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DCP-LETT-9585

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Aug 1874
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 38
Summary:

Regrets he cannot follow the line of denial CD suggests. Explains why he must defend himself against charge that he approves of oppressive laws.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-9588

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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DCP-LETT-9584

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Thomas Knowles
Date:
5 Aug 1874
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection
Summary:

CD understands JTK’s reasons [for not republishing W. D. Whitney’s article]. Cannot undertake to write anything himself; he needs rest and is unwilling to enter into controversy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC1217

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
5 August 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.232-234, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-9587

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Aug 1874
Source of text:
DAR 106: C16
Summary:

Asks CD to look over those parts of the proofs of his Belfast address [Rep. BAAS 44 (1874): lxvi–xcvii] that mention CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-9583

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

DCP-LETT-9586

From:
Henry Marlow Wilkinson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Aug 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 84–5
Summary:

Reports his observations of Utricularia [in their natural state] as CD requested.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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