From Francis Galton 31 March 1872
5 Bertie Terrace | Leamington
March 31 /72
My dear Darwin
Your letter will be a great encouragement to Crookes & I have forwarded it to him to read, telling him what I had written.1
About the ‘female’—I hesitated a full 10 minutes before inserting the word ‘it’, on the ground that the subject of the story might be identified in after life & that that the knowledge of the trick might damage her marrying value.!2
I do not know if I am over fastidious.— It is purely my own idea—no objection was raised by any of the family. So do entirely as you like.
Very sincerely yrs | Francis Galton
Footnotes
Summary
Has forwarded CD’s letter to Crookes.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8263
- From
- Francis Galton
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Leamington
- Source of text
- DAR 105: A52
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8263,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8263.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 20
