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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.
Refers to "Devonshire Man"’s attack on him ["Professor Huxley’s last new theory", Pall Mall Gaz. 18 Jan 1870, p. 6]. His intention to answer – a waste, except for political bearing of Celt question ["Professor Huxley on Celts and Teutons", Pall Mall Gaz. 21 Jan 1870, p. 6].
Plans for his new book, Contributions to the theory of natural selection (1870), which will contain his papers on the subject.
Sends a translation of two sentences [on floral structure] as requested by Henrietta Darwin.
Sends 2d ed. of his Essays on physiological subjects (1869).
Response to ARW’s MS on geological time ["The measurement of geological time", Nature 1 (1870): 399–401, 452–5].
Groans over [what is said about] man.
JBI sends clipping about a hybrid between a deer and a cow, from the same parish as the one reported in 1868.
Discovery of skull of "River-bed" race of man near Corwen.
Asks JC-B to return copy of Duchenne [Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine (1862)] and sends some notes "as your former notes were of such extreme interest to me".
Statement of sales of U. S. edition of Origin.
Discusses buying a horse [for CD].
Asks CD to be godfather to her third child [Maud Mostyn Owen].
Sends a copy of Notes and Queries for Francis Galton, as it contains a reply to Galton’s circular on hereditary genius.
RS much refreshed by his trip to Down.
Conveys some information on a quiet horse which CD may be able to purchase from a riding school.
Believes he has found a quiet cob suitable for CD. Encloses a letter for CD to sign and send to the owner if he approves the idea.
Sends thanks for election to American Philosophical Society.
CD’s goddaughter, Maud, has been christened.
Sends MS [of chs. 3 and 4, "Comparison of the mental powers of man and the lower animals", Descent] to HED for her criticism. CD fears parts are too much like a sermon; "who wd ever have thought I shd turn parson?"
Responds to note about the MS [Descent] with great interest and promises to obey his instructions. [See 7124.]
Compliments Origin.
Sends extract about a waterplant to illustrate CD’s points about the means of dispersal in geographical distribution.
Was gratified "beyond measure" by AN’s comments on his pigeon chapter [in Variation] in the [Zoological] Record [5 (1868): 94–6]. AN is the first man capable of forming a judgment who seems to have thought anything of this part.
