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From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
9 [June 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 24
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
15 [June 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 25
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[19 June 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 26
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[13 June 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 27
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[22 June 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 28
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online
From:
Darwin, G. H.
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[April or May 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 2238
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online
From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[11 June 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 2344
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Apr 1865
Source of text:
DAR 171: 332
Summary:

Will be proud to publish CD’s new work on domestic animals [Variation]. Will announce it as the complement of the Origin. Advises on woodcuts; does not wish to limit number; agrees to CD’s suggestions for artists.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
4 Apr [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 434
Summary:

Discusses proposed publication of Variation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[3 Nov 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 43–6
Summary:

Kew affairs.

H. J. Carter’s observations are wonderful but want verification.

Skeptical of H. H. Travers’ observations.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Apr–May 1865?]
Source of text:
DAR 108: 171–2
Summary:

Observations for CD on oxlips, which she finds never grow near cowslips or primroses.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Thomas Rivers
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Jan [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 176: 163
Summary:

Thanks CD for his paper on Lythrum [Collected papers 2: 106–31].

Astonished by CD’s powers of observation and perseverance.

His elms raised from three varieties of weeping elms are doing well.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Apr–May 1865]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 20)
Summary:

Sends camera outlines of pollen. Thinks the red longstyled ones are more sterile than the yellow.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[27 Aug – 1 Sept 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 170: 10
Summary:

JL is in France with J. Steenstrup.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
7 Sept [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 324
Summary:

May his son George call for advice on his career?

CD has been ill for past four months.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
19 Oct [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 325
Summary:

Discusses income provided for sons at Cambridge.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
24 Oct [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 60 (EH 88206043)
Summary:

Thanks for correcting Fritz Miller’s paper on climbing plants. CD will send it to Linnean Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Swinhoe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 1 Oct 1865?]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 328
Summary:

Reports that dogs caught in the act of sodomy have been attacked by their fellows, who mutilate the offender’s genitals.

Gives a description of the nature and occurrence of the wild Bos of Formosa.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[late Feb–May 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 108: 89a
Summary:

[Outline sketches of pollen from short-styled yellow primrose and from long-styled yellow and red primroses.]

Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Jan 1865
Source of text:
DAR 166: 304
Summary:

Sends photograph.

THH wishes he could write the popular zoology but writing is a boring and slow process when he is not interested, and he is overburdened with lectures.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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