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St George Jackson Mivart
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In the second half of 1874, Darwin’s peace was disturbed by an anonymous article in the Quarterly Review suggesting that his son George was opposed to the institution of marriage and in favour of ‘unrestrained licentiousness’. Darwin suspected, correctly,…
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- … In 1874, the Catholic zoologist St George Jackson Mivart caused Darwin and his son George serious …
- … to liberty of marriage’ in the Contemporary Review (G. H. Darwin 1873b). In this article, George …
- … and others granted divorce on very slight causes. Mivart's review George’s …
- … of its created image, the mind of man’ (p. 76). Mivart’s argument did not win general assent. …
- … throughout the paper. The following quotations from Mivart’s paper mention Darwin and George: …
- … in the next issue of the Quarterly ( letter from G. H. Darwin, 29 July 1874 ). Darwin hastily …
- … Murray would be likely to wish to circulate ( letter to G. H. Darwin, 1 August [1874] ). Darwin …
- … he might be thought to endorse them ( letter from G. H. Darwin, 5 August 1874 ). He sent a second …
- … Darwin had guessed, correctly, the reviewer’s identity: St George Jackson Mivart. George took on …
- … letter appeared, followed by an anonymous rejoinder from Mivart ( Quarterly Review 137 (1874): …
- … Quarterly Review including these letters, remarking that Mivart’s rejoinder was ‘a fine specimen …
- … letter to John Murray, 18 October 1874 ). In other words, Mivart had used the form of an apology …
- … December, Darwin told Thomas Henry Huxley about the affair. Mivart had been Huxley’s protégé, and …
- … attacked a friend of mine.’ ( Enclosure to letter from J. D. Hooker, 21 December 1874 .) A reply …
- … me to be other than Your’s truly & gratefully | St George Mivart. (Provenance: …
- … : again, Darwin did not see this. 124 Gower St W.C. Dec. 24th 1874. …
- … sufficiently plain that I did not intend to attribute to Mr G. Darwin any personal slur but only an …
- … an approving strain” because a careful consideration of Mr G. Darwins paper has convinced me that …
- … you & your’s remaining | Your’s very faithfully | St Geo Mivart T. H. Huxley Esq …
- … from John Tyndall, 28 December 1874 , and letter from J. D. Hooker, 29 December 1874 ). …
- … my intention than the wish to insinuate anything against Mr. G. Darwin personally. It never occurred …
Darwin in letters, 1872: Job done?
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'My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, 'is so nearly closed. . . What little more I can do, shall be chiefly new work’, and the tenor of his correspondence throughout the year is one of wistful reminiscence, coupled with a keen eye…
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- … as I can make it’, he wrote to the translator ( letter to J. J. Moulinié, 23 September 1872 ). He …
- … more criticisms’, he wrote to the comparative anatomist St George Jackson Mivart ( letter to St G. …
- … to defend himself in the sixth edition were those made by Mivart himself. In a new chapter on …
- … Darwin refuted point by point assertions published by Mivart at the beginning of the previous year …
- … persuasiveness of his arguments: ‘I think your answer to Mivart, on initial stages of modification …
- … you have greatly misrepresented my views Although Mivart was among those who wrote in …
- … letters saw relations between them irretrievably break down. Mivart’s book had been followed by a …
- … had rallied to his defence, and along with his good wishes Mivart enclosed a copy of an article …
- … as I am made to appear’, complained Darwin ( letter to St G. J. Mivart, 5 January 1872 ). Piqued, …
- … renounce `fundamental intellectual errors’ ( letter from St G. J. Mivart, 6 January 1872 ). …
- … enough to think he felt friendly towards me’ ( letter to St G. J. Mivart, 8 January [1872] ). …
- … reconciliation, if only `in another world’ ( letter from St G. J. Mivart, 10 January 1872 ). …
- … but asked Mivart not to acknowledge it ( letter to St G. J. Mivart, 11 January [1872] ). 039;I …
- … selection is somewhat under a cloud’, he wrote to J. E. Taylor on 13 January , and he complained …
- … rather than offended by `that clever book’ ( letter to J. M. Herbert, 21 November 1872 ) and …
Darwin in letters, 1874: A turbulent year
