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DCP-LETT-3179F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
11 June [1861-8]
Source of text:
Christie’s, London (dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 6)
Summary:

CD regrets he has to turn down an invitation because of his ill health.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3206

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frances Julia (Snow) Wedgwood
Date:
11 July [1861]
Source of text:
LL 1: 313–14; Christie’s (dealers) (3 March 2004)
Summary:

Admires FJW’s article ["The boundaries of science", Macmillan’s Mag. 4 (1861): 237–47]. Thinks she understands his book [Origin] perfectly.

On design in nature: the more CD thinks on the subject the less he can see proof of it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3097

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
23 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 4 (EH 88205988); Christie’s Images (Christie’s (dealers) 11 November 1998, lot 30)
Summary:

CD will publish on Primula [Collected papers 2: 45–63]. Will DO ask W. H. Fitch to make woodcuts of "pin" and "non-pin" primroses [i.e., long-styled and short-styled forms]? Encloses a sketch.

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