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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:
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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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Darwin Correspondence Project
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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:
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:
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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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[30 July 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 26
Summary:

Hasty note to express his most decided opinion that letter [to Q. Rev.] should not give a sketch of GHD’s essay – only an explicit denial "& do not allude to me".

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
1 Aug [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 27, 29, 32
Summary:

GHD’s article will not do. It is too long and the denial seems weak and confused; also, it ought to be in the form of a letter to the editor. Encloses draft of the sort of letter of denial he thinks GHD should write.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[5 or 6] Aug 1874
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 28, 30
Summary:

Has no objection to sending GHD’s letter as it is. The only accusation it seems necessary to rebut is about licentiousness. Regrets this is not made more prominent.

Gives some suggestions for GHD’s reply to Mivart’s attack.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[8 Aug 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 31
Summary:

Approves of GHD’s letter [to Q. Rev. 137 (1874): 587–9] and his present plan, which removes all CD’s objections. Will make his own letter to Murray less imperious. "It will be a dreadful evil to me, if … we come to a quarrel."

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[20? Aug 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 38
Summary:

Likes GHD’s article ["Professor Whitney on the origin of language", Contemp. Rev. (1874): 894]. "You have defended me nobly."

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
19 Oct [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 33
Summary:

Advice to GHD on whether to accept invitation to lecture at the Royal Institution.

Murray has sent the Quarterly Review issue. CD has told Murray that he is convinced Mivart is the author and what he thinks of him.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
22 Oct [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 34
Summary:

Sends index [of Descent, 2d ed.] with instructions for proof-reading.

Asks GHD questions about heat transmission; he wants to use it as an analogy to illustrate transmission of motor impulses through leaves of Dionaea.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[24 Oct 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 35
Summary:

Writes about instructions to compositor and return of proofs [of Descent]. Requests return of 2d volume of Descent, to which he may want to refer.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
25 [Oct 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 36
Summary:

Thanks GHD for clear lecture on heat.

Will keep paper on proportion of sexes, in case GHD wants it again.

Wants him to translate some pages of Swedish or Norwegian sent by A. W. Malm, "a good man".

Glad to see the statistical paper ["Theory of exchange value", Fortn. Rev. n.s. 17 (1875): 243–53].

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
5 Nov [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 37
Summary:

Mainly family news.

Eager to read GHD’s political economy MS "though Heaven knows whether I shall understand it".

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
18 Nov [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 39
Summary:

Sends Murray’s report of November sales of CD’s books. "I am well content."

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
27 Nov [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 40
Summary:

CD thinks better of "cousin paper" than GHD does.

With respect to GHD’s "viscous work", remembers endless discussions of movement of viscous matter 20 years back, apropos of movement of glaciers.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
2 Dec [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 41
Summary:

Appleton will bring out the new edition of Descent in the U. S., so GHD’s work will now be in three editions.

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