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To William Turner   14 December [1866]

Summary

Thinks of adding chapter on man to Variation. Asks about muscles connected to os coccyx in man and existence of other rudimentary organs in man.

Sends copy of Origin.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Turner
Date:  14 Dec [1866]
Classmark:  The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (DC. 2. 96/5 folio 1)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5306

To M. E. Boole   14 December 1866

Summary

Is unable to answer her questions about religious implications of natural selection, but would prefer to believe that suffering in world is due to natural events.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Mary Everest Boole
Date:  14 Dec 1866
Classmark:  DAR 143: 121
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5307