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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Kingsley
Date:
30 Nov [1859]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Thanks CK for allowing him to insert his "admirable sentence" [in Origin, 2d ed., p. 481].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Kingsley
Date:
1 Dec [1859]
Source of text:
University of Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library (MSS gen 30.058)
Summary:

Is very glad CK wrote the article My Winter Garden (Kingsley 1858), which CD enjoyed.

Thinks CK should read abstracts of Living Cirripedia (1851) and Living Cirripedia (1854), and then, if he is particularly interested, borrow the actual volumes, rather than purchase them.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Kingsley
Date:
6 Feb [1862]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection); 19th Century Shop (dealer) (March 2014)
Summary:

Comments on CK’s letter [3426].

Identifies species of pigeon shot by party.

On CK’s "grand and awful" notion of genealogy of man, CD recalls how revolting was the thought that his ancestors must have been like the Fuegians. His present belief that they were hairy beasts is less revolting.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Kingsley
Date:
2 June [1865]
Source of text:
Bonhams, New York (dealers) (4 December 2019, lot 19)
Summary:

Thanks for note; sends photograph taken by one of his sons.

His continued ill-health has prevented him making the acquaintance of many.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Kingsley
Date:
[17 June 1865]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Did not think anyone would notice case of Lathyrus.

Recalls reading correspondent’s paper on great fir woods of Hampshire.

Thanks for photograph.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Kingsley
Date:
15 July [1866]
Source of text:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (6 April 2022, lot 237)
Summary:

Thanks for information about the publication of CK’s lectures.

Discusses the migration of the eye in flatfish.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Kingsley
Date:
30 Apr [1867]
Source of text:
B. C. Guild (private collection)
Summary:

Regrets that he is too busy getting his book [Variation] ready for publication to contribute an article to Fraser’s Magazine.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Kingsley
Date:
10 June [1867]
Source of text:
  • American Philosophical Society
  • American Philosophical Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Kingsley
Date:
10 June [1867]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.330) & DAR 96: 28–9, 32
Summary:

Discusses the Duke of Argyll’s book [Reign of law (1867)].

Cites his own views on diversity of structure and beauty.

Encloses letter from Wallace. Sexual selection: evidence advanced by Wallace.

Discusses correlation of growth.

Comments on article in the North British Review [by Fleeming Jenkin].

Discusses the evidence from physics on the age of the earth.

[Four pages of the final letter are missing, but the draft is complete.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Kingsley
Date:
6 Nov [1867]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (Quentin Keynes collection)
Summary:

He had no idea that the double function of an excretory passage had played a part in the history of religion.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Kingsley
Date:
13 Dec [1867]
Source of text:
Quaritch (dealers) (2007)
Summary:

Discusses the reception of CD’s views at Cambridge and elsewhere.

Variation delayed by the index, but will appear at the end of the year.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Kingsley
Date:
7 May 1869
Source of text:
Knox College: "The Story of Nineteenth Century Science" scrapbook by Henry Smith Williams, 3 vols, MR Seymour/Bookfellow Collection, Vol. 3, pp. 64-69
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project