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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Kingsley
Date:
30 Apr [1867]
Source of text:
B. C. Guild (private collection)
Summary:

Regrets that he is too busy getting his book [Variation] ready for publication to contribute an article to Fraser’s Magazine.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Kingsley
Date:
10 June [1867]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.330) & DAR 96: 28–9, 32
Summary:

Discusses the Duke of Argyll’s book [Reign of law (1867)].

Cites his own views on diversity of structure and beauty.

Encloses letter from Wallace. Sexual selection: evidence advanced by Wallace.

Discusses correlation of growth.

Comments on article in the North British Review [by Fleeming Jenkin].

Discusses the evidence from physics on the age of the earth.

[Four pages of the final letter are missing, but the draft is complete.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Kingsley
Date:
6 Nov [1867]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (Quentin Keynes collection)
Summary:

He had no idea that the double function of an excretory passage had played a part in the history of religion.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Kingsley
Date:
13 Dec [1867]
Source of text:
Quaritch (dealers) (2007)
Summary:

Discusses the reception of CD’s views at Cambridge and elsewhere.

Variation delayed by the index, but will appear at the end of the year.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Kingsley
Date:
10 June [1867]
Source of text:
  • American Philosophical Society
  • American Philosophical Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project