To Charles Lovegrove 14 December [1859–71]
Summary
Acknowledges contribution to Down Coal and Clothing Club.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lovegrove |
Date: | 14 Dec [1859-71] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13822 |
To Charles Kingsley 1 December [1859]
Summary
Is very glad CK wrote the article My Winter Garden (Kingsley 1858), which CD enjoyed.
Thinks CK should read abstracts of Living Cirripedia (1851) and Living Cirripedia (1854), and then, if he is particularly interested, borrow the actual volumes, rather than purchase them.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Kingsley |
Date: | 1 Dec [1859] |
Classmark: | University of Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library (MSS gen 30.058) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2564F |
To Charles Lyell 2 December [1859]
Summary
Comments on note from Charles Kingsley saying CD’s theory is not opposed to a high conception of the Deity.
Mentions negative views of Origin of Sedgwick, John Crawfurd, Roderick Murchison, John Phillips, and Joseph Prestwich.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 2 Dec [1859] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.181) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2565 |
To John Murray 2 December [1859]
Summary
All sheets [of Origin, 2d ed.] are ready. Has made a few corrections
and inserted Charles Kingsley’s sentence in answer to those who may think the book is irreligious.
Insists page numbering be kept uniform with 1st edition.
Intends to start immediately on the "larger work", with a distinct title.
Fears reviews will be unfavourable but is confident his views will ultimately prevail.
Asks about plans for French edition.
Thanks JM for his exertions on behalf of sales of Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 2 Dec [1859] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.51–53) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2566 |
To Charles Lyell [3 December 1859]
Summary
Encloses a letter from FitzRoy to the Times.
Mentions letter from W. B. Carpenter accepting single progenitor for major animal classes.
Speculates about Richard Owen’s opinion.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [3 Dec 1859] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.182) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2567 |
To W. B. Carpenter 3 December [1859]
Summary
Delighted by WBC’s letter about Origin. There is now "a great physiologist on our side". "You have done me an essential kindness in checking the odium theologicum in the E[dinburgh] R[eview] … immaterial whether we go quite the same lengths … the principle is everything."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Benjamin Carpenter |
Date: | 3 Dec [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.6: 3 (EH 88205920) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2568 |
To Charles James Fox Bunbury 3 December [1859]
Summary
Thanks for note; correcting proofs for 2d ed. [of Origin].
"If your are at all staggered I shall be quite interested."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th baronet |
Date: | 3 Dec [1859] |
Classmark: | Carnegie Book Shop (dealers) (catalogue 359) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2569 |
To John Murray 4 December [1859]
Summary
Thanks JM for trouble taken with French edition [of Journal of researches].
Is glad 3000 copies of 2d ed. [of Origin] will be printed.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 4 Dec [1859] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 f.47) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2570 |
To John Higgins 4 December 1859
Summary
Acknowledges receipt of £241 19s. 10d.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Higgins |
Date: | 4 Dec 1859 |
Classmark: | Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (10 April 2019, lot 138) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2570F |
To Armand de Quatrefages 5 December [1859]
Summary
Mentions English scientists who support mutability of species.
Asks QdeB whether he could help locate a French translator and publisher.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau |
Date: | 5 Dec [1859] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.183) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2571 |
To T. H. Huxley [5 December 1859]
Summary
Thanks for THH’s review of Origin in Macmillan’s Magazine ["Time and life: Mr Darwin’s Origin of Species", 1 (1859–60): 142–8]. Reception of natural selection will depend on whether it explains the recognised laws in the several fields of natural history.
Domestic variation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | [5 Dec 1859] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 78) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2572 |
From Francis Galton 9 December 1859
Summary
Congratulates CD on Origin; has been "initiated into an entirely new province of knowledge".
Notes error involving rhinoceros.
Encloses other notes.
Author: | Francis Galton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Dec 1859 |
Classmark: | DAR 98: B16 and DAR 106: D22 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2573 |
To T. H. Huxley [9 December 1859]
Summary
Sends enclosure [unspecified].
Reminds THH to mention [German] translation [of Origin] when he writes to R. A. von Kölliker.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | [9 Dec 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 145: 189 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2574 |
To Charles Lyell [10 December 1859]
Summary
Discuss CL’s suggestions for revisions to the chapter on the geological record [Origin, ch. 9].
Henry Holland’s reaction to the book.
Comments on CL’s work on flint tools of early men.
Describes at length a conversation with Owen concerning Origin. Notes "that at bottom he goes immense way with us", but emphasises Owen’s unfriendly manner. Remarks that Owen accepted a relationship between bears and whales. "By Jove I believe he thinks a sort of Bear was the grandpapa of Whales!"
Has heard Herschel considered his book "the law of higgledy-piggledy".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [10 Dec 1859] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.184) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2575 |
To Richard Owen 10 December [1859]
Summary
Sends source of description of swimming bear catching insects [Samuel Hearne, A journey from Prince of Wales’s Fort in Hudson’s Bay to the northern ocean … (1795); see Origin, p. 184].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Owen |
Date: | 10 Dec [1859] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/211, 213) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2576 |
To John Murray 10 December 1859
Summary
Sends receipt for bill for £180 due 27 May 1860 [for Origin].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 10 Dec 1859 |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42153 ff.22–23) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2577 |
From Henry Holland 10 December [1859]
Summary
Comments on the Origin. Outlines difficulties he finds in CD’s theory. Believes CD must define natural selection more accurately and mentions instances in which that principle is an insufficient cause to account for the form of certain structures.
Author: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Dec [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 47: 148–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2578 |
From J. D. Hooker [12 December 1859]
Summary
JDH half through Origin. High praise for facts and reasoning.
Lyell told JDH his criticisms: small matters JDH did not appreciate.
Reactions of G. Bentham, J. S. Henslow, and C. C. Babington.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [12 Dec 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 137–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2579 |
To Richard Owen 13 December [1859]
Summary
Responds to Owen’s remarks that his book [Origin] is not likely to be true because it attempts to explain so much. CD describes how, for fear this might be so, he resolved to give up the work if he could not convince two or three competent judges. He is sensitive because of unjust things said by a distinguished friend [A. Sedgwick]. Value of his views now depends on men eminent in science.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Owen |
Date: | 13 Dec [1859] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/195) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2580 |
To Francis Galton 13 December [1859]
Summary
Thanks FG for comments [on Origin].
Acknowledges error involving rhinoceros.
Thinks female fowls select victorious or most beautiful cock.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | 13 Dec [1859] |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2581 |
letter | (52) |
Darwin, C. R. | (47) |
Galton, Francis | (1) |
Holland, Henry | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Jardine, William | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (7) |
Huxley, T. H. | (7) |
Lyell, Charles | (6) |
Murray, John (b) | (6) |
Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Hooker, J. D. | (9) |
Huxley, T. H. | (7) |
Lyell, Charles | (6) |
Murray, John (b) | (6) |
Galton, Francis | (2) |
Gray, Asa | (2) |
Higgins, John | (2) |
Lubbock, John | (2) |
Owen, Richard | (2) |
Bunbury, C. J. F. | (1) |
Carpenter, W. B. | (1) |
Dana, J. D. | (1) |
Falconer, Hugh | (1) |
Fox, W. D. | (1) |
Holland, Henry | (1) |
Horner, Leonard | (1) |
Jardine, William | (1) |
Jeffreys, J. G. | (1) |
Kingsley, Charles | (1) |
Lovegrove, Charles | (1) |
Pictet de la Rive, F. J. | (1) |
Quatrefages de Bréau, Armand de Quatrefages | (1) |
Sykes, W. H. | (1) |