From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arnold Dodel-Port
Date:
27 Dec 1874
Source of text:
Zentralbibliothek, Zürich (Ms. Z VIII 417.2)
Summary:
Thanks AD-P for the copy of his work [see 9756].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Thanks AD-P for the copy of his work [see 9756].
Has not heard from Mivart. He is not so good a Christian as JDH and cannot forgive a man for malicious lying merely because he says he is sorry. Does not think Mivart will apologise. Still thinks the simple, most manly thing, is to write to Mivart directly and tell him what he thinks of him.
Discourages grafting ears of rabbits. Suggests comb of fowl.
Asks JT to persuade Lady Lubbock to change physicians and put herself in the care of Andrew Clark. Thinks this alone will save her.