From E. B. Tylor 11 November 1876
Athenæum Club | Pall Mall S.W.
Nov. 11. 76
Dear Mr Darwin
I think I mentioned to you some while since that I was trying to write for Macmillan an “Elementary Lessons in Anthropology.”1 This attempt has been a cause of great trouble and waste of labour to me, inasmuch as though I can write with something like satisfaction on questions of Culture, Language &c. I fail to deal as I should wish with the zoological & biological place of man, the physical classification of races, &c. I now wish to ask if your son who understands anatomy & has written on breeds, would like to collaborate with me, so that we could turn out the little volume between us.2 If you do not think well of this suggestion, it need go no further, but if you mention it to your son, & he thinks it might come to something, perhaps he would manage to meet me in town & talk it over. I expect to leave for Wellington3 on Wednesday or Thursday, so the best days would be Monday or Tuesday. Whatever happens, I should much value your advice in the matter
Believe me My dear Sir Yours truly | Edward B. Tylor
Chas. Darwin Esq
Footnotes
Bibliography
Tylor, Edward Burnett. 1881. Anthropology: an introduction to the study of man and civilization. London: Macmillan & Co.
Summary
Is attempting to write a book on elementary lessons in anthropology [Anthropology (1881)] and wonders whether CD’s son [Francis] would care to collaborate and aid him with the biological parts.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10667
- From
- Edward Burnett Tylor
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Athenaeum Club
- Source of text
- DAR 178: 205
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10667,” accessed on 28 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10667.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24