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To Charles Kingsley 13 December [1867]
Summary
Discusses the reception of CD’s views at Cambridge and elsewhere.
Variation delayed by the index, but will appear at the end of the year.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Kingsley |
| Date: | 13 Dec [1867] |
| Classmark: | Quaritch (dealers) (2007) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5728F |
To Charles Kingsley 6 November [1867]
Summary
He had no idea that the double function of an excretory passage had played a part in the history of religion.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Kingsley |
| Date: | 6 Nov [1867] |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (Quentin Keynes collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5670F |
To Charles Kingsley 6 February [1862]
Summary
Comments on CK’s letter [3426].
Identifies species of pigeon shot by party.
On CK’s "grand and awful" notion of genealogy of man, CD recalls how revolting was the thought that his ancestors must have been like the Fuegians. His present belief that they were hairy beasts is less revolting.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Kingsley |
| Date: | 6 Feb [1862] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection); 19th Century Shop (dealer) (March 2014) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3439 |
To Charles Kingsley [17 June 1865]
Summary
Did not think anyone would notice case of Lathyrus.
Recalls reading correspondent’s paper on great fir woods of Hampshire.
Thanks for photograph.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Kingsley |
| Date: | [17 June 1865] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13877 |
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- … Charles Kingsley, 14 June 1865 and n. 2. Lord Dundreary was a celebrated comic part in Tom Taylor’s play Our American cousin ( Taylor 1869 ) The character was described as an English aristocrat with a ‘well-bred air married to a vacant stare’ (see Tolles 1940 ). See also Correspondence vol. 10, letter to W. E. Darwin, 26 April [1862] . Joseph Dalton Hooker wrote of Dundreary as ‘a far more scientific character than I anticipated’ ( Correspondence vol. 11, …
