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Elizabeth Reed Cotton, who became Lady Hope after her marriage to Sir James in 1877, was a British evangelical active in the Temperance Movement. In 1915, she declared to have visited the British naturalist Charles Darwin shortly before his death in 1882. During this interview, Hope said that Darwin had second thoughts about generalizing his theory of natural selection. The Hope that Darwin’s visit is possibly valid, although denied by Darwin’s family, is unlikely to be his interpretation of what Darwin said in the interview.
