To Asa Gray 24 December [1859]
Summary
Thanks for AG’s Japan memoir [Mem. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. 6 (1857–9): 377–452]. Does not think AG’s arguments for a warm post-glacial period are sufficient, but will not be sorry to be proved wrong.
Believes natural selection explains many classes of facts which repeated creation does not.
Writes of some responses to the Origin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 24 Dec [1859] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (46) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2599 |
Matches: 16 hits
- … To Asa Gray 24 December [1859] …
- … Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (46) Charles Robert Darwin Down 24 Dec [1859] Asa Gray …
- … also letter to J. D. Hooker, 28 [December 1859] . In his letter to Asa Gray, 11 August [ …
- … and implied this in A. Gray 1858–9 . See letters to John Murray , 22 December [1859] and …
- … 24 December [1859] . …
- … Dated by the relationship to the letters to Asa Gray , 21 December [1859] , and to John …
- … Murray ,22 December [1859]. A. Gray 1858–9 . There is an annotated copy of the paper in …
- … with Joseph Dalton Hooker ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 11 May [1859] , and letter from J. …
- … D. Hooker,[20 December 1859] ), and with Gray (see letter to Asa Gray, 11 August [1858] ). …
- … of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Boston in January 1859 (see letter to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 3 May [1859] ). A. …
- … Gray 1859 , pp. 447–8. …
- … In a letter to Asa Gray, 31 May 1859 (Gray Herbarium, Harvard University), Hooker praised …
- … A. Gray 1859 but stated: ‘Your Geological distribution we cannot follow at all, & …
- … Read 14 December 1858 and 11 January 1859. ] Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and …
- … Sciences n.s. 6: 377–452. Gray, Asa. 1859. On the coiling of tendrils. American Journal of …
To Williams and Norgate 16 January [1860]
Summary
Orders J. E. Tennent’s work on Ceylon [Sir James Emerson, afterwards Tennent, Ceylon, an account of the island, physical, historical, and topographical (1859)], and Richard Owen’s Classification and distribution of Mammalia [1859].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
| Date: | 16 Jan [1860] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2653 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … see Correspondence vol. 7, letters to John Murray , 15 October [1859] , and to J. …
- … D. Hooker, [23 October 1859]). …
- … account of the island, physical, historical, and topographical (1859)], and Richard Owen’s …
- … Classification and distribution of Mammalia [1859]. …
- … Distribution of Mammalia: Parker: 1859. — I have received your account for the Parcels …
- … Account book (see n. 4, below). Tennent 1859 . R. Owen 1859a , published by John William …
- … MS)). CD engaged this firm in November 1859 to send presentation copies of Origin abroad ( …
- … races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. Tennent, …
- … James Emerson. 1859. Ceylon, an account of the island, physical, historical, and …
To J. D. Hooker [26 May 1859]
Summary
Returning from Moor Park. CD will take up proofs of JDH’s Flora Tasmaniae.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [26 May 1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2464 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker [26 May 1859] …
- … DAR 115: 17 Charles Robert Darwin Moor Park [26 May 1859] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … University Press. 1985–. Eliot, George. 1859. Adam Bede. 3 vols. Edinburgh: William …
- … CD returned to Down on Saturday, 28 May 1859 (‘Journal’; Appendix II). …
- … CD refers to proof-sheets of Hooker 1859 . …
- … Eliot 1859 . CD recorded Adam Bede …
- … novels in his reading notebook in July 1859 ( Correspondence vol. 4, Appendix IV, 128: …
- … volume of Watson 1847–59 , which was published in July 1859 ( Publishers’ Circular , …
- … 16 July 1859, p. 336). See also letter from H. C. Watson, 3 January 1858 . CD’s …
To A. R. Wallace 25 January [1859]
Summary
Expresses pleasure and relief at ARW’s response to joint publication of their pieces about natural selection.
Plans for the "abstract" [Origin].
Birds’ nests as evidence of variation of instincts.
Their collection of bees’ combs.
Praises ARW’s article.
