To W. D. Fox [6 October 1859]
Summary
First impressions of the water-cure establishment are not favourable – "I always hate everything new".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | [6 Oct 1859] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 123) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2502 |
To Charles Lyell 22 [December 1859]
Summary
Comments on Hooker’s introductory essay [in Flora Tasmaniae].
Cites C. V. Naudin’s article ["Considérations philosophiques sur l’espèce et la variété", Rev. Hortic. 4th ser. 1 (1852): 102–9].
Mentions letter from William Jardine criticising discussion of the Galapagos in the Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 22 [Dec 1859] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.186) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2593 |
To J. D. Hooker 14 February [1860]
Summary
Huxley’s Royal Institution lecture on Origin [10 Feb 1860, Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 3 (1858–62): 195–200] an "entire failure" as an exposition of CD’s doctrine.
R. I. Murchison very civil.
CD counts Lyell among the converted.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 14 Feb [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2696 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … J. D. Hooker, 8 February [1860] ) and his conditions for publication meant that Hooker had to pay for any presentation copies (see Correspondence vol. 7, letter to J. D. Hooker, [8–11 April 1859] , …
- … J. D. Hooker, 8 February [1860] . CD refers to the copies of Hooker’s introductory essay of the Flora Tasmaniæ ( Hooker 1859 ), …
To W. D. Fox [16 November 1859]
Summary
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 |
To J. D. Hooker 24–5 November [1858]
Summary
Praises JDH’s Australian introduction.
Disputes JDH’s emphasis on SE. and SW. Australian flora.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 24–5 Nov [1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 255 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2371 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Hooker was preparing an introductory essay ( Hooker 1859 ) for his flora of Tasmania (see letters from J. D. Hooker, …
- … Hooker 1859 ,pp. xvii–xix and cii–civ). Hooker postulated the previous existence of meridional continents that would have enabled plants to cross the equator from the far north to Australia. CD marked and annotated these pages in his copy of Hooker 1859 (Darwin Library–CUL). See letter from J. D. Hooker, …
To J. D. Hooker 18 [April 1860]
Summary
What a base dog Owen is for praising his own work in reviewing Origin [anonymously].
J. H. Balfour is narrow-minded.
CD cannot understand pollination of Goodenia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 18 [Apr 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 49 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2763 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … see Correspondence vol. 7, letter to J. D. Hooker, [26 May 1859] and n. 3. The January …
- … Hooker the draft of a letter to the Gardeners’ Chronicle to see whether he thought he should send it to the journal for publication. See letters to Gardeners’ Chronicle , [13 April 1860], and to J. D. Hooker, 13 [April 1860]. The letter from Richard Owen to Hooker is also mentioned in CD’s letter to Asa Gray, 25 April [1860] . Owen reviewed Origin , Hooker 1859 , …
To Charles Victor Naudin 7 February 1863
Summary
Thanks for informative letter of 2 February. CD is glad to have CVN’s opinion on the crossing of varieties of melons,
has made use of his memoir on the Cucurbitaceae ["Cucurbitacées cultivées au Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle en 1862", Ann. Sci. Nat. (Bot.) 18 (1863): 159–208]
and anticipates with great interest his work on hybridisation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Victor Naudin |
Date: | 7 Feb 1863 |
Classmark: | Progressus rei botanicæ 4 (1913): 94 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3972 |
To J. D. Hooker 12 [June 1860]
Summary
Progress of [Thomas?] Thomson and G. H. K. Thwaites on accepting mutability.
Bee orchid pollination.
JDH has written to CD on homologies of stigma in Goodeniaceae.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 12 [June 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 62 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2830 |
To T. H. Huxley 16 December [1859]
Summary
Will bring materials for Royal Institution lecture [when he comes to London].
Plans to bring out separate detailed volumes [on his theory], starting with domestic variation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 16 Dec [1859] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 87) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2585 |
To A. R. Wallace 18 May 1860
Summary
Pleasure in ARW’s approbation of the Origin. Other supporters among scientists. ARW’s generosity.
Attacks by Owen, Sedgwick, and others.
Anticipation of natural selection by Matthew in 1830.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 18 May 1860 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434: 21–23v) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2807 |
To Charles Lyell 6 March [1863]
Summary
Comments at length on CL’s book [Antiquity of man (1863)]. CD is "greatly disappointed that you have not given judgment and spoken fairly out what you think about the derivation of species".
Lists large number of queries concerning minor points.
Praises especially the chapters on language and glaciers.
Comments on the temperature of Africa during the glacial period, especially with regard to the views of Hooker.
