To Herbert Spencer 10 June [1872]
Summary
Expresses his "unbounded admiration" for HS’s article on Martineau ["Mr Martineau on evolution", Contemp. Rev. 20 (1872): 141–54]
and his article on sociology [Contemp. Rev. 19 (1872): 701–18]. CD never believed in the reigning influence of great men on the world’s progress but could not have given his reasons. "Now every one with eyes to see and ears to hear . . . ought to bow their knee to you, as I for one do."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Herbert Spencer |
| Date: | 10 June [1872] |
| Classmark: | University of London, Senate House Library (MS791/80) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8380 |
From Herbert Spencer 12 June 1872
Summary
HS hopes in the future to show more fully "absolute emptiness" of James Martineau’s propositions; is glad CD approved of his article dealing with JM’s arguments. [J. Martineau, "The place of mind in nature", Contemp. Rev. 19 (1872): 606–23; H. Spencer, "Mr Martineau on evolution", Contemp. Rev. 20 (1872): 141–54.]
| Author: | Herbert Spencer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 June 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 230 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8384 |
To A. R. Wallace 27 July [1872]
Summary
On ARW’s "crushing" review [Nature 6 (1872): 237–9] of C. R. Bree’s An exposition of fallacies in the hypothesis of Mr Darwin.
Comments on other reviews and exchanges.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 27 July [1872] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8429 |
To J. D. Hooker [6 April 1873]
Summary
Wants to discuss raising a testimonial fund for Huxley and whether Huxley would stand this.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [6 Apr 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 261–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8843 |
To Asa Gray 12 March [1861]
Summary
Has received Chauncey Wright’s article.
Reports on favourable response to AG’s pamphlet.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 12 Mar [1861] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (52) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3087 |
From Emma Darwin to F. P. Cobbe [25 February 1871]
Summary
Discusses CD’s and her own views on ‘moral sense’.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frances Power Cobbe |
| Date: | [25 Feb 1871] |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (CB 390) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7516F |
From M. D. Conway 18 November 1878
Summary
Invites CD to join the Association of Liberal Thinkers and encloses information on its constitution. Huxley and Tyndall are co-operating.
| Author: | Moncure Daniel Conway |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Nov 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 221 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11746 |
From Emma Wedgwood to F. E. E. Wedgwood [17 December 1836]
Summary
The Darwin family are anxious for FEEW’s and Hensleigh’s opinions of CD’s journal. EW is convinced that Henry Holland is wrong if he thinks it not worth publishing.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Mackintosh; Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood |
| Date: | [17 Dec 1836] |
| Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS WM 233) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-328 |
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- … Martineau had invited CD to meet the actress Fanny Butler , better known as Fanny Kemble. Erasmus Alvey Darwin . Alexander John Scott published his Lectures expository and practical on the Epistle to the Romans in 1838 (London: James Darling). Godfrey Wedgwood and his sister Amy Wedgwood . John Hensleigh Allen Sr , Elizabeth Wedgwood (1764–1846), and possibly one or more of their sisters. See this volume, Supplement, letter …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Darwin, Emma | (2) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (2) |
| Conway, M. D. | (1) |
| Spencer, Herbert | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Cobbe, F. P. | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Mackintosh, F. E. E. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Darwin, Emma | (2) |
| Spencer, Herbert | (2) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (2) |
| Cobbe, F. P. | (1) |