Lyell’s and Hooker’s views [of species issue].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 25 Jan [1859] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2405 |
Matches: 12 hits
- … To A. R. Wallace 25 January [1859] …
- … Library (Add MS 46434) Charles Robert Darwin Down 25 Jan [1859] Alfred Russel Wallace …
- … the letter to J. D. Hooker, 23 January [1859] , and to the letter from A. R. Wallace to …
- … 1858 . See letter to J. D. Hooker, 23 January [1859] . CD was working on his material on …
- … 11 and 12 of Origin . CD’s journal entries of 15 January 1859 (‘Abstract. Geograph. : …
- … races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. Smith, …
- … Frederick. 1859. Catalogue of Hymenopterous insects collected by Mr A. R. Wallace at the …
- … in the Aru and Key islands ( F. Smith 1859 ). Wallace apparently did send CD specimens of …
- … sources, after his ‘abstract’ was issued in 1859. This plan was only partially completed …
- … Distr:’) and of 28 February 1859 (‘Affinities & Classification’) (‘Journal’; Appendix II) …
- … see following letter and letters to T. H. Huxley, 8 March [1859] , and to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 15 March [1859]). CD refers to Wallace’s view that ‘no inferences as to …
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 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker [22 November 1859] …
- … DAR 115: 26 Charles Robert Darwin Ilkley [22 Nov 1859] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … instead of Watson here ( LL 2: 229). Letter from H. C. Watson, 21 November [1859] . …
- … the relationship to the letter from J. D. Hooker, [21 November 1859] . Letter from J. …
- … D. Hooker, [21 November 1859] . The author was in fact John R. Leifchild ( …
- … see letter to J. D. Hooker, [20 November 1859] , n. 2). Thomas Henry Huxley was hoping …
- … See letter from J. D. Hooker, [21 November 1859] . Michael Faraday , the director of the …
- … Gazette . See letter to J. D. Hooker, [20 November 1859] , and letter from J. …
- … D. Hooker, [21 November 1859] . Francis Darwin’s edition of CD’s letters erroneously gives …
To J. D. Hooker 29 [December 1859]
Summary
Queries possible misprint in JDH’s introduction to Flora Tasmaniae.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 29 [Dec 1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 34 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2613 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 29 [December 1859] …
- … DAR 115: 34 Charles Robert Darwin Down 29 [Dec 1859] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … Dated by the reference to Hooker 1859 , which CD received …
- … on 22 December 1859 (see letter to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 23 [December 1859] ). …
- … In CD’s copy of Hooker 1859 , p. xxxvi (Darwin Library–CUL), the word ‘Cruciferæ’ has been …
To Francis Galton 13 December [1859]
Summary
Thanks FG for comments [on Origin].
Acknowledges error involving rhinoceros.
Thinks female fowls select victorious or most beautiful cock.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Galton |
| Date: | 13 Dec [1859] |
| Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/5) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2581 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … To Francis Galton 13 December [1859] …
- … Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/5) Charles Robert Darwin Down 13 Dec [1859] Francis Galton …
- … of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. …
- … Letter from Francis Galton, 9 December 1859 . For Erasmus Alvey Darwin’s comments, see …
- … letter from E. A. Darwin, 23 November [1859] . Sexual selection was discussed in Origin , …
- … letter from Francis Galton, 9 December 1859 , that is now missing. See letter from E. …
- … A. Darwin, 23 November [1859] . Louisa Jane Galton . …
To Charles Lyell 23 November [1859]
Summary
Thanks CL for his decision to accept CD’s "doctrine of modification" [in Elements of geology, 6th ed. (1865)]. Believes it "morally impossible that investigators of truth, like you and Hooker, can be wholly wrong". Does not think CL’s decision will injure his works.
Thinks CL overrates importance of multiple origin of dogs.
Mentions sending copy of Origin to Herschel. Asks CL about Herschel’s reaction.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 23 Nov [1859] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.176) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2543 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … To Charles Lyell 23 November [1859] …
- … Mss.B.D25.176) Charles Robert Darwin Ilkley 23 Nov [1859] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
- … of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. …
- … the letter from Charles Lyell, [22 November 1859] , since it is only mentioned later, in …
- … the letter to Charles Lyell, 24 [November 1859] . See …
- … letter from Charles Lyell, 21 November 1859 . See letter to J. …
- … F. W. Herschel, 11 November [1859] . For John Frederick William Herschel’ …
- … s response to Origin , see letter to Charles Lyell, [10 December 1859] . …
- … the species question. CD refers to letters from Charles Lyell , 28 October 1859 and …
- … 21 November 1859 , and to others that are now missing. At the time this …
To Charles Lyell 29 [November 1859]
Summary
Encloses letter from Adam Sedgwick [2548].
