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 |
DCP-LETT-6899F
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | |
| Classmark: | unknown |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6899F |
From A. R. Wallace 20 October 1869
Summary
Looks forward to Descent, though he expects to find more to differ with than in any other of CD’s books.
Problems of usefulness of incipient organs and of the independent origin of similar complex organs are real difficulties.
Plans a little book on "Distribution of animals".
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Oct 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B86–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6949 |
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 |
From G. H. Darwin to A. R. Wallace 23 October 1869
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434: 191) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6955G |
From A. R. Wallace 4 December [1869]
Summary
Inquires about arrangements for the German translation and publication of their original Linnean Society papers [Collected papers 2: 3–19].
ARW thinks he has hit upon a solution to problem of geological time.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Dec [1869] |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B88–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7019 |
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 |
From Alfred Russel Wallace 22 January 1870
Summary
Plans for his new book, Contributions to the theory of natural selection (1870), which will contain his papers on the subject.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Jan 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B90–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7085 |
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 |
From A. R. Wallace 6 July 1870
Summary
Thanks for the drawing.
E. Claparède’s review [of Theory of natural selection, Rev. Cours Sci. 7 (1870): 564–71] is weak.
Looks forward [to Descent] with fear of being "crushed under a mountain of facts!"
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 July 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B92–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7269 |
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 |
From A. R. Wallace 24 November 1870
Summary
On a good criticism of ARW’s views [North Am. Rev. (1870)].
Problems of establishing a permanent residence.
His Presidential Address for Entomological Society will answer A. Murray on geographical distribution of Coleoptera.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Nov 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B94–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7382 |
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 |
From A. R. Wallace 27 January 1871
Summary
Response to [vol. 1 of] CD’s Descent.
Not yet convinced on sexual selection and protection, though their differences are not so great as CD thinks.
On man, he does not think CD has accounted for every step of his development by "ascertained laws".
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Jan 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B96–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7460 |
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 |
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