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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
8 Nov [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 120
Summary:

Tells WED of a change in his will.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[19 May 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 186
Summary:

Mentions WED’s extraordinary discovery of some pollen-grains of different sizes. The observations must be followed up.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
27 [Mar 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 121
Summary:

Thanks WED for a present.

Discusses the Duke of Argyll’s Reign of law [1867].

Is busy revising proofs [of Variation].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[13 Apr? 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 186: 48
Summary:

Sends Oliver’s list of references on Adoxa.

Baby now out of trouble.

Pleased with Paris exhibition.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
20 Nov [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 123
Summary:

Sends WED £200.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[before 30 Nov 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 119
Summary:

Is working at dimorphic plants;

is astonished at WED’s labour.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
21 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 125
Summary:

Suggests possible arbitrators to act in a business transaction involving WED.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
25 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 126
Summary:

Gives his opinion on a business transaction involving WED and the Southampton bank.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[15 Mar 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 127
Summary:

Asks WED to observe blushing in the blind, and yawning.

Mentions elephants’ crying while trumpeting.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
8 Apr [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 124, 128
Summary:

Thanks Charles Langstaff for his observations relating to expression. Has requested observations on the platysma. Discusses the actions of other facial muscles, especially during crying. [Encloses 5828.]

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
16 Apr [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 129
Summary:

Asks WED whether Langstaff could make some observations on certain facial muscles in expression.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
7 [July 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 130
Summary:

Thanks him for his excellent observations [on Epipactis?]; would like WED to watch for some large insect visiting the plant.

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From:
Francis Stephen Bennet François de Chaumont
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
11 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 162: 135
Summary:

In response to queries on expression, which WED had asked on CD’s behalf, reports on shrugging and pouting observed in his children.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Stephen Bennet François de Chaumont
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
16 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 162: 136
Summary:

Answers to questions about expression.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Stephen Bennet François de Chaumont
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
7 May 1871
Source of text:
DAR 162: 137
Summary:

The pupils of eyes of ague patients in the cold stage are dilated.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
31 [Oct 1871]
Source of text:
University of Redlands, Armacost Library
Summary:

Writes about proof-correcting by WED [of Origin, 6th ed.].

Goes to Leith Hill on Friday.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[after 11 Nov 1871]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.502)
Summary:

Sends enclosure for Captain Jones.

Comments on essay by E. D. Cope ["On the origin of genera", Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 20 (1868): 242–300].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[after 5 Nov 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 135
Summary:

Writes about proof-correcting by WED [of Origin, 6th ed.].

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[Nov 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 136
Summary:

Explains some proof-correcting symbols to be used by WED [on Origin, 6th ed. proofs?].

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
3 [Nov 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 133
Summary:

Is sending some proofs for correction by WED [6th ed. of Origin].

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