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From:
Leonard Darwin
To:
Leslie Stephen
Date:
[10 Jan 1881]
Source of text:
The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature (MSS Stephen)
Summary:

Suggests an errata slip for preface to Erasmus Darwin would correct the inaccurate statement regarding publication of Butler’s Evolution old and new.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
To:
Leslie Stephen
Date:
10 Jan 1881
Source of text:
The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature (MSS Stephen)
Summary:

The Darwin family cannot agree on what CD should do about Butler’s charges [in Unconscious memory]. CD has commissioned HEL to ask LS’s advice. She sends an account of the affair with background materials.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leslie Stephen
Date:
11 Jan 1881
Source of text:
The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature (MSS Stephen)
Summary:

Discusses allegation [about Erasmus Darwin] made by Samuel Butler. Will value LS’s verdict highly.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leslie Stephen
Date:
13 Jan 1881
Source of text:
Stockholms Auktionsverk (dealers) (15 December 2015)
Summary:

Thanks LS for his advice and his kind note. When CD thinks how he has been treated he will say to himself "so good a judge as Leslie Stephen thinks nothing of the accusation".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project