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Darwin Correspondence Project

To T. H. Huxley   [after 12 January 1875]1

P.S. As I thought it would be most disagreeable to meet Mr. Mivart in London, without a clear understanding of the terms on which we are to stand, I have written him a formal letter, stating his grave offences, and saying that I should never hold any communication with him for the future, and signing “your obedient servant”2

Footnotes

The date is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter to St G. J. Mivart, 12 January 1875.
CD had written to St George Jackson Mivart about an article Mivart had written in the course of which Mivart claimed that George Howard Darwin’s views condoned immorality; see the letter to St G. J. Mivart, 12 January 1875.

Summary

CD has written to Mivart to say that he will never hold any communication with him in future.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-9813
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Thomas Henry Huxley
Sent from
Down
Source of text
DAR 145: 276
Physical description
C 1p inc

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9813,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9813.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23

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