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To W. B. Carpenter   18 November [1859]

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Comments on WBC’s response to the Origin. Hopes he will review it. Acceptance will depend more on men like WBC, with well-established reputations, than on his own writings.

"Lyell thinks the chapter on the Imperfection of the Geological Record not exaggerated."

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Benjamin Carpenter
Date:  18 Nov [1859]
Classmark:  DAR 261.6: 1 (EH 88205918)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2535

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  • Carpenter reviewed Origin in two publications: The National Review (January 1860) and the British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review (April 1860). A copy of the latter is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. See also letter to W.  B. Carpenter, 3 December [1859] . CD expressed the same opinion about Henry Holland in his letter to Charles Lyell, …