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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
28 Sept [1871]
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library (14)
Summary:

Sends some questions [missing].

Bad health has prevented him from working for six weeks.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 99: 43–46
Summary:

Sends proof of article for Contemporary Review [18 (1871): 443–76].

Is grieved to hear that Mivart is author of Quarterly Review article. THH thought better of him than that.

Compares the Origin to Plato’s Republic: "it will remain fresh for two thousand years".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Sophia E. De Morgan
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[28 September 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.440
Summary:

Has received the packet of letters and has chosen 28 of them. Quite understands that some of the more personal ones should not be included in the memoir. Her strength does not seem equal to the task. Hopes to show the true events connected with University College. Budget of Paradoxes is ready for the press.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project