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DCP-LETT-7167

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
20 Apr [1870]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 202–3)
Summary:

Appreciation of eulogy in preface of ARW’s book [Theory of natural selection].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7218

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
5 [July 1870]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 204–5)
Summary:

CD sends a "curious drawing" [missing] relating to imitation and protection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7380

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
22 Nov [1870]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 207–8)
Summary:

Praise for ARW’s reply [Nature 3 (1870): 49–50] to a paper by A. W. Bennett ["Natural selection from a mathematical point of view", Nature 3 (1870): 30–3] holding that mind is a leading cause of variation.

Is reading proof of his "confounded book" [Descent].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7446

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
18 Jan [1871]
Source of text:
Manchester Libraries, Information and Archives (Autograph Letters: Stanley Withers Collection: 925.7 18 Jan 1872)
Summary:

Sends ARW advance copy of vol. 1 [of Descent] for his review in Academy. Vol. 2 is delayed by index. "Do not swear at me more than you can help."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7464

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
30 Jan [1871]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Responds to ARW’s comments on CD’s argument about protection in Descent.

Comments on St G. Mivart’s criticism [Genesis of species (1871)]. "The pendulum will now swing against us."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7579A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
13 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
English Heritage, Down House (EH 88202150)
Summary:

Asks whether Bugis [Buggess] are Malays. [See 7587.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7589

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
16 Mar 1871
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Appreciative response to ARW’s "grand review" of Descent in the Academy [2 (1871–2): 177–82]. Comments in detail on ARW’s criticisms.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7616

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
24 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

On the flourishing sales of their respective books. Mentions reviews of Descent in Pall Mall Gazette [21 Mar 1871] and in the Spectator [11 Mar 1871, pp. 288–9; 18 Mar 1871, pp. 319–20].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7855

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
9 July [1871]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Requests advice about Chauncey Wright’s article on Mivart’s Genesis of species [North Am. Rev. 113 (1871): 64–103]. CD thinks of publishing it as a pamphlet to counter impact of Mivart’s criticism of natural selection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7858

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
12 July [1871]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

CD is allowing his family to decide whether Chauncey Wright’s paper on Mivart is dull.

Health and despondency.

Doubts his ability to answer Mivart successfully [in 6th ed. of Origin].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7889

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
1 Aug [1871]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

On a "remarkable" letter from Fritz Müller [see 7820] about mimicry, protection, and sexual selection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7895

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
4 Aug [1871]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/3/5)
Summary:

Sends enclosure for ARW to read.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8211

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
[19 Feb 1872]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (Quentin Keynes Collection)
Summary:

Sends 6th ed. of Origin;

draws attention to his criticism of ARW’s estimate of Kovalevsky;

mentions his disagreement with much of Spencer’s doctrine

and in a postscript points out an inaccuracy in an article in Once a Month.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8429

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
27 July [1872]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

On ARW’s "crushing" review [Nature 6 (1872): 237–9] of C. R. Bree’s An exposition of fallacies in the hypothesis of Mr Darwin.

Comments on other reviews and exchanges.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8447

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
3 Aug [1872]
Source of text:
Waddington Auction (dealers) (July 1998)
Summary:

Encloses a letter to Nature [see 8448] correcting Dr Bree, who has accused ARW of "blundering". ARW should tear up CD’s letter if he does not like it or plans to reply himself.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8488

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
28 Aug [1872]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Detailed response to reading of Bastian’s Beginnings of life [1872]. On the whole, it seems probable to CD that spontaneous generation is true.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8504

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
[2 Sept 1872]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Huxley’s report of Bastian’s having watched the development of the scale of Sphagnum. The importance of studies of possible causes of heterogenesis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8566

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
20 Oct [1872]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Remarks about an enclosed specimen,

and extract of letter from W. A. L. Marshall [8560].

ARW’s good review of J. C. Houzeau de Lehaie [Études sur les facultés mentales des animaux, in Nature 6 (1872): 469–71].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8581A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
27 Oct [1872]
Source of text:
The British Library (Surrogate RP 4481/3)
Summary:

Requests the address of F. F. Geach so that he may send him his book [Expression].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8677

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
14 Dec [1872?]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Will be in London for a week. Invites ARW to lunch.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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