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DCP-LETT-2638

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 Jan 1860
Source of text:
DAR 98 (ser. 2): 20–1
Summary:

Opinions on the Origin: AG thinks it masterly; Agassiz considers it very poor.

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DCP-LETT-2645

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
7 Jan [1860]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (15)
Summary:

Comments on AG’s memoir on Japanese plants [see 2599]; relationship of Japanese flora to N. American.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2631

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[10 Jan 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 98 (ser. 2): 26a
Summary:

Agassiz denounces Origin as "atheistical";

AG is currently reviewing it [in Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 29 (1860): 153–84].

Jeffries Wyman praises it, though not a convert.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-2663

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Jan 1860
Source of text:
DAR 98 (ser. 2): 22–5
Summary:

American edition of Origin. AG’s assessment of the book’s weak and strong points. Suggests Jeffries Wyman would be a useful source of facts and hints for CD.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-2665

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
28 Jan [1860]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (43)
Summary:

If an American edition of Origin is considered worth while, CD would like AG’s reviews prefixed to it.

Will use all his strength to produce first part of his three-volume big work [Variation].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-2676

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
1 Feb [1860]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (44)
Summary:

CD is glad there is to be an American edition of Origin printed from the corrected 2d English edition.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2701

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
[8 or 9 Feb 1860]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (11)
Summary:

Sends historical preface and corrections for American edition of Origin;

would have liked AG’s review [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 29 (1860): 153–84] at the head.

Agrees with AG’s assessment of weak points.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-2704

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
18 Feb [1860]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (22)
Summary:

Thinks AG’s review is admirable.

Reactions of others to the Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2706

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Feb 1860
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (37)
Summary:

Arrangements for the American edition of Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2713

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
24 Feb [1860]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (23)
Summary:

Last sheets of AG’s review of Origin have arrived. CD’s comments and criticisms.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2718

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
2 Mar [1860]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (24)
Summary:

Has been ill with pleurisy.

Sends more corrections and additions for American edition of Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2726

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
8 Mar [1860]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (31)
Summary:

Further additions and corrections for American Origin.

Views of Owen, G. H. K. Thwaites, and W. H. Harvey on CD’s theories.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2743

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
3 Apr [1860]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (47)
Summary:

Thinks AG’s review [of Origin] will aid much in making people think about subject.

Has been savagely and unfairly reviewed by Adam Sedgwick in the Spectator [24 Mar 1860],

but thinks F. J. Pictet’s review in opposition ["Sur l’origine de l’espèce", Arch. Sci. Phys. & Nat. n.s. 7 (1860): 231–55] a very fair one.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-2767

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
25 Apr [1860]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (13)
Summary:

Origin reviews. Is annoyed at Richard Owen’s malignity [Edinburgh Rev. 111 (1860): 487–532].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2808

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
18 May [1860]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (14)
Summary:

Bitter and incessant attacks on the Origin.

Any truth in it has been saved only by a small body of men like Lyell, AG, Hooker, and Huxley.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2814

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
22 May [1860]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (26 and 37a)
Summary:

Opinions and reviews of Origin.

CD’s view on design in nature; although he does not believe in the necessity of design, he finds it hard to conclude that everything is the result of "brute force".

Comments on Owen’s review of Origin [Edinburgh Rev. 111 (1860): 487–532].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-2825

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
8 June [1860]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (40)
Summary:

Discusses recent reviews of Origin and has made a note on Owen’s [see 2737].

Has become interested in the floral structures of orchids.

Notes his recent observations on Primula; believes he has found male and female forms.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-2855

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
3 July [1860]
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (41)
Summary:

Origin has "stirred up the mud with a vengeance"; AG and three or four others have saved CD from annihilation and are responsible for the attention now given to the subject. Reports events at Oxford BAAS meeting.

New evidence supports AG’s view of a warm post-glacial period.

Discusses his recent orchid observations.

Poses AG a question on design in nature.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-2819

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[10 July 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 110 (ser. 2): 77
Summary:

Cases of "dioecio-dimorphism" as in primroses are widespread. AG always considered them the first step toward bisexuality.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2876

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
22 July [1860]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (30)
Summary:

Greatly praises AG’s discussion of Origin in Proc. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. [4 (1860): 411–15; 424–6].

Mentions other reviews of Origin; believes the BAAS meeting at Oxford greatly advanced the subject. Has heard his views are gaining ground in Germany.

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