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The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early months working on second editions of Coral reefs and Descent of man; the rest of the year was mostly devoted to further research on insectivorous plants. A…
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- … hope.— I feel very old & helpless’ ( letter to B. J. Sulivan, 6 January [1874] ). Darwin …
- … rubbish’, he confided to Joseph Dalton Hooker ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 18 January [1874] ). …
- … allowed ‘a spirit séance’ at his home ( letter from T. G. Appleton, 2 April 1874 ). Back …
- … letter to Smith, Elder & Co., 8 January 1874 , letter to J. D. Hooker, 8 January 1874 , and …
- … for misinterpreting Darwin on this point ( letter from J. D. Dana, 21 July 1874 ); however, he did …
- … conciseness & clearness of your thought’ ( letter from G. H. Darwin, 20 April 1874 ). …
- … the spread of various mental and physical disorders (G. H. Darwin 1873b). In July 1874, an anonymous …
- … in order to check population’. The review was by St George Jackson Mivart, one of the most …
- … usually generous Darwin by his previous anonymous attacks ([Mivart] 1869; 1871c). In his review, …
- … ‘nonsense’ and as displaying ‘amazing ignorance’ ([Mivart] 1874b, p. 45). He also circuitously …
- … George’s article as a defence of such immoral practices, Mivart was indirectly accusing Darwin …
- … Darwin’s immediate circle, a bitter dispute ensued over Mivart’s misrepresentation of George’s views …
- … over the ‘scurrilous libel’ on his son ( letter to G. H. Darwin, [27 July 1874] ). George, …
- … or profession’. He recognised the ‘skilful venom’ of Mivart, and suggested that he instead should …
- … scurrilous accusation of [a] lying scoundrel’ ( letter to G. H. Darwin, 1 August [1874] ). He …
- … with Murray on the outcome ( enclosure to letter from G. H. Darwin, 6 [August] 1874 ): …
- … direct to the Editor & it had been refused’ ( letter from G. H. Darwin, [6 or 7 August 1874] ) …
- … with Mivart (see Correspondence vol. 20, letter to St G. J. Mivart, 11 January [1872] ). To …
- … whether he was the author of the review ( see letter to J. D. Hooker, 14 December 1874 ). Huxley …
- … Mivart had written the article ( enclosure to letter from J. D. Hooker, 21 December 1874 ). Huxley …
- … 15 th he published that shabby rejoinder’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 24 December [1874] ). On …
- … removed as secretary of the Linnean Society ( letter From J. D. Hooker, 29 December 1874 ). …
- … theory of exchange value, and the second elliptic integral (G. H. Darwin 1875a, 1875b, 1875d, 1875e) …
- … in almost total failure of observations in New Zealand (see G. B. Airy ed. 1881). Darwin’s …
Darwin in letters,1870: Human evolution
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The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the year at work on the Descent of Man & Selection in relation to Sex’. Descent was the culmination of over three decades of observations and reflections on…
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- … natural selection to humans from Alfred Russel Wallace and St George Jackson Mivart, and heated …
- … for the drawing ( Correspondence vol. 16, letter to J. D. Hooker, 26 November [1868] ; this …
- … ( letter to H. W. Bates, [22 May 1870] ). St George Jackson Mivart Another set of …
- … for by an underlying design. Darwin commented on Mivart’s essay in a letter to William Henry …
- … to W. H. Flower, 25 March [1870] ). In his letters to Mivart, Darwin remained cordial and …
- … laborious & valuable labours on the Primates’ ( letter to St G. J. Mivart, 23 April [1870] ). …
- … such an Ape differs from a lump of granite’ ( letter from St G. J. Mivart, 22 April 1870 ). …
- … whatever may have been his “origin” ( letter from St G. J. Mivart, 25 April 1870 ). In his …
- … than I could a ball at Buckingham Palace’ ( letter to B. J. Sulivan, 30 June [1870] ). …
- … persons long married grow like each other’ ( letter from J. J. Weir, 17 March 1870 ). …
- … in Bastian’s solutions of the same kind’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 July [1870] ). Bastian’s …
- … to be thus killed by a man of 86’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 25 May [1870] ). On learning of this, …
- … do, I know no more than the man in the moon’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 25 May [1870] ). …
- … to ride the same horse that had thrown him (letter from G. H. Darwin to H. E. Darwin, [21 – 2 …
Darwin in letters, 1875: Pulling strings
