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From:
Darwin, Ida
To:
Litchfield, R. B.
Date:
8 February 1881
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1088
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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Has shown S. Butler’s Athenæum letter to Frederick Pollock, who confirms RBL’s advice that it needs no answer. Sends an imaginary response by Butler.
Thanks RBL for advice [concerning dispute with Samuel Butler]. Notes reaction of family.
Thinks Huxley’s judgment on answering S. Butler’s charges would be trustworthy, though THH is horribly pugnacious and would naturally be for fighting.
Advise against making any reply to Samuel Butler’s charges.
The Litchfields and George Darwin think care should be taken that E. Krause’s reply to S. Butler’s Unconscious memory does not appear to be instigated by CD. Suggest it be sent to Popular Science Review, not Athenæum.