Mentions conversion of A. C. Ramsay.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 29 [Nov 1859] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.180) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2560 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … To Charles Lyell 29 [November 1859] …
- … Mss.B.D25.180) Charles Robert Darwin Ilkley 29 [Nov 1859] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
- … Letter from Adam Sedgwick, 24 November 1859 . The letter from Thomas Henry Huxley has not …
- … been found, but see letter to T. H. Huxley,27 November [1859] . See …
- … letter to Charles Lyell, 24 [November 1859] . …
To J. D. Hooker 3 January [1860]
Summary
High praise and detailed comments on JDH’s introductory essay to Flora Tasmaniae, which CD has now finished reading.
Disagrees on power of transoceanic migration. Advocates glacial transport of plants.
CD’s response to reviews of Origin in Saturday Review [8 (1859): 775–6] and John Lindley’s in Gardeners’ Chronicle [but see 2651].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 3 Jan [1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2635 |
Matches: 23 hits
- … to reviews of Origin in Saturday Review [8 (1859): 775–6] and John Lindley’s in Gardeners’ …
- … through the tropics to Australia in Hooker 1859 , pp. cii–cv, concluding that such an …
- … s Flora Tasmaniæ ( Hooker 1855–60 ). It was also issued separately in December 1859 ( …
- … Hooker 1859 ). There are copies of both …
- … the Darwin Library–CUL; the text of Hooker 1859 was extensively annotated by CD. CD and …
- … of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. …
- … the plants of Australia in detail ( Hooker 1859 , pp. xxvii–cxxviii). CD refers to …
- … Hooker praised in his essay ( Hooker 1859 , p. i). Hooker listed the ‘orders’ (‘families’ …
- … Curious’ beside it in pencil ( Hooker 1859 , p. xxxiii). Hooker also listed the regions …
- … most species in the south-west; two had most in the south-east ( Hooker 1859 , p. xxxiv). …
- … species found in Australia ( Hooker 1859 , pp. xlii–l). He believed that to account for …
- … contribution to the Indian flora ( Hooker 1859 , p. l). CD believed that Hooker’s remark …
- … for such a northward migration ( Hooker 1859 , p. civ). CD explained the absence of …
- … note to this effect in his copy of Hooker 1859 , p. liv: ‘Indian Tropical plants formed in …
- … Flora of Tropics. —’ In his essay ( Hooker 1859 , p. l), Hooker remarked how curious it …
- … the continuous land connection ( Hooker 1859 , p. li). Next to this passage, CD wrote in …
- … Australian explorer Edward John Eyre . Hooker 1859 , p. liv. CD marked the passage in his …
- … seeds. —’ CD commented in his copy ( Hooker 1859 , p. xcv): I wish I knew which of these …
- … to in the letter is tipped into Hooker 1859 following p. xcvi. It is headed ‘Notes for …
- … Literature, Science, and Art , 24 December 1859, pp. 775–6. The reviewer singled out the …
- … and Agricultural Gazette , 31 December 1859, pp. 1051–2, had been written by the editor, …
- … vol. 7, letter to J. D. Hooker, 14 December [1859] , and letter from J. …
- … D. Hooker, [20 December 1859] . CD refers to his belief in a former cold period during …
To John Lubbock 8 March [1859]
Summary
Wants examples of insects (especially Diptera) in which embryo resembles adult, to show that the metamorphic stages may be lost.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 8 Mar [1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 29 (EH 88206478) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2426 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … To John Lubbock 8 March [1859] …
- … 88206478) Charles Robert Darwin Down 8 Mar [1859] John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron …
- … guide, railway manual, and directory 1859 and 1860. John William Lubbock , John Lubbock’s …
- … Dated by Lubbock’s reply ( letter from John Lubbock, 15 March 1859 ). See …
- … letter from John Lubbock, 8 February 1859 , which is now incomplete. A reference to Léon …
- … also letter to John Lubbock, 16 [March 1859] . CD did not use Diptera to illustrate his …
- … of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. …
- … instead ( Origin , p. 442). See letter from John Lubbock, 15 March 1859 , and letters to …
- … John Lubbock , 16 [March 1859] and …
- … 21 [March 1859] . Ellen Frances Lubbock . The Mid-Kent Railway Company had financed a …
- … but Farnborough never became a station on it. In 1859, there was a movement to finance a …
To J. D. Hooker 11 [September 1859]
Summary
Corrected last proof of Origin yesterday. Still has revises and index to do.
