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DCP-LETT-7461

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George King
Date:
27 Jan [1871]
Source of text:
Joseph R. Sakmyster, ADS Autographs (dealer) (no date)
Summary:

Obliged for specimens [of Paritium?].

Discusses difference between sport and parent tree.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7461A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Sweetland Dallas
Date:
27 Jan [1871]
Source of text:
Joline 1902, pp. 256–7
Summary:

Accepts the proposed corrections of his spelling except for "chloèn". [WSD was preparing the index for Descent, vol. 2.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7462

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
28 Jan [1871]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Summary:

Thanks RM for information on case of hexadactyly [see RM’s paper, "Hexadactylism", Land and Water, 11 March 1871, p. 179.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7462A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
St George Jackson Mivart
Date:
28 Jan [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 249: 96–7
Summary:

He has found passage on false belief, Variation 2: 414, and does not think the whole with context is dogmatic. [Encloses copy of the passage.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7464

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
30 Jan [1871]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Responds to ARW’s comments on CD’s argument about protection in Descent.

Comments on St G. Mivart’s criticism [Genesis of species (1871)]. "The pendulum will now swing against us."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7465

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
30 Jan 1871
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 21–22)
Summary:

Thanks JVC for his corrections. Will send other errata. Hopes to send remainder of vol. 2 [of Descent] in a fortnight.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7466

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
30 Jan [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 277
Summary:

Asks that review copy [of Descent] be sent to F. P. Cobbe.

Discusses mailing of presentation copies.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8209F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Marlborough Robert Pryor
Date:
[after 21 Jan 1871?]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (15 December 2011)
Summary:

Suggests Mivart should have read account of Niata Cattle.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8529

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
20 [Jan or Feb] 1871
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 32)
Summary:

Asks WED’s help in acquiring expression photographs and engravings.

Wishes to send Langstaff a copy of his book [Expression], in gratitude for his valuable notes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP1754

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
18 January [1871]
Source of text:
Manchester Archives and Local Studies: Stanley Withers Autograph Letters Collection
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP1939

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
30 January [1871]
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 211-214
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 257-259]
  • Wallace, A. R. (1908). In: My Life: a Record of Events and Opinions (2nd edition). London: Chapman & Hall. [pp. 230-231]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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