From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Herbert Spencer
Date:
11 Mar [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 484a
Summary:
Thanks for copy of HS’s Principles of psychology [1855].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Herbert Spencer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Apr 1865
Source of text:
DAR 177: 225
Summary:
Wonders whether CD might contribute, if possible, an occasional letter to the Reader to help in their effort to establish the journal.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Herbert Spencer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Nov 1866
Source of text:
DAR 177: 226
Summary:
Asks whether CD will add his name to a list supporting them in the "[Edward John] Eyre prosecution matter".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Herbert Spencer
Date:
9 Dec [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 485a
Summary:
Thanks for copy of HS’s First principles [? 2d ed. (1867)].
Comments on HS’s Principles of biology [1864, 1867].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Herbert Spencer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 177: 227
Summary:
Thanks CD for copy of Variation.
Discusses Pangenesis and considers CD’s "gemmules" comparable to his own hypothetical "physiological units" ["On alleged ""spontaneous generation"", and on the hypothesis of physiological units", appendix in The principles of biology, vol. 1 (1864)].
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
From:
Herbert Spencer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 May 1871
Source of text:
DAR 177: 229
Summary:
Intends to answer Sir A. Grant’s article if CD does not. [A. Grant, "Philosophy and Mr Darwin", Contemp. Rev. 17 (1871): 274–81; H. Spencer, "Mental evolution", Contemp. Rev. 17 (1871): 461–2.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Herbert Spencer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 June 1872
Source of text:
DAR 177: 230
Summary:
HS hopes in the future to show more fully "absolute emptiness" of James Martineau’s propositions; is glad CD approved of his article dealing with JM’s arguments. [J. Martineau, "The place of mind in nature", Contemp. Rev. 19 (1872): 606–23; H. Spencer, "Mr Martineau on evolution", Contemp. Rev. 20 (1872): 141–54.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Herbert Spencer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 177: 231
Summary:
Thanks CD for Expression. Disagrees with his views on the genesis of melody; HS gives some reasons for believing it to originate in the natural cadences of emotional speech.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Herbert Spencer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Apr 1873
Source of text:
DAR 177: 232
Summary:
Wants to use CD’s support to put pressure on Michael Foster to enable Huxley to take an immediate holiday.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Herbert Spencer
Date:
31 Oct [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 486
Summary:
Discusses adaptations in flowers and their heritability.
Mentions advertisements for HS’s book [? Study of sociology (1873)].
Thought HS would have profited by principle that a character appearing late in life is inherited at same age.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Herbert Spencer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Nov 1874
Source of text:
DAR 177: 233
Summary:
Wishes to know where, in his works, CD refers to some particular behaviour in dogs.
Mentions the sensitivity of cirripedes to passing shadows.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Herbert Spencer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 177: 234
Summary:
Thanks CD for his new volume [Insectivorous plants].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Herbert Spencer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Sept 1881
Source of text:
DAR 202: 122
Summary:
Sends CD a circular [missing] and asks whether he will add his name to group [Anti-Aggression League].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Herbert Spencer
Date:
[after 22 Sept 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 122v
Summary:
Although he agrees with the object of HS’s league he will not join until he has seen how it works.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project