Will read more JDH proofs of Flora Tasmaniae.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 11 [Sept 1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 21 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2490 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 11 [September 1859] …
- … DAR 115: 21 Charles Robert Darwin Down 11 [Sept 1859] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … The Trifolium pratense entry is dated 13 August 1859; that for Melilotus officinalis , 10 …
- … of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. …
- … CD recorded finishing his proofs on 1 October 1859 (‘Journal’; Appendix II). See letter to …
- … J. D. Hooker, 1 September [1859] . Origin was included in John …
- … s list of publications for November ( Publishers’ Circular , 1 November 1859, p. 546). …
- … see letter to John Murray, [3 November 1859] , and Freeman 1977 , p. 75. The results of …
To J. D. Hooker 11 April [1859]
Summary
Murray has read first three chapters of Origin and abides by his offer to publish.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 11 Apr [1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2452 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 11 April [1859] …
- … DAR 115: 11 Charles Robert Darwin Down 11 Apr [1859] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … entry in his Account book (Down House MS) indicates he contributed £100 on 10 June 1859. …
- … CD’s letter to John Murray, 5 April [1859] . CD sent Hooker the chapters on geographical …
- … see letter to J. D. Hooker, 11 March [1859] ). CD requested their return in the letter to …
- … J. D. Hooker,2 April [1859] . Emma Darwin’s diary records …
- … Erasmus Darwin arrived at Down on 9 April 1859. Following the oversubscription to the fund …
- … of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. …
- … Society resolved at a meeting on27 January 1859 to initiate a fund for the charitable …
[Leifchild, John R.] 1859. [Review of Origin.] Athenæum, 19 November 1859, pp. 659–60.
To John Murray 24 December [1859]
Summary
Thanks JM for present of McClintock’s work [Sir Francis Leopold McClintock, The voyage of the "Fox" in the Arctic seas (1859)], which he and his wife look forward to reading.
Asks to be told when reprint [of Origin] is ready.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 24 Dec [1859] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42153 ff.24–25) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2597 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … To John Murray 24 December [1859] …
- … Murray Archive) (Ms.42153 ff.24–25) Charles Robert Darwin Down 24 Dec [1859] John Murray …
- … The voyage of the "Fox" in the Arctic seas (1859)], which he and his wife look forward to …
- … String Press. McClintock, Francis Leopold. 1859. The voyage of the Fox in the Arctic seas: …
- … search of John Franklin , had returned in 1859 with conclusive proof of Franklin’s death …
- … The voyage was described in McClintock 1859 , a work published by Murray. CD refers to the …
- … of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. …
To Charles Lyell 20 September [1859]
Summary
Thanks CL for his favourable remarks to the Geological Section of the BAAS concerning the forthcoming publication of the Origin. Hopes CL will accept his view of species.
