To John Fiske 21 October [1875]
Summary
Thanks for excellent notice of Chauncey Wright.
Would like a copy of Wright’s "Darwinism in Germany" [Nation 21 (1875): 168–70].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Fiske |
Date: | 21 Oct [1875] |
Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 8264) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10208 |
To John Fiske 14 June [1879]
Summary
Will send carriage to station on 18th.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Fiske |
Date: | 14 June [1879] |
Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 8266) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11828 |
To John Fiske 10 June 1879
Summary
Invitation to Down for the 18th. W. B. Richmond, who is painting CD’s portrait, will also be there.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Fiske |
Date: | 10 June 1879 |
Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 8265) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12098 |
To John Fiske 5 August [1879]
Summary
Thanks for JF’s book [Darwinism and other essays (1879)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Fiske |
Date: | 5 Aug [1879] |
Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 8267) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12183 |
To John Fiske 17 August [1879]
Summary
Thanks JF again for his Essays, which he has now read.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Fiske |
Date: | 17 Aug [1879] |
Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 8268) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12196 |
To John Fiske 14 May [1880]
Summary
Invites JF to Down.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Fiske |
Date: | 14 May [1880] |
Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 8269) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12606 |
To John Fiske 9 November 1871
Summary
Thanks JF for his lectures, the arguments of which he finds very forcible; is glad to see JF has detected the falseness of much of Mivart’s reasoning.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Fiske |
Date: | 9 Nov 1871 |
Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 8260) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8058 |
To John Fiske 3 November [1873]
Summary
CD is glad to hear of nature of JF’s work;
proposes that JF call when CD comes to London.
Has read JF’s attack on Agassiz ["Agassiz and Darwinism"] in Popular Science Monthly [3 (1873): 692–705].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Fiske |
Date: | 3 Nov [1873] |
Classmark: | The Huntington Library (FK 1110-1112) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9127 |
To John Fiske 3 November [1874]
Summary
Thanks JF for copy of Cosmic philosophy [1874].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Fiske |
Date: | 3 Nov [1874] |
Classmark: | The Huntington Library (FK 1110-1112) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9706 |
To John Fiske 8 December [1874]
Summary
Praises JF’s book [Cosmic philosophy (1874)].
Has long wished to understand H. Spencer but is not convinced by him and some others. CD cannot trust deduction from a starting principle, as his mind is so fixed by the inductive method.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Fiske |
Date: | 8 Dec [1874] |
Classmark: | The Huntington Library (FK 1110–1112) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9749 |