From:
St George Jackson Mivart
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Jan 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 197
Summary:
Sends his reply to Huxley’s criticisms [Contemp. Rev. 19 (1872): 168–97].
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From:
St George Jackson Mivart
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Jan 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 198
Summary:
As a man of science, StGM has no choice but to pursue what he sees as the truth. Will happily admit he has misrepresented CD if CD will disclaim the position that StGM attacks.
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From:
St George Jackson Mivart
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Jan 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 199
Summary:
Agrees to close their correspondence. Defends his position against criticisms of Huxley and Chauncey Wright; assures CD of his continuing friendly feelings.
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From:
St George Jackson Mivart
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
20 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 145: 368
Summary:
Is writing confidentially not to justify the passage referred to [see 9759], which he much regrets, but to state facts. He never intended any personal hostility to [George] Darwin and seeks advice about how to make reparation.
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From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
St George Jackson Mivart
Date:
[23 Dec 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 336
Summary:
A severe letter of rebuke to Mivart for his attack on G. H. Darwin.
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From:
St George Jackson Mivart
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
24 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 145: 369
Summary:
A confidential letter explaining in detail the extent to which he regrets his attack upon [George] Darwin’s article.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
St George Jackson Mivart
Date:
12 Jan 1875
Source of text:
DAR 97: C36
Summary:
StGJM’s article in the Quarterly Review [137 (1874): 40–77] contains wholly false and malicious accusations against CD’s son George. Since StGJM has refused to make any sort of retraction, CD will not hold any future communication with him.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
St George Jackson Mivart
Date:
23 Jan [1871]
Source of text:
Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums
Summary:
Acknowledges StGJM’s kind letter. [See 7451.]
Offers to alter the "dogmatic assertion" referred to on page 102 [of StGJM’s On the genesis of species] but in 5th ed. of Origin and in Variation CD finds only qualified expressions.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
St George Jackson Mivart
Date:
26 Jan [1871]
Source of text:
Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums
Summary:
CD apologises for having thought that StGJM’s religious feelings had led him to feel personal animosity towards him. [See 7454.]
He remembers having thought and written that belief in evolution is infinitely more important for science than belief in Natural Selection. For his own part he would have felt little interest in evolution apart from the explanation "in a general manner" of how each organism is so adapted to its conditions.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
St George Jackson Mivart
Date:
21 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums
Summary:
"If you feel astonished at my bringing man & brutes so near together in their whole nature (though with a wide hiatus) I feel still more astonished, as I believe, at your judgment on this head. I much wish you had enlarged your concluding sentence a little so as to say whether you consider the ordinary mental faculties so distinct, or whether you confine the enormous difference to spiritual powers including the moral sense.––"
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
St George Jackson Mivart
Date:
21 Apr [1870]
Source of text:
Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums
Summary:
On amount of modification and lines of descent in determining the position in man.
Reference to StGJM’s article "On the appendicular skeleton of the primates" Phil. Trans. R. Soc. [157 (1867): 299–430],
and his [and James Murie’s] article on lemurs ["On the anatomy of Lemuroidea"] Trans. Zool. Soc. [7 (1872): 1–114].
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
St George Jackson Mivart
Date:
11 Jan [1872]
Source of text:
Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums
Summary:
CD believes that StGJM has been unfair in his criticisms and has misrepresented him; he begs him not to write again. "Agassiz has uttered splendid sarcasms on me, but I still feel quite friendly towards him. M. Flourens cd. not find words to express his contempt of me: Pictet & Hopkins argued with great force against me: Fleeming Jenkin covered me with first-rate ridicule; & his crticisms were true & most useful: but none of their writings have mortified me as yours have done …" [See 8154.]
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