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DCP-LETT-7855

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
9 July [1871]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Requests advice about Chauncey Wright’s article on Mivart’s Genesis of species [North Am. Rev. 113 (1871): 64–103]. CD thinks of publishing it as a pamphlet to counter impact of Mivart’s criticism of natural selection.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7858

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
12 July [1871]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

CD is allowing his family to decide whether Chauncey Wright’s paper on Mivart is dull.

Health and despondency.

Doubts his ability to answer Mivart successfully [in 6th ed. of Origin].

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