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DCP-LETT-7145

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frances Power Cobbe
Date:
23 Mar [1870?]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (CB 385)
Summary:

Has read and enjoyed the Kant that FPC sent.

Returns P. C. Despine [?Psychologie naturelle (1868)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7180

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Warren Stoddard
Date:
5 May [1870]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 72755)
Summary:

Discusses flora of Sandwich Isles. "There is nothing I shd enjoy so much as to visit California, but I am growing old & my health is weak".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7306

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frances Power Cobbe
Date:
20 Aug [1870]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (CB 385)
Summary:

CD writes for Emma, who is ill.

Delighted with FPC’s "most just" article [in Echo?]. Sends £1 subscription.

Thanks for telling CD about the Fraser’s Magazine article [F. W. Farrar, "Hereditary genius (by F. Galton)", n.s. 2 (1870): 251–65].

CD wrote as Justice of Peace for Kent to the Home Secretary about Holder’s case.

Tropaeolum transmits every shade of colour if self-fertilised for six or seven generations.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7516F

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Frances Power Cobbe
Date:
[25 Feb 1871]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (CB 390)
Summary:

Discusses CD’s and her own views on ‘moral sense’.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7666F

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Frances Power Cobbe
Date:
[7 Apr 1871]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (CB 388)
Summary:

CD is reading the Theological Review (Cobbe 1871) with the greatest interest and attention.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7684F

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Frances Power Cobbe
Date:
[14 Apr 1871]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (CB 389)
Summary:

Thanks for FPC’s book (presumablyAlone to the alone: prayers for theists (Cobbe ed. 1871)).

CD much interested in article ‘Darwinism in morals’ in the Theological Review (Cobbe 1871).

CDs and FPC’s views on moral sense in hive bees, and an article in the Pall Mal Gazette ([Morley] 1871b).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8058

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Fiske
Date:
9 Nov 1871
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 8260)
Summary:

Thanks JF for his lectures, the arguments of which he finds very forcible; is glad to see JF has detected the falseness of much of Mivart’s reasoning.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8110

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Mackintosh; Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood
Date:
19 Dec [1871]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (CB 387)
Summary:

Asks FW to thank F. P. Cobbe for her liberal offer, but the differences [between Descent and Cobbe’s review "Darwinism in morals", Theol. Rev. 33 (1871): 167–92] are too fundamental to be reconciled.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8652

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frances Power Cobbe
Date:
28 Nov 1872
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (CB 386)
Summary:

FPC’s article on consciousness of dogs is best analysis of an animal’s mind CD has read.

Regrets she quotes [Edward?] Jesse.

Since writing Descent, CD has come to believe dogs have a conscience.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8662

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederick James Furnivall
Date:
6 Dec [1872-3]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (FU 257)
Summary:

Formally declines the vice-presidency of a proposed society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9127

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Fiske
Date:
3 Nov [1873]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (FK 1110-1112)
Summary:

CD is glad to hear of nature of JF’s work;

proposes that JF call when CD comes to London.

Has read JF’s attack on Agassiz ["Agassiz and Darwinism"] in Popular Science Monthly [3 (1873): 692–705].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9534F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Ralfs
Date:
8 July 1874
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 76527)
Summary:

Thanks for the Pinguicula plants, which have recovered, and asks if he could also send Utricularia, since his other supplies have failed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9706

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Fiske
Date:
3 Nov [1874]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (FK 1110-1112)
Summary:

Thanks JF for copy of Cosmic philosophy [1874].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9749

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Fiske
Date:
8 Dec [1874]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (FK 1110–1112)
Summary:

Praises JF’s book [Cosmic philosophy (1874)].

Has long wished to understand H. Spencer but is not convinced by him and some others. CD cannot trust deduction from a starting principle, as his mind is so fixed by the inductive method.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday0281

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Upcott
Date:
6 February 1826
Source of text:
Hunt MS UP 170
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online

Faraday0283

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Upcott
Date:
7 March 1826
Source of text:
Hunt MS UP 171
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online

Faraday0284

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Upcott
Date:
13 March 1826
Source of text:
Hunt MS UP 172
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online

Faraday0480

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Knowles
Date:
1 February 1831
Source of text:
Hunt MS HM 18915
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online

Faraday4144

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
James Walker
Date:
27 February 1862
Source of text:
Hunt MS, BuL
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online

Faraday4260

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Wesley
Date:
27 November 1862
Source of text:
Hunt MS RH 634
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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