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‘I am getting sick of insectivorous plants’, Darwin confessed in January 1875. He had worked on the subject intermittently since 1859, and had been steadily engaged on a book manuscript for nine months; January also saw the conclusion of a bitter dispute…
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- … the conclusion of a long-running dispute with the zoologist St George Jackson Mivart. In April and …
- … In January, the protracted dispute with Mivart came to a close. The final chapter of the controversy …
- … Appendix V). Darwin remained bitter and dissatisfied with Mivart’s attempts at conciliation, and …
- … and assistance from his family, he sent a curt note to Mivart on 12 January , breaking off all …
- … friends, Hooker and Thomas Henry Huxley. Because Mivart was a distinguished zoologist, a …
- … Huxley chose journalism, depicting the anonymous reviewer (Mivart) as a blind antagonist of ‘all …
- … his position as president of the Royal Society from spurning Mivart in public. ‘Without cutting him …
- … Murray, the publisher of the Quarterly Review , in which Mivart’s anonymous essay had appeared. …
- … … Poor Murray shuddered again & again’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 16 January 1875 ). Darwin …
- … ire was not fully spent, however, for he set about exposing Mivart’s character to other men of …
- … ‘I know positively that this article was written by Mr Mivart & I wish to take every opportunity …
- … be.’ The vivisection question Just as the Mivart affair was laid to rest, another …
- … red half has become wholly white’ ( letter from G. J. Romanes, [before 4 November 1874] ). …
- … Review . Having just emerged from the controversy with Mivart over his paper on cousin marriage, he …
- … of a review of William Dwight Whitney’s work on language (G. H. Darwin 1874c). George had taken the …
- … reviews of Darwin’s work, including a defence against Mivart that Darwin had reprinted in Britain. …
Darwin in letters, 1871: An emptying nest
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The year 1871 was an extremely busy and productive one for Darwin, with the publication in February of his long-awaited book on human evolution, Descent of man. The other main preoccupation of the year was the preparation of his manuscript on expression.…
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- … about it, which no doubt promotes the sale’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 26 March 1871 ). The …
- … corrections or contributions. A German emigrant in St Louis claimed that new races arriving …
- … letter from Arthur Nicols, 7 March 1871 ; letter from B. J. Sulivan, 11 March 1871 ; letter …
- … a high aesthetic appreciation of beauty ( letter from E. J. Pfeiffer, [before 26 April 1871] ). …
- … a good way ahead of you, as far as this goes’ ( letter to J. B. Innes, 29 May [1871] ). On …
- … By far the most vexing critic for Darwin was the zoologist St George Jackson Mivart. An expert on …
- … to explain various animal structures and homologies. Mivart’s views were published in expanded form …
- … that his own views on evolution had been misrepresented. Mivart had ignored his continued reliance …
- … in his assertions. Darwin pressed this last point with Mivart, insisting that he had hunted through …
- … found only the ‘most guarded expressions’ ( letter to St G. J. Mivart, 23 January [1871] ). …
- … and their ‘irreligious deductions’ ( letter from St G. J. Mivart, 24 January 1871 ). The men did …
- … son Francis on 28 February . However, later in the year, Mivart wrote an even more hostile article …
- … wrote to Hooker on 16 September . Darwin suspected that Mivart’s sense of honour and fairness had …
- … [15 December 1871] ). Francis was now studying medicine at St George’s Hospital in London, although …
Darwin's 1874 letters go online
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The full transcripts and footnotes of over 600 letters to and from Charles Darwin in 1874 are published online for the first time. You can read about Darwin's life in 1874 through his letters and see a full list of the letters. The 1874 letters…
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- … to the serious offence that the Catholic zoologist St George Jackson Mivart caused Darwin and …
- … of [a] lying scoundrel.— ( Letter to G. H. Darwin, 1 August [1874] ) The …
- … about how Darwin and his family and friends dealt with Mivart's accusations . Here …
- … five times more time than the positive ( Letter to J. D. Hooker, 30 August [1874] ) …
- … the work which you have to do— ( Letter to J. D. Hooker, 30 November [1874] ) Darwin …
