From E. F. Lubbock [after 24 February 1871]1
Now that his new book has come out,
I find that dreadful man
Is trying to heap on us
Every insult that he can.
He said we rose from monkeys,
That wasn’t what he meant:
Because he called it “Origin”, And now he says “Descent”.
I do hope the whole Human Race
Will prosecute him for libel.
And as he won’t believe the Duke,2
How can he believe the Bible?
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Descent: The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871.
Freeman, Richard Broke. 1977. The works of Charles Darwin: an annotated bibliographical handlist. 2d edition. Folkestone, Kent: William Dawson & Sons. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, Shoe String Press.
Summary
Verses on the Origin and Descent.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7419
- From
- Ellen Frances Hordern/Ellen Frances Lubbock
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- DAR 170: 7
- Physical description
- AL 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7419,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7419.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 19
