From T. W. Higginson 30 March 1873
Summary
Pleased CD enjoyed his book [Outdoor papers (1871)].
Rejoices at CD’s kindly feelings toward the coloured race.
The Index is in financial trouble due to F. E. Abbot’s unworldliness.
Agassiz is setting up a summer school for natural history off the Massachusetts coast. His pupils develop more liberal scientific opinions than Agassiz’s.
Encloses some notes on expression.
| Author: | Thomas Wentworth Higginson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Mar 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 198 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8830 |
To Marian Evans 30 March [1873]
Summary
Asks whether the Litchfields may call on her. "My wife complains that she has been very badly treated and that I ought to have asked permission for her to call on you with me when we next come to London: but I tell her that I still have some shreds of modesty."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Marian (Mary Anne) (George Eliot) Evans; Marian (Mary Anne) (George Eliot) Lewes; Marian (Mary Anne) (George Eliot) Cross |
| Date: | 30 Mar [1873] |
| Classmark: | University of Redlands, Armacost Library |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8831 |
| letter | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Higginson, T. W. | (1) |
| Cross, Marian | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Evans, Marian | (1) |
| Lewes, Marian | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Cross, Marian | (1) |
| Evans, Marian | (1) |
| Higginson, T. W. | (1) |
| Lewes, Marian | (1) |
Visiting the Darwins
Summary
'As for Mr Darwin, he is entirely fascinating…' In October 1868 Jane Gray and her husband spent several days as guests of the Darwins, and Jane wrote a charming account of the visit in a sixteen-page letter to her sister. She described Charles…