Comments on CL’s paper ["On the occurrence of works of human art in post-Pliocene deposits", Rep. BAAS 29 (1859): 93–5].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 20 Sept [1859] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.169) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2492 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … To Charles Lyell 20 September [1859] …
- … Mss.B.D25.169) Charles Robert Darwin Down 20 Sept [1859] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
- … occurrence of works of human art in post-Pliocene deposits", Rep. BAAS 29 (1859): 93–5]. …
- … of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. …
- … see letter to Charles Lyell, 24 [November 1859] ). Richard Owen discussed the evidence for …
- … mammals, delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain on 12 April 1859 ( R. …
- … Owen 1859 , p. 113). …
- … see letter to Charles Lyell, 25 September [1859] . See Wilson ed. 1970, pp. 265–86. After …
- … the letter to Charles Lyell, 2 September [1859] , CD asked him how the deposits containing …
To John Lubbock 14 December [1859]
Summary
Is preparing a reprint of Origin. Asks JL’s opinion on the book’s merits; values his judgment.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 14 Dec [1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 15 (EH 88206464) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2584 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … To John Lubbock 14 December [1859] …
- … 88206464) Charles Robert Darwin Down 14 Dec [1859] John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron …
- … in the Darwin Archive–Down House. See letters to John Lubbock , [19 November 1859] , [22 …
- … November 1859] , and …
- … 17 December [1859] . See …
- … letter from Charles Kingsley, 18 November 1859 , and letter to …
- … Charles Kingsley, 30 November [1859] . Kingsley and Lubbock were friends; in 1855, on one …
- … See letter to John Lubbock, [19 November 1859] . The enclosure has not been found. John …
- … Office directory for the six home counties 1859). In 1855, the rector of the adjoining …
- … Down House MS) records on 17 December 1859: ‘Paid for M r Phillips Funds & Subscription ( …
To Asa Gray 7 January [1860]
Summary
Comments on AG’s memoir on Japanese plants [see 2599]; relationship of Japanese flora to N. American.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 7 Jan [1860] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (15) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2645 |
Matches: 12 hits
- … breakdown in his health. He had written to CD in December 1859 (see Correspondence vol. …
- … 7, letter to Charles Lyell, 29 [December 1859] ). See also letter to T. …
- … H. Huxley, 1 January [1860] . Hooker 1859 . See letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 January [ …
- … references to Gray 1858–9 and Hooker 1859 . Gray had sent CD a copy of his description of …
- … 7, letter to Asa Gray, 24 December [1859] ). Several months earlier CD had read proof- …
- … 7, letter to J. D. Hooker, 11 May [1859] ). There is a copy of the work in the Darwin …
- … Read 14 December 1858 and 11 January 1859. ] Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and …
- … in detail in letters to Gray and to Hooker in 1859. See Correspondence vol. 7, letters …
- … to J. D. Hooker, 11 May [1859] and …
- … 28 [December 1859] , and to Asa …
- … Gray , 11 November [1859] and …
- … 24 December [1859]. Gray had based his geological arguments on information given to him by …
To John Lubbock 9 February [1859]
Summary
CD sees JL’s cases of same organs varying greatly in allied forms as a serious difficulty in regard to his own ideas.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 9 Feb [1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 27 (EH 88206476) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2411 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … To John Lubbock 9 February [1859] …
- … Charles Robert Darwin Moor Park 9 Feb [1859] John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron …
- … See letter from John Lubbock, 8 February 1859 and n. 3. This letter was written in …
- … found. CD was to forward it to Wollaston (see letter to John Lubbock, [6 February 1859] ). …
- … The year 1859 is the only one in which CD visited Moor Park in February (de Beer ed. …
- … 1959). See letter to John Lubbock, [6 February 1859] , and letter from …
- … John Lubbock, 8 February 1859 . The reference to Hugh Falconer was apparently …
- … of the letter from John Lubbock, 8 February 1859 . An extract from Thomas Henry Huxley’s …
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The writing of "Origin"
Summary
From a quiet rural existence at Down in Kent, filled with steady work on his ‘big book’ on the transmutation of species, Darwin was jolted into action in 1858 by the arrival of an unexpected letter (no longer extant) from Alfred Russel Wallace outlining a…
Matches: 21 hits
- … hopes.— (letter to Charles Lyell, 25 [November 1859] ) The year 1858 opened with …
- … the writing of this ‘abstract’ continued until March 1859; the resulting volume was published in …
