From L. H. Morgan 1 August 1871
London
August 1st. 1871
My Dear Sir
Edward M Moore M.D. L.L. D. of Rochester read a paper before our Club on Hybridity not long since, and when I came away I asked him to give me an abstract of his conclusions to hand to you. This he did and when I visited you I forgot to take it with me. I now enclose it.1
We leave for Liverpool tomorrow morning and sail on the Oceanic on Thursday: If we have a prosperous voyage we may expect to reach New York soon after your sons who left I think on Saturday last and are now well out at sea2
I remember my visit to your house with much pleasure.
With regards to Mrs & Miss Darwin3 and a good bye for yourself
Yours truly | L H Morgan
Charles Darwin Esq
I have written to Dr Henry, Sec. of the Smithsonian Institution to send you a copy of my work on Consanguinity through the London Agent of the Institution Mr William Wesley 28, Essex St. Strand.4 You may expect to receive in the course of two months.
I have read Sir John Lubbocks paper on the subject before the Anthropological Institute in Feb last. It contains a number of judicious observations; but I find he has placed himself against some of my most important, and as I think, best sustained conclusions.5 Time will show where the truth of the matter lies.
L H. M.
Footnotes
Bibliography
ANB: American national biography. Edited by John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes. 24 vols. and supplement. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1999–2002.
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Gardiner, Robin. 2006. The history of the White Star Line. Paperback ed. Hersham, Surrey: Ian Allan Publishing.
Morgan, Lewis Henry. 1870. Systems of consanguinity and affinity of the human family. Washington: Smithsonian Institution.
Trautmann, Thomas R. 1987. Lewis Henry Morgan and the invention of kinship. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Summary
John Lubbock’s paper [? "Remarks on stone implements from western Africa", Rep. BAAS 40 (1870): 154–5] opposes some of his best sustained conclusions.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7891
- From
- Lewis Henry Morgan
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London
- Source of text
- DAR 171: 240
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
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Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7891,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7891.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 19