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To Charles Bradlaugh   6 June 1877

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CD would prefer not to be a witness in court. In any case CD’s opinion is strongly opposed to that of CB and Annie Besant. Has read only notices of their book [Charles Knowlton, Fruits of philosophy, with preface by the publishers A. Besant and C. Bradlaugh (1877)] but believes artificial checks to the natural rate of human increase are very undesirable and that the use of artificial means to prevent conception would soon destroy chastity and, ultimately, the family.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Bradlaugh
Date:  6 June 1877
Classmark:  DAR 202: 32
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10988

From Charles Bradlaugh   5 June 1877

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Wants to subpoena CD in a case pending against himself and Annie Besant, to be tried 18 June. [Bradlaugh and Besant were indicted for issuing an "obscene libel".]

Author:  Charles Bradlaugh
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  5 June 1877
Classmark:  DAR 160: 275
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10984
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