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To Herbert Spencer 2 February [1860]
Summary
Has prepared a historical sketch [of writers on origin of species] for foreign editions of Origin. It includes HS. He was too ill to provide it for the 1st ed.
Sorry Murray has not sent HS his copy of Origin, as he was instructed.
Huxley will put CD and E. A. Darwin down for HS’s gigantic [publishing] programme. Suggests Dr Drysdale be approached about it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Herbert Spencer |
| Date: | 2 Feb [1860] |
| Classmark: | University of London, Senate House Library (MS.791/47) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2680 |
To Herbert Spencer 23 [February 1860]
Summary
HS put the case of selection strikingly and clearly in his article [Anonymous, "A theory of population, deduced from the general law of animal fertility", Westminster Rev. 57 (1852): 468–501]. Of CD’s numerous private critics only HS has rendered the philosophy fairly: his argument is an hypothesis that explains groups of facts.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Herbert Spencer |
| Date: | 23 [Feb 1860] |
| Classmark: | University of London, Senate House Library (MS. 791/51) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3126 |
