From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
13 [Aug 1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.260)
Summary:
Thanks CL for orchids acquired from a collector.
Discusses role of Providence in variation. Does CL honestly think it applies to variations in domestication? If not ordained there, sees no reason for it in nature either.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project