To G. H. Darwin 3 May [1879]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
May 3d
My dear G.
I have come across again Mr Keir’s statement in a letter to my Father, dated June 18th 1802, in which he twice refers to some malicious calumny about Dr. D. in the “Monthly magazine”.2 Will you have another look in the Cambridge Library. It may have been at close of 1801; but this is not likely.
Can the calumny be in some brief obituary notice at end of volume? It must have been some baddish calumny as it is said by Mr Keir, “that Dr. Fox & Mr Hadley have printed a declaration contradicting the falsehood”.3 Can there is two Monthly Magazines, slightly differing, such as the “Gentlemans Monthly Magazine” or “London Monthly Mag”, &c & that the first half of Title was dropped as my Father knew to what magazine Mr Keir referred. See what you can do to help me.—
Yours affect | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Anon. 1802. Biographical memoirs of the late Dr. Darwin. Monthly Magazine; or, British Register 13: 457–63.
Erasmus Darwin. By Ernst Krause. Translated from the German by W. S. Dallas, with a preliminary notice by Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1879.
King-Hele, Desmond, ed. 2003. Charles Darwin’s ‘The Life of Erasmus Darwin’. First unabridged edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Summary
Asks GHD to look in Cambridge University Library for Monthly Magazine articles containing a malicious calumny concerning Dr [Erasmus] D[arwin] [see Erasmus Darwin, pp. 65–70].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12028
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- George Howard Darwin
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 210.1: 78
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12028,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12028.xml