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Darwin Correspondence Project

To S. T. Preston   25 October 1880

Down, Beckenham, Kent | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.

Oct. 25th., 1880.

Dear Sir

I did not at all take the impression which you thought I might have done from your note.1

I read you article on Woman with much interest, though I differ on some points,—as when you speak of inheritance as draining qualities from man—and about antiquity of mental differences in man and woman.2 But I really have not strength or time for correspondence. I wish you success in all your investigations.

Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin

Footnotes

Preston’s article ‘Evolution and female education’ argued in favour of the intellectual training of women on the grounds that this would also advance the brain development of men through the equal transmission of characters to children of both sexes (Preston 1880c)

Bibliography

Preston, Samuel Tolver. 1880c. Evolution and female education. Nature, 23 September 1880, pp. 485–6.

Summary

Comments on STP’s article on women ["Evolution and female education", Nature 22 (1880): 485–6].

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-12775
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Samuel Tolver Preston
Sent from
London, Bryanston St, 4 Down letterhead
Source of text
DAR 147: 251
Physical description
C 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12775,” accessed on 19 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12775.xml

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