From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maurice Hawley Truelove
Date:
1 July 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.539)
Summary:
Regrets he cannot sign a memorial for correspondent’s father [Edward Truelove], which states an opinion on a life that is totally unknown to him. Feels that Edward Truelove’s sentence was very harsh [ET was imprisoned and fined for selling "obscene" publications advocating artificial control of conception] even though CD is strongly opposed to all the views expressed.
Comments on R. D. Owen’s Moral physiology [1831].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
