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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[before 27 Nov 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 580
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
19 May and 2 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 258: 609
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, G. H.
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
29 October 1872
Source of text:
DAR 258: 800
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[18 November 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1265
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
30 October [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1291
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[1872?]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1292
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Myers, A. T.
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[18 November 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1745
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Wedgwood, L. C.
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[18 November 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1979
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Henry Johnson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Jan [1872?]
Source of text:
DAR 168: 65
Summary:

Sends a map of a field showing the effect of earthworms.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after Aug 1872?]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 54
Summary:

Sends quotation from Armand Trousseau, Lectures on clinical medicine [1868–72] 5: 213, on interruption of menstruation in young girls upon changing schools, as an example of the effect of changed conditions of life.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
23 [Feb 1872 - Oct 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 132
Summary:

Asks for investment advice.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Maria Isabella Snow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 [Nov 1872 or later]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 213
Summary:

Describes her experiences of blushing on her hands.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Unidentified
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1872 or later]
Source of text:
DAR 159: 146
Summary:

Extract from the History of the rise and progress of the Killerby, Studley and Warlaby herds of shorthorns by William Carr (1867).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 28 Mar 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 159: 114
Summary:

On colours and breeding of rabbits.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 25 Jan 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 265
Summary:

Gives lengthy details from his medical experience on how structural and other changes in the parts of the eye are related to lacrimation.

Mentions belief in CD’s views.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 22 Aug 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 195.3: 67
Summary:

Sutton says monkeys often vomit, but cannot say whether they do it voluntarily.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison
To:
Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin
Date:
[7 Mar 1872 or later]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 58
Summary:

P.S. Information on earthworm activity on chalk downs, including two rough sketches for CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[15 June 1872?]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 61
Summary:

Worm-casts on a ridged hill.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Unidentified
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1872–4]
Source of text:
DAR 88: 151–2
Summary:

Notes some corrections for 2d ed. of Descent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[29 Feb 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 102
Summary:

Amount of clay present in certain chalk samples.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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