From:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 3 Mar 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 88: 41–53
Summary:
On "moral sense" in Descent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[3–9 Mar 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 88: 37–40
Summary:
Comments on points made in Hensleigh Wedgwood’s letter [7470] on moral sense in Descent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[3–9 Mar 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 88: 56–9
Summary:
Agrees that social instinct or love for fellows is the beginning of moral feeling. Responds to CD’s letter [7537].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alexander Francis Baillie
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 18
Summary:
Rereading Journal of researches, particularly on Buenos Aires and varieties of cattle observed there [pp. 145–6]. Reports a case of a cow in which the characters of the niata and two other breeds were combined.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 87: 165–7
Summary:
On private property, with regard to tools and arms; comments on Maine’s book and the history of law regarding property.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Jean Jacques Moulinié
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 171: 275
Summary:
French translation of Descent all but complete.
Hopes translation of Origin will soon be finished.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Herbert Spencer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 177: 228
Summary:
Thanks CD for copy of Descent; wishes it had appeared earlier so that he could have made use of the facts in his Principles of psychology [2d ed. (1870–2)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project