From W. M. Moorsom 10 September 1877
Summary
In Descent [1: 12] CD discusses intoxication among animals. South African elephants reportedly eat a plant that makes them wild.
| Author: | Warren Maude Moorsom |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Sept 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 234 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11132 |
To W. M. Moorsom 11 September [1877]
Summary
Thinks most monkeys would become habituated to alcohol if they could get it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Warren Maude Moorsom |
| Date: | 11 Sept [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 146: 385 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11134 |
From W. M. Moorsom 13 September [1877]
Summary
Pleased with CD’s interest in temperance. Can he quote CD? Sorry the elephant story is a myth. It fits his argument for temperance: a passion for alcohol is natural [primitive]. Only the morally developed can resist. Moral development will take a long time. Thus education cannot cure alcoholism now. Thus public sale of alcohol must be outlawed. Although he is a follower of J. S. Mill and Herbert Spencer he has been forced to this conclusion.
| Author: | Warren Maude Moorsom |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Sept [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 235 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11137 |
From W. M. Moorsom 28 October 1877
Summary
Sends extract reporting elephants that get drunk on a plant.
| Author: | Warren Maude Moorsom |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Oct 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 236 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11214 |
From Francis Darwin to W. M. Moorsom 29 October 1877
Summary
His father thanks WMM for his letter about the elephant case [see 11214]. If the story is true, CD thinks that the fruit must contain some alkaloid such as that in Indian hemp.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Warren Maude Moorsom |
| Date: | 29 Oct 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 146: 385b |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11216A |
| letter | (5) |
| Moorsom, W. M. | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Moorsom, W. M. | (2) |
| Moorsom, W. M. | (5) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| 1877 | (5) |
