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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[13 April 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 87
Summary:

No summary available.

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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[13 April] 1873
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 100
Summary:

No summary available.

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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[c. 18] April 1873
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 101
Summary:

No summary available.

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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[after 25 April 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 108
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Elizabeth
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
29 April [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 558
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[26 April 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 574
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin,, Francis; Darwin, Amy
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[23 April 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 790
Summary:

No summary available.

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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
24 April 1873
Source of text:
DAR 258.1632
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Marshall, William
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[21 April 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1731
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Monteagle, Lord
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
10 Apr 1873
Source of text:
DAR 239.2: 1
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edwin Ray Lankester
Date:
15 Apr [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 31
Summary:

Discusses error in CD’s calculation of natural increase of elephants.

Includes extract from Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin
Date:
30 Apr [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 27
Summary:

HCFJ’s review of the Origin was the wittiest and in some respects the best written.

Thanks him for his Electricity and magnetism [1873].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[9 Apr 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 327
Summary:

Hopes that Charles Lyell has enjoyed his excursion.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 7 Apr 1873?]
Source of text:
DAR 170: 15
Summary:

Observations on her pet pug.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Leonard Jenyns
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker; Frances Harriet Henslow; Frances Harriet Hooker
Date:
[c. 19 Apr 1873?]
Source of text:
DAR 159: 142
Summary:

Recipient is to stay with CD;

sender relates some observations of dogs and birds, to be passed on to CD.

Contributor:
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From:
Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 7 Apr 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 170: 17
Summary:

Is trying to persuade "our friend" [T. H. Huxley?] to accept a gift.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Main
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Apr 1873
Source of text:
DAR 171: 28
Summary:

Having now read Expression, WM repeats his criticism of "antithesis". Explains his theory of up-and-down-tending lines.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Nicolaas Dirk Doedes
Date:
2 Apr 1873
Source of text:
DAR 139.12: 11
Summary:

The impossibility of conceiving that the universe arose through chance is the chief argument for the existence of God, but CD has never been able to decide whether this is an argument of real value. Safest to believe that the subject is beyond man’s intellect, "but man can do his duty".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[3 Apr 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 10
Summary:

Anxious to have GHD come home because of his poor health. Recommends Huxley’s physician (Andrew Clark) – an advocate of milk diet.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Duncan Hague
Date:
3 Apr [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 394
Summary:

Has sent JDH’s letter to Nature ["Perception in ants", Nature 7 (1873): 443–4].

Sons recall kindness received from JDH and others in America.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project