To G. H. Darwin [30 July 1874]1
[Bassett, Southampton.]
Thursday Even
My dear G
Postman will go in one minute.— I will write tomorrow, but write now only to express my most decided opinion that your letter shd. by no means give sketch of your essay only a most explicit denial & do not allude to me.2
yours | C. D.
Footnotes
Bibliography
[Mivart, St George Jackson.] 1874b. Primitive man: Tylor and Lubbock. [Essay review of the works of John Lubbock and Edward Burnett Tylor.] Quarterly Review 137 (1874): 40–77.
Summary
Hasty note to express his most decided opinion that letter [to Q. Rev.] should not give a sketch of GHD’s essay – only an explicit denial "& do not allude to me".
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9576
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- George Howard Darwin
- Sent from
- Bassett
- Source of text
- DAR 210.1: 26
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9576,” accessed on 29 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9576.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 22