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From:
Edward Burnett Tylor
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Nov 1876
Source of text:
DAR 178: 205
Summary:

Is attempting to write a book on elementary lessons in anthropology [Anthropology (1881)] and wonders whether CD’s son [Francis] would care to collaborate and aid him with the biological parts.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Burnett Tylor
Date:
12 Nov 1876
Source of text:
Kew Books (dealers) Newsletter 6 (1976)
Summary:

Responds to request that his son [Francis] aid EBT with book. Comments on EBT’s excellence as anthropologist.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Burnett Tylor
Date:
25 June 1870
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 50254: 33–4)
Summary:

Mentions passage on gestures in EBT’s Early history of mankind [1865].

Asks Tylor whether the deaf and dumb use opposite signs for objects, qualities, etc., of an opposite nature.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Robson Scott
To:
Edward Burnett Tylor
Date:
28 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 177: 124
Summary:

Speculates on the origin of gestures representing good and bad or approval and disapproval;

discusses signs used in teaching the deaf and dumb, particularly the use of opposites [see 7244].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Burnett Tylor
Date:
30 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 50254: 37–8)
Summary:

Thanks EBT for present of Primitive culture [1871]. Feels certain he will regret not having read it before writing Descent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Burnett Tylor
Date:
24 Sept [1871]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 50254: 41–2)
Summary:

CD most interested by Primitive culture [1871]. Impressed by EBT’s account of development of religious beliefs and of the survival of old customs. Hopes EBT will treat morals.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Burnett Tylor
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 178: 202
Summary:

Thanks for CD’s praise of his book [Primitive culture (1871)], wonders if he should abridge part into a small popular volume.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Burnett Tylor
Date:
2 Oct [1871]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 50524: 44–6)
Summary:

CD advises publishing a short version of Primitive culture [1871] for the general reader.

Would like to see EBT, but his health has been bad and conversation is extremely tiring.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Burnett Tylor
Date:
[28 Jan 1875]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 50254 ff. 81–2)
Summary:

The review of EBT’s book ["Primitive Man: Tylor and Lubbock"] in the Quarterly Review [137: 40–77] last year contained a false and malicious attack on CD’s son George. CD knows it was written by St George Mivart. CD wishes to take every opportunity to say how false a man he considers him to be.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Burnett Tylor
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Jan [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 203
Summary:

Does CD think it desirable for EBT’s wife to produce a new English translation of A. E. Brehm’s work [Illustrirtes Thierleben (1864–7)]?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Burnett Tylor
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 May 1875
Source of text:
DAR 178: 204
Summary:

EBT’s brother, Alfred Tylor, wishes to visit CD with George Young.

AT’s "pluvial period" theory.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project