From F. E. Abbot 20 August 1871
Summary
Thanks CD for interest in FEA’s work and for money for Index. Sends 1870 volume of Index.
Praises CD’s services to free-thought.
Asks for CD’s view of the influence of his theory on religion, to use in lecture.
| Author: | Francis Ellingwood Abbot |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Aug 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7912 |
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- … 1870. ] Truths for the times. Mount Pleasant, Ramsgate: Thomas Scott. Abbot, Francis Ellingwood. 1871. The intuitional and scientific schools of free religion. [Read 5 February 1871. ] Index 2: 113–15. Origin : On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. …
From F. E. Abbot 18 July 1872
Summary
Thanks CD for five dollars and two-year subscription to Index, and for permission to quote CD’s compliments on Truths for the times.
| Author: | Francis Ellingwood Abbot |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 July 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8417 |
From F. E. Abbot to W. E. Darwin 19 January 1876
Summary
Thanks WED for his letter of 20 December 1875. Is surprised and delighted by the support from WED and CD for the Index.
| Author: | Francis Ellingwood Abbot |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Jan 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.7: 5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10362G |
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- … Darwin to F. E. Abbot, 20 December 1875 ). For more on Abbot’s religious and philosophical views, his editorship of the Index , his financial problems, and his disagreements with the Unitarian church, see Ahlstrom and Mullin 1987 and W. Creighton Peden, ‘ Francis Ellingwood Abbot ’, Dictionary of Universalist and Unitarian biography , uudb.org/articles/francisellingwoodabbot.html (accessed 6 January 2015). Abbot founded the Index in Toledo, Ohio, in 1870 …
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| letter | (3) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Abbot, F. E. | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
