To Leonard Jenyns   13 November [1859]

Summary

Invites criticisms of his book [Origin] which is "only an abstract & very much condensed". Knows LJ will not agree with the lengths to which CD goes. It took long years to convert CD, but he cannot persuade himself "that a theory which explains … several large classes of facts, can be wholly wrong".

Hopes to publish his full MS if he ever gets strong enough.

Letter details

Record number

DCP-LETT-2528

From

Charles Robert Darwin

To

Leonard Jenyns/Leonard Blomefield

Date

13 Nov [1859]

Sent from

Ilkley

Source of text

Scriptorium (dealers) (1981)

Physical description

4pp

Contributor

Darwin Correspondence Project[View Ɛpsilon collection]

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 7.

• Blomefield, Leonard
• Darwin, C. R.
• Jenyns, Leonard