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From Frederic Harrison to G. H. Darwin   15 June [1877]1

1 Southwick Place

June 15.

Dear Darwin,

I have no intention of pressing the Michelet scheme on your father or on any one. The indefatigable widow speaks so much of him, that I thought there had been some friendship.2

We go next week to Sutton Place till August, when we intend going in force to Fontainbleau for a couple of months, if the Prussians do not anticipate us.3

Yrs ever | F. Harrison.

1
The year is established by the date of CD’s contribution to the Michelet memorial as recorded in his account books (see letter from Frederic Harrison to G. H. Darwin, 27 June [1877] and n. 2).
2
Harrison was raising contributions for a memorial to Jules Michelet at the request of his widow, Athénaïs Michelet (see letter from Frederic Harrison to G. H. Darwin, 13 June [1877] and n. 2).
3
Sutton Place in Surrey was the home of Harrison’s father, Frederick Harrison (F. Harrison 1893). Fontainbleau is a town approximately thirty-one miles south of Paris. A constitutional crisis had arisen in Paris in May 1877 (see Annual register (1877): 133–9); however, no Prussian troops invaded France. For more on the political crisis in France, see the letter from C.-F. Reinwald, 13 October 1877 and n. 4.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-11001F,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-11001F