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To J. E. Taylor   13 January [1872]1

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

Jan 13th

Dear Sir

I am very much obliged to you for your kindness in having sent me your article in the Westminster Review, which I have read with great interest.2 I am also obliged for the manner in which you notice my work.—3 At present natural selection is somewhat under a cloud, but I feel the most entire conviction that it will presently be resuscitated.—

Dear Sir | Yours faithfully & obliged | Ch. Darwin

1
The year is established by the reference to Taylor’s article in the Westminster Review of January 1872 (see n. 2, below).
2
Taylor’s article, ‘The geographical distribution of animals and plants, geologically considered’, was published in the issue of Westminster Review for January 1872 ([Taylor] 1872). There is a lightly annotated offprint of the article, signed by Taylor with the author’s compliments, in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL.
3
Taylor had written, ‘Natural history has received a similar impetus under the Darwinian theory that astronomy did under the older Copernicus’ ([J. E. Taylor] 1872, p. 29).

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