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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[3 Nov 1869]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.346)
Summary:

Takes "much to heart" solar evidence for short age of the earth. Cites evidence for "long endurance of our existing continents". Comments on process of denudation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
1 [Nov 1869]
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell Collection)
Summary:

Has just arrived in London, and would like to visit the following morning at breakfast time.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project