From T. H. Huxley 31 March 1874
Summary
His note on brain [in man and apes for 2d ed. of Descent] nearly finished.
Has heard nothing about Dohrn.
THH has been invited to lecture in America.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Mar 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 332 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9380 |
To G. H. Darwin [27 July 1874]
Summary
Advises GHD to get an eminent counsel. If counsel’s opinion is that the reviewer [Mivart, in "Primitive man", Q. Rev. 137 (1874): 40–77] has falsified GHD’s statements, GHD should send the opinion to the Quarterly Review and demand publication, and if refused publish elsewhere. Then CD must decide whether to cut John Murray [publisher of Q. Rev.] which will put CD in a nice perplexity [over his rights to the stereotyped editions of past works].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | [27 July 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 25 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9568 |
From G. H. Darwin 24 October 1874
Summary
GHD explains conduction, radiation, and convection.
His paper on political economy for Royal Institution lecture has reached 60 pages. Plans to send it to Contemporary Review.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Oct 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.2: 54; 210.2: 42 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9695 |
From Eliza Meteyard 27 June 1874
Summary
Her memorial has passed and her civil list pension has been increased to £100 per annum for life.
Dr Johnson of Shrewsbury has R. W. Darwin letters.
| Author: | Eliza Meteyard |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 June 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 164 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9518 |
From T. G. Appleton 2 April 1874
Summary
Sends old Japanese picture suggesting evolution, found by Charles Longfellow.
Is pleased to hear CD attended a séance [18 Jan 1874]; asks for his views about communication among spirits.
| Author: | Thomas Gold Appleton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Apr 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 113 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9385 |
To T. H. Huxley 29 January [1874]
Summary
Discusses THH’s account of the séance. CD convinced all are fraudulent.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 29 Jan [1874] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 377) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9258 |
From T. L. Brunton 2 November [1874]
Summary
CD may keep the photograph of "the holy Mary of Egypt". TLB may have been led away by his imagination in thinking that one side of the face expressed repentance and the other devout joy.
Comments on David Ferrier’s observations on electrical stimulation of the brain. Extent of response relates to intensity of stimulus.
Crichton-Browne’s observations on the asymmetry of convolutions on the two sides of the brains of maniacs.
| Author: | Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Nov [1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 342 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9705 |
To J. D. Hooker 18 January [1874]
Summary
Reports on a séance. "The Lord have mercy on us all if we have to believe in such rubbish."
Asks JDH to vote for his nephew, Henry Parker, for Athenaeum membership.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 18 Jan [1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 311–12 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9247 |
From T. H. Huxley 27 January 1874
Summary
Reports to CD on a spiritualist séance attended by himself (incognito) and G. H. Darwin.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Jan 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 154: 128 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9256 |
| letter | (9) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
| Appleton, T. G. | (1) |
| Brunton, T. L. | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Appleton, T. G. | (1) |
| Brunton, T. L. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (3) |
| Meteyard, Eliza | (1) |
