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Thanks JF again for his Essays, which he has now read.

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CD is glad to hear of nature of JF’s work;

proposes that JF call when CD comes to London.

Has read JF’s attack on Agassiz ["Agassiz and Darwinism"] in Popular Science Monthly [3 (1873): 692–705].

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Will send carriage to station on 18th.

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Invites JF to Down.

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Thanks JF for copy of Cosmic philosophy [1874].

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Thanks for JF’s book [Darwinism and other essays (1879)].

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Thanks CD for Descent

and for his praise of Cosmic philosophy [1874].

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Is coming to England to lecture and would like to meet CD again.

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Would like much to visit CD before returning to America;

is completing his work on evolution [Outlines of cosmic philosophy (1874)] for publication. Hopes to do away with the anthropomorphic distinction made between "divine action" and the "action of natural forces".

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JF’s indebtedness to Herbert Spencer. [Published version complete.]

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Thanks JF for his lectures, the arguments of which he finds very forcible; is glad to see JF has detected the falseness of much of Mivart’s reasoning.

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Praises JF’s book [Cosmic philosophy (1874)].

Has long wished to understand H. Spencer but is not convinced by him and some others. CD cannot trust deduction from a starting principle, as his mind is so fixed by the inductive method.

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Thanks for excellent notice of Chauncey Wright.

Would like a copy of Wright’s "Darwinism in Germany" [Nation 21 (1875): 168–70].

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Invitation to Down for the 18th. W. B. Richmond, who is painting CD’s portrait, will also be there.