To Asa Gray 2 March [1860]
Summary
Has been ill with pleurisy.
Sends more corrections and additions for American edition of Origin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 2 Mar [1860] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (24) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2718 |
To Asa Gray 8 March [1860]
Summary
Further additions and corrections for American Origin.
Views of Owen, G. H. K. Thwaites, and W. H. Harvey on CD’s theories.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 8 Mar [1860] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (31) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2726 |
To Asa Gray 3 April [1860]
Summary
Thinks AG’s review [of Origin] will aid much in making people think about subject.
Has been savagely and unfairly reviewed by Adam Sedgwick in the Spectator [24 Mar 1860],
but thinks F. J. Pictet’s review in opposition ["Sur l’origine de l’espèce", Arch. Sci. Phys. & Nat. n.s. 7 (1860): 231–55] a very fair one.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 3 Apr [1860] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (47) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2743 |
To Asa Gray 25 April [1860]
Summary
Origin reviews. Is annoyed at Richard Owen’s malignity [Edinburgh Rev. 111 (1860): 487–532].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 25 Apr [1860] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (13) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2767 |
To Asa Gray 18 May [1860]
Summary
Bitter and incessant attacks on the Origin.
Any truth in it has been saved only by a small body of men like Lyell, AG, Hooker, and Huxley.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 18 May [1860] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (14) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2808 |
To Asa Gray 22 May [1860]
Summary
Opinions and reviews of Origin.
CD’s view on design in nature; although he does not believe in the necessity of design, he finds it hard to conclude that everything is the result of "brute force".
Comments on Owen’s review of Origin [Edinburgh Rev. 111 (1860): 487–532].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 22 May [1860] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (26 and 37a) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2814 |
From Asa Gray [10 July 1860]
Summary
Cases of "dioecio-dimorphism" as in primroses are widespread. AG always considered them the first step toward bisexuality.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [10 July 1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 110 (ser. 2): 77 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2819 |
To Asa Gray 8 June [1860]
Summary
Discusses recent reviews of Origin and has made a note on Owen’s [see 2737].
Has become interested in the floral structures of orchids.
Notes his recent observations on Primula; believes he has found male and female forms.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 8 June [1860] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (40) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2825 |
To Asa Gray 3 July [1860]
Summary
Origin has "stirred up the mud with a vengeance"; AG and three or four others have saved CD from annihilation and are responsible for the attention now given to the subject. Reports events at Oxford BAAS meeting.
New evidence supports AG’s view of a warm post-glacial period.
Discusses his recent orchid observations.
Poses AG a question on design in nature.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 3 July [1860] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (41) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2855 |
To Asa Gray 22 July [1860]
Summary
Greatly praises AG’s discussion of Origin in Proc. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. [4 (1860): 411–15; 424–6].
Mentions other reviews of Origin; believes the BAAS meeting at Oxford greatly advanced the subject. Has heard his views are gaining ground in Germany.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 22 July [1860] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (30) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2876 |
To Asa Gray 11 August [1860]
Summary
Agassiz is strongly opposed to Origin, but CD thinks K. E. von Baer may come out in support.
Discusses the possibility of favourable monstrosities in the light of Theophilus Parsons’ essay ["On the origin of species", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 30 (1860): 1–13].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 11 Aug [1860] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (35) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2896 |
To Asa Gray 10 September [1860]
Summary
Has received second part of AG’s Atlantic Monthly article ["Darwin on the origin of species", 6 (1860): 109–16, 229–39], and would like to have it reprinted in England with the first part.
Regrets no reviewer has touched upon embryology, which he feels provides one of his strongest arguments.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 10 Sept [1860] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (34) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2910 |
To Asa Gray 26 September [1860]
Summary
Has read sheets of AG’s third Atlantic Monthly article [Oct 1860] and praises it and AG’s other reviews and articles highly.
Is surprised at the inability of others to grasp the meaning of natural selection.
Has been testing the sensitivity of Drosera, which he finds remarkable.
Asks if AG will be able to make some observations on orchids for him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 26 Sept [1860] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (28) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2930 |
To Asa Gray 19 October [1860]
Summary
Is thinking of publishing AG’s three-part Origin review [from Atlantic Monthly] in England.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 19 Oct [1860] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (32) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2955 |
To Asa Gray 24 October [1860]
Summary
Has been consulting with John Murray about the possibility of publishing AG’s three Atlantic Monthly articles [see 2910] as a pamphlet, but has been strongly advised against it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 24 Oct [1860] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (33) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2961 |
To Asa Gray 31 October [1860]
Summary
Talks of getting copies of AG’s Atlantic Monthly articles for distribution in England.
Describes the pollinating mechanisms of Orchis pyramidalis and Spiranthes autumnalis.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 31 Oct [1860] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (45 and 124a) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2969 |
To Asa Gray 26 November [1860]
Summary
Has reread AG’s third Atlantic Monthly article. It is admirable, but CD cannot go as far as AG on design.
Mentions other opinions and reviews of Origin.
Relates some experiments on Drosera showing its extreme sensitivity; requests some observations on orchids.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 26 Nov [1860] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (27) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2998 |
To Asa Gray 11 December [1860]
Summary
The pamphlet of AG’s Origin reviews [Natural selection not inconsistent with natural theology (1861)]. CD will bear half the costs of publishing.
Will write to Huxley about Chauncey Wright’s review of Origin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 11 Dec [1860] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (38) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3017 |
To Asa Gray 14 December [1860]
Summary
Encloses note from Huxley [see 3022], who would be grateful for Chauncey Wright’s review.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 14 Dec [1860] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (39) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3023 |
To Asa Gray 21 December [1860]
Summary
Asks AG to send his reviews [of Origin] as soon as he has definitely fixed on a title for the pamphlet.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 21 Dec [1860] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (J. L. Gray autograph collection 50) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3028 |
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