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DCP-LETT-11781

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Anthony Rich
Date:
9 Dec 1878
Source of text:
DAR 210.12: 3
Summary:

Is deeply gratified by AR’s proposed generosity.

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DCP-LETT-11786

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
12 Dec [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 151
Summary:

Writes of Anthony Rich’s bequest.

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DCP-LETT-11788

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Anthony Rich
Date:
12 Dec 1878
Source of text:
DAR 210.12: 5
Summary:

Thanks AR for the details of his bequest and invites him to Down.

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DCP-LETT-11789

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Date:
12 Dec 1878
Source of text:
DAR 153: 10
Summary:

Informs EAD of Anthony Rich’s proposal to bequeath his property to CD.

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DCP-LETT-11792

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Davis Cooper
Date:
[after 13 Dec 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 20v
Summary:

Approves of the proof. However, his book [Movement in plants] will have a large number of diagrams so he feels only the complicated diagrams and drawings should be copied by photography.

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DCP-LETT-11794

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
14 Dec [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 477–8
Summary:

Thanks for JDH’s description of CD’s work in Nature.

Anthony Rich to bequeath his property (over £1100 a year) to CD.

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DCP-LETT-11797

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
16 Dec [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 203
Summary:

Thanks WO for advice and assistance for his son, Horace.

Has read Kerner’s book [see 11666]; finds the translation "as clear as daylight" but fears it is too good for the English public who like "very washy food".

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DCP-LETT-11798

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 Dec [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 479–80
Summary:

Waiting for frost to go so experiments can start again.

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DCP-LETT-11802

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
22 Dec [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 28 (EH 88205966)
Summary:

Returns the siren; the plants "ill luck to them, are not sensitive to aerial vibrations". Is ashamed of his blunder.

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DCP-LETT-11813

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Sorell Arnold
Date:
31 Dec [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 21
Summary:

Responds to criticism concerning varieties, species, and genera.

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DCP-LETT-11912

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
3 Mar [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 29 (EH 88205967)
Summary:

Sends W. K. Clifford subscription.

Has been unwell and hardly able to do anything. Has seen Andrew Clark.

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DCP-LETT-12077

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[1 Aug 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 52
Summary:

Describes observations and experiments on the response to light of Bignonia capreolata tendrils.

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DCP-LETT-11407

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
7 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 144: 92; Linnean Society of London (MS 489)
Summary:

If THF and James Caird [Enclosure Commissioner] approve of enclosed letter, CD will send it to Hooker.

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DCP-LETT-11580

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maurice Hawley Truelove
Date:
1 July 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.539)
Summary:

Regrets he cannot sign a memorial for correspondent’s father [Edward Truelove], which states an opinion on a life that is totally unknown to him. Feels that Edward Truelove’s sentence was very harsh [ET was imprisoned and fined for selling "obscene" publications advocating artificial control of conception] even though CD is strongly opposed to all the views expressed.

Comments on R. D. Owen’s Moral physiology [1831].

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DCP-LETT-11766

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Nicholas Ridley
Date:
28 Nov 1878
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Letters to H. N. Ridley CLE–GUR, 1878–1951, HNR/2/1/2: f. 42)
Summary:

Does not think sermon by E. B. Pusey [see 11763] is worth a reply. HNR may quote CD as saying that Pusey is "mistaken in imagining that I wrote the Origin with any relation whatever to Theology". Pusey’s attack will be powerless to retard belief in evolution.

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