From Asa Gray [10 January 1860]

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Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 8.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-2631,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 24 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-2631

Summary

Agassiz denounces Origin as "atheistical";

AG is currently reviewing it [in Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 29 (1860): 153–84].

Jeffries Wyman praises it, though not a convert.

Letter details

Record number: DCP-LETT-2631
From: Asa Gray
To: Charles Robert Darwin
Date: [10 Jan 1860]
Sent from: unstated
Source of text: DAR 98 (ser. 2): 26a
Physical description: 2pp inc †

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Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 8.