To G. H. Darwin [8 August 1874]1
[Bassett, Southampton.]
Saturday
My dear George.—
Your letter seems to me very good & your present plan removes all my objections.—2 I thank you for your very nice letter to me.—3 It is very strange about your health; but I apprehend the reason is pretty clear that the kidneys are now removing poison from your blood.— I will alter the first sentence in my letter to to Murray & make my letter less imperious.4 It will be a dreadful evil to me, if, as is too likely, we come to a quarrel.—
Yours affect | C. Darwin
Write to Clowes for Proof to be sent here5
Mother, also, likes your letter much.— William has not yet read it.6
Footnotes
Bibliography
Descent: The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871.
[Mivart, St George Jackson.] 1874b. Primitive man: Tylor and Lubbock. [Essay review of the works of John Lubbock and Edward Burnett Tylor.] Quarterly Review 137 (1874): 40–77.
Summary
Approves of GHD’s letter [to Q. Rev. 137 (1874): 587–9] and his present plan, which removes all CD’s objections. Will make his own letter to Murray less imperious. "It will be a dreadful evil to me, if … we come to a quarrel."
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9596
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- George Howard Darwin
- Sent from
- Bassett
- Source of text
- DAR 210.1: 31
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9596,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9596.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 22