From G. H. Lewes 30 July 1868
The Priory, | 21. North Bank, | Regents Park.
30 July 68
My dear Mr Darwin
It quite distresses me to think of your forced idleness and I reproach myself for having inconsiderately asked you to bother yourself over my papers. Pray consider my request withdrawn—at any rate so far withdrawn as not to involve a moment’s interruption of your idleness or of any other work.1
Since it must be a long while before my work can be prepared, even after the articles are finished there is no necessity for you to fix any time for marginalia.2
When I was in Freiburg Dr Weismann—one of the hopes of zoology—delivered an Eintritt’s Vorrede on your views, which excited great sensation. I was not present at it, but he told me the line he was going to adopt & shortly we shall have it in print.3 Poor fellow! he nearly lost his sight with microscopic excesses— what asses we are, we who ought to know, & do know (for others) the penalties of overwork!
Believe me | Very sincerely yours | G. H. Lewes
Footnotes
Bibliography
Lewes, George Henry. 1868b. Mr. Darwin’s hypotheses. Fortnightly Review n.s. 3: 353–73, 611–28; 4: 61–80, 492–509.
Weismann, August. 1868. Über die Berechtigung der Darwin’schen Theorie: ein akademischer Vortrag gehalten am 8 Juli 1868 in der Aula der Universität zu Freiburg im Breisgau. Leipzig: W. Engelmann.
Summary
In consideration of CD’s health, withdraws his request for notes on GHL’s articles.
While in Freiburg, heard that August Weismann’s inaugural address on CD’s views [Über die Berechtigung der Darwin’schen Theorie (1868)] created a sensation.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6297
- From
- George Henry Lewes
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Regents Park
- Source of text
- DAR 106: D9–10
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6297,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6297.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16
