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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
14 May [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 233
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
14 May [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 233
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[22 May 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 234
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[11 May 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 236
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[12 May 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 237
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[29 May 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 238a
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[29 May 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 238b
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[May 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 239
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Huxley, T. H.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
20 May 1880
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1912
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
[7 May] 1880
Source of text:
DAR 145: 289; Janet Huxley (private collection)
Summary:
Expresses his delight with and admiration for THH’s "Coming of age [of The origin of species]" in Nature [22 (1880): 1–4].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Dixon
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 May 1880
Source of text:
DAR 162: 185
Summary:
Corrects CD’s statement [Descent 1: 19] that the platysma myoides muscle cannot be brought into voluntary action. He can move every one of his facial muscles.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Dixon
Date:
8 May 1880
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 6604: 17)
Summary:
Thanks for information.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 May 1880
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 157
Summary:
Writes regarding an [unspecified] election at a university. JL wonders whether William Darwin would speak to two Southampton men about it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[9 May 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 157
Summary:
Forwards John Lubbock’s letter and hopes WED might influence the men "for the sake of science".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
9 May 1880
Source of text:
DAR 148: 120
Summary:
Cannot offer any assistance in urging Government to aid JT’s experiments. Thinks best chance through [William Edward?] Forster. William Carruthers reported to Royal Agricultural Society that JT’s attempt was hopeless.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 May 1880
Source of text:
DAR 166: 352
Summary:
Hopes CD does not think his faith in natural selection is weak because he omitted mention of it in his lecture.
Is working on dogs. They will make a case for "Darwinismus".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 May 1880
Source of text:
DAR 178: 165
Summary:
Has planted six, as opposed to eleven acres last year, to keep within expenditure. Must pollen be used immediately? Fourteen landowners are growing potatoes for JT.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Ellingwood Abbot
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 May 1880
Source of text:
DAR 159: 6
Summary:
Thanks for money for further subscription to Index; FEA soon to step down as editor.
On CD’s solid reputation in America among rising men of science.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
J. Harris
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 May 1880
Source of text:
DAR 198: 87
Summary:
Can CD explain why apes still exist, now that humans have evolved.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Samuel Tolver Preston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 May 1880
Source of text:
DAR 174: 61
Summary:
Thanks for CD’s comments on his paper ["On a point relating to brain dynamics", Nature 22 (1880): 29–30].
Contends that self-interest as a motive for conduct is more salutary than is generally thought, and should be considered in the evolution of morality.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project