To G. H. Darwin [19 August 1875]
Summary
Suggests GHD write a supplement to his review [of A. H. Huth’s The marriage of near kin (1875)]. Feels sorry Huth was taken in by the Legrain fraud. [See Autobiography (1958), pp. 143–4.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | [19 Aug 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 46 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10128 |
To G. H. Darwin 13 September [1875]
Summary
Sends comments and suggestions for Huth’s experiment on crossbreeding rabbits.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Sept [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 47 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10156 |
To G. H. Darwin 13 October [1875]
Summary
Pleased by W. Stanley Jevons’ letter.
Has ordered Dr Cohn’s book.
Is sure that GHD’s energy will lead to success with work on viscous fluids.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Oct [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 48 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10196 |
To G. H. Darwin [25 October 1875]
Summary
Asks that a copy of GHD’s paper on cousin marriage be sent to Hermann Müller. J. F. McLennan admires it "as a model".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | [25 Oct 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 49 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10223 |
To G. H. Darwin 10 [February 1875]
Summary
J. T. Knowles [editor of Contemp. Rev.] hopes W. D. Whitney’s article will be a long one.
CD is sorry about GHD’s account of his low spirits. "I know well the feeling of life being objectless & all being vanity of vanities."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 10 [Feb 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 44 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9851 |
To G. H. Darwin 2 [April 1875]
Summary
CD recounts events of the April-fool’s day séance at Hensleigh [Wedgwood]’s. Asks GHD to find out whether Sidgwick’s account of it agrees with what he has heard. "What rubbish the whole does seem to be!"
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 2 [Apr 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 45 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9911 |
