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To ?   [after 2 November 1859]

Summary

Origin will be published 22 Nov. Fears correspondent will find the conclusions "abominable".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Unidentified
Date:  [after 2 Nov 1859]
Classmark:  Michael S. Hollander (dealer) (Catalogue 15)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2541

To Matthias Mull   [after 24 November 1859]

Summary

Thanks MM for reference to Shakespeare’s eleventh sonnet.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Mathias Mull
Date:  [after 24 Nov 1859]
Classmark:  DAR 146: 424a
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13829

From John Murray   2 November 1859

Summary

By this post he sends for approval specimen copy of CD’s book [Origin of species]. At 14 s., 1250 copies will yield £240, two-thirds of which will go to author. Arrangements for early copies.

Author:  John Murray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  2 Nov 1859
Classmark:  National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 41913 pp. 53–4)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2513A

To John Murray   [3 November 1859]

Summary

Infinitely pleased and proud of the appearance of his "child" [Origin, 1st ed.]. Thinks JM has been overgenerous in paying for his corrections. Offers to divide cost and regrets sending such badly composed copy.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Murray
Date:  [3 Nov 1859]
Classmark:  National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 f.49)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2514

To Richard Owen   11 November [1859]

Summary

Has asked his publisher to send a copy of Origin. Fears it will be "an abomination" in RO’s eyes. Urges him to read it straight through, as it is a condensed abstract and will otherwise be unintelligible.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Richard Owen
Date:  11 Nov [1859]
Classmark:  Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2515

To James Dwight Dana   11 November [1859]

Summary

Has sent JDD a copy of Origin; knows it will horrify him, but hopes JDD will credit him with an honest search for truth. Believes that JDD may come to think there is more to be said "in favour of mutability of species than is at first appreciated".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  James Dwight Dana
Date:  11 Nov [1859]
Classmark:  Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 44)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2516

To J. F. W. Herschel   11 November [1859]

Summary

Sends a copy of Origin as a measure of his respect and in recognition of the obligation he feels he owes to JFWH’s book [A preliminary discourse on the study of natural philosophy (1831)]. "Scarcely anything in my life made so deep an impression on me."

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Frederick William Herschel, 1st baronet
Date:  11 Nov [1859]
Classmark:  Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2517

To François Jules Pictet de la Rive   11 November [1859]

Summary

Sending copy of Origin; "it may possibly lead you to reflect further on the side opposed to your view".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  François Jules Pictet de la Rive
Date:  11 Nov [1859]
Classmark:  Bibliothèque de Genève (MS. fr. 1651, ff. 4–5)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2518

To Louis Agassiz   11 November [1859]

Summary

Sends copy of Origin.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Jean Louis Rodolphe (Louis) Agassiz
Date:  11 Nov [1859]
Classmark:  Houghton Library, Harvard University (MS Am 1419: 276)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2519

To Asa Gray   11 November [1859]

Summary

Sends copy of Origin for comments.

Does not feel AG’s views of migration after the last glaciation explain distribution in U. S. as well as CD’s view of migration prior to glaciation.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Asa Gray
Date:  11 Nov [1859]
Classmark:  Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (17)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2520

To John Phillips   11 November [1859]

Summary

Sends Origin to JP. Says it is as yet only an abstract. Fears JP will "fulminate anathemas" against it. Asks him to read it all straight through, otherwise it will be unintelligible.

Is not so foolish as to expect to convert anyone. CD remembers how many long years his own conversion took. Hooker "has completely given up species as immutable creatures".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Phillips
Date:  11 Nov [1859]
Classmark:  Oxford University Museum of Natural History Archive Collections (John Phillips collection))
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2521

To J. S. Henslow   11 November 1859

Summary

Sends the Origin to his "dear old master in natural history"; fears he will not approve of his pupil in this case. Asks for criticisms. If JSH is even in slight degree staggered on the immutability of species, CD is convinced that he will be more staggered on further reflection – this has been the process of his own mind.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Stevens Henslow
Date:  11 Nov 1859
Classmark:  DAR 145: 100
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2522

To Alphonse de Candolle   11 November [1859]

Summary

Sends Origin as testimony to great benefit CD derived from AdeC’s works on distribution.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Alphonse de Candolle
Date:  11 Nov [1859]
Classmark:  Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2523

To Hugh Falconer   11 November [1859]

Summary

Has told Murray to send Origin to HF. "Lord, how savage you will be, if you read it, and how you will long to crucify me alive."

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Hugh Falconer
Date:  11 Nov [1859]
Classmark:  Life and Letters 2: 216–17
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2524

To Adam Sedgwick   11 November [1859]

Summary

Has told Murray to send AS a copy of Origin. CD’s conclusion is diametrically opposed to that which AS has often advocated, but he assures AS he does not send his book out of a spirit of bravado.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Adam Sedgwick
Date:  11 Nov [1859]
Classmark:  Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (13 December 2018, lot 235)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2525

From Richard Owen   12 November 1859

Summary

Will welcome CD’s work [Origin] with a "close & continuous perusal".

Believes in the "operation of existing influences or causes in the ordained becoming and incoming of living species" and so could not regard CD’s attempt to demonstrate the nature of such influences as "heterodox".

Author:  Richard Owen
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  12 Nov 1859
Classmark:  Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2526

To John Lubbock   [19 November 1859]

Summary

Has told John Murray to send copy of the Origin. There are "many valid and weighty arguments against my notions".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:  [19 Nov 1859]
Classmark:  DAR 263: 16 (EH 88206465)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2527

To A. R. Wallace   13 November 1859

Summary

A copy of CD’s book [Origin] has been sent to ARW; invites his comments. "God knows what the public will think". Hooker believes Lyell is a convert, but CD does not think so, although he is "deeply interested". If he can convert Huxley, CD will be content.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:  13 Nov 1859
Classmark:  The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2529

To John Murray   14 November [1859]

Summary

Mme Belloc wishes to translate CD’s book on species into French. Asks JM to communicate with her. CD anxious to have his views known and discussed. Wishes there could be a German translation.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Murray
Date:  14 Nov [1859]
Classmark:  National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.54–56)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2531

To John Lubbock   [22 November 1859]

Summary

CD’s former admiration for Paley’s Natural theology [1802].

Cares not for reviews [of Origin] but for opinions of men like Lubbock, Huxley, Hooker, Lyell.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:  [22 Nov 1859]
Classmark:  DAR 263: 17 (EH 88206466)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2532
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