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DCP-LETT-7086

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
26 Jan [1870]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 198–9)
Summary:

Response to ARW’s MS on geological time ["The measurement of geological time", Nature 1 (1870): 399–401, 452–5].

Groans over [what is said about] man.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7124

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
[8 Feb 1870]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 58373: 1–2)
Summary:

Sends MS [of chs. 3 and 4, "Comparison of the mental powers of man and the lower animals", Descent] to HED for her criticism. CD fears parts are too much like a sermon; "who wd ever have thought I shd turn parson?"

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7154

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
31 Mar [1870]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 200–1)
Summary:

Thanks for a woodcut sent by ARW for Descent.

Congratulations on his removal from London,

and praise of his review of Francis Galton ["Hereditary genius", Nature 1 (1870): 501–3]. CD agrees with every word of it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7167

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
20 Apr [1870]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 202–3)
Summary:

Appreciation of eulogy in preface of ARW’s book [Theory of natural selection].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7184

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
12 May 1870
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 32)
Summary:

Crossing experiments and self-sterility [in Eschscholzia].

Pangenesis.

Hermann Müller on insect adaptations for fertilisation of flowers.

CD working on book on man and sexual selection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7765F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
[22 May 1870]
Source of text:
The British Library (Surrogate RP 8018/1)
Summary:

Explains why he has declined writing a review for Messrs Appleton.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7244

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Burnett Tylor
Date:
25 June 1870
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 50254: 33–4)
Summary:

Mentions passage on gestures in EBT’s Early history of mankind [1865].

Asks Tylor whether the deaf and dumb use opposite signs for objects, qualities, etc., of an opposite nature.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7218

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
5 [July 1870]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 204–5)
Summary:

CD sends a "curious drawing" [missing] relating to imitation and protection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7293A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Bence Jones
Date:
3 Aug [1870]
Source of text:
The British Library (Surrogate RP 3120)
Summary:

Despite HBJ’s good aid, CD’s stomach will not permit a visit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7310

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
28 Aug 1870
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 33)
Summary:

Mimicry in Lepidoptera.

Sexual selection.

The Franco-Prussian war.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7359F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Worthington George Smith
Date:
6 Nov 1870
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 54224: 196)
Summary:

Thanks for the information sent by WGS in his letter of 4 November 1870.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7380

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
22 Nov [1870]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 207–8)
Summary:

Praise for ARW’s reply [Nature 3 (1870): 49–50] to a paper by A. W. Bennett ["Natural selection from a mathematical point of view", Nature 3 (1870): 30–3] holding that mind is a leading cause of variation.

Is reading proof of his "confounded book" [Descent].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7464

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
30 Jan [1871]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Responds to ARW’s comments on CD’s argument about protection in Descent.

Comments on St G. Mivart’s criticism [Genesis of species (1871)]. "The pendulum will now swing against us."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7589

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
16 Mar 1871
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Appreciative response to ARW’s "grand review" of Descent in the Academy [2 (1871–2): 177–82]. Comments in detail on ARW’s criticisms.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7616

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
24 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

On the flourishing sales of their respective books. Mentions reviews of Descent in Pall Mall Gazette [21 Mar 1871] and in the Spectator [11 Mar 1871, pp. 288–9; 18 Mar 1871, pp. 319–20].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7727

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Burnett Tylor
Date:
30 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 50254: 37–8)
Summary:

Thanks EBT for present of Primitive culture [1871]. Feels certain he will regret not having read it before writing Descent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7855

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
9 July [1871]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Requests advice about Chauncey Wright’s article on Mivart’s Genesis of species [North Am. Rev. 113 (1871): 64–103]. CD thinks of publishing it as a pamphlet to counter impact of Mivart’s criticism of natural selection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7858

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
12 July [1871]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

CD is allowing his family to decide whether Chauncey Wright’s paper on Mivart is dull.

Health and despondency.

Doubts his ability to answer Mivart successfully [in 6th ed. of Origin].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7889

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
1 Aug [1871]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

On a "remarkable" letter from Fritz Müller [see 7820] about mimicry, protection, and sexual selection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7892

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
2 Aug [1871]
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 34)
Summary:

Opinions on Descent.

Sexual selection and mimicry in Lepidoptera; sexual selection as an aid to protective imitation.

Contributor:
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