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DCP-LETT-13525A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Warde Norman
Date:
1 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 249: 107
Summary:

"I should be a strange creature if I did not feel real pleasure in seeing you." Recalls GWN’s kindness and assistance over forty years.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13529

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederick Glyn Montagu Powell
Date:
[after 3 Dec 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 117v
Summary:

Thanks FGMP for his sympathetic and very kind letter.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13533A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arthur Hall
Date:
6 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 249: 82
Summary:

Case of Roman roads would have been worth investigating for Earthworms. [See 13531.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13541

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Horace Darwin
Date:
9 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 185: 9
Summary:

CD is glad birth [of Erasmus Darwin] is over and that Ida has borne it so well.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13548

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[18 Dec 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 91
Summary:

Andrew Clark finds that CD’s heart is perfectly right.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13553

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Murdoch (James) Geikie
Date:
[after 15 Dec 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 103v
Summary:

Testimonial letter stating his belief in JG’s suitability for the Chair of Geology at Edinburgh.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13558

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
Date:
17 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 160: 352
Summary:

Feels he should decline nominal presidency of the proposed Science Defence Association.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13570

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin; Francis Darwin; George Howard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Leonard Darwin; William Erasmus Darwin; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
20 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR (CD library— Index Kewensis tom. 1)
Summary:

Has promised to pay Hooker about £250 annually "for the formation of a perfect MS catalogue of all known plants [Index Kewensis]".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13573

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ford Robinson (William) (Ford) Stanley
Date:
21 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 147: 490
Summary:

Comments on WFRS’s book [Properties and motions of fluids (1881)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13587

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
29 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 148: 340
Summary:

Comments on JJW’s observations on mule

and hermaphroditism in hybrid moths.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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