From:
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 166: 198
Summary:
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project