To E. B. Tylor 12 November 1876
Summary
Responds to request that his son [Francis] aid EBT with book. Comments on EBT’s excellence as anthropologist.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Burnett Tylor |
| Date: | 12 Nov 1876 |
| Classmark: | Kew Books (dealers) Newsletter 6 (1976) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10669 |
To E. B. Tylor 19 June [1880]
Summary
Discusses animals’ ability to learn to recognise danger, especially poisonous herbs.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Burnett Tylor |
| Date: | 19 June [1880] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 50254: 96–8) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12641 |
To E. B. Tylor 29 March 1881
Summary
Thanks EBT for gift of Anthropology [1881].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Burnett Tylor |
| Date: | 29 Mar 1881 |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 50254 f. 104) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13101 |
To Edward Burnett Tylor 25 June 1870
Summary
Mentions passage on gestures in EBT’s Early history of mankind [1865].
Asks Tylor whether the deaf and dumb use opposite signs for objects, qualities, etc., of an opposite nature.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Burnett Tylor |
| Date: | 25 June 1870 |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 50254: 33–4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7244 |
To E. B. Tylor 30 April [1871]
Summary
Thanks EBT for present of Primitive culture [1871]. Feels certain he will regret not having read it before writing Descent.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Burnett Tylor |
| Date: | 30 Apr [1871] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 50254: 37–8) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7727 |
To E. B. Tylor 24 September [1871]
Summary
CD most interested by Primitive culture [1871]. Impressed by EBT’s account of development of religious beliefs and of the survival of old customs. Hopes EBT will treat morals.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Burnett Tylor |
| Date: | 24 Sept [1871] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 50254: 41–2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7966 |
To E. B. Tylor 2 October [1871]
Summary
CD advises publishing a short version of Primitive culture [1871] for the general reader.
Would like to see EBT, but his health has been bad and conversation is extremely tiring.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Burnett Tylor |
| Date: | 2 Oct [1871] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 50524: 44–6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7982 |
To E. B. Tylor [28 January 1875]
Summary
The review of EBT’s book ["Primitive Man: Tylor and Lubbock"] in the Quarterly Review [137: 40–77] last year contained a false and malicious attack on CD’s son George. CD knows it was written by St George Mivart. CD wishes to take every opportunity to say how false a man he considers him to be.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Burnett Tylor |
| Date: | [28 Jan 1875] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 50254 ff. 81–2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9832 |
