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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?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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
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].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Galton, E. S.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
30 July 1874
Source of text:
DAR 210.14: 8
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[6 August 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1630
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Wedgwood, Hensleigh
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
1 September [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 2359
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[October 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1534
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