Mentions Owen’s paper on the aye-aye [Rep. BAAS 32 (1862) pt 2: 114–16].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 6 Mar [1863] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.289) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4028 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … links. Hooker’s introductory essay to Flora Tasmaniæ ( J. D. Hooker 1859 ), in which he …
- … Hooker , who was one of the first publicly to endorse natural selection (see J. D. Hooker 1859 ), …
- … Hooker’s essay as having been published ‘a few months before the appearance of the “Origin of Species’”. In the second edition of Antiquity of man the publication date of Hooker’s essay was given as December 1859 ( C. Lyell 1863b , p. 417). See also letter from J. D. Hooker, [ …
To Charles Lyell 4 [January 1860]
Summary
Praises CL’s work on human species.
A critical review of Origin in Saturday Review [24 Dec 1859].
A letter from J. G. Jeffreys criticises CD’s geological statements.
A note from William Whewell concerning Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 4 [Jan 1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.190) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2637 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 24 December 1859, pp. 775–6. See also letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 January [1860] . The …
- … 1859. CD lent Lyell his copy. CD believed that John Lindley had written the review, but he later learned from Lyell that Joseph Dalton Hooker was the author (see letters to Charles Lyell , 10 January [1860] , and to J. D. …
To John Murray 14 May [1859]
Summary
Approves specimen sheet [of Origin]. Sorry book will be so long. Has now written half of last chapter; it is as long as his estimate of the entire chapter. Now thinks it will run to 6000 or 7000 words. Will do his utmost to improve his style. Anxious to publish soon; he knows of two men already writing on the subject, starting from his Linnean Society paper ["On the tendency of species to form varieties", Collected papers 2: 3–19]. Will send a diagram for the book.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 14 May [1859] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.40–40A) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2462 |
To J. S. Henslow 8 May [1860]
Summary
Comments on Richard Owen’s review of the Origin [in Edinburgh Rev. 111 (1860): 487–532]. Considers Owen unfair to CD and most ungenerous toward Hooker.
Expects Sedgwick to be fierce against him. Sedgwick also misrepresented CD in his Spectator review [24 Mar and 7 Apr 1860].
Compares natural selection to the undulatory theory of light as a hypothesis explaining a large number of facts.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 8 May [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: A67–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2791 |
To Elizabeth Drysdale [22 or 29 October 1859]
Summary
Declines an invitation to visit [Moor] Park.
He hopes that Dr Lane is arranging things to his satisfaction.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Elizabeth Pew, Lady Drysdale; Elizabeth Copland, Lady Drysdale; Elizabeth Drysdale, Lady Drysdale |
Date: | [22 or 29] Oct 1859 |
Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 88); Clive Farahar & Sophie Dupré (dealers) (Catalogue 55); B & L Rootenberg (dealers) (May 1991) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2498A |
To J. D. Hooker 7 August [1860]
Summary
Owen wants to be civil, and sneer behind CD’s back.
Those, like Rudolph Wagner, who want to go halfway on theory, are "booked to go further".
Anatomy of orchids.
Huxley says K. E. von Baer goes "a great way with me".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 7 Aug [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 72 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2892 |
To John Murray 9 April [1860]
Summary
Asks that a copy of Origin [1860] be sent to R. A. von Kölliker.
A venomous review "manifestly by Owen" has appeared in Edinburgh Review.
Sedgwick has been fierce in Spectator, but fair and open.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 9 Apr [1860] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.90–91) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2752 |
To J. D. Hooker 29 July [1867]
Summary
Pleased JDH will come next Saturday.
Asks him to return Adam Bede.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 29 July [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 143 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5587 |
To Charles Lyell 24 September 1873
Summary
Discusses apple specimens received from CL; reversion to crab state. Cites passage on subject in Variation.
Comments on letter from Mr Wood on inheritance in fruit-trees.
Would like to cross flowers of "Hawthornden" with many distinct varieties.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 24 Sept 1873 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.432) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9065 |
To Charles Lyell 22 August [1862]
Summary
Relates personal news about family members.
CD is "glad Glen Roy is settled".
Mentions evolutionary remarks on birds by Owen.
Compares variability among lower and higher organisms. Comments on Hooker’s view of the subject.
Forthcoming publication of Huxley’s book [Evidence as to man’s place in nature (1863)] and Lyell’s [Antiquity of man (1863)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 22 Aug [1862] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.281) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3695 |
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Hooker, J. D. | (77) |
Lyell, Charles | (20) |
Gray, Asa | (14) |
Huxley, T. H. | (6) |
Murray, John (b) | (4) |
Darwin, C. R. | (153) |
Hooker, J. D. | (77) |
Lyell, Charles | (20) |
Gray, Asa | (14) |
Huxley, T. H. | (6) |