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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Dwight Whitney
Date:
5 Aug 1874
Source of text:
Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (William Dwight Whitney Family Papers (MS 555) Box 21, folder 556 1874 Aug 1–12)
Summary:

Praises WDW’s essay on language [North Am. Rev. 119 (1874): 61–88] which argues against Max Müller’s views and is a good defence against an attack made in Quarterly Review on CD’s short discussion of language.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Dwight Whitney
Date:
8 May 1875
Source of text:
Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (William Dwight Whitney Family Papers (MS 555): Box 22, folder 600 1875 May 6-10)
Summary:

Hopes WDW will come to Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
William Dwight Whitney
Date:
9 May [1875]
Source of text:
Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (William Dwight Whitney Family Papers (MS 555): Box 22, folder 600 1875 May 6-10)
Summary:

CD asks her to tell him how sorry he is not to be there to see Whitney today. He hopes that Whitney will give him another chance when next in England.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Dwight Whitney
Date:
1 Sept 1875
Source of text:
Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (William Dwight Whitney Family Papers (MS 555): Box 23, folder 619 1875 Sep. 1-11)
Summary:

Regrets he will not return home in time to see WDW.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
William Dwight Whitney
Date:
21 Dec 1875
Source of text:
Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (William Dwight Whitney Family Papers (MS 555): Box 23, folder 631 1875 Dec. 18-24)
Summary:

Müller has sent Chips [from a German workshop (1867–75)] and a boring defence against WDW’s attack. GHD feels he is maligned for using the weight of CD’s name in his Contemporary Review article. CD says Müller has misinterpreted a letter from CD as supporting him in his controversy with WDW.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Dwight Whitney
Date:
1 Aug [1877]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Sends thanks for a newspaper abstract; will be pleased to see the paper [probably "Economy as a phonetic force", Trans. Am. Philological Assoc.8 (1877): 123–34] when printed.

Sends his own ["Biographical sketch of an infant"], saying it is of little value, the observations having been made before recent advances in philology.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project