From Henry Holland 21 December [1867]1
Brook Street
Decr 21
My dear Charles
The pages I enclose will probably interest you. They are taken from the proceedings of the Manchester Phil. Society, which I received this morning;2 It is now perhaps the best of the Provincial Scientific bodies. I have been a Member of it, for very nearly 60 years.3
I received a few days ago a copy of the attack upon you from the Author; This gives me no clue whatever to his name or nature.4 The nearest approach I make, is that of being very intimate with a friend of his, who fully admits knowing him, but under strict injunction not to disclose him.
I find that very few people have even heard of the volume.
Ever yours affy. | H Holland
Charles Darwin Esqr
Footnotes
Bibliography
[Beverley, Robert Mackenzie.] 1867. The Darwinian theory of the transmutation of species examined by a graduate of the University of Cambridge. London: James Nisbet & Co.
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Hayhurst, H. 1967. ‘The Lit. and Phil.’: its past and its future. Memoirs and Proceedings, Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society 109: 5–17.
Summary
Has received a copy of an attack on CD ["Darwinian theory examined"] from the author, but does not know who it is.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5736
- From
- Henry Holland, 1st baronet
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Brook St
- Source of text
- DAR 166: 247
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5736,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5736.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 15
