To T. H. Huxley 17 February [1861]
Summary
Chauncey Wright’s review of Origin: A. Gray asks that THH append a list of philosophical books on subject if he accepts it for Natural History Review.
Sends Gray’s pamphlet of his (republished) reviews [Natural selection not inconsistent with natural theology (1861)] for notice.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 17 Feb [1861] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 169) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3063 |
To Frances Julia Wedgwood 11 July [1861]
Summary
Admires FJW’s article ["The boundaries of science", Macmillan’s Mag. 4 (1861): 237–47]. Thinks she understands his book [Origin] perfectly.
On design in nature: the more CD thinks on the subject the less he can see proof of it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Frances Julia (Snow) Wedgwood |
Date: | 11 July [1861] |
Classmark: | LL 1: 313–14; Christie’s (dealers) (3 March 2004) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3206 |
To Charles Lyell 1 October [1861]
Summary
The flint tools found at Bedford.
Further discussion of Jamieson’s theory of the formation of the roads of Glen Roy by a glacial lake. Comments on formation of Glen Spean terraces. Mentions glaciers in North Wales.
Agreement with John Murray to publish [Orchids].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 1 Oct [1861] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.266) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3272 |
To H. W. Bates 4 April [1861]
Summary
CD urges HWB to write on his travels;
asks for facts on domestic variations;
is pleased by HWB’s acceptance of the theory of sexual selection.
He still believes in migration from north to south during glacial age.
Hopes Bates will publish a paper on mimicry.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 4 Apr [1861] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3109 |
To Charles Lyell [15 September 1861]
Summary
Discusses CL’s correspondence with T. F. Jamieson. Comments on Jamieson’s theory that the roads of Glen Roy were formed by a glacial lake. Discusses elevation of Scotland during the glacial period.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [15 Sept 1861] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.264) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3254 |
To Thomas Henry Huxley 3 January [1861]
Summary
Congratulates THH on first number of Natural History Review.
THH’s article on brain ["On the zoological relations of man with the lower animals", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1861): 67–84] completely smashes Owen.
Owen’s Leeds address [Rep. BAAS (1858): xlix–cx].
In his historical sketch of opinion on species CD has picked out some sentences [by Owen] with which he will take some revenge. CD is not bold enough to come to an open quarrel.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 3 Jan [1861] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 155, 372–6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3041 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 8 May [1861]
Summary
Thanks WBT for information on pigeons and poultry.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 8 May [1861] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4830 |
From Charles and Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin [13 January 1861]
Summary
Two letters for WED at E. A. Darwin's. G. H. Darwin has been to dentist. Please collect and pay for GHD’s skates.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [13 Jan 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 117 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3046F |
To Charles Lyell [1 August 1861]
Summary
Mentions Dutch translation [of Origin].
Discusses evolutionary origin of sexuality.
Asa Gray’s suggestion that variation was directed by a higher power and Herschel’s view of providential arrangement in nature.
Compares variation in domestic and wild species.
Asks CL for introductions for his son William in Southampton, where he has joined a bank.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [1 Aug 1861] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.259) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3223 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 11 July [1861]. Herschel 1861 , p. 12 n. Auguste Comte viewed the development of knowledge as having progressed through three stages: theological, metaphysical, and positive. CD had read an extensive review of the first two volumes of Comte’s Cours de philosophie positive ( Comte 1830–42 ) in 1838 (see Correspondence vol. 2, letter to Charles Lyell, [14] …
To Asa Gray 5 June [1861]
Summary
AG’s review of John Phillips’ book [Life on earth (1860), in Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 31 (1861): 444–9].
Thinks his experiments will explain Primula dimorphism.
Insect fertilisation of orchids.
Wishes that the "greatest curse on Earth", slavery, were abolished.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 5 June [1861] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (60) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3176 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
Darwin, Emma | (1) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (3) |
Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
Bates, H. W. | (1) |
Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
Lyell, Charles | (3) |
Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
Bates, H. W. | (1) |
Darwin, Emma | (1) |