From E. A. Darwin 8 July 1879
8 July 79
Dear Charles
Miss Cobbe called on me the other day & spoke on the way your name was made use of in defence of Vivisection in Denmark especially.1 I think she is quite aware of your views of the importance of vivisection but she thought that perhaps you might be willing to say something that might be quoted in limitation of all useless repetitions of experiments. She was speaking in reference to a letter which I enclose (to be returned).2 I promised to send you the letter but anything more of course I could not say. The letter comes to me from the Secy of the Anti Viv: Soc: & I shall simply have to return it to her if as I think probable you do not wish to make any remarks upon it.3 I’m glad to hear the Life is getting into print4
Yours affe.: EAD
Footnotes
Bibliography
Cobbe, Frances Power. 1904. Life of Frances Power Cobbe as told by herself. Posthumous edition. London: Swan Sonnenschein.
Erasmus Darwin. By Ernst Krause. Translated from the German by W. S. Dallas, with a preliminary notice by Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1879.
Kean, Hilda. 1998. Animal rights: political and social change in Britain since 1800. London: Reaktion Books.
Mitchell, Sally. 2004. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian feminist, journalist, reformer. Charlottesville, Va.: University of Virginia Press.
Summary
F. P. Cobbe called on EAD to present a letter from the Secretary of the Anti-Vivisection Society; she hoped CD might support limiting repetitions of experiments.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12138
- From
- Erasmus Alvey Darwin
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- DAR 105: B106–7
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12138,” accessed on 16 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12138.xml
