To Chauncey Wright 31 August [1872]
Summary
CD thanks CW for long, interesting letter; hopes the ideas will be worked into an essay some day.
Suggests dates for a proposed visit and gives instructions for reaching Down.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Chauncey Wright |
Date: | 31 Aug [1872] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8497 |
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- … To Chauncey Wright 31 August [1872] …
- … the relationship between this letter and the letter from Chauncey Wright, 29 August 1872 . …
- … Letter from Chauncey Wright, 29 August 1872 . Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) records that …
To Chauncey Wright 3 June [1872]
Summary
CW’s article responding to Mivart [see 8351] on the fixity of species is very clear.
On evolution of language, CD doubts W. D. Whitney’s claim that changes are effected by the will of man. Asks CW when a thing may properly be said to be so effected.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Chauncey Wright |
Date: | 3 June [1872] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8367 |
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- … Society (Mss.B.D25. ) Charles Robert Darwin Down 3 June [1872] Chauncey Wright …
- … To Chauncey Wright 3 June [1872] …
- … this letter and the letter from Chauncey Wright, 24 May 1872 . Wright had sent CD a proof …
- … Jackson Mivart (see letter from Chauncey Wright, 24 May 1872 and n. 6); it was published …
To Chauncey Wright 6 April 1872
Summary
Delighted to have cloud of darkness removed by CW’s paper on phyllotaxy [Mem. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. n.s. 9 (1867–73): 379–415].
Has heard that Mivart will answer CW’s pamphlet [Darwinism (1871)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Chauncey Wright |
Date: | 6 Apr 1872 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8277 |
To Chauncey Wright [11 or 21] April [1872]
Summary
Sends details of Alexander Dickson’s paper ‘On some abnormal cones of Pinus Pinaster’ (Dickson 1871).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Chauncey Wright |
Date: | [11 or 21] Apr 1872 |
Classmark: | Joseph M. Maddalena (dealer) (Catalog 16: Spring 1992) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8297F |
To Chauncey Wright 6 September [1872]
Summary
Recommends J. C. Houzeau’s Études sur les facultés mentales des animaux [1872].
Was glad to make CW’s acquaintance.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Chauncey Wright |
Date: | 6 Sept [1872] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8512 |
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- … Society (Mss.B.D25. ) Charles Robert Darwin Down 6 Sept [1872] Chauncey Wright …
- … To Chauncey Wright 6 September [1872] …
- … 1872. Études sur les facultés mentales des animaux comparées à celles de l’homme par un voyageur naturaliste. 2 vols. Brussels: Hector Manceaux. Paris: Hachette et Cie. Thayer, James Bradley. 1878. Letters of Chauncey Wright …
From Chauncey Wright 24 May 1872
Summary
Has replied [in North Am. Rev. 115 (1872): 1–30] to Mivart’s communication to the North American Review [114 (1872): 451–68].
Discusses the degree of fixedness of different characters in organisms.
Author: | Chauncey Wright |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 May 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 168 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8351 |
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- … From Chauncey Wright 24 May 1872 …
- … DAR 181: 168 Chauncey Wright Cambridge, Mass. 24 May 1872 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … not been found. See letter to Chauncey Wright, 6 April 1872 ; Wright refers to his paper …
- … 1871b ). See letter to Chauncey Wright, [11 or 21] April [1872] and n. 2. Wright refers …
- … 11 November 1871] . See letter to Chauncey Wright, 6 April 1872 . Wright refers to Leslie …
From Chauncey Wright 2 September 1872
Author: | Chauncey Wright |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Sept 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 170 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8507 |
From Chauncey Wright 29 August 1872
Summary
Discusses ideas on the development of language; agrees with CD that it is a process governed by unconscious selection; he considers it analogous to unconscious selection of domestic animals by savages. Remarks on the differing views of Max Müller and W. D. Whitney regarding the origin of language and its development. Comments on the extent to which unintentional effects can be ascribed directly to the agency of free intelligent wills.
Author: | Chauncey Wright |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Aug 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 169 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8493 |
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- … DAR 181: 169 Chauncey Wright London, Covent Garden 29 Aug 1872 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … 1872 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). See letter to Chauncey Wright, 3 June [1872] . …
- … See letter to Chauncey Wright, 3 June [1872] and n 4. William Dwight Whitney had …
- … selection’ (see letter to Chauncey Wright, 3 June [1872] and n. 5). The passage is from …
From Chauncey Wright 9 September 1872
Summary
Discusses the mental powers and habits of animals and considers that those of man are not separated from those of animals by any sort of fundamental barrier; the gulf seems formidable only from a self-conscious, human point of view. Man’s important distinction is his greater ability to act and respond independently of external stimuli, in consequence of his internal accumulation of personal experience.
