Suggests an errata slip for preface to Erasmus Darwin would correct the inaccurate statement regarding publication of Butler’s Evolution old and new.
Suggests an errata slip for preface to Erasmus Darwin would correct the inaccurate statement regarding publication of Butler’s Evolution old and new.
Discusses allegation [about Erasmus Darwin] made by Samuel Butler. Will value LS’s verdict highly.
Advises CD to "take no notice of Butler whatever" and gives his reasons.
Thanks LS for his advice and his kind note. When CD thinks how he has been treated he will say to himself "so good a judge as Leslie Stephen thinks nothing of the accusation".
Thanks CD for the offer of one of his books, which he gratefully accepts.
Discusses a lectureship at Aberdeen
and a recent visit to Down.
The Darwin family cannot agree on what CD should do about Butler’s charges [in Unconscious memory]. CD has commissioned HEL to ask LS’s advice. She sends an account of the affair with background materials.