To J. D. Hooker 6 May [1859]
Summary
JDH’s comments on style of Origin MS leave CD confused.
CD advises on how to get Acacia to set seed.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 6 May [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2458 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 6 May [1859] …
- … See letter to J. D. Hooker, 2 July [1859] . See letter to J. D. Hooker, 2 July [1859] . …
- … Hooker’s views on reversion were given in Hooker 1859 , pp. viii–ix. CD’s copy of Hooker 1859 is in the Darwin Library–CUL; these pages were annotated by CD, and three passages are marked ‘good’. See also letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 May [1859] . …
To John Murray 18 May [1859]
Summary
His health has suddenly failed. He is leaving home for one week’s rest.
Has informed William Clowes that he will begin correcting on the 27th.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 18 May [1859] |
Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (no date) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2463A |
To J. D. Hooker 11 May [1859]
Summary
JDH finds style of CD’s MS obscure.
CD wary of JDH’s starting point on variability: it is not inherent, it does not lead necessarily to divergence, and it must be distinguished from inheritance.
Asa Gray has misread CD’s views on pre-glacial migrations and botched the subject.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 11 May [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2461 |
To J. D. Hooker 18 [May 1859]
Summary
Too ill to examine proofs of JDH’s Flora Tasmaniae [The botany of the Antarctic voyage, pt III].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 18 [May 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2463 |
To J. D. Hooker 3 May [1859]
Summary
CD favours occurrence of reversions, although lack of experiments forces one to vague opinions. Reversions oppose only the inheritance not the occurrence of variation. Discusses relation of reversion, direct influence of conditions, and selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 3 May [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2457 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 3 May [1859] …
- … committee. See also letter to J. D. Hooker, 11 April [1859] . The remarks were made by …
- … Hooker’s views on the reversion of cultivated plants, see Hooker 1859 , pp. viii–ix. The paragraph on ‘ general case of reversions’ is given in Origin , pp. 14–15. CD also discussed specific examples of reversion in pigeons and horses ( Origin , pp. 159–67). See letters to J. D. Hooker, 7 April [1859] …
To J. D. Hooker [26 May 1859]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [26 May 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2464 |
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 |
From Whitwell Elwin to John Murray 3 May 1859
Summary
Charles Lyell has asked WE to pass his opinions on the MS of Origin to CD via Murray. WE is convinced of the value of CD’s researches but "to put forth the theory without the evidence", as in the MS, "would do grievous injustice to his views". The omission of these facts reduces both the philosophical and popular value of the work, by virtue of its dryness.
Supports Charles Lyell’s suggestion that CD should first publish his observations on pigeons with a theoretical outline, for "[e]very body is interested in pigeons". Such a work would generate wider interest and be better understood. A subsequent, larger book would then be approached with impartiality "not to say favour" by a wider public.
Author: | Whitwell Elwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 3 May 1859 |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42197) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2457A |
letter | (8) |
Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
Elwin, Whitwell | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
Murray, John (b) | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
Murray, John (b) | (3) |
Elwin, Whitwell | (1) |