To W. B. Carpenter 18 November [1859]
Summary
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 |
To W. B. Carpenter 19 November [1859]
Summary
Asks to hear WBC’s conclusion about the Origin when he has read it all. Knows only one believer so far – J. D. Hooker. Sometimes feels frightened that he may be a monomaniac.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Benjamin Carpenter |
| Date: | 19 Nov [1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.6: 2 (EH 88205919) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2536 |
To W. B. Carpenter 3 December [1859]
Summary
Delighted by WBC’s letter about Origin. There is now "a great physiologist on our side". "You have done me an essential kindness in checking the odium theologicum in the E[dinburgh] R[eview] … immaterial whether we go quite the same lengths … the principle is everything."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Benjamin Carpenter |
| Date: | 3 Dec [1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.6: 3 (EH 88205920) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2568 |
Document type
| letter | (3) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Addressee
| Carpenter, W. B. | (3) |
Correspondent
| Carpenter, W. B. | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