- … instinct the previous March. By the middle of March 1859, Darwin had finished the last …
- … upon Lyell for advice (letter to Charles Lyell, 28 March [1859] ). Lyell suggested the firm of …
- … plan of his book (see letter from Elwin to Murray, 3 May 1859 , and letter to John Murray, 6 …
- … the forthcoming book (letter to Charles Lyell, 30 March [1859] ). Darwin next considered calling …
- … and varieties’ (letters to Charles Lyell, 28 March [1859] , and to John Murray, 10 September …
- … Appendix II). Twice in 1858 and three times in 1859 he had gone to Moor Park in Surrey for a week’s …
- … than when I came’ (letter to W. D. Fox, [16 November 1859] ). It was during his stay at Ilkley …
- … rag is worth anything?’ (letter to T. H. Huxley, 2 June [1859] ). But as critical letters began …
- … of induction’ (letter from Adam Sedgwick, 24 November 1859 ). Equally painful was the news that …
- … (letter to Charles Lyell, [10 December 1859] ). To each of his critics, Darwin replied by resting …
- … to me to do.’ (letter to Adam Sedgwick, 26 November [1859] ). Even his strongest …
- … of Darwin’s theory (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 6 May 1859 ). Among the older scientists, only …
- … the origin of mankind. As he wrote to Darwin on 3 October 1859 , ‘the case of Man and his Races …
- … to their mercies’ (letter to J. D. Hooker, [22 November 1859] ). Late in December, to Darwin’s …
- … were the man.’ (letter to T. H. Huxley, 28 December [1859] ). Huxley admitted his authorship to …
- … without good cause.’ (letter to John Murray, 2 December [1859] ). At Murray’s trade sale …
- … had made’ (letter from Charles Kingsley, 18 November 1859 ). This and the two references to the …
- … try to make out truth’ (letter to W. D. Fox, 24 [March 1859] ). Yet he desperately wanted people …
- … on our side.—’ (letter to J. D. Hooker, 14 December [1859] ). …
Darwin in letters, 1858-1859: Origin
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The years 1858 and 1859 were, without doubt, the most momentous of Darwin’s life. From a quiet rural existence filled with steady work on his ‘big book’ on species, he was jolted into action by the arrival of an unexpected letter from Alfred Russel Wallace…
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- … The years 1858 and 1859 were, without doubt, the most momentous of Darwin’s life. From a quiet …
- … and prompted the composition and publication, in November 1859, of Darwin’s major treatise On the …
- … exceeded my wildest hopes By the end of 1859, Darwin’s work was being discussed in …
- … ‘When I was in spirits’, he told Lyell at the end of 1859, ‘I sometimes fancied that my book w d …
- … hopes.—’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 25 [November 1859] ). This transformation in Darwin’s personal …
- … the writing of this ‘abstract’ continued until March 1859; the resulting volume was published in …
- … Botanic Gardens at Kew (see Appendix VII). The year 1859 began auspiciously with Darwin …
- … 1854) ( Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 15 (1859): xxv). One of the most …
- … theory. As he wrote in his introductory essay (Hooker 1859, p. ii): 'In the present Essay I …
- … to test such a theory. His essay, published in December 1859, was the first serious study of the …
- … the other’s ideas (see letters to J. D. Hooker, 2 March [1859] , 11 March [1859] , and 7 …
- … upon Lyell for advice ( letter to Charles Lyell, 28 March [1859] ). Lyell suggested the firm of …
- … plan of his book (see letter from Elwin to Murray, 3 May 1859 , and letter to John Murray, 6 …
- … the forthcoming book ( letter to Charles Lyell, 30 March [1859] ). Darwin next considered calling …
- … and varieties’ (letters to Charles Lyell, 28 March [1859] , and to John Murray, 10 September …
- … Appendix II). Twice in 1858 and three times in 1859 he had gone to Moor Park in Surrey for a week’s …
- … than when I came’ ( letter to W. D. Fox, [16 November 1859] ). It was during his stay at Ilkley …
- … rag is worth anything?’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 2 June [1859] ). But as critical letters began …
- … of induction’ ( letter from Adam Sedgwick, 24 November 1859 ). Equally painful was the news that …
- … ( letter to Charles Lyell, [10 December 1859] ). To each of his critics, Darwin replied by resting …
- … to me to do.’ ( letter to Adam Sedgwick, 26 November [1859] ). Even his strongest …
- … of Darwin’s theory ( see letter to J. D. Hooker, 6 May 1859 ). Among the older scientists, only …
- … the origin of mankind. As he wrote to Darwin on 3 October 1859, ‘the case of Man and his Races & …
- … to their mercies’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [22 November 1859] ). Late in December, to Darwin’s …
- … were the man.’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 28 December [1859] ). Huxley admitted his authorship to …
Rewriting Origin - the later editions
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For such an iconic work, the text of Origin was far from static. It was a living thing that Darwin continued to shape for the rest of his life, refining his ‘one long argument’ through a further five English editions. Many of his changes were made in…
