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DCP-LETT-2518

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
François Jules Pictet de la Rive
Date:
11 Nov [1859]
Source of text:
Bibliothèque de Genève (MS. fr. 1651, ff. 4–5)
Summary:

Sending copy of Origin; "it may possibly lead you to reflect further on the side opposed to your view".

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DCP-LETT-2598

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
François Jules Pictet de la Rive
Date:
24 Dec [1859]
Source of text:
Bibliothèque de Genève (MS. fr. 1651, ff. 6–7)
Summary:

Sends Origin to FJP. "I rest my conviction solely on the fact, as it seems to me, that the theory explains large classes of facts otherwise inexplicable." Has made important converts: Lyell, Hooker, Huxley, and W. B. Carpenter.

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