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To J. D. Hooker   16 September [1871]

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Is preparing new edition of Origin [6th] in which he will introduce new chapter to answer Mivart’s criticisms. Mivart is unfair: suppresses facts in CD’s later editions.

Sends article [by Chauncey Wright, see 7940] reviewing Genesis of species.

Mivart writes to CD full of respect, but reviles him in print.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  16 Sept [1871]
Classmark:  DAR 94: 204–5
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7949

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  • Hooker had declined an invitation to visit the Darwins (see letter from J.  D.  Hooker to Emma Darwin, 15 September 1871 ). In his letter to Emma Darwin of 15 September 1871 , Hooker had asked CD to send him Henry Thomas Buckle’s History of civilization in England ( Buckle 1857– …
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