From John Lubbock 26 July [1870]1
House of Commons
26 July
My dear Mr. Darwin
We persuaded Bruce to support your amendment, & some good men spoke for it, but as you will see all in vain.2
Do not you think you might get most of what you want by an enquiry at one or two of the largest idiot asylums?3
I am, dear Mr Darwin, | Yours most sincerely | John Lubbock
Footnotes
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter to John Lubbock, 17 July 1870.
Lubbock refers to Henry Austin Bruce and the Census Bill of 1870. See letter from William Farr, 16 July 1870 and n. 2. As well as Bruce, Lyon Playfair, Donald Dalrymple, and William Rathbone spoke in favour of the amendment concerning cousin marriage (Hansard parliamentary debates 3d ser. vol. 203 (1870), cols. 1007–10).
CD had hoped to gather information on possible negative effects on the progeny of marriages between cousins (see letter to William Farr, 17 July [1870]).
Bibliography
Hansard parliamentary debates: http://hansard.millbanksystems.com
Summary
Some good men spoke for CD’s amendment, but in vain.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7288
- From
- John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- House of Commons
- Source of text
- DAR 170: 77
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7288,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7288.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 18
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