To ? 23 August [1870–80]
Summary
Discusses evolution of species.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 23 Aug [1870-80] |
Classmark: | Charles Hamilton (dealer) (3 November 1966) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13884 |
To John Murray 5 [August 1870]
Summary
MS of Descent, except last chapter, is ready to send to printer. Hopes the printer will be able to keep him steadily at work correcting proof. "It drives me mad to change from job to job."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 5 [Aug 1870] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 209–10) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7265 |
From Henry Bence Jones 2 August 1870
Summary
CD has complained of pins and needles keeping him from working on his book [Descent]. If he could spend ten days with HBJ, he would be well and fit.
Author: | Henry Bence Jones |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Aug 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 168: 79 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7293 |
To H. B. Jones 3 August [1870]
Summary
Despite HBJ’s good aid, CD’s stomach will not permit a visit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Bence Jones |
Date: | 3 Aug [1870] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Surrogate RP 3120) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7293A |
From Paul Broca 4 August 1870
Summary
Thanks CD for compliments on the first part of his "discours",
but the later part was critical of natural selection. Nevertheless, CD should see him not as a systematic adversary, but in the camp of Quatrefages de Bréau and Milne-Edwards.
Author: | Pierre Paul (Paul) Broca |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Aug 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 313 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7294 |
From John Murray 6 August [1870]
Summary
JM informs CD that he will have Clowes give him written assurance that the printing [of Descent] will proceed without interruption.
The [Franco-Prussian] War is a sad damper on international science and his publishing plans.
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Aug [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 377 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7295 |
From William Farr 6 August 1870
Summary
Is glad John Lubbock made the fight he did [to amend Census Bill to enable insertion of questions on consanguineous marriages].
Author: | William Farr |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Aug 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 33 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7296 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 7 August [1870]
Summary
Plans to visit Down in a week.
Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Aug [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 64 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7297 |
From Lewis Henry Morgan 9 August 1870
Summary
Sends last chapter of his book in press [Systems of consanguinity and affinity of the human family vol. 17 in Smithsonian contributions to knowledge (1871)], which supports CD on man.
Ethnology must study the ages of barbarism as the formative portions of man’s physical and mental history.
Author: | Lewis Henry Morgan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Aug 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 238 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7299 |
To Mr Dorrell 11 August [1870]
Summary
He will not be ready to begin correcting proofs until 28 or 29 August.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Mr. Dorrell |
Date: | 11 Aug [1870] |
Classmark: | Jonathan Haile (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7299F |
To L. H. Morgan 11 August [1870]
Summary
Thanks LHM for concluding chapter [to Systems of consanguinity and affinity of the human family (1871)]. Agrees that it is important to study the habits and institutions of savages.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Lewis Henry Morgan |
Date: | 11 Aug [1870] |
Classmark: | University of Rochester Libraries, Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7300 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 15 August [1870]
Summary
Wishes to visit Down.
Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Aug [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 65 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7302 |
From Charles Lawford Acland 17 August 1870
Summary
Is studying Variation, especially Pangenesis. Reports earlier notion of Dr Robert Lee, that resemblance between husband and wife may be partly owing to her having man’s blood circulating in her during pregnancies; thus spouses most resemble each other in large families.
Author: | Charles Lawford Acland |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Aug 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: A7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7303 |
To Jean Jacques Moulinié 18 August 1870
Summary
Under present circumstances [Franco-Prussian War] gives up French translation of Descent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Jean Jacques Moulinié |
Date: | 18 Aug 1870 |
Classmark: | Bibliothèque de Genève (Ms. suppl. 66, ff. 16–17) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7304 |
To J. V. Carus 18 August 1870
Summary
Has just sent MS of Descent to printers. Recognises that [because of Franco-Prussian War] the publisher will have given up idea of a German translation.
Though the war is a misfortune for science, CD rejoices at the wonderful success of Germany; has met no one who does not share this feeling.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 18 Aug 1870 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 60–61) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7305 |
To F. P. Cobbe 20 August [1870]
Summary
CD writes for Emma, who is ill.
Delighted with FPC’s "most just" article [in Echo?]. Sends £1 subscription.
Thanks for telling CD about the Fraser’s Magazine article [F. W. Farrar, "Hereditary genius (by F. Galton)", n.s. 2 (1870): 251–65].
CD wrote as Justice of Peace for Kent to the Home Secretary about Holder’s case.
Tropaeolum transmits every shade of colour if self-fertilised for six or seven generations.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Frances Power Cobbe |
Date: | 20 Aug [1870] |
Classmark: | The Huntington Library (CB 385) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7306 |
To Armand de Quatrefages 23 August [1870]
Summary
Thanks QdeB for his continued support of CD’s election to French Academy.
Discusses views of Milne-Edwards on species.
Comments on views of Élie de Beaumont.
"I fear my next book [Descent] … will greatly displease you."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau |
Date: | 23 Aug [1870] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.382) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7308 |
To George F. Kittredge 24 August [1870]
Summary
Thanks GFK for offer of information.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George F. Kittredge |
Date: | 24 Aug [1870] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7309 |
To Fritz Müller 28 August 1870
Summary
Mimicry in Lepidoptera.
Sexual selection.
The Franco-Prussian war.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 28 Aug 1870 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 33) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7310 |
To Philip Lutley Sclater 30 August [1870]
Summary
Encloses, for publication, note about Pampas woodpecker, opposing W. H. Hudson [see 7354].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
Date: | 30 Aug [1870] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.383) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7311 |
letter | (21) |
Darwin, C. R. | (13) |
Kovalevsky, V. O. | (2) |
Acland, C. L. | (1) |
Bence Jones, Henry | (1) |
Broca, Paul | (1) |
Bence Jones, Henry | (1) |
Carus, J. V. | (1) |
Cobbe, F. P. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
Dorrell, Mr. | (2) |
Kittredge, G. F. | (1) |
Morgan, L. H. | (1) |
Moulinié, J. J. | (1) |
Murray, John (b) | (1) |
Müller, Fritz | (1) |
Quatrefages de Bréau, Armand de Quatrefages | (1) |
Sclater, P. L. | (1) |
Unidentified | (1) |
William Clowes & Sons | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Bence Jones, Henry | (2) |
Dorrell, Mr. | (2) |
Kovalevsky, V. O. | (2) |
Morgan, L. H. | (2) |
Murray, John (b) | (2) |
Acland, C. L. | (1) |
Broca, Paul | (1) |
Carus, J. V. | (1) |
Cobbe, F. P. | (1) |
Farr, William | (1) |
Kittredge, G. F. | (1) |
Moulinié, J. J. | (1) |
Müller, Fritz | (1) |
Quatrefages de Bréau, Armand de Quatrefages | (1) |
Sclater, P. L. | (1) |
Unidentified | (1) |
William Clowes & Sons | (1) |