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DCP-LETT-2543

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
23 Nov [1859]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.176)
Summary:

Thanks CL for his decision to accept CD’s "doctrine of modification" [in Elements of geology, 6th ed. (1865)]. Believes it "morally impossible that investigators of truth, like you and Hooker, can be wholly wrong". Does not think CL’s decision will injure his works.

Thinks CL overrates importance of multiple origin of dogs.

Mentions sending copy of Origin to Herschel. Asks CL about Herschel’s reaction.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2547

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
24 [Nov 1859]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.178)
Summary:

Sales of Origin.

Discusses revisions for second edition. Mentions possible French translation.

Views of Quatrefages [de Bréau].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2552

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
25 [Nov 1859]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.179)
Summary:

Discusses corrections for second edition [of Origin]. Will leave out the reference to whale and bear. Discusses pheasant crosses. Success of the book.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2559

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[28 Nov 1859]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (6 July 1977)
Summary:

Asks how many kinds of supposed birds’ footprints were found in North American sandstone.

Making progress on second edition of Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2560

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
29 [Nov 1859]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.180)
Summary:

Encloses letter from Adam Sedgwick [2548].

Mentions conversion of A. C. Ramsay.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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