To Hensleigh Wedgwood 3 March [1871]
Summary
Admits pointer illustration is faulty.
Discusses shame, remorse, social instincts, approbation, and other topics discussed in Descent, ch. 4. "But as yet I nail my colours to the mast."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hensleigh Wedgwood |
Date: | 3 Mar [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 88: 24, 54–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7537 |
To Hensleigh Wedgwood 9 March 1871
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hensleigh Wedgwood |
Date: | 9 Mar 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 88: 64–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7560 |
From Hensleigh Wedgwood [21 March 1871]
Summary
Copy of and note on a picture of Noah’s daughter averting her eyes in shame.
Author: | Hensleigh Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [21 Mar 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 195.1: 54 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7406 |
From Hensleigh Wedgwood [before 3 March 1871]
Author: | Hensleigh Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 3 Mar 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 88: 41–53 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7470 |
From Hensleigh Wedgwood [3–9 March 1871]
Summary
Agrees that social instinct or love for fellows is the beginning of moral feeling. Responds to CD’s letter [7537].
Author: | Hensleigh Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [3–9 Mar 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 88: 56–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7542 |
From Hensleigh Wedgwood [after 9 March 1871]
Summary
Answers CD’s letter [7560], on points of agreement between them, the chief one being the sympathy which man has with his fellows. Disagrees however with CD’s "principle" of the painful feelings of dissatisfied instinct.
Author: | Hensleigh Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 9 Mar 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 88: 60–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7562 |
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Wedgwood, Hensleigh | (4) |
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
Wedgwood, Hensleigh | (2) |