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 |
| letter | (11) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
| Agassiz, Louis | (1) |
| Candolle, Alphonse de | (1) |
| Dana, J. D. | (1) |
| Falconer, Hugh | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Agassiz, Louis | (1) |
| Candolle, Alphonse de | (1) |
| Dana, J. D. | (1) |
| Falconer, Hugh | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
| Herschel, J. F. W. | (1) |
| Owen, Richard | (1) |
| Phillips, John | (1) |
| Pictet de la Rive, F. J. | (1) |
| Sedgwick, Adam | (1) |
