To St G. J. Mivart 23 April [1870]
Summary
Thanks StGJM for prompt answer correcting inaccuracies in CD’s notes on StGJM’s opinions. Expects "universal disapprobation" when he publishes Descent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | St George Jackson Mivart |
Date: | 23 Apr [1870] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.375) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7171 |
To St G. J. Mivart 23 January [1871]
Summary
Acknowledges StGJM’s kind letter. [See 7451.]
Offers to alter the "dogmatic assertion" referred to on page 102 [of StGJM’s On the genesis of species] but in 5th ed. of Origin and in Variation CD finds only qualified expressions.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | St George Jackson Mivart |
Date: | 23 Jan [1871] |
Classmark: | Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7453A |
To St G. J. Mivart 28 January [1871]
Summary
He has found passage on false belief, Variation 2: 414, and does not think the whole with context is dogmatic. [Encloses copy of the passage.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | St George Jackson Mivart |
Date: | 28 Jan [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 249: 96–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7462A |
From St G. J. Mivart 31 January 1871
Author: | St George Jackson Mivart |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Jan 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 193 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7467 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … 24 January 1871 , and enclosure to letter to St G. J. Mivart, 28 January [1871] . …
- … See letter to St G. J. Mivart, 28 January [1871] . CD had asked John Murray to send …
- … Mivart, 28 January [1871] ). Mivart’s London address was 7 North Bank. Mivart was having a house built at Wilmshurst, Fletching, near Uckfield, in Sussex ( Post Office directory of the six home counties 1874). See letter from St G. J. …
From St G. J. Mivart 6 January 1872
Summary
As a man of science, StGM has no choice but to pursue what he sees as the truth. Will happily admit he has misrepresented CD if CD will disclaim the position that StGM attacks.
Author: | St George Jackson Mivart |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Jan 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 198 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8148 |
From St G. J. Mivart 25 April 1870
Summary
Apologises for saying more than was necessary in his previous letter. Although he feels gratitude and esteem for CD, he execrates those who use natural selection to oppose man’s higher interests and impede his advance. Has seen Huxley’s Man’s place in nature for sale among a crowd of obscenities at most Italian railway stations.
Author: | St George Jackson Mivart |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Apr 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 187 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7173 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … See letter from St G. J. Mivart, 22 April 1870 , and letter to St G. J. …
- … 21 April [1870] and n. 2, and letter from St G. J. Mivart, 22 April and n. 1). Mivart …
- … Mivart, 23 April [1870] . Mivart refers to Thomas Henry Huxley and T. H. Huxley 1863 . Cynocephalus is the flying lemur. Mivart’s ‘trees’ were meant to show affinities between primates in relation to various parts of their skeletons, not genealogical relationships (see letter to St G. J. …
To St. G. J. Mivart 27 September [1871]
Summary
Sends a reprint of Chauncey Wright’s article ["Darwinism", North Am. Rev. 113 (1871): 63–103].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | St George Jackson Mivart |
Date: | 27 Sept [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 94 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7972 |
Matches: 3 hits
To St G. J. Mivart 11 January [1872]
Summary
CD believes that StGJM has been unfair in his criticisms and has misrepresented him; he begs him not to write again. "Agassiz has uttered splendid sarcasms on me, but I still feel quite friendly towards him. M. Flourens cd. not find words to express his contempt of me: Pictet & Hopkins argued with great force against me: Fleeming Jenkin covered me with first-rate ridicule; & his crticisms were true & most useful: but none of their writings have mortified me as yours have done …" [See 8154.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | St George Jackson Mivart |
Date: | 11 Jan [1872] |
Classmark: | Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8156A |
To St G. J. Mivart [23 January 1871]
Summary
Comments on StGJM’s book [Genesis of species (1871)]. Has no personal objection to a word of it, but regrets their views differ so much.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | St George Jackson Mivart |
Date: | [23 Jan 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 95–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7453 |
To St G. J. Mivart 21 January [1871]
Summary
Is obliged for StGJM’s book [On the genesis of species (1871)].
Would not have sent him vol. 1 [of Descent] if he had known that StGJM’s book was already published.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | St George Jackson Mivart |
Date: | 21 Jan [1871] |
Classmark: | Bonhams, New York (dealers) (11 June 2008) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7450A |
From St G. J. Mivart 24 January 1871
Summary
Is sorry CD found Genesis of species unfairly critical. Assures CD of his just intentions and offers to alter certain words and phrases in a new edition. Emphasises his high regard for CD but fears his views are leading to religious decay.