Controversy
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The best-known controversies over Darwinian theory took place in public or in printed reviews. Many of these were highly polemical, presenting an over-simplified picture of the disputes. Letters, however, show that the responses to Darwin were extremely…
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- … Letter 2525 — Darwin, C. R. to Sedgwick, Adam, 11 Nov 1859 Darwin writes to Sedgwick to tell …
- … Letter 2548 — Sedgwick, Adam to Darwin, C. R., 24 Nov 1859 Adam Sedgwick thanks Darwin for …
- … Letter 2555 — Darwin, C. R. to Sedgwick, Adam, 26 Nov [1859] Darwin says Sedgwick could not …
- … Letter 2526 — Owen, Richard to Darwin, C. R., 12 Nov 1859 Owen says to Darwin he will welcome …
- … Letter 2575 — Darwin, C. R. to Lyell, Charles, [10 Dec 1859] Darwin discusses with King' …
- … Letter 2580 — Darwin, C. R. to Owen, Richard, 13 Dec [1859] Darwin responds to Owen’s remarks …
On the Origin of Species
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From a quiet rural existence at Down in Kent, filled with steady work on his ‘big book’ on the transmutation of species, Darwin was jolted into action in 1858 by the arrival of an unexpected letter (no longer extant) from Alfred Russel Wallace outlining a…
Francis Galton
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Galton was a naturalist, statistician, and evolutionary theorist. He was a second cousin of Darwin’s, having descended from his grandfather, Erasmus. Born in Birmingham in 1822, Galton studied medicine at King’s College, London, and also read mathematics…
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- … into an entirely new province of knowledge’ ( 9 December 1859 ). He soon became interested in …
Darwin and Fatherhood
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Charles Darwin married Emma Wedgwood in 1839 and over the next seventeen years the couple had ten children. It is often assumed that Darwin was an exceptional Victorian father. But how extraordinary was he? The Correspondence Project allows an unusually…
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Women as a scientific audience
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Target audience? | Female readership | Reading Variation Darwin's letters, in particular those exchanged with his editors and publisher, reveal a lot about his intended audience. Regardless of whether or not women were deliberately targeted as a…
John Lubbock
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John Lubbock was eight years old when the Darwins moved into the neighbouring property of Down House, Down, Kent; the total of one hundred and seventy surviving letters he went on to exchange with Darwin is a large number considering that the two men lived…
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- … or against me. ( to John Lubbock, 14 December [1859] ) When Origin was …
Dramatisation script
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Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
Darwin on race and gender
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Darwin’s views on race and gender are intertwined, and mingled also with those of class. In Descent of man, he tried to explain the origin of human races, and many of the differences between the sexes, with a single theory: sexual selection. Sexual…
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- … 11 April 1833 Letter to C. R. Lyell, 11 October [1859] Letter to Charles …
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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- … but his views were generally derided. 1 In 1859, Lyell visited several sites in …
- … that these were indeed implements of early humans (C. Lyell 1859). In September 1860 he visited …
- … in French, earlier reports written in Danish (Morlot 1859, Forchhammer et al. 1851–5); Lubbock …
- … for their work in the Brixham cave explorations of 1858 and 1859. 5 Another controversy arose …
- … its appearance in print; first in French, dated Berne, Sept. 1859, in the ‘Mémoires de la Société …
- … zoologist M. Claparède had also conversed with me in 1859 on the researches of the best Danish …
- … gave me an abstract for my use, in a letter dated December 1859. He referred me chiefly to ‘Oversigt …
- … and Edinburgh: Williams & Norgate. Lyell, Charles. 1859. On the occurrence of works of …
- … vols. London: John Murray. Morlot, Charles Adolphe. 1859. Etudes géologico-archéologiques en …
- … struggle for life . By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. Owen, Richard. 1863. Ape …
Instinct and the Evolution of Mind
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Slave-making ants For Darwin, slave-making ants were a powerful example of the force of instinct. He used the case of the ant Formica sanguinea in the On the Origin of Species to show how instinct operates—how…
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Darwin & Glen Roy
