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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[14 December 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 186
Summary:
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Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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Congratulates JT on success in breeding potato varieties.
Is glad book progresses; answers translation query.
Francis Darwin does not have time to lecture.
Thanks for JDH’s description of CD’s work in Nature.
Anthony Rich to bequeath his property (over £1100 a year) to CD.
Congratulates CD on the Anthony Rich bequest.
Sad but relieved to retire as President of the Royal Society.
Describes battle with Treasury over use of an empty house at Kew.
Asks CD if he would screw himself up to inviting A. Newton to Down.