To G. H. Darwin 30 January [1874?]
Summary
Returns and sends comments on Clarke Hawkshaw’s essay ‘The persistence of forms of life in the depths of the sea’.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 30 Jan [1874?] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 152 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7466F |
To G. H. Darwin 12 [December 1874 or January 1875?]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 12 [Dec 1874 - Jan 1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 43 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9221 |
From G. H. Darwin to Henry Rayner 28 January 1874
Summary
Gives his and CD’s thanks for information on consanguinity among parents of asylum inmates.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Rayner |
Date: | 28 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | Bernard Quaritch (dealers) (2003, 2007) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9257F |
From G. H. Darwin 31 January 1874
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 32 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9260 |
From G. H. Darwin 6 February 1874
Summary
Finds statistical evidence that cousin marriages are at least three times as frequent in "our rank" as in the lower.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Feb 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 33 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9268 |
From G. H. Darwin 18 April 1874
Summary
Sends queries [on proofs of Descent, 2d ed.]. Will be finished, except for the index, in two days.
Is now less satisfied than formerly with his statistics on cousin marriage.
[Enclosure is a copy by GHD of J. S. Mill’s statement about Origin (Logic 2: 18 n.).]
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Apr 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 34 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9417 |
To G. H. Darwin 19 April [1874]
Summary
Is sorry to hear the news about the cousin question – a real misfortune.
Congratulates GHD on being nearly finished with work on Descent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 19 Apr [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9419 |
From G. H. Darwin 20 April 1874
Summary
Sends Descent material. Is staggered by CD’s power of marshalling facts and his conciseness and clearness of thought. The only fault he finds is some slight want of conciseness of diction.
He feels CD’s power more now "that I quail before the thought of arranging the few paltry facts I’ve got about those d––d cousins".
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Apr 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 35 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9421 |
To G. H. Darwin [21 April 1874]
Summary
GHD’s corrections seem very good. Murray hopes there will be few corrections in Descent. CD assured him no changes have been made merely for improving style.
Wants very much to hear about "the terrible cousin affair".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [21 Apr 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9423 |
To G. H. Darwin 27 May [1874]
Summary
D. A. Spalding has asked for information to help with his experiments on sense of direction in animals. Has arrived at same results as GHD with blindfolded children. Will GHD let him have his results?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 27 May [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 21 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9472 |
To G. H. Darwin [29 May 1874]
Summary
CD has forwarded proofs of Descent [2d edition]. Urges GHD not to work on them if his poor health makes them too tiring.
Thanks GHD about Spalding [i.e., for responding to Spalding’s request, see 9472].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [29 May 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 22 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9474 |
From G. H. Darwin 30 May 1874
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 May 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 36 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9475 |
To G. H. Darwin 10 June 1874
Summary
Comments on GHD’s paper ["Marriages between first cousins in England and their effects", Fortn. Rev. n.s. 18 (1875): 22–41]. Hopes it will be published and read at the Statistical Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 10 June 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 23 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9487 |
To G. H. Darwin [27 July 1874]
Summary
Advises GHD to get an eminent counsel. If counsel’s opinion is that the reviewer [Mivart, in "Primitive man", Q. Rev. 137 (1874): 40–77] has falsified GHD’s statements, GHD should send the opinion to the Quarterly Review and demand publication, and if refused publish elsewhere. Then CD must decide whether to cut John Murray [publisher of Q. Rev.] which will put CD in a nice perplexity [over his rights to the stereotyped editions of past works].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [27 July 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 25 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9568 |
From G. H. Darwin 29 July 1874
Summary
After taking advice he has decided to write an explicit denial and short account of his essay and send it to the Quarterly Review.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 July 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 37 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9575 |
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 |
From G. H. Darwin 5 August 1874
Summary
Regrets he cannot follow the line of denial CD suggests. Explains why he must defend himself against charge that he approves of oppressive laws.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Aug 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 38 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9585 |
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 |
From G. H. Darwin 6 [August] 1874
Summary
Sends a draft of his letter to the editor of the Quarterly Review [137 (1874): 587–9], answering Mivart’s charges. Encloses draft of CD’s letter to John Murray, urging publication of GHD’s defence, with George’s amendments.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 [Aug] 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 97: C56–8; DAR 210.2: 39 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9590 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (22) |
Darwin, G. H. | (15) |
Darwin, G. H. | (22) |
Darwin, C. R. | (14) |
Rayner, Henry | (1) |