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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frances Power Cobbe
Date:
23 Mar [1870?]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (CB 385)
Summary:

Has read and enjoyed the Kant that FPC sent.

Returns P. C. Despine [?Psychologie naturelle (1868)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frances Power Cobbe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Mar [1870?]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 186
Summary:

Pleased to have encouraged CD to look at Kant.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frances Power Cobbe
Date:
20 Aug [1870]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (CB 385)
Summary:

CD writes for Emma, who is ill.

Delighted with FPC’s "most just" article [in Echo?]. Sends £1 subscription.

Thanks for telling CD about the Fraser’s Magazine article [F. W. Farrar, "Hereditary genius (by F. Galton)", n.s. 2 (1870): 251–65].

CD wrote as Justice of Peace for Kent to the Home Secretary about Holder’s case.

Tropaeolum transmits every shade of colour if self-fertilised for six or seven generations.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Frances Power Cobbe
Date:
[25 Feb 1871]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (CB 390)
Summary:

Discusses CD’s and her own views on ‘moral sense’.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Frances Power Cobbe
Date:
[7 Apr 1871]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (CB 388)
Summary:

CD is reading the Theological Review (Cobbe 1871) with the greatest interest and attention.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Frances Power Cobbe
Date:
[14 Apr 1871]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (CB 389)
Summary:

Thanks for FPC’s book (presumablyAlone to the alone: prayers for theists (Cobbe ed. 1871)).

CD much interested in article ‘Darwinism in morals’ in the Theological Review (Cobbe 1871).

CDs and FPC’s views on moral sense in hive bees, and an article in the Pall Mal Gazette ([Morley] 1871b).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frances Power Cobbe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26 Nov 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 188
Summary:

Acknowledges presentation copy [of Expression], which is not to be found in the market.

Interested in CD’s opinion of her article ["The consciousness of dogs", Q. Rev. 133 (1872): 419–51].

Hopes she may see CD at Queen Anne St [home of E. A. Darwin].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frances Power Cobbe
Date:
28 Nov 1872
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (CB 386)
Summary:

FPC’s article on consciousness of dogs is best analysis of an animal’s mind CD has read.

Regrets she quotes [Edward?] Jesse.

Since writing Descent, CD has come to believe dogs have a conscience.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frances Power Cobbe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Nov [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 187
Summary:

More stories about dog behaviour.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frances Power Cobbe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Dec [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 189
Summary:

Sends story of a dog’s suicide.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frances Power Cobbe
Date:
18 Mar [1873?]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 168
Summary:

CD has discovered correspondent intends to present a petition to the House of Commons on which CD’s is the sole signature. Asks that his name be erased unless other signatures are added.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frances Power Cobbe
Date:
[14 Jan 1875]
Source of text:
Hull University Archives, Hull History Centre (British Union for Anti-Vivisection archives: U DBV/25/1)
Summary:

Explains why he cannot sign Miss Cobbe’s anti-vivisection petition.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Frances Power Cobbe
Date:
14 Jan [1875]
Source of text:
Hull University Archives, Hull History Centre (British Union for Anti-Vivisection archives: U DBV/25/1)
Summary:

Explains more fully why CD cannot sign Miss Cobbe’ anti-vivisection petition.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project