To G. H. Darwin 1 August [1874]
Summary
GHD’s article will not do. It is too long and the denial seems weak and confused; also, it ought to be in the form of a letter to the editor. Encloses draft of the sort of letter of denial he thinks GHD should write.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 1 Aug [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 27, 29, 32 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9580 |
To G. E. Paget 1 August 1874
Summary
Apologises for delay, but is away from home; has sent telegraph.
Francis Darwin is abroad on his honeymoon and unable to respond to GEP’s offer of a medical position.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Edward Paget |
Date: | 1 Aug 1874 |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (Ms Add. 10379) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9580F |
From H. H. Bancroft 3 August 1874
Summary
Sends a volume and will send next volumes of a work intended to contribute to the study of mankind.
Author: | Hubert Howe Bancroft |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Aug 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 38 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9581 |
From J. T. Knowles 4 August 1874
Summary
Regrets he is unable to republish Whitney’s article in the Contemporary Review. Would much appreciate an article from CD on the subject and suggests that CD might quote from Whitney to any extent he likes.
Author: | James Thomas Knowles |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Aug 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 41 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9582 |
To W. D. Whitney 5 August 1874
Summary
Praises WDW’s essay on language [North Am. Rev. 119 (1874): 61–88] which argues against Max Müller’s views and is a good defence against an attack made in Quarterly Review on CD’s short discussion of language.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Dwight Whitney |
Date: | 5 Aug 1874 |
Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (William Dwight Whitney Family Papers (MS 555) Box 21, folder 556 1874 Aug 1–12) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9583 |
To J. T. Knowles 5 August 1874
Summary
CD understands JTK’s reasons [for not republishing W. D. Whitney’s article]. Cannot undertake to write anything himself; he needs rest and is unwilling to enter into controversy.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Thomas Knowles |
Date: | 5 Aug 1874 |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9584 |
From G. H. Darwin 5 August 1874
Summary
Regrets he cannot follow the line of denial CD suggests. Explains why he must defend himself against charge that he approves of oppressive laws.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Aug 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 38 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9585 |
From H. M. Wilkinson 5 August 1874
Author: | Henry Marlow Wilkinson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Aug 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 84–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9586 |
From John Tyndall 5 August 1874
Summary
Asks CD to look over those parts of the proofs of his Belfast address [Rep. BAAS 44 (1874): lxvi–xcvii] that mention CD.
Author: | John Tyndall |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Aug 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: C16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9587 |
To G. H. Darwin [5 or 6 August 1874]
Summary
Has no objection to sending GHD’s letter as it is. The only accusation it seems necessary to rebut is about licentiousness. Regrets this is not made more prominent.
Gives some suggestions for GHD’s reply to Mivart’s attack.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [5 or 6] Aug 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 28, 30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9588 |
From Leyson Lewis [before 6 August 1874]
Summary
Encloses specimen of a male hop with female flowers. It is the only peculiarity in the ground.
Author: | Leyson Lewis |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 6 Aug 1874] |
Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle, 8 August 1874, p. 174 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9589F |
From G. H. Darwin 6 [August] 1874
Summary
Sends a draft of his letter to the editor of the Quarterly Review [137 (1874): 587–9], answering Mivart’s charges. Encloses draft of CD’s letter to John Murray, urging publication of GHD’s defence, with George’s amendments.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 [Aug] 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 97: C56–8; DAR 210.2: 39 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9590 |
From M. T. Masters 6 August 1874
Summary
Thanks for the monoecious hop. It was the first monstrosity he ever observed.
Contemplates an article in Gardeners’ Chronicle on the horticultural bearing of CD’s fertilisation work.
Will publish note forwarded by CD on a male hop with apparently female flowers (Gardeners’ Chronicle, 8 August 1874, p. 174).
Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Aug 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 85 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9591 |
From G. H. Darwin [6 or 7 August 1874]
Summary
Urges CD not to break with Murray even if he does not force the editor [of Q. Rev.] to insert GHD’s letter [in response to Mivart’s attack]. Murray may have a rule not to meddle with editor.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [6 or 7] Aug 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9592 |
To M. T. Masters 7 August [1874]
Summary
Discusses flower structures of the hop.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Date: | 7 Aug [1874] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.447) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9593 |
To Quarterly Review 7 August 1874
Summary
[Drafts by CD of the letter sent by George Darwin]. Responds to charges made in a review article [by St G. J. Mivart]. [See 9598. The final letter was printed in Q. Rev. 137 (1874): 587–9.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Quarterly Review |
Date: | 7 Aug 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 118–119 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9594 |
To G. H. Darwin [8 August 1874]
Summary
Approves of GHD’s letter [to Q. Rev. 137 (1874): 587–9] and his present plan, which removes all CD’s objections. Will make his own letter to Murray less imperious. "It will be a dreadful evil to me, if … we come to a quarrel."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [8 Aug 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 31 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9596 |
To John Tyndall 11 August [1874]
Summary
CD has not received the proofs [of JT’s Belfast address to BAAS].
Wishes JT were through with Belfast [meeting of BAAS, 1874]. CD cannot imagine surviving such a week of excitement.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Tyndall |
Date: | 11 Aug [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 20 (EH 88205958) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9597 |
To John Murray 11 August 1874
Summary
Asks JM, as a favour, to use his influence with the Editor of Quarterly Review to print George Darwin’s answer to the charge made by the author of "Primitive man" [St George Mivart] that GD approved "of the encouragement of vice to check population".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 11 Aug 1874 |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42153 ff. 48–9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9598 |
To John Tyndall 12 August [1874]
Summary
Returns proofs [of JT’s Belfast address, Rep. BAAS 44 (1874): lxvi–xcvii]. Gratified by what it says about his work and is anxious to read the whole address; it is a grand subject.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Tyndall |
Date: | 12 Aug [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 21 (EH 88205959) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9599 |
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Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Bancroft, H. H. | (1) |
Bikkers, A. V. W. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (19) |
Darwin, G. H. | (4) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Tyndall, John | (2) |
Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (38) |
Darwin, G. H. | (7) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Tyndall, John | (3) |
Gardner, D. T. | (2) |