Stray letters, etc, from Darwin

Date:
c.1922-1973
Reference:
PP/CPB/B.1/9
Part of:
Blacker, Carlos Paton FRCP (1895-1975)
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Stray letters, etc, from Darwin. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Found among books, etc:
Text of paper "Eugenics and Socialism: Delivered at the Cavendish Club April 5th 1922. Not published......L.D.", annotated "Original returned to Major Darwin 10/10/35"; attached to a cutting from The Times, 5 Apr 1973, "Blackboard panacea or the American Delusion" by Peter Strafford
Cutting from Times Literary Supplement of review of Darwin's The Need for Eugenic Reform, notes by CPB '?1926 Perhaps written by L Hogben'
4 letters f rom Darwin to Blacker, 9 Mar, 14 Jun, 5 Jul, and 14 Aug 1932
Statement in Darwin's handwriting "We sincerely regret to find ourselves in a position of direct antagonism to Catholics in regard to birth control", annotated by CPB "Probably written in 1932"
Letter 18 Apr [no year], "Mrs Darwin's writing"
Cutting of announcement of L Darwin's death, unidentified newspaper

Publication/Creation

c.1922-1973

Physical description

1 file

Location of duplicates

A digitised copy is held by Wellcome Collection as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

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