From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Date:
[18 May 1878]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (MS Am 1162.10: 200)
Summary:
Glad to see TWH for Sunday dinner.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Glad to see TWH for Sunday dinner.
Regrets that the arrangement to visit Down must be for Friday.
Praises TWH’s Army life in a black regiment [1870]. CD always thought well of Negroes, and is delighted to have his impressions confirmed.
Pleased CD enjoyed his book [Outdoor papers (1871)].
Rejoices at CD’s kindly feelings toward the coloured race.
The Index is in financial trouble due to F. E. Abbot’s unworldliness.
Agassiz is setting up a summer school for natural history off the Massachusetts coast. His pupils develop more liberal scientific opinions than Agassiz’s.
Encloses some notes on expression.
CD will be glad to see TWH on Friday next, and invites him to stay the night.