To F. E. Abbot 15 April 1880
Summary
Thanks FEA for copy of a review of a book on evolution by "an ignorant lawyer".
Sends £5 for Index subscription.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Ellingwood Abbot |
| Date: | 15 Apr 1880 |
| Classmark: | Harvard University Archives (Papers of F. E. Abbot, 1841–1904. Named Correspondence, 1857–1903. Letter, C. R. Darwin to F. E. Abbot (15 April 1880), in folder Darwin, Charles and W. E. Darwin (son), 1871–1883, box 44. HUG 1101) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12577 |
From Samuel Butler 21 January 1880
Summary
SB has decided to lay the matter [the subject of 12393 and 12396] before the public and has written to the Athenæum stating the facts. [Athenæum 31 Jan 1880.]
| Author: | Samuel Butler |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: B67 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12438 |
From R. B. Litchfield 1 February 1880
Summary
Has shown S. Butler’s Athenæum letter to Frederick Pollock, who confirms RBL’s advice that it needs no answer. Sends an imaginary response by Butler.
| Author: | Richard Buckley Litchfield |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Feb 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: B75–8, 81 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12448 |
From S. T. Preston 20 May 1880
Summary
Thanks for CD’s comments on his paper ["On a point relating to brain dynamics", Nature 22 (1880): 29–30].
Contends that self-interest as a motive for conduct is more salutary than is generally thought, and should be considered in the evolution of morality.
| Author: | Samuel Tolver Preston |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 May 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 174: 61 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12610 |
From O. A. Ainslie 2[5] November 188[0]
Summary
Thanks for CD’s letter, and further discussion of the sale of Tromer Lodge.
| Author: | Oliver Alexander Ainslie |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2[5] Nov 188[0] |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 11b |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12388 |
To H. E. Litchfield 1 February [1880]
Summary
Sends the Litchfields two drafts of a letter in reply to Samuel Butler’s letter to the Athenæum; hopes for their approval.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | 1 Feb [1880] |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: B98–101, B102, B121; DAR 185: 40 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12445 |
| letter | (6) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Ainslie, O. A. | (1) |
| Butler, Samuel (b) | (1) |
| Litchfield, R. B. | (1) |
| Preston, S. T. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Abbot, F. E. | (1) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (1) |
| Litchfield, H. E. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Abbot, F. E. | (1) |
| Ainslie, O. A. | (1) |
| Butler, Samuel (b) | (1) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (1) |
| Litchfield, H. E. | (1) |
| Litchfield, R. B. | (1) |
| Preston, S. T. | (1) |
