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From:
Moncure Daniel Conway
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Dec 1872
Source of text:
DAR 161: 219
Summary:

Introduces himself as an acquaintance of E. A. Darwin. Offers miscellaneous observations on human expression.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Moncure Daniel Conway
Date:
11 Jan [1873]
Source of text:
Columbia University in the City of New York, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Summary:

Thanks MDC for letter on expression [see 8694].

Invites him to Down on 24th. CD warns that his health does not permit him to talk long with anyone.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Moncure Daniel Conway
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Sept [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 220
Summary:

Comparative study of "ethnical scriptures" shows that natural selection has operated in the evolution of religion.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Moncure Daniel Conway
Date:
12 Sept [1873]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Thanks for strange debate, which CD returns. Principle of evolution has first-rate supporters in [Edward Sylvester?] Morse and Theodore Nicholas Gill.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Moncure Daniel Conway
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Oct [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 218
Summary:

Forwards a flower from a Mrs Crawshay, who sees its "evident struggle to become double as another instance of gradual evolution".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Moncure Daniel Conway
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Nov 1878
Source of text:
DAR 161: 221
Summary:

Invites CD to join the Association of Liberal Thinkers and encloses information on its constitution. Huxley and Tyndall are co-operating.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Moncure Daniel Conway
Date:
19 Nov 1878
Source of text:
Northwestern University Libraries, Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections (Harriet Gilliam papers, box 18, folder 13)
Summary:

Glad to join Association of Liberal Thinkers and to pay usual subscription. Refuses any office and does not allow his name to be used to promote the association because neither his health nor his mental habits will allow him to take an active part.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project