To T. R. R. Stebbing 11 February 1881
Summary
Thanks him for his letter in Nature [23 (1880–1): 336, concerning Samuel Butler’s Unconscious Memory]. Explains how revision in Krause’s part [of Erasmus Darwin] and the subsequent misunderstanding came about.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing |
Date: | 11 Feb 1881 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.583) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13050 |
To Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing 3 March 1869
Summary
Thanks TRRS for copy of his lecture [Darwinism (1869)]. Praises his "admirable example of liberality".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing |
Date: | 3 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.362) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6640 |
To T. R. R. Stebbing 18 March [1871]
Summary
Thanks TRRS for copy of his book [Essays on Darwinism (1871)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing |
Date: | 18 Mar [1871] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.388) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7594 |
To T. R. R. Stebbing 10 October [1871]
Summary
Doubts whether an experiment to test the durability of human bones would be worth while. Absence of such bones in post-glacial river-bed deposits does not weigh in the least on CD.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing |
Date: | 10 Oct [1871] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.404) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7999 |
From T. R. R. Stebbing 5 March 1869
Summary
Explains how he, as "an orthodox clergyman" reading CD’s works, was totally convinced by his arguments. Expresses pleasure "that Science might make gigantic strides without offering such collateral opinions as, if true, would certainly dispense with clergymen altogether".
Author: | Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 248 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6643 |
Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
Stebbing, T. R. R. | (1) |
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Darwin, C. R. | (1) |