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To W. B. Carpenter   3 December [1859]

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Delighted by WBC’s letter about Origin. There is now "a great physiologist on our side". "You have done me an essential kindness in checking the odium theologicum in the E[dinburgh] R[eview] … immaterial whether we go quite the same lengths … the principle is everything."

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Benjamin Carpenter
Date:  3 Dec [1859]
Classmark:  DAR 261.6: 3 (EH 88205920)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2568

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  • … Bibliography Emma Darwin ( …
  • … 1915): Emma Darwin: a century of family letters, 1792–1896. Edited by Henrietta …
  • … 1859 . Henrietta Darwin later wrote that Emma Darwin would not show her ‘Professor …
  • … s horrified reprobation’ of Origin ( Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 172). See also letter to C.  S. …

To W. B. Carpenter   17 June [1860]

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Must defer WBC’s visit, owing to daughter’s illness.

Comments on response to the Origin. Has been "well pitched into", but cares little, because of support of men like WBC.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Benjamin Carpenter
Date:  17 June [1860]
Classmark:  DAR 261.6: 6 (EH 88205923)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2834

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  • … is given by the reference to Henrietta Emma Darwin’s continuing ill health (see ‘Journal’; …
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