RECORD: Darwin, Francis. n.d. Abstract of Wylie, Thomas Carlyle. The man and his books. CUL-DAR200.3.72. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 7.2023. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin.
This was copied in preparation for Life and letters (1887). The article first appeared in the Times in 1877. According to the editors of the Correspondence, "The 'forged letter', purportedly written by Thomas Carlyle to a friend, appeared in The Times, 17 January 1877, p. 5." Anon. 1877. Mr. Carlyle on Darwinism. The Times (17 January): 5f. CUL-DAR132.3a.
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Thomas Carlyle by W. H. Wylie 1881 p 328
A conversation was reported in an American newspaper
"A good sort of man is this Mr Darwin, and well-meaning, but with very little intellect….And this is what we have got to all things fr frog spawn; the gospel of dirt the order of the days…"
[Wylie, William Howie. 1881. Thomas Carlyle. The man and his books. Illustrated by personal reminiscences, table-talk, and anecdotes of himself and his friends. London.]
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