To Charles Kingsley 30 April [1867]
Summary
Regrets that he is too busy getting his book [Variation] ready for publication to contribute an article to Fraser’s Magazine.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Kingsley |
| Date: | 30 Apr [1867] |
| Classmark: | B. C. Guild (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5520 |
To Charles Kingsley 10 June [1867]
Summary
Discusses the Duke of Argyll’s book [Reign of law (1867)].
Cites his own views on diversity of structure and beauty.
Encloses letter from Wallace. Sexual selection: evidence advanced by Wallace.
Discusses correlation of growth.
Comments on article in the North British Review [by Fleeming Jenkin].
Discusses the evidence from physics on the age of the earth.
[Four pages of the final letter are missing, but the draft is complete.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Kingsley |
| Date: | 10 June [1867] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.330) & DAR 96: 28–9, 32 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5567 |
To Charles Kingsley 6 November [1867]
Summary
He had no idea that the double function of an excretory passage had played a part in the history of religion.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Kingsley |
| Date: | 6 Nov [1867] |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (Quentin Keynes collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5670F |
To Charles Kingsley 13 December [1867]
Summary
Discusses the reception of CD’s views at Cambridge and elsewhere.
Variation delayed by the index, but will appear at the end of the year.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Kingsley |
| Date: | 13 Dec [1867] |
| Classmark: | Quaritch (dealers) (2007) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5728F |
