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DCP-LETT-2667

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Griffin
Date:
29 Jan [1860]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 28509: 408)
Summary:

Returns MS [of biography for Dictionary of contemporary biography (1861)]. Part was inaccurate, and there was an important omission so CD has had a new copy made.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2733F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Octavian Blewitt
Date:
27 Mar [1860]
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan 96: RLF 4/15 1860 file 3)
Summary:

Declines the honour of acting as Steward at the Annual Dinner of the Royal Literary Fund.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2779

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st baronet
Date:
1 May [1860]
Source of text:
The British Library (Surrogate RP 7400)
Summary:

Much obliged for note from Alexander von Keyserling. Geologist going one inch with CD more important than naturalist going two or three.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2807

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
18 May 1860
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 21–23v)
Summary:

Pleasure in ARW’s approbation of the Origin. Other supporters among scientists. ARW’s generosity.

Attacks by Owen, Sedgwick, and others.

Anticipation of natural selection by Matthew in 1830.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3088

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Cuthbert Collingwood
Date:
14 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add. MS. 37725, ff. 6–9b)
Summary:

CD is not surprised at CC’s entire rejection of his views. Agrees that there is no direct proof of unlimited variation. Says natural selection should be viewed as comparable to wave theory of light: it is probable because it groups and explains a host of facts in several fields of science.

Agrees Louis Agassiz’s review [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 30 (1860): 142–55] is not unfair, but Agassiz misunderstands CD. His "categories of thought" are to CD merely empty words.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3043

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Pickworth Woodward
Date:
5 June [1861]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 42579: 230–32b)
Summary:

Gives directions to Down. Would be happy to see SPW but regrets they "have no attractions".

Agrees about colonisation of Arctic region.

CD thought that his St Helena land shells had quite recently become embedded; his specimens are at the Geological Society.

Can SPW ask A. Günther for any references to Silurus escaping from the Danube?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3491F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Octavian Blewitt
Date:
2 Apr [1862]
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan 96: RLF 4/16 1862 file 3)
Summary:

Declines the honour of acting as Steward at the Annual Dinner of the Royal Literary Fund.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3570

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
24 [May 1862]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 25)
Summary:

Quarterly Review piece written by Bishop Wilberforce with aid of Owen.

Other reviews mentioned.

Health.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3689

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
20 Aug [1862]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 28)
Summary:

Family illnesses.

On disposition of wild honeycomb gift.

Discounts the difficulty presented by ostrich wings.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4310

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
[29? Sept 1863]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add. MS. 46434: 36–7b)
Summary:

Baffling problems with Melastoma. Appreciates ARW’s help with it and the "gorze case".

Has read report of ARW’s paper [to Newcastle BAAS meeting, "On the geographical distribution of animal life"] in the Reader [2 (1863): 352–3].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4375F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julian
Date:
[c. 1864]
Source of text:
The British Library (Surrogate RP 10629)
Summary:

[No informatiion about content.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4376

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
1 Jan 1864
Source of text:
The British Library (Add. MS 46434: 31)
Summary:

Asa Gray’s high opinion of ARW as a reviewer [reference to S. Haughton’s paper on bees’ cells, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 11 (1863): 415–29, reviewed by ARW in "Remarks on the Rev. S. Haughton’s paper", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 12 (1863): 303–9].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4510

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
28 [May 1864]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add. MS 46434: 39)
Summary:

Response to ARW’s papers on Papilionidae ["On the phenomena of variation and geographical distribution", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 25 (1866): 1–71; abstract in Reader 3 (1864): 491–3],

and man ["The origin of human races", J. Anthropol. Soc. Lond. 2 (1864): clviii–clxxxvi].

The former is "really admirable" and will be influential.

The idea of the man paper is striking and new. Minor points of difference. Conjectures regarding racial differences; the possible correlation between complexion and constitution. His Query to Army surgeons to determine this point. Offers ARW his notes on man, which CD doubts he will be able to use.

On sexual selection in "our aristocracy"; primogeniture is a scheme for destroying natural selection.

[Letter incorrectly dated March by CD.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4535

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
15 June [1864]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add. MS 46434: 47)
Summary:

Short reply to ARW’s long letter. Reaffirms belief in sexual selection.

Postscript on M.-J.-P. Flourens’ "little dull book against me" [Examen du livre de M. Darwin (1864)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4757

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
29 Jan [1865]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add. MS 46434, f. 49)
Summary:

Commends ARW’s papers on parrots

and on the theory of geographical distribution [see 4750].

Wild pigs in Aru Islands must have been introduced and later ran wild. Does ARW have an opinion on the subject?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4760

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
1 Feb [1865]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add. MS 46434, f. 53)
Summary:

Exchange of photographs.

Aru pigs present perplexing case, whether wild or domesticated.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4881

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
10 Aug [1865]
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 1)
Summary:

Has read and admires FM’s work on species.

Observations on Crustacea are good and original; asks FM to dissect and check some of CD’s observations on cirripedes.

Has sent "Climbing plants" paper [J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. 9 (1865): 1–118] and would like to send Orchids.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-4895

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
20 Sept [1865]
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 2)
Summary:

Thanks for interesting letter on climbing plants.

FM’s view on Anelasma seems probable.

Difficulty quoted by FM from A. Agassiz on embryology of Echinodermata is quite beyond CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4896

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
22 Sept [1865]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add. MS 46434 f. 56)
Summary:

Crests as inherited variations; domesticated birds.

Belief in value of travel journals.

Current reading.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4902

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Butler
Date:
30 Sept [1865]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 34486 D ff. 58–9)
Summary:

Thanks SB for his Evidence [for the resurrection of Jesus Christ (1865)], the main argument of which is new to CD. He particularly agrees with the preface.

Has been confined to his bedroom for the last five months.

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