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From:
John Fiske
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct 1871
Source of text:
J. S. Clark 1917, 1: 389–91; DAR 164: 124
Summary:

JF’s indebtedness to Herbert Spencer. [Published version complete.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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
From:
John Fiske
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Oct 1873
Source of text:
DAR 164: 125
Summary:

Would like much to visit CD before returning to America;

is completing his work on evolution [Outlines of cosmic philosophy (1874)] for publication. Hopes to do away with the anthropomorphic distinction made between "divine action" and the "action of natural forces".

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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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
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
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
From:
John Fiske
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Mar 1875
Source of text:
DAR 164: 126
Summary:

Thanks CD for Descent

and for his praise of Cosmic philosophy [1874].

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Fiske
Date:
21 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 8264)
Summary:

Thanks for excellent notice of Chauncey Wright.

Would like a copy of Wright’s "Darwinism in Germany" [Nation 21 (1875): 168–70].

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Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Fiske
Date:
10 June 1879
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 8265)
Summary:

Invitation to Down for the 18th. W. B. Richmond, who is painting CD’s portrait, will also be there.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Fiske
Date:
14 June [1879]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 8266)
Summary:

Will send carriage to station on 18th.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Fiske
Date:
5 Aug [1879]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 8267)
Summary:

Thanks for JF’s book [Darwinism and other essays (1879)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Fiske
Date:
17 Aug [1879]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 8268)
Summary:

Thanks JF again for his Essays, which he has now read.

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From:
John Fiske
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Apr 1880
Source of text:
DAR 164: 127
Summary:

Is coming to England to lecture and would like to meet CD again.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Fiske
Date:
14 May [1880]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 8269)
Summary:

Invites JF to Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project