To St G. J. Mivart 12 January 1875
Jan 12th 1875
Sir
Your article in the Q. R. for July 1874 contains a wholly false & malicious accusation against my son, Mr G. Darwin.1 You had a fair opportunity in the following number of retracting your infamous & explicit accusation, & you did not make even this small reparation.—2 Your article also includes deliberate misrepresentations of what I have published.3
Therefore I refuse to hold for the future any communication with
Sir | Your obedt. servt. | Ch. Darwin
To | St. G. Mivart Esq
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
[Mivart, St George Jackson.] 1874b. Primitive man: Tylor and Lubbock. [Essay review of the works of John Lubbock and Edward Burnett Tylor.] Quarterly Review 137 (1874): 40–77.
Summary
StGJM’s article in the Quarterly Review [137 (1874): 40–77] contains wholly false and malicious accusations against CD’s son George. Since StGJM has refused to make any sort of retraction, CD will not hold any future communication with him.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9812
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- St George Jackson Mivart
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 97: C36
- Physical description
- ADraftS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9812,” accessed on 16 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9812.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23
