To A. R. Wallace 2 February [1869]
Summary
CD expressed himself badly. F. Jenkin’s argument was against single variations ever being perpetuated.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 2 Feb [1869] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434: 168–9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6591 |
To A. R. Wallace 5 March [1869]
Summary
Reception of ARW’s book, Malay Archipelago.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 5 Mar [1869] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6642 |
To A. R. Wallace 22 March [1869]
Summary
Comments on Wallace’s Malay Archipelago.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 22 Mar [1869] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6677 |
To A. R. Wallace 27 March [1869]
Summary
Hopes ARW has not "murdered too completely your own and my child" [natural selection] in his Quarterly Review article ["Sir Charles Lyell on geological climates and the Origin", 126 (1869): 359–94] on Lyell’s Principles [10th ed.].
CD is attributing more significance to useless variability in new [5th] edition of Origin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 27 Mar [1869] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6684 |
To A. R. Wallace 14 April 1869
Summary
ARW’s review of 10th ed. of Lyell’s Principles [see 6684] is admirable.
But he differs "grievously" with ARW on man. CD sees no necessity for an additional and proximate cause.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 14 Apr 1869 |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434: 181–3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6706 |
To A. R. Wallace 25 June [1869]
Summary
On butterfly scales: there are many secondary characters which baffle conjecture.
Was forced to make additions to Origin as short as possible.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 25 June [1869] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434: 186–7); Natural History Museum (Entomology Manuscripts MSS WAL A 1:1 (127-128)) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6802 |
To A. R. Wallace 21 October 1869
Summary
Anticipates that all their differences are fated to find expression in projected book on man.
Offers his early MS with useful references related to the distribution of animals. Hopes ARW’s book will not be "little".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 21 Oct 1869 |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434: 189–90); Linnean Society of London (Quentin Keynes Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6951 |
To A. R. Wallace 5 December [1869]
Summary
Further comments on arrangements for German translation of their joint paper.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 5 Dec [1869] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434: 194–5) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7020 |
To A. R. Wallace 26 January [1870]
Summary
Response to ARW’s MS on geological time ["The measurement of geological time", Nature 1 (1870): 399–401, 452–5].
Groans over [what is said about] man.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 26 Jan [1870] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434: 198–9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7086 |
To A. R. Wallace 7 March [1870?]
Summary
Would like to call at 10 o’clock on Wednesday morning.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 7 Mar [1870?] |
| Classmark: | David Schulson (dealer) (Catalogue 46, June 1988) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7127A |
To A. R. Wallace 31 March [1870]
Summary
Thanks for a woodcut sent by ARW for Descent.
Congratulations on his removal from London,
and praise of his review of Francis Galton ["Hereditary genius", Nature 1 (1870): 501–3]. CD agrees with every word of it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 31 Mar [1870] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434: 200–1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7154 |
To A. R. Wallace 20 April [1870]
Summary
Appreciation of eulogy in preface of ARW’s book [Theory of natural selection].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 20 Apr [1870] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434: 202–3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7167 |
To A. R. Wallace 5 [July 1870]
Summary
CD sends a "curious drawing" [missing] relating to imitation and protection.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 5 [July 1870] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434: 204–5) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7218 |
To A. R. Wallace 22 November [1870]
Summary
Praise for ARW’s reply [Nature 3 (1870): 49–50] to a paper by A. W. Bennett ["Natural selection from a mathematical point of view", Nature 3 (1870): 30–3] holding that mind is a leading cause of variation.
Is reading proof of his "confounded book" [Descent].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 22 Nov [1870] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434: 207–8) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7380 |
To A. R. Wallace 18 January [1871]
Summary
Sends ARW advance copy of vol. 1 [of Descent] for his review in Academy. Vol. 2 is delayed by index. "Do not swear at me more than you can help."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 18 Jan [1871] |
| Classmark: | Manchester Libraries, Information and Archives (Autograph Letters: Stanley Withers Collection: 925.7 18 Jan 1872) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7446 |
To A. R. Wallace 30 January [1871]
Summary
Responds to ARW’s comments on CD’s argument about protection in Descent.
Comments on St G. Mivart’s criticism [Genesis of species (1871)]. "The pendulum will now swing against us."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 30 Jan [1871] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7464 |
To A. R. Wallace [23 November 1866?]
Summary
Will call on Wallace tomorrow (Saturday) at 10.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | [23 Nov 1866?] |
| Classmark: | Alexander Historical Auctions (dealers) (29 April 2000) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7512F |
To A. R. Wallace 13 March [1871]
Summary
Asks whether Bugis [Buggess] are Malays. [See 7587.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 13 Mar [1871] |
| Classmark: | English Heritage, Down House (EH 88202150) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7579A |
To A. R. Wallace 16 March 1871
Summary
Appreciative response to ARW’s "grand review" of Descent in the Academy [2 (1871–2): 177–82]. Comments in detail on ARW’s criticisms.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 16 Mar 1871 |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7589 |
To A. R. Wallace 24 March [1871]
Summary
On the flourishing sales of their respective books. Mentions reviews of Descent in Pall Mall Gazette [21 Mar 1871] and in the Spectator [11 Mar 1871, pp. 288–9; 18 Mar 1871, pp. 319–20].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 24 Mar [1871] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7616 |
| letter | (97) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (97) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (97) |
