From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 102–3
Summary:
Has received the enlarged MS for Erasmus Darwin from E. Krause.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[7 May 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 194
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
7 May [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 80
Summary:
A big book arrived for GHD before CD left Down. Hopes it is Thomson and Tait [Treatise on natural philosophy, 2 vols., 2d ed. (1869)]. It shows what they think of GHD.
Thinks it grand if GHD has made a correction about "such an old sinner as the Sun" and hopes his arithmetic on his old subject will turn out right.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Leonard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 186: 35
Summary:
Has been trying unsuccessfully to weigh something for CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Fordyce
Date:
7 May 1879
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (Quentin Keynes Collection)
Summary:
Believes it absurd to doubt that a man may be an ardent theist and evolutionist; gives the examples of Kingsley and Asa Gray. As regards CD’s own views, his judgement often fluctuates but "I have never been an Atheist in the sense of denying the existence of God". Thinks that "generally (and more and more as I grow older) … an Agnostic would be the most correct description of my state of mind".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project