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To F. J. Pictet de la Rive   24 December [1859]

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Sends Origin to FJP. "I rest my conviction solely on the fact, as it seems to me, that the theory explains large classes of facts otherwise inexplicable." Has made important converts: Lyell, Hooker, Huxley, and W. B. Carpenter.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  François Jules Pictet de la Rive
Date:  24 Dec [1859]
Classmark:  Bibliothèque de Genève (MS. fr. 1651, ff. 6–7)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2598
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