From St G. J. Mivart   4 January 1872

7, North Bank, | N.W.

Janry. 4th 1872

My dear Sir

I herewith forward, by book post, a separate copy of my reply to Prof. Huxley’s criticism on the “Genesis of Species”—1 I had hoped to have been able to have sent you at the same time my reply to Mr Chauncey Wright but owing to an accident I must wait till April when I hope it will be out.2

Wishing you very sincerely a happy new year | I remain | My dear Sir | Yours very truly | St Geo Mivart

To | C. Darwin Esq

1
There are two copies of Mivart’s reply to Thomas Henry Huxley, published in the January 1872 issue of Contemporary Review (Mivart 1872a), in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL; one is an offprint, and the other has been torn from a copy of the Contemporary Review and is lightly annotated. Mivart also refers to his book criticising CD’s theory of natural selection, On the genesis of species (Mivart 1871a). Huxley’s criticism of Mivart was also published in Contemporary Review (T. H. Huxley 1871a).
2
Mivart published a reply to Chauncey Wright’s review of Genesis of species (Wright 1871a, Mivart 1871a) in the April 1872 issue of North American Review (Mivart 1872b).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-8143,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-8143