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: 4 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker [22 November 1859] …
- … J. D. Hooker, [21 November 1859] . Letter from J. D. Hooker, [21 November 1859] . The …
- … to J. D. Hooker, [20 November 1859] , and letter from J. D. Hooker, [21 November 1859] . …
- … views. See letter from J. D. Hooker, [21 November 1859] . Michael Faraday , the director …
From H. C. Watson 30 November [1859]
Summary
Sends a correction for Origin reprint.
Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Nov [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 37 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2562 |
To T. H. Huxley 25 November [1859]
Summary
Rejoices over THH’s lecture ["On species and races, and their origin", 10 Feb 1860, Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 3 (1858–62): 195–200] to be given at Royal Institution. Offers pigeon illustrations.
Adam Sedgwick has sent a "slashing" letter [2548] about Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 25 Nov [1859] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 74) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2554 |
To J. D. Hooker [20 November 1859]
Summary
Curious about author of review of Origin in Athenæum.
W. B. Carpenter has written and sounds converted, as has Quatrefages [de Bréau], who will "go a long way with" CD.
Has been ill and thus had time to brood about reception of book.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [20 Nov 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 27 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2537 |
To Caroline Sarah Wedgwood [after 21 November 1859]
Summary
Astounded she cares for his book [Origin] as much as she seems to.
Comments on variation among domestic dogs; believes domestic dog has descended from several wild species and those species from a single ancient ancestor.
Athenæum review is unfair.
Expects to convert four or five "really good judges".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
Date: | [after 21 Nov 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 153: 2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2538 |
From J. D. Hooker [21 November 1859]
Summary
JDH’s congratulations on Origin.
Lyell believes S. P. Woodward wrote review in Athenæum.
Lyell’s and Huxley’s positive responses.
JDH has only plunged into a few chapters.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [21 Nov 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 135–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2539 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker [21 November 1859] …
- … the relationship to the letter to J. D. Hooker, [20 November 1859] . CD had asked Hooker …
- … Hooker refers to an anonymous review of volume 4 of Watson 1847–59 , published in Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , 12 November 1859, pp. 911–12. See letter to J. D. Hooker, [20 November 1859] . …
To Asa Gray 11 November [1859]
Summary
Sends copy of Origin for comments.
Does not feel AG’s views of migration after the last glaciation explain distribution in U. S. as well as CD’s view of migration prior to glaciation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 11 Nov [1859] |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (17) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2520 |
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 A. R. Wallace 13 November 1859
Summary
A copy of CD’s book [Origin] has been sent to ARW; invites his comments. "God knows what the public will think". Hooker believes Lyell is a convert, but CD does not think so, although he is "deeply interested". If he can convert Huxley, CD will be content.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 13 Nov 1859 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2529 |
To T. H. Huxley 25 November [1859]
Summary
THH’s letter about the Origin makes CD feel like a Catholic who has received extreme unction. Can now sing nunc dimittis. Had determined to abide by judgment of Lyell, Hooker, and THH.
Problem of how variations arise at all troubles him also.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 25 Nov [1859] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 72) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2553 |
From T. H. Huxley 23 November 1859
Summary
Has just finished Origin. CD has demonstrated a true cause for the production of species.
CD has loaded himself with unnecessary difficulty in adopting natura non facit saltum.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Nov 1859 |
Classmark: | DAR 98: B11–13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2544 |
To W. B. Carpenter 18 November [1859]
Summary
Comments on WBC’s response to the Origin. Hopes he will review it. Acceptance will depend more on men like WBC, with well-established reputations, than on his own writings.
"Lyell thinks the chapter on the Imperfection of the Geological Record not exaggerated."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Benjamin Carpenter |
Date: | 18 Nov [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.6: 1 (EH 88205918) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2535 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … J. D. Hooker, 27 May [1855] and 14 [July 1855] ). Carpenter reviewed Origin in two publications: The National Review (January 1860) and the British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review (April 1860). A copy of the latter is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. See also letter to W. B. Carpenter, 3 December [1859] . …
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Darwin, Caroline | (1) |
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