Requests autograph for a friend.
Has retired to Ludlow because of angina pectoris.
He and his daughter, Mary, were present in the cave near Tenby when George Rolleston found so many antediluvial bones.
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The Charles Darwin Collection
The Darwin Correspondence Project is publishing letters written by and to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882). Complete transcripts of letters are being made available through the Project’s website (www.darwinproject.ac.uk) after publication in the ongoing print edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press 1985–). Metadata and summaries of all known letters (c. 15,000) appear in Ɛpsilon, and the full texts of available letters can also be searched, with links to the full texts.
Requests autograph for a friend.
Has retired to Ludlow because of angina pectoris.
He and his daughter, Mary, were present in the cave near Tenby when George Rolleston found so many antediluvial bones.
Thanks CD for his autograph.
Sends a map of a field showing the effect of earthworms.
Article in Shrewsbury newspaper makes him worry about CD’s health.
Thanks for Earthworms.
HHJ’s paper ["On the distorted skulls found at Wroxeter (Salop)", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 12 (1862–3): 149–50].
He has been approached about becoming F.R.S., but would like to know how expensive it would be.
Requests a photograph.
Doubts he has a chance of being elected F.R.S. because he is 58.
Will send a skull.
Congratulations on George Darwin’s success at Cambridge
and CD’s world-wide reputation.