To Lawson Tait 17 January [1877]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
Jan. 17th
My dear Sir
I shd. be glad to give any criticisms, but I have none to make & agree with what you say.—2 There is, however, one trifling point on which I differ; viz that I believe the high value of well-bred males is due to their transmitting their good qualities to a far greater number of offspring than can the female.—3
Yours very faithfully— | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Tait, Lawson. 1877. Diseases of women. London: Williams and Norgate.
Summary
CD has only a trifling point to make in criticism [of RLT’s excerpt from Diseases of women]: he believes "the high value of well-bred males is due to their transmitting their good qualities to a far greater number of offspring than can the female".
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10800
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 221.5: 37
- Physical description
- ALS 1p (photocopy)
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10800,” accessed on 27 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10800.xml