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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
[6–12 Jan 1877]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/23)
Summary:

Has received French essay on effects of conscription on [decreasing] height of men, due to unfit left at home to propagate race. Would FG care to see it?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
9 Jan [1877]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/22)
Summary:

Can FG come to lunch on Sunday? George Darwin wants to meet him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
11 Feb [1877]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/24)
Summary:

Sends enclosure regarding inherited handwriting from Life, letters, and journals of George Ticknor [ed. G. S. Hillard (1876)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Croom Robertson
Date:
27 Apr 1877
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (Croom Robertson: MS ADD 88/9–15/11)
Summary:

CD submits his paper ["A biographical sketch of an infant", Collected papers 2: 191–200] for possible publication.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Croom Robertson
Date:
22 May 1877
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (Croom Robertson: MS ADD 88/9–15/11)
Summary:

CD is gratified that GCR thinks "Sketch of an infant" [Collected papers 2: 191–200] worth publishing. Returns corrected proofs. Assures GCR he took pains to observe carefully.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Croom Robertson
Date:
22 June [1877]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (Croom Robertson: MS ADD 88/9–15/11)
Summary:

Has no objection to the flattering wish of the Cologne Gazette [to publish a translation of "Sketch of an infant", Collected papers 2: 191–200], but wishes the editor had first read the article. Still doubts it was worthy of admission to Mind.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project