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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Wentworth Acland, 1st baronet
Date:
8 Dec [1865]
Source of text:
Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Acland d. 81, fols. 63–4)
Summary:

Acknowledges HWA’s oration.

Discusses design in nature, Asa Gray’s views, and his own confusion.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Patrick Francis Robertson
Date:
[8 December 1865]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0339.3; Reel 1054
Summary:

Insists that artificial representations of capital-currency, checks, bills, titles, etc.-are not capital. Examines arguments on both sides of issue.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project