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DCP-LETT-13489

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
19 Nov [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1.: 111
Summary:

Tremendously interested by GHD’s news [about the Plumian Professorship at Cambridge]. Suggests he get William Thomson to write to the electors.

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DCP-LETT-13511

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
25 Nov [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 112
Summary:

Last issue of Nature has made him "awfully proud". [See R. S. Ball, "A glimpse through the corridors of time", Nature 25 (1881): 79–82.]

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13488

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Nov 1881
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 98
Summary:

Sends an agreement for his signature and forwarding to Patterson & Bloxham.

Hears that James Challis [Plumian Professor of Astronomy, Cambridge] is on the point of death. Believes he has a good chance to succeed him; sends a list of the electors.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13494

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[20 Nov 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 99
Summary:

Writes of Challis’ health

and of other matters of family interest.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13503

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[22 Nov 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 100
Summary:

Thinks William Thomson will support him [for Plumian Professorship at Cambridge].

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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