Charles Lyell, 17 March [1863] . …
- … Russian rule in 1863 ( EB ). See letter to Charles Lyell, 12–13 March [1863] . Lyell …
- … 5 March [1863] and n. 19, and letters to Charles Lyell , 6 March [1863] and 12–13 March [ …
- … see also Appendix VII. See letter to Charles Lyell, 12–13 March [1863] , n. 9. In C. …
- … February 1863] and n. 6. See also letter to Charles Lyell, 12–13 March [1863] . T. H. …
- … see letter to Charles Lyell, 12–13 March [1863] ). CD wrote a letter to Hooker on 13 [ …
- … Charles Lyell, 12–13 March [1863] ; see also n. 15, below, and Correspondence vol. 3, letter …
- … letter will not task you too much; when I sit down to write to you, I can never stop. Hooker, not having heard from you, is growing anxious, and hopes it is because you are corresponding with me and not because of serious ill-health. Ever affectionately yours, | Charles Lyell. …
- … Lyell of 12–13 March [1863] , CD offered suggestions regarding the text of Antiquity of man ( C. Lyell 1863a ), particularly with respect to Lyell’s treatment of natural selection. Joseph Dalton Hooker had sent Lyell a ‘ deflagrating … yarn’, concerning his failure publicly to endorse natural selection in the book (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [15 March 1863] ). See letter from Charles …
- … Lyell reported that 5000 copies had been sold (K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 375). A third edition was published in November 1863, and a fourth in 1874. Some of the changes in the second and third editions are detailed in Grayson 1985 . The references are to William Robert Grove and Lamarck 1809 (see letter to Charles …
To K. M. Lyell 26 December [1875]
Summary
Sends Charles Lyell’s letters. Those from 1862–9 are so heavy that they have to be put in two parcels.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Katharine Murray Horner; Katharine Murray Lyell |
Date: | 26 Dec [1875] |
Classmark: | Kinnordy MS (private collection) (Sold at Bonhams, New York (dealers), 4 December 2019, lot 18) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13826 |
Horner, K. M. (1817–1915)
Matches: 3 hits
- … F. plants India Life, letters and journals of Sir Charles Lyell memoirs of Charles James …
- … and journals of Sir Charles Lyell (1881), and Life and letters of Sir Charles J. F. …
- … Charles Lyell, in 1848. Compiled a geographical handbook of fern distribution in 1870. Her collection of plants from India was given to the British Museum; her fern collection was given to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Edited Life, letters …
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: 4 hits
- … See the letter from Charles Lyell, 4 October 1859 , …
- … to Charles Lyell, 11 October [1859] ). See letter …
- … Charles Lyell, 11 October [1859] . See also Origin , pp. 379–80. CD alludes to an aphorism of Sydney Smith (see letter …
- … Charles Lyell to T. H. Huxley, 17 June 1859 . CD still intended to publish his ‘big book’ on species ( Natural selection ), or a volume derived from it, as a full statement of his views. Lyell wrote on the cover of this letter: ‘“ …
From J. D. Hooker [2 June 1865]
Summary
JDH on the Lyell–Lubbock plagiarism controversy. His view of the true cause of Lubbock’s behaviour.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [2 June 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 24–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4849 |
Matches: 13 hits
- … at about the same time letters from Charles Lyell with copies of his correspondence …
- … as they were neighbours (see letter from Charles Lyell to J. D. Hooker, [31 May 1865] , …
- … had pointed it out to him ( letter from Charles Lyell to John Lubbock, 20 February 1863 , …
- … criticism by Henrietta of C. Lyell 1863a , see Correspondence vol. 11, letter to Charles …
- … Charles Lyell to J. D. Hooker, [31 May 1865] and enclosures). See enclosures to letter …
- … Lyell claimed that there were only three passages where he ‘borrowed even any expressions from [Lubbock]’ (see letter from Charles …
- … from Charles Lyell to J. D. Hooker, [31 May 1865] , n. 3; see also letter to J. D. …
- … from Charles Lyell to J. D. Hooker, [31 May 1865] and enclosures. In the letter from …
- … Lyell and Lubbock. While Henrietta was on holiday in Wales, Emma Darwin wrote to her about CD’s worries over the dispute (see letter from Charles …
- … Lyell asked why Lubbock did not include in Lubbock 1865 the explanation Lyell had given for inserting the note on page 11 of C. Lyell 1863c (see letter from Charles …
- … Lyell 1863c and Lubbock 1865 ; the ‘original papers’ are Lubbock 1861 , 1862a, 1862b, and 1863a. Hooker’s wife was Frances Harriet Hooker . See enclosures to letter from Charles …
- … Lyell, 12–13 March [1863] . Both Lubbock and Lyell appealed further to Hooker to help resolve their disagreement ( letter from John Lubbock to J. D. Hooker, 23 June 1865 , Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Letters to J. D. Hooker, vol. 14, doc. 183–4, and letter from Charles …
