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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.

Contributor:
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].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7861

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 July 1871
Source of text:
DAR 106: B103–6
Summary:

Chauncey Wright’s article is sound, but so obscure ARW doubts utility of printing it separately.

Gives his own detailed analysis of Mivart’s attack.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7868

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 July 1871
Source of text:
DAR 106: B107–8
Summary:

Sorry CD allows criticisms of Darwinism to worry him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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