From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 161: 297
Summary:
Praise for Expression.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
11 Nov 1872
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 276–7)
Summary:
CD is delighted and astonished at sale of Expression,
and pleased with sale of others, except Descent. He fears a new edition of that work may never be required. Would have liked to bring out a thoroughly revised one.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Nov [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 430
Summary:
Price of Expression is 12s.
Sends cheque to pay CD his share of profits on Origin [6th ed.].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 162: 211
Summary:
Is amazed at Expression. Like CD’s former works, it contains the material and principles of a new science.
The Zoological Station is making good progress – now has a fine building. Hopes for a stable income from contributions of various governments.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
13 Nov 1872
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 291–2)
Summary:
Thanks JM for £210 on last reprint of Origin [6th ed.]. Pleased by its sale
and by the success of Expression.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 165: 253
Summary:
Many thanks for Expression. AG relates some relevant observations, the significance of which had previously escaped him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
John Lubbock
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
14 November [1872]
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 f. 256
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 105: A50–A51, A69–A70
Summary:
Agrees the rabbit experiment has gone on long enough, but would like one more litter.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Jules Michelet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 174
Summary:
Darwin and his followers have connected France and England like the projected tunnel and have demonstrated that the French and English are more free than Germany from scholasticism.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 106: B115–16
Summary:
Appreciation [of Expression]. ARW will review it in Quarterly Journal of Science [n.s. 3 (1873): 113–18].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 November 1872
Source of text:
- Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B115-116
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 249
- Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 279-280]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Nov 1872
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Thanks CD for Expression, comments on it.
Describes celebration of F. C. Donders’ 25th year as professor at Utrecht.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry MacKay
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 4
Summary:
Has just read Origin and Descent and wants to know: 1. Has man a soul? 2. Is man morally responsible "to his creative cause or force"? 3. Is there any form of after-life?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Adèle-Athénaïs Mialaret (Athénaïs) Michelet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 172
Summary:
The Michelets are ill and dispirited.
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:
William Duppa Crotch
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 88: 116a–b
Summary:
Horns of female reindeer disappear after their calves are dropped [see Descent, 2d ed., p. 503].
Lemmings in Norway.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Immanuel Forsyth Major
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 29
Summary:
Agrees to translate Expression into Italian.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[18 November 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1265
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
18 Nov 1872
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/6/15)
Summary:
Acknowledges the sum of £216 18s. 6d.
Obliged for kind enquiries about his health.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Myers, A. T.
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[18 November 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1745
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters