From Charles Bradlaugh 5 June 1877
Summary
Wants to subpoena CD in a case pending against himself and Annie Besant, to be tried 18 June. [Bradlaugh and Besant were indicted for issuing an "obscene libel".]
Author: | Charles Bradlaugh |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 June 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 275 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10984 |
To Charles Bradlaugh 6 June 1877
Summary
CD would prefer not to be a witness in court. In any case CD’s opinion is strongly opposed to that of CB and Annie Besant. Has read only notices of their book [Charles Knowlton, Fruits of philosophy, with preface by the publishers A. Besant and C. Bradlaugh (1877)] but believes artificial checks to the natural rate of human increase are very undesirable and that the use of artificial means to prevent conception would soon destroy chastity and, ultimately, the family.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Bradlaugh |
Date: | 6 June 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 32 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10988 |
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