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From J. F. McLennan 13 May 1874
Summary
Bernard Quaritch interested in reprinting Primitive marriage.
| Author: | John Ferguson McLennan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 May 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 22 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9458 |
From J. F. McLennan 21 August 1871
Summary
Thanks CD for helping with arrangements for an American edition [of Primitive marriage (1865)].
He is an old friend of CD’s son-in-law, R. B. Litchfield, and of John Lubbock.
| Author: | John Ferguson McLennan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Aug 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7913 |
From J. F. McLennan 30 July 1877
Summary
Sees abortion as a refinement of infanticide; all such practices originate in female infanticide. Herbert Spencer’s over-speculation.
| Author: | John Ferguson McLennan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 July 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 25 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11082 |
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- … Darwin Library–CUL; see Marginalia 1: 26. In an article in Fortnightly Review , 1 June 1877 ( McLennan 1877 ), McLennan had criticised Herbert Spencer’s remarks on exogamy in his Principles of sociology 1: 649ff. ( Spencer 1876–96 ). See also letter from L. H. Morgan, 26 June 1877 . Eleonora Anne McLennan . Henrietta Emma …
