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Letter from Charles Darwin to Baden Powell (1796-1860), thanking Powell for his praise of "On the Origin of Species" and commenting on his writing process for the book and natural selection. Darwin also comments that he had read Baden Powell's work "Philosophy of Creation". Baden Powell was a mathematician and priest for the Church of England. He was an early supporter of evolutionary theory of Darwin and Wallace's ideas around natural selection. [From the collection of The Charles Darwin Trust, formerly kept at Cambridge University Library] |
