RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1880. [Letter to an unknown recipient on the history of the theory of evolution.] PC-USA-CDletter1880. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Scans provided by the owner of the manuscript. Transcribed and edited by John van Wyhe 3.2022. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with the kind permission of a private collection, USA, and William Huxley Darwin. The same private collection holds:
[c. 1858]. Notes on Huber, Recherches sur les Moeurs des Fourmis Indigènes (1810). Text & image PC-USA-OriginAnts
1858. Draft leaf of Origin. Text & image PC-USA-OriginMS270
1858-59. Draft leaf of Origin. Text & image PC-USA-OriginMS324
1859.11.11. Letter to Adam Sedgwick on sending Origin. Text & image PC-USA-SedgwickOrigin
[1859].12.24. Letter to T. H. Huxley on a manuscript on the evolution of pigeons. Text & image PC-USA-HuxleyPigeons
[1861-62]. Draft of Orchids, folio 192. Text & image Sanders-3.2017Lot96.
1870. Draft leaf of Descent. Text & image PC-USA-DescentMS10
1871. Receipt for Murray's payment for Descent. Text & image PC-USA-DescentReceipt
1871. Draft leaf of Expression. Text & image CUL-DAR185.143
1871. Draft leaf of Expression. Text & image CUL-DAR185.144
1868.02.09. Letter to Asa Gray on Variation. Text & image PC-USA-GrayVariation
This letter is transcribed and edited in Correspondence vol. 28, p. 350.
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DOWN,
BECKENHAM, KENT.
(RAILWAY STATION
ORPINGTON. S.E.R.)
October 23 1880
Dear Sir
I am much obliged for your courteous letter of Oct 8th.— I have no difficulty in answering your questions; but I cannot see how my answers can be of interest to anyone —
I was born on Feb. 12th 1809.— On my return home after the voyage of the Beagle, I opened my first note-book for facts
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bearing on the Origin of species in July 1837.
In June 1842 I wrote a brief sketch of the notions then arrived at; & this was enlarged in 1844 into a sketch of 230 M.S. pages.
The Origin of Species was published near the close of 1859. —
Dear Sir
Yours faithfully
Charles Darwin
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