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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
20 November 1859
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 115: 27
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
No summary available.
Curious about author of review of Origin in Athenæum.
W. B. Carpenter has written and sounds converted, as has Quatrefages [de Bréau], who will "go a long way with" CD.
Has been ill and thus had time to brood about reception of book.
CD hopes Woodward was not the Athenæum reviewer. "The manner in which he drags in immortality, & sets the Priests at me … is base".
JDH has made CD feel he can "face a score of savage reviewers".
H. C. Watson has written to him in tremendous praise of the Origin.