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Although Darwin was best known for his geological work in South America and other remote Beagle destinations, he made one noteworthy attempt to explain a puzzling feature of British geology. In 1838, two years after returning from the voyage, he travelled…
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- … [after September 20 1847] To A.C. Ramsay, 1 July [1859] From Thomas Jamieson, …
Women’s scientific participation
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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
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- … Letter 2447 - Darwin to Murray, J., [5 April 1859] Darwin asks his publisher, John …
- … Letter 2461 - Darwin to Hooker, J. D., [11 May 1859] Darwin expresses anxiety over …
- … Letter 2475 - Darwin to Hooker, J. D., [2 July 1859] Darwin returns the manuscript of …
- … Letter 2501 - Lyell, C. to Darwin, [3 October 1859] Lyell offers praise and …
Origin
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Darwin’s most famous work, Origin, had an inauspicious beginning. It grew out of his wish to establish priority for the species theory he had spent over twenty years researching. Darwin never intended to write Origin, and had resisted suggestions in 1856…
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- … across tropics ’. When Hooker’s essay was published in 1859, it was one of the first publications …
- … as by far the most capable judge in Europe. ’ By April 1859, he was able to tell Wallace that ‘ …
- … Abstract ’ would not be finished until around April 1859. But this was an optimistic estimate. …
- … of favoured races” ’, he told Lyell. On 31 March 1859, Darwin wrote to Murray describing his work …
- … the work of correcting proofs continued over the summer of 1859, Darwin had to take the water cure …
- … never shirked a difficulty’, he told Lyell on 20 September 1859, ‘ I am foolishly anxious for your …
- … of Science meeting held in Aberdeen from 14 to 21 September 1859. Darwin was confident that in time …
- … and negative, to his work flowed in. By early December 1859, he admitted that he needed to ‘ think …
Religion
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Design|Personal Belief|Beauty|The Church Perhaps the most notorious realm of controversy over evolution in Darwin's day was religion. The same can be said of the evolution controversy today; however the nature of the disputes and the manner in…
Darwin in public and private
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Extracts from Darwin's published works, in particular Descent of man, and selected letters, explore Darwin's views on the operation of sexual selection in humans, and both his publicly and privately expressed views on its practical implications…
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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- … Hooker has it.— Very important Hookers letter Jan. 1859 Yules Ava [Yule 1858] (Innes) Hairy …
- … The Dog in health & Disease by Stonehenge—Longman 1859 [Stonehenge 1859].— on Toy–Dogs …
- … [Combe 1828] Macclintocks Arctic Voyage [Macclintock 1859] [DAR *128: 153] …
- … [G. Bennett 1860] Read 114 Village Bells [Manning] 1859] } Fanny The Woman in White …
- … Republic [Motley 1855] [DAR 128: 24] 1859 Pagets Lectures on Pathology …
- … 1803] (nothing) [DAR 128: 25] 1859 Feb. 28 Olmstead S. States [Olmsted …
- … Mast [R. H. Dana [1840] (good) Bertrams [Trollope 1859] & Adam Bede [Eliot 1859] …
- … (many novels) Dec: Dana to Cuba & back [R. H. Dana 1859] —— Cruize in Japanese …
- … on Maladies of Silk-worm [Quatrefages de Bréau 1859] Owen Lecture on Classification [R. Owen …
- … March. 8 Houdins the conjurer Life [Robert-Houdin [1859] 19 MacClintocks Narrative …
- … Gesellschaft für die gesammten Naturwissenschaften . In 1859 he was the coauthor, with E. Desor, …
- … des progrès de la géologie de 1834 à 1845(–1859) . 8 vols. Paris. [Vol. 1 (1847) in Darwin …
- … at sea . New York. [Other eds.] 128: 25 ——. 1859. To Cuba and back. A vacation voyage …
- … Eliot, George, pseud . (Marian Evans Cross). 1859. Adam Bede . 3 vols. Edinburgh. [Other …
- … (1849): 381–420. [Separately printed in 2 vols. (Paris, 1859) in Darwin Library.] *128: 177 …
- … 119: 16a Hodson, William Stephen Raikes. 1859. Twelve years of a soldier’s life in …
- … 1–46. 119: 9b [Jenkin, Henrietta Camilla]. 1859. Cousin Stella; or, conflict . 3 …
- … Library.] 119: 9a Macclintock, Francis Leopold. 1859. The voyage of the “Fox” in …
John Murray
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Darwin's most famous book On the origin of species by means of natural selection (Origin) was published on 22 November 1859. The publisher was John Murray, who specialised in non-fiction, particularly politics, travel and science, and had published…
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- … natural selection (Origin) was published on 22 November 1859. The publisher was John Murray, who …
- … cousin and business partner, the earliest letters date from 1859, the year of the publication of …
- … you may not repent of having undertaken it’ (15 October [1859] Letter 2506 ). Murray decided on a …
- … & proud at the appearance of my child’ ([3 November 1859] Letter 2514 ). In the event, all …
