From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Buckley Litchfield
Date:
2 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 146: 56
Summary:
Thanks RBL for advice [concerning dispute with Samuel Butler]. Notes reaction of family.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Thanks RBL for advice [concerning dispute with Samuel Butler]. Notes reaction of family.
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.
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.