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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[late November 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 129
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[4 November 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 214
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[25] November 1879
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 215
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Victor Alexander Ernest Garth (Victor) Marshall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 4 Nov 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 45
Summary:

Hopes CD will be able to plant a tree in VAEGM’s garden as a memorial of his visit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[30 Nov 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 81
Summary:

Erasmus thinks CD should give a copy of Erasmus Darwin to Henry Parker.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[11 Nov 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 99: 96
Summary:

Thanks CD for a copy of Erasmus Darwin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Elizabeth Anne Galton; Elizabeth Anne Wheler
Date:
[before 12 Nov 1879]
Source of text:
Bonhams, New York (dealers) (11 March 2020, lot 28)
Summary:

Has instructed his publisher to send copies of Erasmus Darwin to herself, her sister Emma Sophia Galton, and their half-cousin, Emma Nixon.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast
Date:
1 Nov 1879
Source of text:
Auckland War Memorial Museum Library Tāmaki Paenga Hira (T. F. Cheeseman Papers MS-58)
Summary:

Thanks JvH for admirably illustrated Geology of New Zealand. Will be particularly glad to read about the old glaciers.

Admires extent of cultivation of science in New Zealand.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
1 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 148: 107
Summary:

Has seen newspaper accounts of JT’s potato experiments. T. H. Farrer wants to know whether JT has published any account of them, and how much assistance he needs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 164: 95
Summary:

Concerning the settlement for Horace Darwin and Ida.

Will give CD’s potato papers to Lord Sandon.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
3 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 144: 98
Summary:

Has written to Torbitt.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Victor Alexander Ernest Garth (Victor) Marshall
Date:
4 Nov [1879]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.459)
Summary:

Promises to send an oak.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
4 Nov [1879]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: f. 191)
Summary:

Wants seedling of Quercus rubra or Q. coccinea.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
4 Nov 1879
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36195)
Summary:

CD complains of unfair treatment by EK’s publisher [of Erasmus Darwin, Karl Alberts], who has written that he now does not want the copies of the photographs CD has ordered for him. Is sure that EK will agree that the costs should be deducted from any profits from the sales.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 52: E3; DAR 178: 155
Summary:

Success of his experiments; report on recent work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William B. Cooper
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 161: 224
Summary:

Response to Descent. Suggests some human races may have been produced by natural rather than sexual selection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Mackmurdo Hacon
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 166: 23
Summary:

WMH will negotiate with William Farrer on Horace’s marriage-settlement. Will attempt to make the settlement £5000, the same as Francis received.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 92: B46–7
Summary:

Shocked by Karl Alberts’ behaviour in dealing with Murray. Will write to ask him what it means. Thanks for arranging matters with Reinwald.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 165: 200
Summary:

Will try to get Ipomoea and Megarrhiza seeds for CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
7 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 148: 108
Summary:

Wrote to T. H. Farrer about JT’s potato experiments. Would be calamity if JT were prevented from trying successful fungus-proof variety for a few more years.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project