To Herbert Spencer 11 March [1856]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Herbert Spencer |
Date: | 11 Mar [1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 484a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1841 |
From Herbert Spencer 11 November 1874
Summary
Wishes to know where, in his works, CD refers to some particular behaviour in dogs.
Mentions the sensitivity of cirripedes to passing shadows.
Author: | Herbert Spencer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Nov 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 233 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9716 |
To Herbert Spencer 2 February [1860]
Summary
Has prepared a historical sketch [of writers on origin of species] for foreign editions of Origin. It includes HS. He was too ill to provide it for the 1st ed.
Sorry Murray has not sent HS his copy of Origin, as he was instructed.
Huxley will put CD and E. A. Darwin down for HS’s gigantic [publishing] programme. Suggests Dr Drysdale be approached about it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Herbert Spencer |
Date: | 2 Feb [1860] |
Classmark: | University of London, Senate House Library (MS.791/47) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2680 |
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 |
Spencer, Herbert. 1877. On the evolution of the family. Popular Science Monthly 11: 129–42, 257–71.
From Henry Holland 4 November [1864]
Author: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Nov [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 244 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4659 |
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- … your doctrine in the 10 th & 11 th No s of Herbert Spencer’s Biology. I may add to these …
- … Herbert Spencer’s Principles of biology ( Spencer 1864–7 ). The work was issued in instalments beginning in January 1863 as a continuation of Spencer’s First principles ( Spencer 1860–2 ). Instalment no. 10 (pp. 241–320) was issued in January 1864; no. 11 ( …
From W. E. Darwin 4 November 1871
Summary
Will write to de Chaumont to ask whether anyone at Netley is able to observe shivering fits. Has not got H. Spencer essays.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Nov 1871 |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 115) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8052F |
To L. H. Morgan 9 July [1877]
Summary
CD admires Herbert Spencer’s genius but not his "deductive style" of expression.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Lewis Henry Morgan |
Date: | 9 July [1877] |
Classmark: | University of Rochester Libraries, Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11044 |
From J. D. Hooker 10 June 1863
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 June 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 149–50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4210 |
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- … Herbert Spencer’s evolutionary philosophy in abstract terms, and the remaining four parts, published between 1863 and 1896 ( DNB ), dealt with its application to biology, psychology, sociology, and morality. There is a copy of Spencer 1860–2 in the Darwin Library–CUL; the last two numbers are uncut. See also n. 11, …
From T. H. Huxley 11 November 1866
Summary
Thanks for 4th ed. of Origin.
What a basting CD gives "our mutual friend" [Owen].
Glad he argrees with THH on Jamaica affair [Gov. Eyre and the "rebellion"].
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Nov 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 312 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5275 |
From L. H. Morgan 26 June 1877
Summary
Criticises Herbert Spencer’s Principles of sociology, particularly for its treatment of the family, for its superficiality, and for its dependence on J. F. McLennan’s views on exogamy. Americans are coming to see Spencer’s ideas as too broad.
Author: | Lewis Henry Morgan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 June 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 241 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11020 |
From J. F. Moulton 10 December 1879
Summary
At CD’s request he has read Malcolm Guthrie’s book [On Mr Spencer’s formula of evolution (1879)], which is a critique of First principles. He finds it a helpful clarification of Spencer’s views; however, it is as pseudo-scientific as the book it criticises.
Author: | John Fletcher Moulton, Baron Moulton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Dec 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 278 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12350 |
To A. R. Wallace 27 February [1868]
Summary
Pleased by ARW’s response to Pangenesis.
On negative reception by his friends.
Further argument concerning sterility and natural selection.
Polygamy and sexual selection.
Protection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 27 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434: 108–11) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5940 |
From W. M. Moorsom 13 September [1877]
Summary
Pleased with CD’s interest in temperance. Can he quote CD? Sorry the elephant story is a myth. It fits his argument for temperance: a passion for alcohol is natural [primitive]. Only the morally developed can resist. Moral development will take a long time. Thus education cannot cure alcoholism now. Thus public sale of alcohol must be outlawed. Although he is a follower of J. S. Mill and Herbert Spencer he has been forced to this conclusion.
Author: | Warren Maude Moorsom |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Sept [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 235 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11137 |
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- … Spencer 1851 ), Herbert Spencer argued that, according to his ‘law of equal freedom’, restrictions on trade were not only detrimental to the economy but immoral (see, for example, ibid. , pp. 459–60). See letter to W. M. Moorsom, 11 …
- … 11 September [1877] . The book was a big-game-hunting memoir ( Drummond 1875 ). On Victorian debates about the causes and hereditary transmission of intemperance, see Bynum 1984b , B. H. Harrison 1994 , and Valverde 1997 . Moorsom was a member of the Church of England Temperance Society. Both John Stuart Mill and Herbert Spencer …
To J. D. Hooker 23 February [1868]
Summary
Review in Athenæum full of contempt. Is sure Owen wrote it [see 5931].
Gardeners’ Chronicle review [(1868): 184] favourable.
Fears Pangenesis is still-born. Cites Bates, Spencer, Lubbock, and Sir Henry Holland. Is sure Pangenesis will sometime reappear. Questions that are connected and answered by Pangenesis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 23 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 52–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5918 |
From Daniel Oliver 12 March 1864
Summary
Discusses homologies of plant organs.
The passion-flower tendril should be considered a modified branch rather than a modified flower. Considers the distinction between the peduncle and the leaf midrib.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Mar 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 157.2: 103 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4425 |
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- … Herbert Spencer’s argument ( Spencer 1864–7 , 2: 37–43) that there was no fundamental distinction between foliar and axial organs; Spencer implied (p. 43), however, that the ‘current morphological creed’ favoured this distinction, which resulted from Goethe’s imposition of ideal forms upon nature. See also n. 2, above. See letter to Daniel Oliver, 11 …
From W. E. Darwin [8 December 1879]
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [8 Dec 1879] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 72) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12346F |
From J. D. Hooker 24 January 1864
Summary
JDH’s opinion of Herbert Spencer.
Rejects CD’s view of inheritance of induced modifications.
Huxley grows fat.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Jan 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 176–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4396 |
From Federico Delpino 11 September 1875
Summary
Thanks for Thomas Belt’s Naturalist in Nicaragua [1874], which confirms some of his observations,
and for Insectivorous plants, which he praises.
Suggests that a book integrating knowledge of plant–animal interactions be written by a Darwinist.
Defines biology as the science of external interactions.
German reception is far more positive than Italian.
Author: | Federico Delpino |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Sept 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 154 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10155 |
To J. D. Hooker 20 November [1866]
Summary
Requests roots of two species of Mirabilis for "a curious experiment in crossing".
Has subscribed £10 to Jamaica committee to prosecute Governor Eyre.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 20 Nov [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 305 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5281 |
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