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From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[21 October 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.5: 22
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Sedgwick, Sara
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
5 October [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 219.8: 33
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[6 October 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 164
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[22 October 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 165
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[23 October 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 166
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[c. 25 October 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 167
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Maine, H. S.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
19 October [1877 or 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1906
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Elizabeth
To:
Darwin, Ida
Date:
12 October [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 565
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[October–November 1877?]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 831
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
24 and 25 Oct 1877
Source of text:
DAR 258: 864
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
22 October 1877
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1262
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
18 [Oct 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 61–2
Summary:
Sends a query he would like GHD to put to Clerk Maxwell: why does a sponged leaf dry more rapidly, although sponging cannot remove the waxy bloom from the minute pores through which it is secreted?
Is very glad to hear about tides in the earth.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[21 Oct 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 209.14: 189
Summary:
Hooker, just returned from U. S., says Pinus nordmanniana leaves are spread horizontally in the morning and rise during the day.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ewart Gladstone
Date:
2 Oct 1877
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 44455: 120–1)
Summary:
Has read WEG’s article ["The colour sense", Nineteenth Century 2 (1877): 366–88] on H. Magnus’ view. Informs him of a criticism of this view and reply by Magnus in Kosmos. Offers to send the article.
CD has contributed some facts on the difficulty children have in distinguishing colours (or naming them correctly).
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Oct 1877
Source of text:
DAR 164: 85
Summary:
Hive-bees captured in tubes of nectary of Tritoma. Seems a maladaptation of the bees.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
3 Oct [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 92: A43
Summary:
Encloses his marriage present, which he fears Sara [Darwin née Sedgwick] will think "atrociously unsentimental", but he hopes useful.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Léo Abram Errera
Date:
4 Oct 1877
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.523)
Summary:
Approves terms used in LAE’s manuscript. Discusses relative advantages of self-fertilisation and cross-fertilisation.
Thanks LAE for pointing out erratum [in Cross and self-fertilisation].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
4 Oct [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 37
Summary:
Is glad to hear R. B. Litchfield is better.
Discusses William Darwin’s engagement to Sara Sedgwick.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
5 Oct 1877
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
CD’s opinion of a specimen sent by JBI from an unknown tree, and the Ross-shire tale about it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Oct [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.5: 21
Summary:
Thanks CD for present of £300.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Date
Document type
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- American Philosophical Society4
- Archives de la famille de Candolle1
- Cambridge University Library50
- Cleveland Health Sciences Library, Case Western Reserve University1
- Hope Entomological Collections, Oxford University Museum of Natural History3
- Houghton Library, Harvard University1
- J. A. Stargardt (dealers)1
- James G. Zimmer (private collection)1
- Linnean Society of London1
- Morton Pepper (private collection)1
- Raab Collection (dealer)1
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond9
- Royal Geographical Society1
- Sotheby's (dealers)1
- Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz1
- The British Library2
- University Library of Uppsala1
- University of Liverpool Library1
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