From Charles Bradlaugh 5 June 1877

10, Portland Place, | Circus Road, | London, N.W.

June 5^th. 1877

Sir

I want to subpœna you in an indictment now pending against myself & Mrs Annie Besant, which will be tried June 18^th.¹

Would you kindly say when it will be convenient for me to send & serve you.

Yours obediently | C. Bradlaugh

Charles Darwin Esq^re. M.A.

Bradlaugh and Besant were prosecuted for obscenity for re-publishing a birth-control pamphlet (Knowlton 1832). For details of the charges brought against Bradlaugh and Besant, and the resulting trial, see Manvell 1976.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-10984,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-10984

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Wants to subpoena CD in a case pending against himself and Annie Besant, to be tried 18 June. [Bradlaugh and Besant were indicted for issuing an "obscene libel".]

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Record number: DCP-LETT-10984
From: Charles Bradlaugh
To: Charles Robert Darwin
Date: 5 June 1877
Sent from: London, Portland Place, 10
Source of text: DAR 160: 275
Physical description: 1p

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Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 25.

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