From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 161: 297
Summary:
Praise for Expression.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Nov [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 430
Summary:
Price of Expression is 12s.
Sends cheque to pay CD his share of profits on Origin [6th ed.].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
13 Nov 1872
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 291–2)
Summary:
Thanks JM for £210 on last reprint of Origin [6th ed.]. Pleased by its sale
and by the success of Expression.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 162: 211
Summary:
Is amazed at Expression. Like CD’s former works, it contains the material and principles of a new science.
The Zoological Station is making good progress – now has a fine building. Hopes for a stable income from contributions of various governments.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 165: 253
Summary:
Many thanks for Expression. AG relates some relevant observations, the significance of which had previously escaped him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 105: A50–A51, A69–A70
Summary:
Agrees the rabbit experiment has gone on long enough, but would like one more litter.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 106: B115–16
Summary:
Appreciation [of Expression]. ARW will review it in Quarterly Journal of Science [n.s. 3 (1873): 113–18].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Nov 1872
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Thanks CD for Expression, comments on it.
Describes celebration of F. C. Donders’ 25th year as professor at Utrecht.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Adèle-Athénaïs Mialaret (Athénaïs) Michelet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 172
Summary:
The Michelets are ill and dispirited.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry MacKay
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 4
Summary:
Has just read Origin and Descent and wants to know: 1. Has man a soul? 2. Is man morally responsible "to his creative cause or force"? 3. Is there any form of after-life?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Herbert Spencer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 177: 231
Summary:
Thanks CD for Expression. Disagrees with his views on the genesis of melody; HS gives some reasons for believing it to originate in the natural cadences of emotional speech.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Duppa Crotch
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 88: 116a–b
Summary:
Horns of female reindeer disappear after their calves are dropped [see Descent, 2d ed., p. 503].
Lemmings in Norway.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Immanuel Forsyth Major
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 29
Summary:
Agrees to translate Expression into Italian.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
18 Nov 1872
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/6/15)
Summary:
Acknowledges the sum of £216 18s. 6d.
Obliged for kind enquiries about his health.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
David Thomas Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 177: 189
Summary:
Has sent printed reports on his lectures relating to the descent of man [missing].
Discusses his theories on heredity and on the "soul" as the governor of mental and physical development.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
David Thomas Smith
Date:
[after 19 Nov 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 189r
Summary:
Thanks for Louisville Courier Journal.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Nov [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B82–3, DAR 160: 126
Summary:
Encloses a letter from Lady Bell, which should be burnt when read.
Discusses finances.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 431
Summary:
Quandary caused by Heliotype Company’s failure to deliver enough plates for Expression because of a strike. Murray’s now has 7000 books and only 3000 sets of plates.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
20 Nov [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 288
Summary:
Discusses production of plates [for Expression].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Maurice Herbert
Date:
21 Nov 1872
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.425)
Summary:
Sends Expression.
Remarks on student days and old friends.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Addressee
- Baxter, W. W.2
- Berkeley, Miles Joseph1
- Bolus, Henry1
- Candolle, Alphonse de1
- Carus, J. V.1
- Cobbe, F. P.1
- Cooke, R. F.1
- Craig, J. S.1
- Darwin, Amy1
- Darwin, C. R.48
- Darwin, Emma1
- Darwin, Horace5
- Galton, Francis1
- Grant, James1
- Günther, Albert1
- Haliburton, S. H.2
- Herbert, J. M.1
- Higgins, Frederic1
- Higgins, John1
- Hooker, J. D.1
- Hooker, Joseph1
- Jeitteles, L. H.1
- John Murray1
- King, George1
- Lyell, Charles2
- Main, William1
- Mostyn Owen, S. H.2
- Mueller, Ferdinand von2
- Murray, John (b)3
- Ramsay, A. C.1
- Ruck, Amy1
- Sharpey, William1
- Smith, D. T.1
- Wallace, Alfred Russel3
- Wedgwood, Emma1
- Williams, S. H.2
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