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 |
From G. H. Darwin 20 August 1875
Summary
CD’s suspicions that Legrain falsified experiments on interbred rabbits are like second sight. Has sent a copy of the letter to A. H. Huth.
Henry Sidgwick and A. J. Balfour are "spiritualising" again.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Aug 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 47 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10129 |
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 |
From G. H. Darwin 12 October 1875
Summary
Sends an article for CD’s opinion.
Has finished an account of the globes for the Philosophical Magazine ["On maps of the world", 50 (1875): 431–44].
His poor health has interfered with his pitch experiments.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Oct 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 48 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10191 |
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 G. H. Darwin [26 October 1875]
Summary
Has sent a copy [of his article on cousin marriage] to Hermann Müller.
Problem he is now working on is a tough nut: "It does not do what [James Clerk] Maxwell said it wd or ought to do".
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [26 Oct 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 49 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10226 |
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 |
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 |
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