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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
22 Sept 1875
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/16)
Summary:

Agrees to write to William Ogle [about twins with crooked fingers].

Describes growth of sweetpeas for experiment.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
25 Sept 1875
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/2/4/3/13/5)
Summary:

Thanks FG for issues of Revue [Scientifique vol. 7, containing lectures by Claude Bernard].

Ogle says twins [with crooked fingers] are his sisters.

Recommends book by M. A. Puvis [De la dégénération des variétés de végétaux (1837)].

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
2 Nov [1875]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/17)
Summary:

Has heard that FG will write on inheritance. Huxley does not believe in E. G. Balbiani’s views on subject.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
4 Nov [1875]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/18)
Summary:

In London yesterday for Vivisection Commission.

Is revising his chapter on Pangenesis [in Variation, 2d ed.] to allow that gemmules probably multiply in the reproductive organs.

Notes examples of inheritance of acquired characteristics cited by Brown-Séquard.

Doubts that double parentage is necessary for complex organisations.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
7 Nov [1875]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/19)
Summary:

Comments on FG’s paper ["A theory of heredity"]. Finds essay difficult to understand. Objects that FG’s theory conflicts with phenomenon of use and disuse. Conflicts also with rarity of bud-variations in nature.

Says he has ordered FG’s article ["The history of twins", Fraser’s Mag. 92 (1875): 566–76; revised in J. Anthropol. Inst. 5 (1876): 391–406].

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
10 Nov [1875]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/20)
Summary:

Comments on FG’s paper ["The history of twins"].

CD is "in a passion with the Spectator who always muddles".

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
18 Dec [1875]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/21)
Summary:

Mentions revisions [in Variation, 2d ed.].

Argues with FG’s theory of heredity, defending Pangenesis: "I cannot doubt that every unit of the hybrid is hybridised and sends forth hybridised gemmules."

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
13 Jan [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 54
Summary:

Thanks FG for his report [on the statistical validity of CD’s experiments; see Cross and self-fertilisation, pp. 16–18]. Discusses FG’s comments, his own experiments, and the means by which the results may be analysed.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
2 Mar [1876]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/3/2/1/157)
Summary:

Sends signed enclosure.

FG will hear of germination of peas in a few days.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
[6–12 Jan 1877]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/23)
Summary:

Has received French essay on effects of conscription on [decreasing] height of men, due to unfit left at home to propagate race. Would FG care to see it?

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
9 Jan [1877]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/22)
Summary:

Can FG come to lunch on Sunday? George Darwin wants to meet him.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
11 Feb [1877]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/24)
Summary:

Sends enclosure regarding inherited handwriting from Life, letters, and journals of George Ticknor [ed. G. S. Hillard (1876)].

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
[1 Mar 1879?]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/3/2/1/26)
Summary:

Can FG come to lunch on Monday?

Sorry FG has not been well and is soon going abroad.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
22 Mar 1879
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/25)
Summary:

Describes plans to publish English edition of Krause’s work on Erasmus Darwin.

Will correct Anna Seward’s calumnies [in Memoirs of the life of Dr Darwin (1804)].

Asks about family letters.

Doubts some stories about Erasmus Darwin [in Christiana C. Hankin, ed., Life of Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck (1858)].

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
30 Apr [1879]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/3/2/1/28)
Summary:

Thanks FG for an extract [about Dr Erasmus Darwin?].

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
8 June [1879]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/3/2/1/28)
Summary:

Caroline Darwin says mysterious visitor’s name was Brand. It was in time of Colonel Pole. Never visited Mrs Pole or Mrs Darwin [Elizabeth Collier], but sent respectful messages.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
10 June [1879]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/27)
Summary:

CD’s father thought he had not been treated fairly about his share of his mother’s [Mary Howard Darwin’s] fortune. Will not allude to this [in Erasmus Darwin]. Surprising that grandfather did not make more money. Has found memorandum of his having lost £1500 in ironworks.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
15 [June 1879]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/3/3/4/3)
Summary:

CD’s little biography [Erasmus Darwin] has turned out very dull.

May FG’s tour turn out pleasant.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
14 Nov [1879]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/28)
Summary:

Returns completed questionnaire concerning visualising faculty [see LL 3: 177–9]. Thinks age important. Recalls faces of school friends but cannot remember those of people recently met.

Comments on his part [of Erasmus Darwin].

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
7 Apr 1880
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/3/2/1/24)
Summary:

Encloses letter [see 12488] and circular from Henry Faulds [regarding thumb impressions]. Anthropology Institute may care about it.

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