From L. H. Morgan 26 June 1877
Summary
Criticises Herbert Spencer’s Principles of sociology, particularly for its treatment of the family, for its superficiality, and for its dependence on J. F. McLennan’s views on exogamy. Americans are coming to see Spencer’s ideas as too broad.
| Author: | Lewis Henry Morgan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 June 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 241 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11020 |
From Lewis Henry Morgan 9 August 1870
Summary
Sends last chapter of his book in press [Systems of consanguinity and affinity of the human family vol. 17 in Smithsonian contributions to knowledge (1871)], which supports CD on man.
Ethnology must study the ages of barbarism as the formative portions of man’s physical and mental history.
| Author: | Lewis Henry Morgan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Aug 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 238 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7299 |
From L. H. Morgan 8 June 1871
Summary
Will call tomorrow.
| Author: | Lewis Henry Morgan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 June 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 239 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7812 |
From L. H. Morgan 1 August 1871
Summary
John Lubbock’s paper [? "Remarks on stone implements from western Africa", Rep. BAAS 40 (1870): 154–5] opposes some of his best sustained conclusions.
| Author: | Lewis Henry Morgan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Aug 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 240 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7891 |
From L. H. Morgan [1 August 1871]
Summary
Sends abstract of a paper on hybridity read by Edward Moore to a natural history club in Rochester, NY. Argues the necessity of hybridity on CD’s theory.
| Author: | Lewis Henry Morgan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1 Aug 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 240/1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7891F |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Morgan, L. H. | (5) |
