From G. H. Darwin to James T. Knowles 8 February 1875
Trinity College | Cambridge
Feb. 8. 1875
Dear Sir,
Prof. Whitney has written to my Father with respect to my review of his article in the Nov. Contemp. Rev, & Max Müller’s reply.1 He is anxious to have a short reply in the Contemp. Review, and I much hope that you will admit one.2 He has sent the enclosed letter to you to my Father, but did not know to whom to address it.3
As Prof. Max Müller does not profess to have read Whitney’s article &, as I gather, only skimmed mine, Whitney certainly seems to have had rather hard measure in so severe an article.4 I have no doubt that Prof Whitney will have expressed in his letter to you, as he has in his letter to my Father, that he does not wish you to bind yourself to admit his answer until you had seen it.
Believe me Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | G. H. Darwin
Jas. Knowles Esq | Messrs. Strahan’s | 2 Paternoster Row5
Footnotes
Bibliography
Alter, Stephen G. 2005. William Dwight Whitney and the science of language. Baltimore, Md., and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Max Müller, Friedrich. 1875. My reply to Mr. Darwin. Contemporary Review 25 (1874–5): 305–26.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
Post Office London directory: Post-Office annual directory. … A list of the principal merchants, traders of eminence, &c. in the cities of London and Westminster, the borough of Southwark, and parts adjacent … general and special information relating to the Post Office. Post Office London directory. London: His Majesty’s Postmaster-General [and others]. 1802–1967.
Whitney, Josiah Dwight. 1867. Language and the study of language: twelve lectures on the principles of linguistic science. London: Trübner.
Whitney, William Dwight. 1875. Are languages institutions? Contemporary Review 25 (1874–5): 713–32.
Summary
Letter [to editor of Contemp. Rev.] saying that W. D. Whitney would like to reply to Max Müller. Hopes space can be given him.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9846
- From
- George Howard Darwin
- To
- James Thomas Knowles
- Sent from
- Trinity College, Cambridge
- Source of text
- DAR 210.2: 46
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9846,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9846.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23