From:
Richard Buckley Litchfield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 2 Dec 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 89: 121–7
Summary:
Discussion of H. Spencer’s views on the origin of music.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Discussion of H. Spencer’s views on the origin of music.
Additional errata in Descent.
Advise against making any reply to Samuel Butler’s charges.
Has shown S. Butler’s Athenæum letter to Frederick Pollock, who confirms RBL’s advice that it needs no answer. Sends an imaginary response by Butler.
Thinks Huxley’s judgment on answering S. Butler’s charges would be trustworthy, though THH is horribly pugnacious and would naturally be for fighting.
The Litchfields and George Darwin think care should be taken that E. Krause’s reply to S. Butler’s Unconscious memory does not appear to be instigated by CD. Suggest it be sent to Popular Science Review, not Athenæum.