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
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