From Emile Alglave 9 March 1871
Summary
Reminds CD of earlier promise to permit extracts of Descent to be translated and published in EA’s Revue Scientifique once entire work is printed. Book appeared weeks ago, so EA again requests permission. Revue has been appearing irregularly owing to war with Germans.
Author: | Émile Alglave |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Mar 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 36 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7558 |
From John Murray 9 March [1871]
Summary
JM will print 2000 more copies of Descent as a second edition [issue]. Profits should be large as expenses are small.
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Mar [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 391 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7559 |
From G. H. Darwin [3–9 March 1871]
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [3–9 Mar 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 88: 37–40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7561 |
From Hensleigh Wedgwood [after 9 March 1871]
Summary
Answers CD’s letter [7560], on points of agreement between them, the chief one being the sympathy which man has with his fellows. Disagrees however with CD’s "principle" of the painful feelings of dissatisfied instinct.
Author: | Hensleigh Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 9 Mar 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 88: 60–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7562 |
From George Busk 10 March 1871
Author: | George Busk |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Mar 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 87: 21–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7563 |
From G. B. Murdoch 10 March 1871
Author: | George Brown Murdoch |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Mar 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 90: 68–71 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7564 |
From Francis Darwin [after 4 March 1871]
Summary
Very glad about profits of book. Glad CD flummoxed Mivart.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 4 Mar 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7564F |
From R. M. Kettle 10 March [1871]
Summary
Requests permission to quote from CD’s letters to Charles Boner in her edition [of Memoirs and letters of Charles Boner (1871)].
Author: | Rosa Mackenzie Kettle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Mar [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7565 |
From Asa Gray 10 and 14 March [1871]
Summary
Has received CD’s new book [Descent].
Will try to get answer to CD’s queries on Laura Bridgman.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 and 14 Mar 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 174 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7567 |
From A. R. Wallace 11 March 1871
Summary
Admiration for vol. 2 of Descent, and plans for his review of it for the Academy [2 (1871): 177–82].
News of his new residence.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Mar 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B98–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7569 |
From Arthur Nicols 11 March 1871
Summary
His previous account of Phascolarctos was based on notes made at the time of observation.
His report of the successful adoption of a koala infant by a cat comes from a trustworthy observer.
Author: | Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Mar 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 56 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7570 |
From B. J. Sulivan 11 March 1871
Summary
Recounts case of parrot whose talking seems to show "power of connecting definite sounds with definite ideas" [see Descent, 2d ed., p. 85 n.].
Has not seen CD’s daughter yet. Hopes the fine weather will continue while she is there [in Bournemouth].
Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Mar 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 87: 96–100, DAR 177: 296 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7571 |
From John Jeremiah 11 March 1871
Author: | John Jeremiah |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Mar 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 87: 101–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7572 |
From Patrick Matthew 12 March 1871
Summary
Encloses an article he wrote for the Scotsman [9 Mar 1871, p. 5].
Wishes he had time to write a critique of Descent. There is evidence of design and benevolence in nature. Beauty cannot be accounted for by natural selection.
Author: | Patrick Matthew |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Mar 1871 |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Library) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7576 |
From Robert Swinhoe 14 March 1871
Summary
Is leaving for Ningpo; asks CD for another copy of his [Queries about expression], which he will try to answer.
Author: | Robert Swinhoe |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Mar 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 335 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7580 |
From W. R. Greg 14 March [1871]
Summary
Comments on various points in Descent: proportion of sexes, moral sentiments in animals, etc. Encloses "packet of data" [missing].
Author: | William Rathbone Greg |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Mar [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 90: 127–30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7581 |
From F. C. Donders 14 March 1871
Summary
Thanks CD for Descent.
Sends a copy of his oratio inauguralis on De harmonie van het dierlijke leven [1848] in which he espoused evolution, but did not see the influence of natural selection.
Author: | Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Mar 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 227 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7582 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 14 March 1871
Summary
Russian translation of Descent in progress, but the Minister of Interior has banned CD’s work and the book will be seized.
His foolish brother-in-law, Mayor of Montmartre, attempted to defend their section against the government.
CD’s queries on man and camels have gone to Alexander [Kovalevsky] in Sinai.
Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Mar 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 88 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7583 |
From J. V. Carus 15 March 1871
Summary
Sends CD a list of misprints in vol. 1 of Descent.
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Mar 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 79 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7586 |
From A. R. Wallace [15 March 1871]
Summary
Although their language is different, the Bugis are typical Malays both physically and mentally.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [15 Mar 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B102 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7587 |
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