To Lawson Tait 17 January [1877]
Summary
CD has only a trifling point to make in criticism [of RLT’s excerpt from Diseases of women]: he believes "the high value of well-bred males is due to their transmitting their good qualities to a far greater number of offspring than can the female".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Date: | 17 Jan [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 221.5: 37 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10800 |
To Lawson Tait 15 June [1877]
Summary
Thanks RLT for his work, Diseases of women.
CD is also interested by RLT’s letter reporting a cat rearing chickens. "What a wonderful instinct is the maternal one."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Date: | 15 June [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 221.5: 39 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11001 |
To Lawson Tait 13 November [1877]
Summary
CD declines to write for RLT’s new journal. He is not fitted for the work and dislikes it particularly. It costs loss of time as he "cannot change with ease from one job to another".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Date: | 13 Nov [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 221.5: 40 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11235 |
From Lawson Tait 16 January 1877
Summary
Is writing Diseases of women [1877]; sends some proof-sheets for criticism.
| Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Jan 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 36 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10795 |
From Lawson Tait 14 February 1877
Summary
Sends another extract [from Diseases of women (1877)].
Has reviewed Cross and self-fertilisation in the Spectator.
| Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Feb 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 37 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10844 |
From Lawson Tait 25 February 1877
Summary
Wants to know how to obtain The thoughts of Marcus Aurelius, mentioned in Descent [1: 106].
| Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Feb 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 38 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10868 |
From Lawson Tait 13 June [1877]
Summary
Forwards a copy of his book Diseases of women [1877].
| Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 June [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 39 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10999 |
From Lawson Tait 31 December [1877]
Summary
Speculation on the process by which tails have been lost; believes he has evidence from man that it is related to spina bifida.
| Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Dec [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 40 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11297 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Tait, Lawson | (3) |
