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FL-0410

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[1 March 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 40
Summary:

No summary available.

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Darwin Family Letters
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FL-0411

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[24 April 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 41
Summary:

No summary available.

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Darwin Family Letters
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FL-0412

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[30 April 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 42
Summary:

No summary available.

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Darwin Family Letters
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FL-0413

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[2 May 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 43
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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FL-0414

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[21 May 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 44
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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FL-0415

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[26 May 1861?]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 45
Summary:

No summary available.

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Darwin Family Letters
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FL-0416

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[4 June 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 46
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-13770J

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
8 Dec [1861-8]
Source of text:
Dr Jeremy J. C. Mallinson (private collection): sold at Sotheby’s (dealers), 11 December 2017, lot 50
Summary:

Thanks for information on inheritance of mental peculiarities in cats.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13786

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Crawfurd
Date:
25 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 299
Summary:

Asks for information about JC’s essay, "On the relation of the domesticated animals to civilisation" [read at BAAS meeting 1859].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13804

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
12 [May 1861 - Apr 1863]
Source of text:
Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections, University of Birmingham (EYT/1/45)
Summary:

Thanks TCE for telling him of his crossed pigs. When they are grown, he would like to know whether they resemble each other.

Doubts the half-bred Gallus sonnerati will be productive, though he was assured many years ago that such a fertile half-breed once occurred.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13823

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lovegrove
Date:
9 July [1861?]
Source of text:
Barton L. Smith MD (private collection)
Summary:

Regrets he does not have pedigree of CL’s "pretty pony", but assures him information was very useful, "more especially as it confirms what I heard from Norway & did not know whether fully to believe".

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13853

From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 24 July 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 47: 162
Summary:

Gives CD an instance of facts that can be read either way as to whether a plant (Veronica humifusa) is a species or a variety.

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DCP-LETT-13864F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[1861–82]
Source of text:
Famous Notables (dealers) (no date)
Summary:

Last page of a letter with a five-line P.S. concerning pen-holders.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13879

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
20 June [1861-8]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Sends a copy of the paper [with A. R. Wallace, "On the tendency of species to form varieties" (1858), Collected papers 2: 3–19] about which his correspondent asked; CD’s parts were written years ago and not intended for publication; he gave permission for publication of the extracts. Wallace’s paper seems to him excellent.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13880

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
24 Aug [1861-8]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 28)
Summary:

Thanks correspondent for a remarkable instance of inheritance [not specified].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13881

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
25 Nov [1861-8]
Source of text:
Royal Institution of Great Britain (RI MS F/1/M)
Summary:

Has read correspondent’s notice on bent cleavage. Refers him to observations on the same fact in South America, p. 160. CD has also suggested a conjectural explanation.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13881A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
31 Dec [1861-8]
Source of text:
J. David Archibald (private collection)
Summary:

"As I have never especially attended to Conchology I am sorry to say I cannot tell you the name of the enclosed shell which I now return–"

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1616

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
Date:
[17 July 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 49
Summary:

Difficulty of distinguishing varieties and species. Did HCW suggest a printed list that might help?

Polymorphic genera.

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DCP-LETT-2415

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
17 Feb [1861]
Source of text:
Duke University, Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Sir Anthony Musgrave Papers (RL.11684): Lady Jeanie Lucinda Musgrave (Field) Scrapbook)
Summary:

Sends cheque.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2628

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederick Temple
Date:
[c. 28 Feb 1861]
Source of text:
H. G. Hutchinson 1914, 1: 57–8
Summary:

Regret that the Archbishop of Canterbury and other English Bishops have severely censured Essays and Reviews [1860]. Believe "such enquiries conducted in a spirit so earnest and reverential … must tend to elicit truth, and to foster a spirit of sound religion". [Signed by CD, numerous men of science, and others.]

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