To G. H. Darwin [19 August 1875]
Summary
Suggests GHD write a supplement to his review [of A. H. Huth’s The marriage of near kin (1875)]. Feels sorry Huth was taken in by the Legrain fraud. [See Autobiography (1958), pp. 143–4.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | [19 Aug 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 46 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10128 |
To G. H. Darwin 13 September [1875]
Summary
Sends comments and suggestions for Huth’s experiment on crossbreeding rabbits.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Sept [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 47 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10156 |
To G. H. Darwin 13 October [1875]
Summary
Pleased by W. Stanley Jevons’ letter.
Has ordered Dr Cohn’s book.
Is sure that GHD’s energy will lead to success with work on viscous fluids.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Oct [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 48 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10196 |
To G. H. Darwin [25 October 1875]
Summary
Asks that a copy of GHD’s paper on cousin marriage be sent to Hermann Müller. J. F. McLennan admires it "as a model".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | [25 Oct 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 49 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10223 |
From Francis Galton to G. H. Darwin 22 December 1875
Summary
Gives further explanations of his theory of stirps and his objections to Pangenesis, in answer to a question of CD’s.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Dec 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: A94–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10317 |
From W. D. Fox to [G. H. Darwin] [1875–80]
Summary
Sends date of his mother’s death – 7 Apr 1859.
Was completely mystified by conjuring performance of [John Nevil] Maskelyne.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | [1875–80] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.14: 36 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13810 |
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 |
From Frederic Harrison to G. H. Darwin 1 March 1875
Summary
Enquires about CD’s views on cousin marriages.
| Author: | Frederic Harrison |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Mar 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 251: 1893 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9877F |
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 |
| letter | (9) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Galton, Francis | (1) |
| Harrison, Frederic | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (9) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Galton, Francis | (1) |
| Harrison, Frederic | (1) |
