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To Caroline Sarah Wedgwood   [after 21 November 1859]

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Astounded she cares for his book [Origin] as much as she seems to.

Comments on variation among domestic dogs; believes domestic dog has descended from several wild species and those species from a single ancient ancestor.

Athenæum review is unfair.

Expects to convert four or five "really good judges".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood
Date:  [after 21 Nov 1859]
Classmark:  DAR 153: 2
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2538

From J. D. Hooker   [21 November 1859]

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JDH’s congratulations on Origin.

Lyell believes S. P. Woodward wrote review in Athenæum.

Lyell’s and Huxley’s positive responses.

JDH has only plunged into a few chapters.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [21 Nov 1859]
Classmark:  DAR 100: 135–6
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2539

From H. C. Watson   21 November [1859]

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Believes natural selection will become recognised as an established truth in science, though it will shock the ideas of many men.

Author:  Hewett Cottrell Watson
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  21 Nov [1859]
Classmark:  DAR 98: B9–10
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2540

From Charles Lyell   21 November 1859

Summary

Questions CD’s view in Origin that domestic dogs are not descended from a single stock. Occasional crossings of domestic stock with wild species could explain cases of reversion towards wild specific forms. CD’s views on hybridity do not then have to be contradicted in constructing an ancestral stock.

Author:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  21 Nov 1859
Classmark:  The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/A3/4: 195–7)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2540A