Summary

Cancelled: same as 2528. Invites criticisms of his book [Origin] which is "only an abstract & very much condensed". Knows LJ will not agree with the lengths to which CD goes. It took long years to convert CD, but he cannot persuade himself "that a theory which explains … several large classes of facts, can be wholly wrong".

Hopes to publish his full MS if he ever gets strong enough.

Letter details

Letter no.

DCP-LETT-2530

From

Charles Robert Darwin

To

Leonard Jenyns/Leonard Blomefield

Sent from

Ilkley

Source of text

LL 2: 219

• Blomefield, Leonard
• Darwin, C. R.
• Jenyns, Leonard