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DCP-LETT-10157

From:
Mary Catherine Sackville-West, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Stanley, countess of Derby
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Sept 1875
Source of text:
DAR 162: 167
Summary:

Thanks CD for telling her "such exact truth". She saw Thomas Carlyle at Keston – the country air has done him good – "he is half sorry to have been so unsociable on his first arrival".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10318

From:
Mary Catherine Sackville-West, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Stanley, countess of Derby
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 162: 168
Summary:

Lord Derby was pleased by CD’s warm and genuine expression of approval [of his support of Vivisection Bill? see 9933].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11146

From:
Mary Catherine Sackville-West, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Stanley, countess of Derby
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Sept 1877
Source of text:
DAR 162: 169
Summary:

Count Schouvaloff asserts that CD’s works are prohibited in Russia. Is he not mistaken?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11528

From:
Mary Catherine Sackville-West, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Stanley, countess of Derby
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 May 1878
Source of text:
DAR 162: 170
Summary:

Sends fragment of bone from the head of a fish called "Corbin", brought from River Plate by her brother.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13406

From:
Mary Catherine Sackville-West, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Stanley, countess of Derby
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 162: 171
Summary:

Has read Earthworms with great interest. Remembers CD once said, laughing, that he was finding that "worms could revolutionise the world". CD has succeeded in proving greatness of their power.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8369

From:
Mary Catherine Sackville-West, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Stanley, countess of Derby
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 June 1872
Source of text:
DAR 162: 165
Summary:

Sackville Cecil would like to be present with Francis Galton at one of William Crookes’s séances. Can CD arrange it?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8980

From:
Mary Catherine Sackville-West, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Stanley, countess of Derby
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 July 1873
Source of text:
DAR 162: 166
Summary:

Sends a bottle containing fish which Lord Arthur Russell had promised to send.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9208

From:
Mary Catherine Sackville-West, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Stanley, countess of Derby
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[16 Nov 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 163
Summary:

W. Crookes’s article ["Enquiry into phenomena called spiritual", Q. J. Sci. n.s. 4 (1874): 77–97] "staggers" her. Would like to know CD’s opinion.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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