To E. B. Tylor [28 January 1875]
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
My dear Sir
I have forwarded the certificate to Sir J. Lubbock. As I do not know Col: Fox personally I could sign only from general knowledge & this I have done with much pleasure.1
You will remember the review on your works in the Quarterly last year. This article contained a deliberately false & malicious attack on my son George.2 I am justified in saying this as Huxley Hooker & others compared my son’s Article with the Review, & as Hooker told Mr Murray it was “as base as it was baseless”.3 I know positively that this article was written by Mr Mivart & I wish to take every opportunity of saying how false a man I consider him to be
My dear Sir | Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
[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
The review of EBT’s book ["Primitive Man: Tylor and Lubbock"] in the Quarterly Review [137: 40–77] last year contained a false and malicious attack on CD’s son George. CD knows it was written by St George Mivart. CD wishes to take every opportunity to say how false a man he considers him to be.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9832
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Edward Burnett Tylor
- Sent from
- Down
- Postmark
- JA 28 75
- Source of text
- The British Library (Add MS 50254 ff. 81–2)
- Physical description
- LS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9832,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9832.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23
