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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Abraham Dee Bartlett
Date:
15 Sept 1871
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D)
Summary:

CD questions ADB on the mode of feeding of geese and on the existence of variations in the structure of the bill; is trying to trace gradations in structure and habits.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Susan Ridley Sedgwick Norton
Date:
23 Nov [1871]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Charles Eliot Norton Papers, MS Am 1088.14: 1594)
Summary:

Reports how his sons enjoyed their trip to America.

Is glad SRSN is settled in Dresden.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
17 Jan [1872-4]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D)
Summary:

Requests a prescribed physic [not specified].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
Date:
10 Dec 1872
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Harcourt Amory collection of Lewis Carroll MS Eng 718.12: 2)
Summary:

Thanks for offer of photograph.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Brettingham Sowerby
Date:
12 [Nov 1845]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D)
Summary:

Asks for a meeting in order to go over the shells [which GBS was to describe in the appendix on Tertiary fossil shells in South America].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Member of the Athenaeum Club
Date:
9 Mar [1874]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D)
Summary:

Seeks correspondent’s support for his nephew, Henry Parker, for membership in the Athenaeum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
17 Feb [1875-8]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D)
Summary:

Tells correspondent how to locate Michael Faraday’s widow [Sarah Barnard].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Georg Bronn
Date:
30 June [1862]
Source of text:
Bronn trans. 1862; DAR 143: 155; Houghton Library, Harvard University (MS Lowell Autograph File 83)
Summary:

Encloses answers and corrections [concerning Orchids]. Thanks HGB for translating it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Blunt
Date:
5 Apr [1867]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Albert Stephens Borgman autograph collection MS Am 1631: 95)
Summary:

Congratulates TB on his son’s success in scientific studies.

Susan Darwin’s death [Oct 1866] has severed last ties of family with Shrewsbury.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project