To Charles Lyell 30 March [1859]
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CD is grateful to CL for his help in arranging with Murray for publication [of Origin]. Sorry Murray objects to term "abstract" in title, but will defer to him and CL.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 30 Mar [1859] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.164) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2439 |
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- … on1 April 1859 and returned to Down on 4 April. On 3 April she ‘lunched with Lyells’. …
From Henry Holland 10 December [1859]
Summary
Comments on the Origin. Outlines difficulties he finds in CD’s theory. Believes CD must define natural selection more accurately and mentions instances in which that principle is an insufficient cause to account for the form of certain structures.
Author: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Dec [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 47: 148–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2578 |
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- … letter to a close. Even crossed pencil ‘Lyells objection’ added pencil crossed pencil …
To John Murray 5 April [1859]
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Sends title and first three chapters [of Origin]. Thinks first chapter will interest the public and is sure views are original. If JM thinks otherwise, he should freely reject the work. Chapter 2 is dull and abstruse, chapter 3 is plain and interesting.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 5 Apr [1859] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.35–35A) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2447 |
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- … my M.S will run out to more than 500 pages of size & type of Lyells Elements 1 st Edit. — …
To John Murray 6 May [1859]
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CD is convinced that the suggestions [for the Origin?] of both Lyell and Whitwell Elwyn are impracticable.
Will send first six chapters of MS next week. Has taken such pains with it that he hopes corrections will not be heavy.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 6 May [1859] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.57–57A) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2459 |
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- … It is my deliberate conviction that both Lyells & M r Elwyns suggestions, (which differ to …
To Richard Owen 13 December [1859]
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Responds to Owen’s remarks that his book [Origin] is not likely to be true because it attempts to explain so much. CD describes how, for fear this might be so, he resolved to give up the work if he could not convince two or three competent judges. He is sensitive because of unjust things said by a distinguished friend [A. Sedgwick]. Value of his views now depends on men eminent in science.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Owen |
Date: | 13 Dec [1859] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/195) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2580 |
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- … me to look in large 8 vo Edit. (1833) of Lyells Principles & I find in vol. 3. p. 144. …
To J. D. Hooker [22 November 1859]
Summary
CD hopes Woodward was not the Athenæum reviewer. "The manner in which he drags in immortality, & sets the Priests at me … is base".
JDH has made CD feel he can "face a score of savage reviewers".
H. C. Watson has written to him in tremendous praise of the Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [22 Nov 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 26 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2542 |
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- … Reviewers. — I suppose you are still with the Lyells—give my kindest remembrances to them. …
To J. D. Hooker 30 March [1859]
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Hopes Murray will publish after seeing MS [of Origin].
Demurs at JDH’s saying that CD changes climate to account for migration of bugs, flies, etc. "We do nothing of the sort; for we rest on scored rocks, old moraines, arctic shells, and mammifers." Has given up the Lyellian doctrine as insufficient to explain all changes in climate; CD has no theory about the cause of the cold.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 30 Mar [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 94 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2440 |
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- … beg you to send it to Murray; as through Lyells intervention I hope he will publish; but …
To W. D. Fox [16 November 1859]
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News of his health and the water-cure establishment.
[Origin] "my weariful book on Species" has been sent to WDF, who will not agree with it. Hooker is a convert, and Lyell is "staggered".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | [16 Nov 1859] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 124) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2533 |
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- … Lyell is likewise. Certainly, judging from Lyells letters to me on subject, he is deeply …
To J. D. Hooker 14 December [1859]
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CD’s great satisfaction with JDH’s approval of Origin. The book has been extremely successful. Reactions of Asa Gray, Lyell, Bentham, and J. E. Gray.
Not one friend has noticed his pet bit in Origin: embryology.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 14 Dec [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 29 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2583 |
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- … effect on A. Gray: from what I heard at Lyells I fancy your correspondence has brought …
To Charles Lyell 11 October [1859]
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CL’s comments on Origin. Mentions corrections to last chapter suggested by CL.
Comments on lack of peculiar bird species on Madeira and Bermuda. Emphasises importance of American types in Galapagos.
Denies necessity of continued creation of primitive "Monads".
Denies need for new powers and any principle of improvement.
Discusses gradations of intellectual powers.
Adaptive inferiority and extinction of groups of species and genera.
Asserts that climate is less important than the struggle with other organisms.
Suggests an experiment involving primroses and cowslips.
The chapter on hybridisation.
Rudimentary organs.
Gives opinion of Lamarck’s work.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 11 Oct [1859] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.172) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2503 |
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- … botanist, was Lyell’s brother-in- law. The Lyells were preparing to visit the Bunburys in …
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Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
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Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
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Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Lyell, Charles | (2) |
Murray, John (b) | (2) |
Fox, W. D. | (1) |
Holland, Henry | (1) |
Owen, Richard | (1) |
Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
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At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…
The Lyell–Lubbock dispute
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In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book Prehistoric times, accused Lyell of plagiarism. The dispute caused great dismay among many of their mutual scientific friends, some of whom took immediate action…
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- … ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [29 July 1865] ): Lyells corrected pages came when I was …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
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In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
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- … sur les Glaciers [Agassiz 1840] —— 30 th Lyells Principles. 3. Vol. 6 th Edit [Lyell …
- … ] all——3 vols.——well abstracted 22 d Lyells Elem. 2 d Edit. [Lyell 1841] d[itt]o.— …
- … 1841–54]. slightly skimmed Miserable Aug. 5 th Lyells Travels in N. America [Lyell 1845] …
- … Tribe &c by George Vasey. 1851 [Vasey 1851]. May 28. Lyells Elements 5 th . Edit [Lyell …
Visiting the Darwins
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'As for Mr Darwin, he is entirely fascinating…' In October 1868 Jane Gray and her husband spent several days as guests of the Darwins, and Jane wrote a charming account of the visit in a sixteen-page letter to her sister. She described Charles…
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- … on Saturday— I have appointed next Monday to call on the Lyells; & mean to try & persuade Dr …