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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
15 December 1881
Source of text:
DAR 210.3: 33
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
4 December 1881
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 279
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[16 December 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 280
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[17 December 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 281
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[18 December 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 282
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Ida; Darwin, Horace
Date:
[c. 10 December 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 633
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
[17 Dec 1881]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.578)
Summary:
Asks him to visit.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Félix Hément
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 166: 139
Summary:
Sends notes of reports by E. A. Axon, George Ticknor, and Joseph Alley to Académie des Sciences on deaf mutes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugo de Vries
Date:
9 Dec 1881
Source of text:
Artis Library (De Vries 9)
Summary:
Can HdV supply a reference to a paper describing a stem or a root divided longitudinally and the separate parts acted on by geotropism.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugo de Vries
Date:
[Dec 1881?]
Source of text:
Artis Library (De Vries 10)
Summary:
Thanks for HdeV’s letter, which is a great relief to him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Frederick Simpson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 177: 169
Summary:
Thanks CD for offer of a copy of Earthworms.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
Date:
1 Dec 1881
Source of text:
Sulivan family (private collection)
Summary:
Sends his subscription for the adopted Fuegian [James FitzRoy Button].
Feels very old and wishes he could be idle but finds himself miserable without any daily work.
Is reading Lyell’s biography [K. M. Lyell (1881)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Warde Norman
Date:
1 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 249: 107
Summary:
"I should be a strange creature if I did not feel real pleasure in seeing you." Recalls GWN’s kindness and assistance over forty years.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Paget, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Dec 1881
Source of text:
The Royal College of Surgeons of England (MS0026/7/4)
Summary:
Thanks for Earthworms. Is going to Nice for a few weeks to recuperate.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Paget, 1st baronet
Date:
3 Dec 1881
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:
Is delighted with JP’s article on vivisection ["Vivisection: its pains and its uses, No. 1", Nineteenth Century 10 (1881): 920–30]. CD is "boiling over with indignation on the subject".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 177: 317
Summary:
BJS’s son has seen six Fuegians being exhibited in Berlin; BJS hopes that they might be bought from their master and returned to Tierra del Fuego.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frederick Glyn Montagu Powell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 202: 117
Summary:
Expresses his admiration for CD and his work.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederick Glyn Montagu Powell
Date:
[after 3 Dec 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 117v
Summary:
Thanks FGMP for his sympathetic and very kind letter.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edmund Beecher Wilson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 181: 119
Summary:
Gives case of a mollusc, Scyllaea, which mimics the Sargassum on which it lives.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Arthur Hall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 166: 88
Summary:
Vegetable mould covering paving-stones in Oxfordshire lanes accumulated over 14 or 16 centuries.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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- American Philosophical Society9
- Artis Library2
- Bancroft Library, University of California1
- Cambridge University Library59
- Centrum för vetenskapshistoria, Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien1
- Instituto de Estudios Coruñeses Jose Cornide1
- J. A. Stargardt (dealers)1
- Linnean Society of London2
- Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney2
- National Library of Scotland1
- Natural History Museum and Archives1
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond10
- Royal College of Surgeons of England1
- Royal Society1
- Smithsonian Libraries1
- Sotheby's (dealers)1
- Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz1
- Sulivan family (private collection)1
- Taylor Library, Shrewsbury School1
- The British Library2
- UCL Library Services1
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