From:
Edward Joshua Cooper
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 November 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.293
Summary:
Gives details of his various telescopes and cameras.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Nov. 24 | 59
Source of text:
MS JT/1/S/17; MS JT/1/TYP/4/1312, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
24 [Nov 1859]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.177)
Summary:
Mentions reactions to Origin. It will "horrify and disgust" TCE.
Some authorities approve more than CD expected.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Simms
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 November 1859]
Source of text:
Harvard: Houghton AAH 67m-67 (48)
Summary:
Provides information on glass made by HS.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
24 [Nov 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 261.11: 4 (EH 88205939)
Summary:
Murray has sold out Origin; wants a new edition immediately.
Asks THH to check whether Geoffroy de St Hilaire is correct [form of name].
Would be grateful for THH’s impressions on the truth of natural selection.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
24 [Nov 1859]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.178)
Summary:
Sales of Origin.
Discusses revisions for second edition. Mentions possible French translation.
Views of Quatrefages [de Bréau].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Lyon Playfair
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
24 Nov/59
Source of text:
MS JT/1/P/121; MS JT/TYP/3/991, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
24 Nov [1859]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.70–71)
Summary:
CD is astonished at sale of Origin [to booksellers].
Arranges to start new edition immediately. Cannot change much [while at Ilkley Wells], nor work rapidly because of health. Relieved that JM has no cause to repent of publishing Origin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Nov 1859
Source of text:
DAR 98: B17–18
Summary:
Thanks CD for the Origin; AS has read the book "with more pain than pleasure". CD has deserted "the true method of induction" and many of his wide conclusions are "based upon assumptions which can neither be proved nor disproved". His "grand principle – natural selection" is "but a secondary consequence of supposed, or known, primary facts".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mathias Mull
Date:
[after 24 Nov 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 424a
Summary:
Thanks MM for reference to Shakespeare’s eleventh sonnet.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project