From:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 3 Mar 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 88: 41–53
Summary:
On "moral sense" in Descent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[3–9 Mar 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 88: 37–40
Summary:
Comments on points made in Hensleigh Wedgwood’s letter [7470] on moral sense in Descent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[3–9 Mar 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 88: 56–9
Summary:
Agrees that social instinct or love for fellows is the beginning of moral feeling. Responds to CD’s letter [7537].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John James Aubertin
Date:
3 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 25
Summary:
Invites him to visit.
Miss Butler is dead.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alexander Francis Baillie
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 18
Summary:
Rereading Journal of researches, particularly on Buenos Aires and varieties of cattle observed there [pp. 145–6]. Reports a case of a cow in which the characters of the niata and two other breeds were combined.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 87: 165–7
Summary:
On private property, with regard to tools and arms; comments on Maine’s book and the history of law regarding property.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
3 Mar 1871
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1-52/25 [9878]
Summary:
Comments on Descent.
EH’s refusal of position at Vienna.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John P. Gassiot
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 March 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.70
Summary:
His object in suggesting that JH's reports should be purchased was to preserve them from oblivion.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Jean Jacques Moulinié
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 171: 275
Summary:
French translation of Descent all but complete.
Hopes translation of Origin will soon be finished.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Herbert Spencer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 177: 228
Summary:
Thanks CD for copy of Descent; wishes it had appeared earlier so that he could have made use of the facts in his Principles of psychology [2d ed. (1870–2)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Arabella Burton Fisher (née Buckley)
Date:
3 March 1871
Source of text:
Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences . Vol. 2. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 31-32]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
Date:
3 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 88: 24, 54–5
Summary:
Admits pointer illustration is faulty.
Discusses shame, remorse, social instincts, approbation, and other topics discussed in Descent, ch. 4. "But as yet I nail my colours to the mast."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Wolf
Date:
3 Mar 1871
Source of text:
Palmer 1895, p. 193
Summary:
Asks for a drawing from life of a "laughing monkey" (Cynopithecus niger) for Expression [p. 136].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project