From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lovegrove
Date:
14 Dec [1859-71]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Acknowledges contribution to Down Coal and Clothing Club.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Acknowledges contribution to Down Coal and Clothing Club.
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.
Is preparing a reprint of Origin. Asks JL’s opinion on the book’s merits; values his judgment.