To G. H. Darwin [30 July 1874]
Summary
Hasty note to express his most decided opinion that letter [to Q. Rev.] should not give a sketch of GHD’s essay – only an explicit denial "& do not allude to me".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [30 July 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 26 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9576 |
To G. H. Darwin 1 August [1874]
Summary
GHD’s article will not do. It is too long and the denial seems weak and confused; also, it ought to be in the form of a letter to the editor. Encloses draft of the sort of letter of denial he thinks GHD should write.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 1 Aug [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 27, 29, 32 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9580 |
To G. H. Darwin [5 or 6 August 1874]
Summary
Has no objection to sending GHD’s letter as it is. The only accusation it seems necessary to rebut is about licentiousness. Regrets this is not made more prominent.
Gives some suggestions for GHD’s reply to Mivart’s attack.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [5 or 6] Aug 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 28, 30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9588 |
DCP-LETT-9589
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 28 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9589 |
To G. H. Darwin [8 August 1874]
Summary
Approves of GHD’s letter [to Q. Rev. 137 (1874): 587–9] and his present plan, which removes all CD’s objections. Will make his own letter to Murray less imperious. "It will be a dreadful evil to me, if … we come to a quarrel."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [8 Aug 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 31 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9596 |
To G. H. Darwin 19 October [1874]
Summary
Advice to GHD on whether to accept invitation to lecture at the Royal Institution.
Murray has sent the Quarterly Review issue. CD has told Murray that he is convinced Mivart is the author and what he thinks of him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 19 Oct [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 33 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9687 |
To G. H. Darwin 22 October [1874]
Summary
Sends index [of Descent, 2d ed.] with instructions for proof-reading.
Asks GHD questions about heat transmission; he wants to use it as an analogy to illustrate transmission of motor impulses through leaves of Dionaea.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 22 Oct [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 34 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9693 |
To G. H. Darwin [24 October 1874]
Summary
Writes about instructions to compositor and return of proofs [of Descent]. Requests return of 2d volume of Descent, to which he may want to refer.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [24 Oct 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 35 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9696 |
To G. H. Darwin 25 [October 1874]
Summary
Thanks GHD for clear lecture on heat.
Will keep paper on proportion of sexes, in case GHD wants it again.
Wants him to translate some pages of Swedish or Norwegian sent by A. W. Malm, "a good man".
Glad to see the statistical paper ["Theory of exchange value", Fortn. Rev. n.s. 17 (1875): 243–53].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 25 [Oct 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 36 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9697 |
To G. H. Darwin [20? August 1874]
Summary
Likes GHD’s article ["Professor Whitney on the origin of language", Contemp. Rev. (1874): 894]. "You have defended me nobly."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [20? Aug 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 38 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9711 |
To G. H. Darwin 5 November [1874]
Summary
Mainly family news.
Eager to read GHD’s political economy MS "though Heaven knows whether I shall understand it".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 5 Nov [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 37 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9712 |
To G. H. Darwin 18 November [1874]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 18 Nov [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 39 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9724 |
To G. H. Darwin 27 November [1874]
Summary
CD thinks better of "cousin paper" than GHD does.
With respect to GHD’s "viscous work", remembers endless discussions of movement of viscous matter 20 years back, apropos of movement of glaciers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 27 Nov [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9735 |
To G. H. Darwin 2 December [1874]
Summary
Appleton will bring out the new edition of Descent in the U. S., so GHD’s work will now be in three editions.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 2 Dec [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 41 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9741 |
To G. H. Darwin [6 December 1874]
Summary
Returns historical sketch [of GHD’s "cousin paper"?] with comments. "For Heavens sake put a sentence in some conspicuous place that your results seem to indicate that consanguineous marriage, as far as insanity is concerned, cannot be injurious in any very high degree."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [6 Dec 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 42 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9746 |
To G. H. Darwin 10 [February 1875]
Summary
J. T. Knowles [editor of Contemp. Rev.] hopes W. D. Whitney’s article will be a long one.
CD is sorry about GHD’s account of his low spirits. "I know well the feeling of life being objectless & all being vanity of vanities."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 10 [Feb 1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 44 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9851 |
To G. H. Darwin 2 [April 1875]
Summary
CD recounts events of the April-fool’s day séance at Hensleigh [Wedgwood]’s. Asks GHD to find out whether Sidgwick’s account of it agrees with what he has heard. "What rubbish the whole does seem to be!"
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 2 [Apr 1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 45 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9911 |
From G. H. Darwin 20 August 1875
Summary
CD’s suspicions that Legrain falsified experiments on interbred rabbits are like second sight. Has sent a copy of the letter to A. H. Huth.
Henry Sidgwick and A. J. Balfour are "spiritualising" again.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Aug 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 47 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10129 |
From G. H. Darwin 12 October 1875
Summary
Sends an article for CD’s opinion.
Has finished an account of the globes for the Philosophical Magazine ["On maps of the world", 50 (1875): 431–44].
His poor health has interfered with his pitch experiments.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Oct 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 48 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10191 |
From G. H. Darwin [26 October 1875]
Summary
Has sent a copy [of his article on cousin marriage] to Hermann Müller.
Problem he is now working on is a tough nut: "It does not do what [James Clerk] Maxwell said it wd or ought to do".
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [26 Oct 1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 49 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10226 |
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