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FL-0912

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
20 September [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 271
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-13343

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Sept 1881
Source of text:
DAR 167: 40
Summary:

Did not intend his last letter as criticism. Is sure CD would not "wriggle out" of a difficulty if he had observed it.

Sends CD a wasps’ nest.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13344

From:
Sydney Barber Josiah Skertchly
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Sept 1881
Source of text:
DAR 177: 179
Summary:

Asks for a testimonial from CD to enable him to get an adequate Treasury pension. An accident at work has killed his son and injured him to such an extent that he must resign his appointment.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13345

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Watkin Frank (Frank) Hurndall
Date:
20 Sept 1881
Source of text:
DAR 145: 146
Summary:

No frogs or toads are able to live in completely closed holes. Cites experiment by William Buckland.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13346

From:
William Mackmurdo Hacon
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Sept 1881
Source of text:
DAR 166: 28
Summary:

Details of new will. 12/74ths to each son and 7/74ths to each daughter.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13347

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood
Date:
20 Sept [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 153: 5
Summary:

Division of CW’s share [of E. A. Darwin’s estate]. Investment advice.

Recounts his memories of their mother and of her death. Remembers "her black velvet gown and her work table and the death scene", but cannot remember her face. Remembers that Caroline "always acted like a mother" to him and Catherine.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP3824

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
20 September 1881
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: DC English Letters 1857-1900 Vol. 104
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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