From Charles Kingsley 18 November 1859
Summary
Will judge CD’s book [Origin] free from two superstitions: the dogma of the permanent species and the need of an act of intervention to bring change.
Author: | Charles Kingsley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Nov 1859 |
Classmark: | DAR 98: B7–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2534 |
From Charles Kingsley 31 January 1862
Summary
CK defended CD’s theory at a shooting party with the Bishop of Oxford, the Duke of Argyll, and Lord Ashburton. The discussion started as a result of shooting some blue rock-pigeons which were different from blue rocks of other localities. CK held that all pigeons were descended from one species.
CK proposed that mythological races, e.g., elves and dwarfs, were intermediate species between man and apes, and have become extinct by natural selection; i.e., by competition with a superior white race of man.
Author: | Charles Kingsley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Jan 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 169.1: 29 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3426 |
From Charles Kingsley 30 May 1865
Summary
Requests CD’s photograph.
Author: | Charles Kingsley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 May 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 31 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4843 |
From Charles Kingsley 10 June 1865
Summary
Thanks for CD’s photograph.
Author: | Charles Kingsley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 June 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 32 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4857 |
From Charles Kingsley 14 June 1865
Summary
CD’s paper on "Climbing plants" [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 1–118] has made nature come alive for CK.
Author: | Charles Kingsley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 June 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 33 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4861 |
From Charles Kingsley 12 July 1866
Summary
Asks for CD’s opinion of the manner of migration of the eye of flatfish.
Author: | Charles Kingsley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 July 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 34 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5154 |
From Charles Kingsley 6 June 1867
Summary
Criticises the Duke of Argyll’s book [Reign of law (1867)], particularly on sexual selection.
But CD overlooks God’s intention to instruct man by nature’s beauty.
Criticism of anonymous article in North British Review [by Fleeming Jenkin, 46 (1867): 277–318].
CK supports large sports in response to large environmental changes.
Author: | Charles Kingsley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 June 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 35 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5565 |
From Charles Kingsley 1 November 1867
Summary
Sends a letter he wrote in 1862 [see 3482].
Author: | Charles Kingsley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Nov 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 36, 30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5664 |
From Charles Kingsley 8 November 1867
Summary
Remarks on Darwinism’s reception. The radical press shies away, out of ignorance, because CD may be made out to be a Tory. He has met a Darwinian Marchioness.
The mystery of sex is the origin of all religion.
Author: | Charles Kingsley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Nov 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 37 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5673 |
From Charles Kingsley 11 December 1867
Summary
CK is drawn into discussions of Darwinism everywhere in Cambridge. The climate has changed in the past three years: the younger M.A.s are greedy to know more and the criticism of the older Fellows has a new tone.
Author: | Charles Kingsley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Dec 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 38 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5730 |