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DCP-LETT-11064

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow
Date:
20 July [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 52
Summary:

Writes as a trustee of the Down Friendly Society. Hopes the Society will soon be permitted to distribute its surplus funds, as there is agitation to dissolve the club and divide its assets.

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DCP-LETT-10804

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Belt
Date:
18 Jan 1877
Source of text:
DAR 143: 83
Summary:

Thinks it would be a serious mistake for TB to give up his profession. How the Royal Society will distribute funds is as yet very uncertain, and CD feels that TB may well receive no support as his proposal is too theoretical.

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DCP-LETT-10969

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 May 1877
Source of text:
DAR 110: B53–7, DAR 165: 196
Summary:

Asked C. E. Bessey whether Lithospermum longiflorum was dimorphic like its relatives. Encloses CEB’s reply.

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DCP-LETT-10993

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Atkinson
Date:
9 June 1877
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 6582: 377)
Summary:

Pleased that a Grace has been submitted to confer on CD an honorary LL.D.; hopes his health will permit him to attend the ceremony.

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DCP-LETT-11001

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
15 June [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 221.5: 39
Summary:

Thanks RLT for his work, Diseases of women.

CD is also interested by RLT’s letter reporting a cat rearing chickens. "What a wonderful instinct is the maternal one."

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DCP-LETT-11150

From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Sept 1877
Source of text:
DAR 64.2: 50–1, DAR 164: 84
Summary:

Sends "worm journal" – observations of earthworm activity at Abinger.

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DCP-LETT-11211

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Atkinson
Date:
27 Oct 1877
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (Add 6582: 427)
Summary:

Pleased the Senate has passed Grace conferring his LL.D.

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DCP-LETT-11278

From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Dec 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 499, DAR 210.11: 6
Summary:

Messrs Clowes will make CD’s corrections and adjust index of Cross and self-fertilisation. Of this work only 1500 copies have been printed. Edition is sold out and account is enclosed.

Of 500 copies of Climbing plants [2d ed.] printed in June 1876, 450 were still unsold as of June 1877.

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FL-0008

From:
Dew-Smith, A. G.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
30 November 1877
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 64
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0233

From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[early January 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.5: 8
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0234

From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
5 January [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.5: 9
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0235

From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[29 April 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.5: 10
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0236

From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[2? May 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.5: 11
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0237

From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[6? May 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.5: 12
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0238

From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
3 June [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.5: 13
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0239

From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[6? July 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.5: 15
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0240

From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[23? July 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.5: 16
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0241

From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[18 September 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.5: 17
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0242

From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma; Darwin, C. R.
Date:
[c. 20 September 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.5: 18
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0243

From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[27 September? 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.5: 19
Summary:

No summary available.

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