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The Charles Darwin Collection
The Darwin Correspondence Project is publishing letters written by and to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882). Complete transcripts of letters are being made available through the Project’s website (www.darwinproject.ac.uk) after publication in the ongoing print edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press 1985–). Metadata and summaries of all known letters (c. 15,000) appear in Ɛpsilon, and the full texts of available letters can also be searched, with links to the full texts.
Asks who Fiske is. The articles [Harvard lectures?] are "so fair and in some respects so complimentary" that CD thinks he should write to him. [See 8058.]
Will send back proofs of Origin 6th ed.
Marriage is basis of all religious forms of thought, and this is the subjective equivalent of CD’s law that sex is the most important agency of universal development.
"Please accept my thanks for your kind present of your two Papers."
CD glad to hear of success of translation of Descent.
Will not go to press with Expression for six or nine months; hopes HHHvZ will think it worth translating.
A French refugee and populariser of CD’s work asks for an audience.
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.
Forwards a letter from R. O. Jones on the effects of castration on horns of male lambs.
Can photograph the scene CD requested only in the spring.
Heliotype is cheap but Woodburytype allows alterations.
Has read Variation and reports on markings on donkeys similar to those in vol. 1, p. 63.
Sends CD a measure with capacity of 20 oz or 34.65925 cubic inches.
Does not want CD to put his name to any religious movement. Discourages giving money to Abbott or Voysey.
Regrets he is too unwell to see RT before his departure for the Cape; wishes him well.
Thanks for loan of measure.
News of progress of German editions of Origin
and Descent.
Asks CD for references on chabius – a Chilean hybrid of goat and sheep.
Discussed observations made in 1863 of Impatiens pollen and humble-bees.
Sends paper on Artemesia.
Praise for Descent.
Has talked to St George Mivart about CD’s health.
Is it now thought that the spongioles of rootlets secrete carbonic acid which acts on bones and rocks?
Explains why he must decline to write for the Index: his health is poor and he has never systematically thought much on religion. FEA may print his comments, "with qualifications", if he wishes.
Almost 600 copies of Descent sold at trade sale, with 120 left in stock. Suggests printing another 1000 to give more time for correcting the work for 2d edition.