Author: | St George Jackson Mivart |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Jan 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 191 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7454 |
To St G. J. Mivart 21 April [1871]
Summary
"If you feel astonished at my bringing man & brutes so near together in their whole nature (though with a wide hiatus) I feel still more astonished, as I believe, at your judgment on this head. I much wish you had enlarged your concluding sentence a little so as to say whether you consider the ordinary mental faculties so distinct, or whether you confine the enormous difference to spiritual powers including the moral sense.––"
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | St George Jackson Mivart |
Date: | 21 Apr [1871] |
Classmark: | Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7703A |
To T. H. Huxley [after 12 January 1875]
Summary
CD has written to Mivart to say that he will never hold any communication with him in future.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | [after 12 Jan 1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 145: 276 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9813 |
From St G. J. Mivart 23 April 1871
Summary
Feels their conflict lies in the field of philosophy rather than in that of physical science. Regrets that they differ so widely.
Author: | St George Jackson Mivart |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Apr 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 194 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7710 |
To St G. J. Mivart 26 January [1871]
Summary
CD apologises for having thought that StGJM’s religious feelings had led him to feel personal animosity towards him. [See 7454.]
He remembers having thought and written that belief in evolution is infinitely more important for science than belief in Natural Selection. For his own part he would have felt little interest in evolution apart from the explanation "in a general manner" of how each organism is so adapted to its conditions.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | St George Jackson Mivart |
Date: | 26 Jan [1871] |
Classmark: | Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7459A |
Matches: 2 hits
- … between this letter and the letter from St G. J. Mivart, 24 January 1871 . On CD’s …
- … G. J. Mivart, [23 January 1871] . On the geographical distribution of animals, see Mivart 1871a , chapter 7. In Mivart 1871a , p. 68, Mivart commented on the fact that the anterior molars of the dog (a placental mammal) resembled those of the thylacine (Tasmanian wolf; a marsupial mammal). See also Correspondence vol. 18, letter …
From St G. J. Mivart 4 October 1871
Summary
Thanks for Chauncey Wright’s article. Admits it is clever, but hardly expected CD to think it a serious defence of his position.
Author: | St George Jackson Mivart |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Oct 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 196 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7986 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Mivart had asked CD for a copy of pamphlet in which Chauncey Wright’s review of his Genesis of Species had been reprinted ( Mivart 1871b , Wright 1871a , 1871b; see letter from St G. J. …
- … Mivart, 26 September 1871 ). Mivart had asked his publisher, Alexander Macmillan , to send CD a copy of the second edition of Genesis of species ( Mivart 1871b ; see letter from St G. J. …
To J. D. Hooker 4 October [1871]
Summary
Sorry to hear of JDH’s troubles;
pleased he thinks so highly of Huxley’s article [see 7977].
Huxley makes CD feel infantile in intellect (as JDH once said of himself). CD is not so good a Christian as JDH thinks, for he did enjoy his revenge on Mivart.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 4 Oct [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 207–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7984 |
To R. F. Cooke 30 January [1871]
Summary
Asks that review copy [of Descent] be sent to F. P. Cobbe.
Discusses mailing of presentation copies.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
Date: | 30 Jan [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 277 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7466 |
To Francis Darwin [28 February 1871]
Summary
Says Descent is "selling like Mad.––" Murray will print another 1500 or 2000 copies. Has received £630 for the 2500.
On Monday he visited Mivart, who is a charming man.
He seemed to be taken aback by CD’s points about the larynx and giraffe.
[See 7507 and 7519.]
He seemed to have forgotten CD’s argument regarding the formation of the greyhound.
Discussed the larynx and the silence of the Cetaceans.
If FD mentions any of this to [Marlborough Robert] Pryor, ask him not to mention it to anyone else "as it is perhaps rather a breach of confidence to repeat even to friends private conversation."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [28 Feb 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 271.4: 2 and 4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7520A |
To Quarterly Review 7 August 1874
Summary
[Drafts by CD of the letter sent by George Darwin]. Responds to charges made in a review article [by St G. J. Mivart]. [See 9598. The final letter was printed in Q. Rev. 137 (1874): 587–9.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Quarterly Review |
Date: | 7 Aug 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 118–119 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9594 |
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Mivart, S. G. J. | (12) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Romanes, G. J. | (3) |
Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (23) |
Mivart, S. G. J. | (14) |
Hooker, J. D. | (8) |
Wallace, A. R. | (3) |
Cooke, R. F. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (59) |
Mivart, S. G. J. | (26) |
Hooker, J. D. | (12) |
Huxley, T. H. | (3) |
Romanes, G. J. | (3) |