RECORD: Darwin, Francis. [1885-1886]. Letter to William Erasmus Darwin. CUL-DAR210.8.49. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 7.2019. RN1 10.2023 RN2
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR210.8 contains Darwin's letters to Emma, memorandum on marriage, Darwin's religious doubts and Emma reminiscences of Darwin's last years.
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WYCHFIELD, HUNTINGDON ROAD, CAMBRIDGE.
Dear Wm
I have come to a kind of compromise with HEL and send you the result. I have not shown the chapter as it is, but have merely agreed to publish the bit out of the Autobiogry apart for the rest of the Auto, & with the religious
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letters – The sentence "I feel no remorse for having committed any grt crime" which she insanely objects to I shall publish elsewhere – perhaps as the last sentence of the whole book.
On p 229 I have put in (so clearly) I wish you wd look at your
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copy of the Autoy & see how this goes.
Also on p 225 I have put a Qn you may be able to answer.
I should like to know what you think of the Chapter – I was am very doubtful abt putting in the note on Aveling, but on the whole I am inclined to keep it –
Yrs affec
FD
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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