To Charles Kingsley [17 June 1865]
Summary
Did not think anyone would notice case of Lathyrus.
Recalls reading correspondent’s paper on great fir woods of Hampshire.
Thanks for photograph.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Kingsley |
Date: | [17 June 1865] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13877 |
To Charles Kingsley 30 November [1859]
Summary
Thanks CK for allowing him to insert his "admirable sentence" [in Origin, 2d ed., p. 481].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Kingsley |
Date: | 30 Nov [1859] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2561 |
To Charles Kingsley 1 December [1859]
Summary
Is very glad CK wrote the article My Winter Garden (Kingsley 1858), which CD enjoyed.
Thinks CK should read abstracts of Living Cirripedia (1851) and Living Cirripedia (1854), and then, if he is particularly interested, borrow the actual volumes, rather than purchase them.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Kingsley |
Date: | 1 Dec [1859] |
Classmark: | University of Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library (MSS gen 30.058) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2564F |
To Charles Kingsley 2 June [1865]
Summary
Thanks for note; sends photograph taken by one of his sons.
His continued ill-health has prevented him making the acquaintance of many.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Kingsley |
Date: | 2 June [1865] |
Classmark: | Bonhams, New York (dealers) (4 December 2019, lot 19) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3174F |
To Charles Kingsley 6 February [1862]
Summary
Comments on CK’s letter [3426].
Identifies species of pigeon shot by party.
On CK’s "grand and awful" notion of genealogy of man, CD recalls how revolting was the thought that his ancestors must have been like the Fuegians. His present belief that they were hairy beasts is less revolting.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Kingsley |
Date: | 6 Feb [1862] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection); 19th Century Shop (dealer) (March 2014) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3439 |
To Charles Kingsley 15 July [1866]
Summary
Thanks for information about the publication of CK’s lectures.
Discusses the migration of the eye in flatfish.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Kingsley |
Date: | 15 July [1866] |
Classmark: | Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (6 April 2022, lot 237) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5155F |
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 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
Kingsley, Charles | (10) |