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DCP-LETT-10721

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 Dec 1876
Source of text:
DAR 95: 429
Summary:

JDH has sent a short-styled Forsythia from Kew. CD surmises that all Forsythia at Kew may be short-styled, hence he is curious to know whether they set seed.

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DCP-LETT-10745

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1876]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 92
Summary:

Letter of reference giving his opinion of the character of a man who has been his footman for a year.

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DCP-LETT-10747

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[before 22 July 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 40
Summary:

Asks FD to write on his behalf and say that he is unwilling to join a deputation [on vivisection] and that he believes in the need to protect physiology as well as lower animals.

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DCP-LETT-10762

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[c. Dec 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 153: 28
Summary:

Asks for details of dimorphism in Sethia from Thwaites, Enumeratio plantarum Zeylaniae [1864]. [See Forms of flowers, p. 122.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11468

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
10 Apr [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 104
Summary:

JT may publish enclosed [letter by CD?], but it is not worth publication.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5771

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[before 30 Nov 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 119
Summary:

Is working at dimorphic plants;

is astonished at WED’s labour.

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DCP-LETT-10386

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Christie Thomson
Date:
11 Feb 1876
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 14)
Summary:

Writes regarding affairs of the Down Friendly Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10840

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow
Date:
11 Feb 1876
Source of text:
The National Archives (TNA) (FS 1/232, no. 643)
Summary:

Writes as a trustee of the Down Friendly Society regarding difficulties over the recording of the names of the trustees.

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