To John Murray 4 September [1870]
Summary
Variation is a much better looking volume than Origin due to quality of paper and binding. Hopes JM will attend to this point in Descent. Printers have sent "splendid lot" of proofs.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 4 Sept [1870] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 f. 211) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7316 |
To John Tyndall 8 September 1870
Summary
CD finds JT’s discourse "grand and most interesting" [On the scientific use of the imagination (1870)]. Flattered by what JT says about him.
He is "a rash man to say a good word for Pangenesis for it has hardly a friend among naturalists".
CD is much struck with what JT says about "pondering" and delighted by his "as if" argument.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Tyndall |
Date: | 8 Sept 1870 |
Classmark: | The Michael Faraday Museum at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, London, reference RI MS JT/2/10/458, spine title: Journal V111A 1858–71 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7319 |
To J. D. Hooker 17 September 1870
Summary
Discusses germination of charlock after a long interval.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 17 Sept 1870 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/2/2/1 f. 307) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7321F |
To George Cupples 20 September [1870]
Summary
Many thanks for present of a dog: he will arrange its collection from the train whenit arrives in London.
He is correcting proofs of Descent, and will send GC a copy.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Cupples |
Date: | 20 Sept [1870] |
Classmark: | Christie’s, New York (dealers) (19 December 2002, lot 41) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7322F |
To John Murray 26 September 1870
Summary
Wants sheets [of Descent] for foreign editions. Asks JM to determine price to be charged for the stereotypes of 62 cuts. Dallas would be excellent for the index but must be "civilly warned" not to delay. Encloses memo on the index.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 26 Sept 1870 |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 214–17) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7327 |
To J. D. Hooker 27 September [1870]
Summary
Comments on JDH’s report of Liverpool meeting.
Huxley’s address.
Sir Roderick [Murchison]’s "apotheosis".
Tyndall’s lecture is "grand" except for egotistical beginning. Some Frenchmen have pitched into CD for using the "as if" reasoning, which Tyndall shows is justified.
Has just read George Rolleston’s address in Nature.
Anton Dohrn says German public have high opinion of Lyell.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 27 Sept [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 181–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7328 |
To Hermann Settegast 29 September 1870
Summary
Thanks HS for a copy of his book [? Die Thierzucht (1868)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hermann Gustav (Hermann) Settegast |
Date: | 29 Sept 1870 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Autogr. I/101, Bl. 1–2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7330 |
To John Murray 29 September [1870]
Summary
CD did not promise Appleton stereotypes of text [of Descent]; only of cuts.
Wishes to know which passage JM thought "coarse". Remembers only a quotation from John Hunter on courtship of female being required "to give her desires" [Descent 1: 273]. He fancied a quotation rendered the sentence less coarse.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 29 Sept [1870] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 212–13) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7331 |
letter | (8) |
Murray, John (b) | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Cupples, George | (1) |
Settegast, Hermann | (1) |
Tyndall, John | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
Murray, John (b) | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Cupples, George | (1) |
Settegast, Hermann | (1) |