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From:
St George Jackson Mivart
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Apr 1868
Source of text:
DAR 171: 184
Summary:

Has asked gentlemen who administer chloroform to make observations [on expression?] for CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
St George Jackson Mivart
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 171: 185
Summary:

Answers CD’s queries on sexual characters and differences among the Urodela.

Is interested in the relationship of pectoral and pelvic limbs in man and apes and has looked at reptiles and amphibians to find traces of the earlier conditions of the limbs.

Asks whether CD knows any instances of deformities or pathological conditions occurring simultaneously in both sets of limbs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
St George Jackson Mivart
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Mar [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 183
Summary:

Will not be returning to London for a week; writes to save CD’s calling.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
St George Jackson Mivart
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Apr 1870
Source of text:
DAR 171: 186
Summary:

Is not prepared to express an opinion on man’s origin. On pure anatomical grounds he would form a family of the higher division of the primates, but if man’s intellectual, moral, and religious nature is considered, then "he differs more from an Anthropoid Ape than such an Ape differs from a lump of granite".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
St George Jackson Mivart
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Apr 1870
Source of text:
DAR 171: 187
Summary:

Apologises for saying more than was necessary in his previous letter. Although he feels gratitude and esteem for CD, he execrates those who use natural selection to oppose man’s higher interests and impede his advance. Has seen Huxley’s Man’s place in nature for sale among a crowd of obscenities at most Italian railway stations.

Contributor:
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From:
St George Jackson Mivart
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 171: 188
Summary:

Asks by what action CD believes bee, spider, and fly orchids came to resemble their namesakes

and how the beauty of bivalves could have been produced by natural or sexual selection.

Contributor:
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From:
St George Jackson Mivart
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[25 June 1870?]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 181
Summary:

Sets a time for CD to call.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
St George Jackson Mivart
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Jan 1871
Source of text:
DAR 171: 189
Summary:

Has sent CD his book [Genesis of species (1871)]. Has not said a word in opposition to CD except where his view of the truth necessitated it.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
St George Jackson Mivart
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Jan 1871
Source of text:
DAR 171: 190
Summary:

Thanks CD for vol. 1 of Descent. Feels nothing but sympathy and esteem for a writer labouring for the promotion of what he conscientiously believes to be the truth.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
St George Jackson Mivart
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Jan 1871
Source of text:
DAR 171: 191
Summary:

Is sorry CD found Genesis of species unfairly critical. Assures CD of his just intentions and offers to alter certain words and phrases in a new edition. Emphasises his high regard for CD but fears his views are leading to religious decay.

Contributor:
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From:
St George Jackson Mivart
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Jan 1871
Source of text:
DAR 171: 192
Summary:

Is glad CD does not believe he is biased by an odium theologicum. Comments on the first volume of Descent. Is convinced of the truth of evolution, but believes natural selection plays only a secondary role and that man is fundamentally different from the rest of creation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
St George Jackson Mivart
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Jan 1871
Source of text:
DAR 171: 193
Summary:

Thanks CD for the second volume of Descent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
St George Jackson Mivart
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 182
Summary:

Would be pleased if CD called.

Contributor:
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From:
St George Jackson Mivart
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 171: 194
Summary:

Feels their conflict lies in the field of philosophy rather than in that of physical science. Regrets that they differ so widely.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
St George Jackson Mivart
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 171: 195
Summary:

Has seen an article by Chauncey Wright ["Darwinism", North Am. Rev. 113 (1871): 63–103] and has heard it has been enlarged and reprinted [1871]. As CD has been distributing copies StGM wonders whether he might have one.

Contributor:
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From:
St George Jackson Mivart
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Oct 1871
Source of text:
DAR 171: 196
Summary:

Thanks for Chauncey Wright’s article. Admits it is clever, but hardly expected CD to think it a serious defence of his position.

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From:
St George Jackson Mivart
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Jan 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 197
Summary:

Sends his reply to Huxley’s criticisms [Contemp. Rev. 19 (1872): 168–97].

Contributor:
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From:
St George Jackson Mivart
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Jan 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 198
Summary:

As a man of science, StGM has no choice but to pursue what he sees as the truth. Will happily admit he has misrepresented CD if CD will disclaim the position that StGM attacks.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
St George Jackson Mivart
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Jan 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 199
Summary:

Agrees to close their correspondence. Defends his position against criticisms of Huxley and Chauncey Wright; assures CD of his continuing friendly feelings.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
St George Jackson Mivart
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
20 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 145: 368
Summary:

Is writing confidentially not to justify the passage referred to [see 9759], which he much regrets, but to state facts. He never intended any personal hostility to [George] Darwin and seeks advice about how to make reparation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project