From St George Jackson Mivart 24 February [1871]
Summary
Would be pleased if CD called.
Author: | St George Jackson Mivart |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Feb [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 182 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5926 |
To Chauncey Wright 23 September [1871]
Summary
Forwards a letter. Has distributed 220 copies of the pamphlet [Darwinism 1871].
Thomas Henry Huxley has sent review of St George Jackson Mivart’s On the genesis of species and his review of Descent in Quarterly Review (Mivart 1871a and [Mivart] 1871c) to the Contemporary Review [18 (1871): 443–76] .
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Chauncey Wright |
Date: | 23 Sept [1871] |
Classmark: | Massachusetts Historical Society (George E. Nitzsche Unitariana collection, box 4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7964F |
From W. W. Reade 20 September 1871
Summary
Surprised at Mivart’s harsh review [Q. Rev. 131 (1871): 47–90], considering courteous tone of his book. Assures CD he has not been converted by Mivart.
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Sept 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7955 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … to Reade has not been found, but see the letter from W. W. Reade, 18 September 1871 and …
- … Reade visited Down from 28 to 30 January 1871 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Reade travelled in West Africa between 1868 and 1870 ( Correspondence vol. 18, letter from W. …
- … Reade refers to Samuel White Baker and Nile tributaries of Abyssinia ( S. W. Baker 1867 , p. 189). CD cited Baker for this information in Origin 6th ed. , p. 178. Reade’s Martyrdom of man ( Reade 1872 ) was published in May 1872 ( Athenæum , 11 May 1872, p. 589); his African sketch-book ( Reade 1873 ) was not published until 1873. CD replied to several of Mivart’s objections in Origin 6th ed. ; see letter to George Busk, 2 September [1871] …
From W. W. Reade 15 September 1871
Summary
Believes CD will not consider him a good Darwinian since he accepts natural selection only as a secondary law.
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Sept 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 48 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7947 |
From Andrew Smith 17 April 1871
Summary
On Hottentots’ blushing.
Gives case of a baboon’s revenge. [See Descent, 2d ed. (1874), p. 69.]
Author: | Andrew Smith |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Apr 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 87: 109–10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7694 |
From W. W. Reade 16 February 1872
Summary
Defends Descent against CD’s self-disparagement. The parts on the moral sense seem to him the finest in the book.
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Feb 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 53 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8215 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … vol. 19, letter from W. W. Reade, 20 September 1871 ). See letter from W. …
- … Reade, 13 February 1872 and n. 1. The author of the paragraph was the editor of the Athenæum , Norman MacColl . Reade visited CD on 19 March 1872 (see letter from W. W. Reade, 18 March [1872] ). Reade’s first known visit to CD was in January 1871 ( …
From W. W. Reade 25 September 1871
Summary
Sees his ideas on conscious and non-conscious intelligence are already in Murphy [J. J. Murphy, Habit and intelligence (1869)].
Encloses an extract from S. W. Baker’s The Albert N’yanza [1866] on the behaviour of the giraffe [See Origin, 6th ed., p. 178], and some references to Baker’s Nile tributaries [1867].
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Sept 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 69: A49; DAR 176: 51 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7968 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … See letter from W. W. Reade, 20 September 1871 and n. 6. CD’s letter requesting the …
- … Reade, 20 September 1871 and n. 4. Reade probably refers to Richard Francis Burton , who had been recalled from the consulship of Damascus on 16 August 1871 ( ODNB ). Reade may refer to Origin 6th ed. Reade refers to Samuel White Baker , his Albert Nyanza, great basin of the Nile ( Baker 1866 ) and his Nile tributaries of Abyssinia ( Baker 1867 ); see also letter from W. W. Reade, 20 September 1871 …
From Andrew Smith 26 February 1871
Summary
Admires CD’s ability to work so hard under adverse circumstances; finds his health makes all work an effort.
Author: | Andrew Smith |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Feb 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 185 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7516 |
From W. W. Reade 12 March 1872
Summary
Has just finished his work [? The martyrdom of man (1872)]. The new points are: (1) Negroes have whiskers; (2) their music is sometimes agreeable; (3) the Kaffirs are Negroes.
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Mar 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 55 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8241 |
From W. W. Reade 13 February 1872
Summary
Sending sheets of his forthcoming work on Africa [Martyrdom of man (1872)] with views that differ from CD’s on music and sexual selection.
The Pall Mall Gazette will review the new [6th] edition of the Origin, together with Mivart’s Genesis of species [1871].
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Feb 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 52 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8210 |
From Roland Trimen 20 September 1871
Summary
On St G. J. Mivart’s Genesis of species and Chauncey Wright’s review of it [North Am. Rev. (July 1871)].
Author: | Roland Trimen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Sept 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 190 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7956 |
From W. W. Reade 20 May 1872
Summary
His book has received bad reviews; therefore CD’s letter cheers him up.
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 May 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 61 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8341 |
From W. W. Reade 18 September 1871
Summary
There is a primary law of growth and innate improvement. Natural selection is a secondary law that operates to "arrange the details". This is not Lamarckian, because will is not involved.
Thanks for Chauncey Wright’s pamphlet [Darwinism (1871)].
Amused by critics who say CD is metaphysically unsophisticated.
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Sept 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 49 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7950 |
From W. W. Reade 16 January 1871
Summary
Meeting with CD postponed.
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Jan 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 43 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7443 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Reade has not been found. Reade visited Down with Joseph Dalton Hooker , Albert Günther , and Robert Swinhoe from 28 to 30 January 1871 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). CD cited Reade in Descent and Expression. The most recent extant letter from Reade to CD is that of 10 January 1871. CD used some of the information that Reade sent him in the second edition of Descent ; see letter from W. W. Reade, 10 January 1871 …
From W. W. Reade 4 March 1871
Summary
Praise for gentle but resolute tone of Descent.
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Mar 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 46 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7546 |
From W. W. Reade 14 March 1872
Summary
Plans for visit to CD.
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Mar 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 56 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8242 |
From W. W. Reade 3 April 1872
Summary
Sends preface of his book [see 8241]; he acknowledges debt to CD, but does not claim to have given a correct exposition of Darwinism.
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Apr 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 58 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8272 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Reade 1872 , p. 423, Reade maintained that racial differences were the result of differences in climate and food, and further, that distinctions among races were unimportant and external. Reade had also presented this view in his letter of 12 September 1871 ( Correspondence vol. 19). See also letter from W. …
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Smith, Andrew | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Mivart, S. G. J. | (1) |
Trimen, Roland | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (16) |
Wright, Chauncey | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (17) |
Reade, W. W. | (12) |
Smith, Andrew | (2) |
Mivart, S. G. J. | (1) |
Trimen, Roland | (1) |