From T. H. Huxley 28 September 1871
Summary
Sends proof of article for Contemporary Review [18 (1871): 443–76].
Is grieved to hear that Mivart is author of Quarterly Review article. THH thought better of him than that.
Compares the Origin to Plato’s Republic: "it will remain fresh for two thousand years".
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Sept 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 43–46 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7973 |
To Albert Günther 28 September [1871]
Summary
Sends some questions [missing].
Bad health has prevented him from working for six weeks.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
| Date: | 28 Sept [1871] |
| Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library (14) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7974 |
From E. B. Tylor 29 September 1871
Summary
Thanks for CD’s praise of his book [Primitive culture (1871)], wonders if he should abridge part into a small popular volume.
| Author: | Edward Burnett Tylor |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Sept 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 202 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7975 |
To T. H. Huxley 30 September [1871]
Summary
On THH’s review [see 7977] of Mivart’s Genesis of species and the Quarterly Review article on Descent.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 30 Sept [1871] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 283) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7976 |
To J. D. Hooker 30 September [1871]
Summary
Sends proofs of Huxley’s article on Mivart, to be published in Contemporary Review ["Mr Darwin’s critics", 18 (1871): 443–76].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 30 Sept [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 206 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7977 |
From Thomas Druitt 30 September 1871
Summary
Sends CD £100 as requested. Gives information on bonds purchased on CD’s behalf.
| Author: | Thomas Druitt |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Sept 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 262.11: 8 (EH 88206060) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7978 |
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| Reade, W. W. | (5) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (4) |
| Bartlett, Edward | (2) |
| Carboni, Giuseppe | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (33) |
| Bartlett, A. D. | (2) |
| Busk, George | (2) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (63) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (5) |
| Reade, W. W. | (5) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (4) |
| Ramu, H. | (4) |