Author: | Chauncey Wright |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Sept 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 171 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8515 |
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- … From Chauncey Wright 9 September 1872 …
- … DAR 181: 171 Chauncey Wright London 9 Sept 1872 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … See letter to Chauncey Wright, 6 September [1872] . Wright refers to Jean-Charles Houzeau …
- … 1872. Études sur les facultés mentales des animaux comparées à celles de l’homme par un voyageur naturaliste. 2 vols. Brussels: Hector Manceaux. Paris: Hachette et Cie. Thayer, James Bradley. 1878. Letters of Chauncey Wright …
From Chauncey Wright 3 April 1872
Summary
Discusses Mivart’s reply ["Genesis of species", North Am. Rev. 114 (1872): 451–68] to CW’s review and to Huxley.
Asks whether CD knows anyone to whom he could usefully send a copy of his phyllotaxy paper [Mem. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. n.s. 9 (1867–73): 379–415].
Author: | Chauncey Wright |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Apr 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 167 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8273 |
Wright, Chauncey. 1872. Evolution by natural selection. [Review of Origin 6th ed., and of ‘Evolution and its consequences’ and ‘Specific genesis’ by St George Jackson Mivart.] North American Review 115: 1–30.
To Chauncey Wright 28 October 1871
Summary
Glad CW has written on phyllotaxy [Mem. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. n.s. 9 (1867–73): 379–415].
Sure that CW’s pamphlet [Darwinism (1871)] will do cause good service.
Grateful for kindness to sons in America.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Chauncey Wright |
Date: | 28 Oct 1871 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8033 |
From Hubert Airy 31 May 1872
Summary
A review and criticism of Chauncey Wright’s paper on phyllotaxy [Mem. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. n.s. 9 (1867–73): 379–415]. Does not believe that the "distributive" and "cyclical" properties, which CW claims characterise the existing spiral orders of leaf arrangement, can be shown to be advantageous to plants. CW’s speculations on the origins of the spiral arrangement of leaves are purely hypothetical.
Author: | Hubert Airy |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 May 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8362 |
From Auguste Houzeau de Lehaie 4 November 1872
Author: | Charles Auguste Benjamin Hippolyte (Auguste) Houzeau de Lehaie |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Nov 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 274 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8599 |
From Chauncey Wright 1 August 1871
Summary
Discusses revising his North American Review article [see 7829] for publication as a pamphlet in England.
Plans to publish a further article on phyllotaxy.
Author: | Chauncey Wright |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Aug 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 165 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7890 |
To George Cupples 7 June [1873]
Summary
Thanks for report on J. V. Carus’ lecture.
Glad to hear suspicion about J. H. Stirling groundless.
CD has not seen R. W. Emerson. In last two or three years has seen several Yankees. Saw a good deal of the Nortons [Charles Eliot and Susan Ridley Sedgwick].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Cupples |
Date: | 7 June [1873] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.428) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8936 |
From St G. J. Mivart 10 January 1872
Summary
Agrees to close their correspondence. Defends his position against criticisms of Huxley and Chauncey Wright; assures CD of his continuing friendly feelings.
Author: | St George Jackson Mivart |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Jan 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 199 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8154 |
To J. D. Hooker 16 September [1871]
Summary
Is preparing new edition of Origin [6th] in which he will introduce new chapter to answer Mivart’s criticisms. Mivart is unfair: suppresses facts in CD’s later editions.
Sends article [by Chauncey Wright, see 7940] reviewing Genesis of species.
Mivart writes to CD full of respect, but reviles him in print.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 16 Sept [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 204–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7949 |
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 |
From R. F. Cooke 1 November 1871
Summary
Suggests CD have Origin [6th ed.] stereotyped.
Will sell out remaining copies of Descent at forthcoming trade sale, print off 500 or 1000 more, and then have the type distributed.
14 copies of C. Wright’s pamphlet have been sold.
Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Nov 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 404 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8044 |
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Wright, Chauncey | (6) |
Airy, Hubert | (3) |
Cooke, R. F. | (2) |
John Murray | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (16) |
Wright, Chauncey | (6) |
Murray, John (b) | (2) |
Cooke, R. F. | (1) |
Cupples, George | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (28) |
Wright, Chauncey | (12) |
Airy, Hubert | (3) |
Cooke, R. F. | (3) |
John Murray | (3) |