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DCP-LETT-1859

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
24 Apr [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 2 (EH 88206448)
Summary:

Congratulations on JL’s marriage. Invitation to dine at Down with the Hookers, Huxleys, and T. V. Wollaston.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel469

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[24 April 1856]
Source of text:
RGO 6.216.115
Summary:

Has no actinometers available [see GA's 1856-4-23], but tells GA where he can get one; rhapsodizes about the beauty of nature around him, and the silliness of a person.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8108

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Wolstenholme Ward
Date:
[24 April 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.374 (C: 23.168)
Summary:

Happy to hear that [new Sydney mint] is going well. JH confined with painful illness since Mar. 1855; still unable to walk or stand upright without support. Aluminium may be used in coins, but JH doubts it will replace iron in pots and pans. War is ended, but people worry about further Russian aggression.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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