From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Jan 1871
Source of text:
DAR 161: 77
Summary:
A bibliographical query arising in translation of Descent. Two misprints noted.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
St George Jackson Mivart
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Jan 1871
Source of text:
DAR 171: 192
Summary:
Is glad CD does not believe he is biased by an odium theologicum. Comments on the first volume of Descent. Is convinced of the truth of evolution, but believes natural selection plays only a secondary role and that man is fundamentally different from the rest of creation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Jan 1871
Source of text:
DAR 106: B96–7
Summary:
Response to [vol. 1 of] CD’s Descent.
Not yet convinced on sexual selection and protection, though their differences are not so great as CD thinks.
On man, he does not think CD has accounted for every step of his development by "ascertained laws".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Jan 1871
Source of text:
DAR 169: 86
Summary:
Has received all the proof-sheets of first volume and of second volume to p. 168 [Descent].
Leaves for Paris tomorrow.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
St George Jackson Mivart
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Jan 1871
Source of text:
DAR 171: 193
Summary:
Thanks CD for the second volume of Descent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Jan 1871
Source of text:
DAR 176: 44
Summary:
Thinks G. H. Lewes will review Descent in Pall Mall Gazette.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 January 1871
Source of text:
- Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B96-97
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 210
- Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 255-257]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Jan 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 57
Summary:
Describes a pouting expression in a 3½–year-old child.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Jan 1871
Source of text:
DAR 171: 383
Summary:
Sends title-page of Descent for approval. Asks whether CD has any idea of size of index.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Lambert Adolphe Jacques (Adolphe) Quetelet; Société Royale des Sciences, des Lettres, et des Beaux-arts de Belgique
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Jan 1871
Source of text:
DAR 175: 13
Summary:
Sends diploma of election to the Royal Belgian Academy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Jan 1871
Source of text:
DAR 171: 384
Summary:
Sends list of journals to be sent review copies of Descent. If CD wants to add others, they will be included. Printing of 2500 copies ordered; retail price 24s.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Addressee
Correspondent
- Darwin, C. R.
- Mivart, S. G. J.5
- Reade, W. W.4
- Cooke, R. F.2
- John Murray2
- Kovalevsky, V. O.2
- Maria2
- Wedgwood, Francis2
- Boardman, A. F.1
- Bowman, William1
- Carus, J. V.1
- Delpino, Federico1
- Galton, Francis1
- Harrison, L. C.1
- Innes, J. B.1
- Quetelet, Adolphe1
- Rejlander, O. G.1
- Société Royale des Sciences, des Lettres, et des Beaux-arts de Belgique1
- Thiebout, C. H.1
- Turner, William1
- Wallace, A. R.1
- Wallace, Alfred Russel1
- Wedgwood, L. C.1
- Wedgwood, R. H.1