From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[1 Aug 1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.259)
Summary:
Mentions Dutch translation [of Origin].
Discusses evolutionary origin of sexuality.
Asa Gray’s suggestion that variation was directed by a higher power and Herschel’s view of providential arrangement in nature.
Compares variation in domestic and wild species.
Asks CL for introductions for his son William in Southampton, where he has joined a bank.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project