Darwin in letters, 1876: In the midst of life
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1876 was the year in which the Darwins became grandparents for the first time. And tragically lost their daughter-in-law, Amy, who died just days after her son's birth. All the letters from 1876 are now published in volume 24 of The Correspondence…
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- … blundering’, he cheerfully observed to Carus. ( Letter to J. V. Carus, 24 April 1876. ) …
- … to ignore the accusation made by the comparative anatomist St George Jackson Mivart in his Lessons …
- … pain ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 17 June 1876 ). Although Mivart had long been a severe critic, …
- … V). Eighteen months later, Darwin remained fearful that Mivart still had the capacity to damage …
- … heartfelt thanks to Wallace for his critical review of Mivart’s Lessons from nature . ... …
- … of blackballing so distinguished a zoologist ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 29 January 1876 ). Both …
- … results in this year’s experiments’ ( letter from G. J. Romanes, [ c . 19 March 1876] ). A less …
- … Encyclopaedia Britannica the previous year ( letter to G. H. Darwin, [after 4 September 1876] ). …
- … by the mutual pressure of very young buds’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 21 June [1876] ). Darwin …
- … the ‘awful job’ of informing the author ( letter to G. G. Stokes, 21 April [1876] ). Darwin could …
- … paper was ‘not worthy of being read ever’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 28 January 1876 ). Darwin …
- … ‘all I can say is do not commit suicide’ ( letter to G. H. Darwin, [4 June 1876] ). By midsummer, …
- … a set of sons I have, all doing wonders.’ ( Letter to G. H. Darwin, 13 July [1876]. ) A …
- … Hildebrand, 6 December 1876 , and letter from F. J. Cohn, 31 December 1876 ). To Darwin’s …
- … as this, together with Wallace’s reasoned disagreements, Mivart’s attacks, and other objections, may …
List of correspondents
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Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. Click on a name to see the letters Darwin exchanged with that correspondent. "A child of God" (1) Abberley,…
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- … Spruce, Richard (5) St Barbe, John (1) …
Darwin in letters, 1880: Sensitivity and worms
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‘My heart & soul care for worms & nothing else in this world,’ Darwin wrote to his old Shrewsbury friend Henry Johnson on 14 November 1880. Darwin became fully devoted to earthworms in the spring of the year, just after finishing the manuscript of…
Capturing Darwin’s voice: audio of selected letters
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On a sunny Wednesday in June 2011 in a makeshift recording studio somewhere in Cambridge, we were very pleased to welcome Terry Molloy back to the Darwin Correspondence Project for a special recording session. Terry, known for his portrayal of Davros in Dr…
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- … How should one read Darwin’s politely worded rebuke to St G. J. Mivart ( 21 April [1871] ) for …
Darwin’s queries on expression
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When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations more widely and composed a list of queries on human expression. A number of handwritten copies were sent out in 1867 (see, for example, letter to Fritz Muller…
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- … 5 Aug 1867 5 Clifford St, London, England infants' …
- … 20 May 1869 32 Queen Anne St. Cavendish Square W London, England …
- … 30 June 1872] New University Club, St. James's Street, S.W., London, …
- … 20 May 1869 32 Queen Anne St. Cavendish Square W, London, England …
- … 3 Sept 1870 Conservative Club, St James' St, London, England …
- … 9 Nov 1870 11 St Mary Abbot's Terrace, London, England …
- … 1 Feb 1871 11 St Mary Abbot's Terrace, London, England …
- … 7 Sept 1872 11 St Mary Abbot's Terrace, London, England …
- … 2 March [1867] 9 St. Mark’s Crescent, N.W., London, England …
- … 11 March [1867] 9 St. Mark’s Crescent, N.W., London, England …
Darwin in letters, 1882: Nothing too great or too small
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In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and for the first time in decades he was not working on another book. He remained active in botanical research, however. Building on his recent studies in plant…