To Richard Owen 11 November [1859]
Summary
Has asked his publisher to send a copy of Origin. Fears it will be "an abomination" in RO’s eyes. Urges him to read it straight through, as it is a condensed abstract and will otherwise be unintelligible.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | 11 Nov [1859] |
| Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2515 |
To Richard Owen 10 December [1859]
Summary
Sends source of description of swimming bear catching insects [Samuel Hearne, A journey from Prince of Wales’s Fort in Hudson’s Bay to the northern ocean … (1795); see Origin, p. 184].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | 10 Dec [1859] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/211, 213) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2576 |
To Richard Owen 13 December [1859]
Summary
Responds to Owen’s remarks that his book [Origin] is not likely to be true because it attempts to explain so much. CD describes how, for fear this might be so, he resolved to give up the work if he could not convince two or three competent judges. He is sensitive because of unjust things said by a distinguished friend [A. Sedgwick]. Value of his views now depends on men eminent in science.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | 13 Dec [1859] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/195) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2580 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Owen, Richard | (3) |
