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. . . . “I daresay you'll have heard how the Quarterly Review (in article which we attribute to Mivart) accused me in my marriage article in Contemporary of justifying unrestrained licentiousness & encouragement of prostitution to check population—also my arguments wd justify unnat. offences. A denial by me is to appear in next. Quarterly but I bet the reviewer will tack on some fresh lies. Father wants to have at him legally if he does, but for once I’m milder than he—& I don't think we shd win if we did. …
(also to LD Cambridge Oct 21.74 … “My letter repudiating the charges against me has appeared in the Quarterly with a postscript by the author of the review in wh. he says he didn’t mean to be offensive–-in rather a nasty way tho’.
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Please cite as “FL-1366,” in Ɛpsilon: The Darwin Family Letters Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/darwin-family-letters/letters/FL-1366