- … Charles and Mary Elizabeth Lyell lived at 53 Harley Street ( Post Office London directory 1865). The reference is to George and Ellen Busk (see n. 16, above), Richard and Caroline Owen, and William Benjamin and Louisa Carpenter . The Owens may have been excluded because Lyell had publicly quarrelled with Richard Owen (see Bynum 1984 , pp. 154–9). The reason for the Carpenters’ exclusion is not known. CD had sent Hooker a peloric specimen of Antirrhinum majus (see letter …
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 |
To Charles Lyell 8 March [1866]
Summary
Gives details of enclosed MS on cool period. Mentions Hooker’s opposed "axis of the earth" view. Causes of glacial period are beyond CD; "cannot believe change in land and water being more than a subsidiary agent".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 8 Mar [1866] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.316) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5028 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … by the relationship between this letter and the letter from Charles Lyell, 5 March 1866 . …
- … 6th ed. , p. 336; see also letter from Charles Lyell, 10 March 1866 , n. 8). According …
- … selection , pp. 534–66; see letter to Charles Lyell, [3 March 1866] and n. 6). CD also …
- … Charles Lyell, 5 March 1866 . CD was in fact twelve years younger than Lyell. CD refers to Joseph Dalton Hooker , and to the letter …
To Charles Lyell 15 and 16 [February 1860]
Summary
Auguste Bravard’s discoveries magnificent.
Bravard has sent pamphlets [Observaciones geológicas (1857) and Monografia de los terrenos marinos terciarios (1858)] with strange doctrine that Pampean deposit is subaerial.
Review of Origin by Wollaston [Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 5 (1860): 132–43] clever and misinterprets CD only in a few places.
Wallace’s MS ["Zoological geography of the Malay Archipelago", J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 4 (1860): 172–84] admirably good.
Henslow "will go very little way with us". "He, also, shudders at the eye!"
Baden Powell says CD’s statement about eye is conclusive.
Leonard Jenyns cannot go as far as CD, yet cannot give good reason.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 15 and 16 Feb 1860 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.198); The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/B1/ Lyell Temp Box 3.1 Folder_6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2700 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … January 1860 , which he had sent to Lyell ( letter to Charles Lyell, 12 [February 1860] ). …
- … See letter from Charles Lyell, [13–14 February 1860] . Bravard 1857 and 1858. Both works …
- … CD had sent Gray’s letter to Lyell (see letter to Charles Lyell, 12 [February 1860] ). The …
- … Wilberforce , bishop of Oxford, had made this remark to Lyell. See letter from Charles …
- … Lyell, [13–14 February 1860] . Wallace 1860 (see letter from Charles Lyell, [13–14 …
- … Charles Lyell , 2 September [ 1859] and 20 September [1859] ). Henslow was not convinced that the celts were of the same age as the fossil remains with which they were found; he reported his doubts in a series of letters …
- … Lyell 1863 ). CD received proof-sheets of Asa Gray’s review of Origin ([Gray] 1860a) on or around 4 February. After reading the review, CD sent it on to Joseph Dalton Hooker . See letter to Asa Gray, 18 February [1860] . John Stevens Henslow visited Down from 14 to 16 February 1860 ( Emma Darwin’s diary). For Charles James Fox Bunbury’s reaction to Origin and CD’s rejoinder, see the letter …
To Charles Lyell [25 June 1858]
Summary
Everything in Wallace’s sketch also appears in CD’s sketch of 1844. A year ago CD sent a short sketch of his views to Asa Gray. Can CD honourably publish his sketch now that Wallace has sent outline of his views? "I would far rather burn my whole book than that he or any man shd. think that I had behaved in a paltry spirit." Does not believe Wallace originated his views from anything CD wrote to him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [25 June 1858] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.153) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2294 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … See letter to Charles Lyell, 18 [June 1858] . Lyell may have written a letter to Alfred …
- … work (see Correspondence vol. 6, letter from Charles Lyell, 1–2 May 1856 , and letter …
- … to Charles Lyell, 3 May [1856] . See letter to A. R. Wallace, 6 April 1859 . See the two …
- … to Charles Lyell, 3 May [1856] ). See Correspondence vol. 6, letter …
- … Lyell’s hand. The date, however, is confirmed by CD’s reference to the illness of Charles Waring Darwin (see n. 8, below). The only Friday during the baby’s fever was 25 June. See also the following letter. …
To Asa Gray 17 February [1861]
Summary
Distribution of AG’s pamphlet.
Insectivorous plants.
Informs AG of his [CD’s] notice on Pumilio in Gardeners’ Chronicle [5 Jan 1861; Collected papers 2: 36–8].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 17 Feb [1861] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (54) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3064 |
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