The correspondence in this volume is dominated by the public and private response to the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species.
List of illustrations; List of letters; Introduction; Acknowledgements; List of provenances; Note on editorial policy; Darwin/Wedgwood genealogy; Abbreviations and symbols; The Correspondence, 1860; Appendixes; Manuscript alterations and comments; Bibliography; Bibliographical register and index to correspondents; Index.
'So important are the events of 1860, and so engaging are the letters, that the volume has much to offer a wide intellectual audience. It is a splendid example of the high calibre of historical research that has come to be associated with the Darwin industry.' Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis, Trends in Ecology