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From:
Balfour, F. M.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[1874]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1892
Summary:

No summary available.

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Darwin Family Letters
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Henry Rayner
Date:
28 Jan 1874
Source of text:
Bernard Quaritch (dealers) (2003, 2007)
Summary:

Gives his and CD’s thanks for information on consanguinity among parents of asylum inmates.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
30 Jan [1874?]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 152
Summary:

Returns and sends comments on Clarke Hawkshaw’s essay ‘The persistence of forms of life in the depths of the sea’.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Jan 1874
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 32
Summary:

Has finished the index [for Descent, 2d ed.].

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 33
Summary:

Finds statistical evidence that cousin marriages are at least three times as frequent in "our rank" as in the lower.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Farrer, K. E.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
20 February [1874–7]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1538
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Apr 1874
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 34
Summary:

Sends queries [on proofs of Descent, 2d ed.]. Will be finished, except for the index, in two days.

Is now less satisfied than formerly with his statistics on cousin marriage.

[Enclosure is a copy by GHD of J. S. Mill’s statement about Origin (Logic 2: 18 n.).]

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
19 Apr [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 19
Summary:

Is sorry to hear the news about the cousin question – a real misfortune.

Congratulates GHD on being nearly finished with work on Descent.

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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Apr 1874
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 35
Summary:

Sends Descent material. Is staggered by CD’s power of marshalling facts and his conciseness and clearness of thought. The only fault he finds is some slight want of conciseness of diction.

He feels CD’s power more now "that I quail before the thought of arranging the few paltry facts I’ve got about those d––d cousins".

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[21 Apr 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 20
Summary:

GHD’s corrections seem very good. Murray hopes there will be few corrections in Descent. CD assured him no changes have been made merely for improving style.

Wants very much to hear about "the terrible cousin affair".

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From:
Myers, F. W. H.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[May 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 2357
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
27 May [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 21
Summary:

D. A. Spalding has asked for information to help with his experiments on sense of direction in animals. Has arrived at same results as GHD with blindfolded children. Will GHD let him have his results?

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[29 May 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 22
Summary:

CD has forwarded proofs of Descent [2d edition]. Urges GHD not to work on them if his poor health makes them too tiring.

Thanks GHD about Spalding [i.e., for responding to Spalding’s request, see 9472].

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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 May 1874
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 36
Summary:

Intends to keep working on [Descent, 2d ed.] proofs despite his illness.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
10 June 1874
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 23
Summary:

Comments on GHD’s paper ["Marriages between first cousins in England and their effects", Fortn. Rev. n.s. 18 (1875): 22–41]. Hopes it will be published and read at the Statistical Society.

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From:
Wedgwood, Hensleigh
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
15 June 1874
Source of text:
DAR 251: 2358
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, E. A.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
26 June [1874–6]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 788
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
2 July 1874
Source of text:
DAR 245: 301
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, G. H.
To:
Galton, E. S.
Date:
25 July 1874
Source of text:
DAR 210.14: 6
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[27 July 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 25
Summary:

Advises GHD to get an eminent counsel. If counsel’s opinion is that the reviewer [Mivart, in "Primitive man", Q. Rev. 137 (1874): 40–77] has falsified GHD’s statements, GHD should send the opinion to the Quarterly Review and demand publication, and if refused publish elsewhere. Then CD must decide whether to cut John Murray [publisher of Q. Rev.] which will put CD in a nice perplexity [over his rights to the stereotyped editions of past works].

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