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To L. H. Morgan   20 January 1872

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

Jan 20. 1872

My dear Mr Morgan

I have received, this morning, your grand work on Consanguinity &c & am astonished at the labour which it must have cost you.1

I am greatly indebted to this proof of your kind feelings towards me & I remain | yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin

Footnotes

1
There is a copy of the 1871 printing of Morgan’s Systems of consanguinity and affinity of the human family (Morgan 1870) in the Darwin Library–Down. Morgan had sent CD an advance copy of the last chapter (see Correspondence vol. 18, letter from L. H. Morgan, 9 August 1870).

Bibliography

Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.

Morgan, Lewis Henry. 1870. Systems of consanguinity and affinity of the human family. Washington: Smithsonian Institution.

Summary

Thanks LHM for his work on consanguinity. [See 7299].

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-8167
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Lewis Henry Morgan
Sent from
Down
Source of text
University of Rochester Libraries, Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation
Physical description
LS 2pp

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8167,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8167.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 20

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