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DCP-LETT-4902

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Butler
Date:
30 Sept [1865]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 34486 D ff. 58–9)
Summary:

Thanks SB for his Evidence [for the resurrection of Jesus Christ (1865)], the main argument of which is new to CD. He particularly agrees with the preface.

Has been confined to his bedroom for the last five months.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4904

From:
Samuel Butler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Oct 1865
Source of text:
DAR 106: A1–2; Butler 1923, pp. 198–201
Summary:

Autobiographical letter describing how, when he could not conscientiously take orders, he went to New Zealand and has now returned to England to study art.

Fascinated and delighted by Origin

and is pleased that his pamphlet [Evidence for the resurrection of Jesus Christ] pleases CD.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4911

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Butler
Date:
6 Oct [1865]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 34486 D ff. 56–7)
Summary:

Thanks SB for letter of 1 October.

Returns the printed letter in which SB replied to the Bishop [of Wellington, N. Z.]; it amused him.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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