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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
14 Dec [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 29
Summary:

CD’s great satisfaction with JDH’s approval of Origin. The book has been extremely successful. Reactions of Asa Gray, Lyell, Bentham, and J. E. Gray.

Not one friend has noticed his pet bit in Origin: embryology.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
14 Dec [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 15 (EH 88206464)
Summary:

Is preparing a reprint of Origin. Asks JL’s opinion on the book’s merits; values his judgment.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project