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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:
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:
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].

Contributor:
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.

Contributor:
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project