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DCP-LETT-2516

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Dwight Dana
Date:
11 Nov [1859]
Source of text:
Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 44)
Summary:

Has sent JDD a copy of Origin; knows it will horrify him, but hopes JDD will credit him with an honest search for truth. Believes that JDD may come to think there is more to be said "in favour of mutability of species than is at first appreciated".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-59-11-11

From:
David Campbell
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
11 November 1859
Source of text:
L59/11626, unit 747, VPRS 1189 inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel2390

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 November 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.249
Summary:

Will travel to Kew Tuesday. Encloses answer to Duke of Newcastle regarding proposal for colonies. Welcomes any comments from JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-2524

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugh Falconer
Date:
11 Nov [1859]
Source of text:
Life and Letters 2: 216–17
Summary:

Has told Murray to send Origin to HF. "Lord, how savage you will be, if you read it, and how you will long to crucify me alive."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday3672

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
11 November 1859
Source of text:
RGO 6/408, f.389-90
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online

Faraday3673

From:
Georges-Mathilde-Ernest Degrand
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
11 November 1859
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/3/103
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-2520

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
11 Nov [1859]
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (17)
Summary:

Sends copy of Origin for comments.

Does not feel AG’s views of migration after the last glaciation explain distribution in U. S. as well as CD’s view of migration prior to glaciation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2522

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
11 Nov 1859
Source of text:
DAR 145: 100
Summary:

Sends the Origin to his "dear old master in natural history"; fears he will not approve of his pupil in this case. Asks for criticisms. If JSH is even in slight degree staggered on the immutability of species, CD is convinced that he will be more staggered on further reflection – this has been the process of his own mind.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2517

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Frederick William Herschel, 1st baronet
Date:
11 Nov [1859]
Source of text:
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Summary:

Sends a copy of Origin as a measure of his respect and in recognition of the obligation he feels he owes to JFWH’s book [A preliminary discourse on the study of natural philosophy (1831)]. "Scarcely anything in my life made so deep an impression on me."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2515

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
11 Nov [1859]
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:

Has asked his publisher to send a copy of Origin. Fears it will be "an abomination" in RO’s eyes. Urges him to read it straight through, as it is a condensed abstract and will otherwise be unintelligible.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2521

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Phillips
Date:
11 Nov [1859]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History Archive Collections (John Phillips collection))
Summary:

Sends Origin to JP. Says it is as yet only an abstract. Fears JP will "fulminate anathemas" against it. Asks him to read it all straight through, otherwise it will be unintelligible.

Is not so foolish as to expect to convert anyone. CD remembers how many long years his own conversion took. Hooker "has completely given up species as immutable creatures".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2518

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
François Jules Pictet de la Rive
Date:
11 Nov [1859]
Source of text:
Bibliothèque de Genève (MS. fr. 1651, ff. 4–5)
Summary:

Sending copy of Origin; "it may possibly lead you to reflect further on the side opposed to your view".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2525

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Adam Sedgwick
Date:
11 Nov [1859]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (13 December 2018, lot 235)
Summary:

Has told Murray to send AS a copy of Origin. CD’s conclusion is diametrically opposed to that which AS has often advocated, but he assures AS he does not send his book out of a spirit of bravado.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel2392

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Benjamin Collins Brodie [the elder]
Date:
[12 November 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.251
Summary:

Plan of Colonial Office submitted to R.S.L. does not yet have a 'definite or practical shape.' Recommends JH as best person to aid in matter.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2391

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 November 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.250
Summary:

Encloses letter from Colonial Office to R.S.L., which was referred to ES because [B. C.] Brodie was out of town. Brodie hopes to see JH when JH comes to London.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-59-11-12

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
James Service
Date:
12 November 1859
Source of text:
No. 6088, unit 3, VPRS 227 inward correspondence register, VA 538 Department of Crown Lands and Survey, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel1397

From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 November 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.40
Summary:

Partial repeat of letter of 1859-11-10, together with some considerations about the molecular behavior producing fluorescence.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1648

From:
Lyon Playfair
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
12 Nov/59
Source of text:
MS JT/1/P/118; MS JT/TYP/3/988, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-2526

From:
Richard Owen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Nov 1859
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:

Will welcome CD’s work [Origin] with a "close & continuous perusal".

Believes in the "operation of existing influences or causes in the ordained becoming and incoming of living species" and so could not regard CD’s attempt to demonstrate the nature of such influences as "heterodox".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall1647

From:
Richard Owen
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Nov. 12. /59
Source of text:
Add MS 63092, ff. 16-227v, BL
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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