To Samuel Butler 30 September [1865]
Summary
Thanks SB for his Evidence [for the resurrection of Jesus Christ (1865)], the main argument of which is new to CD. He particularly agrees with the preface.
Has been confined to his bedroom for the last five months.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Samuel Butler |
| Date: | 30 Sept [1865] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 34486 D ff. 58–9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4902 |
From Samuel Butler 1 October 1865
Summary
Autobiographical letter describing how, when he could not conscientiously take orders, he went to New Zealand and has now returned to England to study art.
Fascinated and delighted by Origin
and is pleased that his pamphlet [Evidence for the resurrection of Jesus Christ] pleases CD.
| Author: | Samuel Butler |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Oct 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: A1–2; Butler 1923, pp. 198–201 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4904 |
To Samuel Butler 6 October [1865]
Summary
Thanks SB for letter of 1 October.
Returns the printed letter in which SB replied to the Bishop [of Wellington, N. Z.]; it amused him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Samuel Butler |
| Date: | 6 Oct [1865] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 34486 D ff. 56–7) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4911 |
Document type
| letter | (3) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Butler, Samuel (b) | (1) |
Addressee
| Butler, Samuel (b) | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Butler, Samuel (b) | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
