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DCP-LETT-8790

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Date:
27 Feb [1873]
Source of text:
LL 3: 176
Summary:

Praises TWH’s Army life in a black regiment [1870]. CD always thought well of Negroes, and is delighted to have his impressions confirmed.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8830

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.

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