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Darwin Correspondence Project

To E. B. Tylor   12 November 1876

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.

[touches upon a proposal of the anthropologist Tylor to employ Darwin’s son to work on a book edited by Tylor, and ends with a warm encomium on Tylor’s excellence as an anthropologist.1]

Summary

Responds to request that his son [Francis] aid EBT with book. Comments on EBT’s excellence as anthropologist.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-10669
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Edward Burnett Tylor
Sent from
unstated
Source of text
Kew Books (dealers) Newsletter 6 (1976)
Physical description
LS 3pp

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10669,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10669.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24

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