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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Mackmurdo Hacon
Date:
8 Nov [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 60
Summary:

Discusses the marriage-settlement for Horace and Ida.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[9 Nov 1879]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 74), Gardner 1880, pp. 31–9
Summary:

Sends CD petition from Olmstead and asks him to forward it around to get good signatures.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Wendell Phillips Garrison
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 165: 9
Summary:

Thanks CD for his good opinion of his book, What Mr Darwin saw,

and his expressions [concerning W. L. Garrison] "which will be treasured by his children".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leopold Friedrich August (August) Weismann
Date:
10 Nov 1879
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:

Thanks for AW’s work ["Zur Naturgeschichte der Daphniden", Z. Wiss. Zool. 27: 51–112; 28: 93–254; 30 (suppl.): 123–65; 33: 55–270]. CD always interested in adaptations which appear to owe their structure to other causes.

Has not heard from Raphael Meldola for a long time about translation of AW’s Studien.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
10 Nov 1879
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36196)
Summary:

Only a few copies of the photographs [for German edition of Erasmus Darwin] had been printed, so loss will not be great. CD was rather angry when he wrote [12291] "but it is all over now".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Georg Wilhelm Julius (Wilhelm) Behrens
Date:
10 Nov 1879
Source of text:
Niedersächsisches Landesarchiv – Standort Wolfenbüttel (VI Hs 11 nr. 12)
Summary:

Thanks GWJB for work on nectaries ["Anatomisch-physiologische Untersuchungen der Blüthen-Nectarien", Flora (1878): 454–60].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Reuben Aleshire Vance
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 180: 2
Summary:

Sends his article ["Diseases of the rectum", Cincinnati Lancet & Obs. 21 (1878): 224–41] through his friend, Dr Letcher.

Contributor:
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From:
William Mackmurdo Hacon
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 166: 25
Summary:

Negotiations on Horace’s marriage-settlement.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Sketchley Ffinden
Date:
11 Nov 1879
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Encloses a cheque to the Down Coal and Clothing Club.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Anne Eliza Thomasine (Anne) (Eliza) Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Nov [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 99: 135
Summary:

On behalf of her sister Violetta, who is ill, thanks CD for copy of Erasmus Darwin.

Contributor:
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From:
Reginald Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 162–3
Summary:

Thanks for copy of Erasmus Darwin. The refutation of Miss Seward is admirable and conclusive.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Douglas Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 179–80
Summary:

Thanks for book [Erasmus Darwin].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Henry Maudsley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 187–8
Summary:

Thanks for copy of Erasmus Darwin. Has wished that justice be done to Dr Darwin’s originality and his anticipation of some modern scientific theories.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 105: A101–2
Summary:

Praises CD’s biography of Erasmus Darwin;

asks CD to answer some queries he is circulating. Is particularly interested in "visualizing faculty" in CD and Dr Darwin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Emma Sophia Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 210.14: 34
Summary:

Thanks CD on behalf of herself and sister [E. A. Wheler] for the gift of Erasmus Darwin. Comments to amplify parts of it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Mary Catherine Sackville-West, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Stanley, countess of Derby
Date:
12 Nov [1879]
Source of text:
Liverpool Record Office, Liverpool Central Library (920 DER (15) 43/9/23)
Summary:

ED asks MCS (Lady Derby) if Lord Derby would consider signing petitions from Mr Olmsted.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Jan van Bolhuis
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[13 Nov 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 236
Summary:

Does CD believe in the "Word of the Lord", i.e., Genesis?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 92: B49–50
Summary:

Thanks for English edition [of Erasmus Darwin]. John Murray has not answered letters of German publisher. Questions CD about persons mentioned in book, in order to annotate German edition.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Newman (Newman) Marks
Date:
14 Nov [1879]
Source of text:
The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (Venice Memorial); The Times , 19 November 1879, p. 8
Summary:

Returns the memorial, signed, expressing concern about proposed renovations at St Mark’s in Venice.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
14 Nov [1879]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/28)
Summary:

Returns completed questionnaire concerning visualising faculty [see LL 3: 177–9]. Thinks age important. Recalls faces of school friends but cannot remember those of people recently met.

Comments on his part [of Erasmus Darwin].

Contributor:
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