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DCP-LETT-13638

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
23 [Jan 1882]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.613)
Summary:

Discusses present of microscope to Grant Allen.

Mentions sugar-cane paper [by Baron de Villa Franca].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13641

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emil Holub
Date:
23 Jan 1882
Source of text:
Národní Muzeum, Prague
Summary:

Thanks EH for gift of 2d ed. of his book of travels [Seven years in South Africa (1881)]. Expresses admiration for EH’s courage and zeal for science.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13644

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
25 [Jan 1882]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.569)
Summary:

Agrees about Grant Allen affair.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13647

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
28 Jan 1882
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.614)
Summary:

Agrees to write a page or two on behalf of Donald MacAlister.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13648F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Sinclair
Date:
[28 Jan 1882]
Source of text:
National Livestock Journal , August 1882, p. 363
Summary:

His thoughts on the lack of horns in domesticated cattle.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13607

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Caroline Augusta Smith; Caroline Augusta Kennard
Date:
9 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 185: 29
Summary:

Thinks that "women though generally superior to men [in] moral qualities are inferior intellectually". Believes that men and women may have been aboriginally equal in this respect but that to regain equality women would have to "become as regular ""bread-winners"" as are men". Suspects the education of children and "the happiness of our homes" would greatly suffer in that case.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13648

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edith Hunter; Edith Evans
Date:
28 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 144: 12a
Summary:

Dismisses report of cat–rabbit hybrid.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13600G

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hyacinth Symonds; Hyacinth Jardine; Hyacinth Hooker
Date:
6 Jan [1882]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/2/2/1 f. 313)
Summary:

Sends subscription for Hannah Fitch.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13603

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin; Francis Darwin; George Howard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Leonard Darwin; William Erasmus Darwin; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
8 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 185: 60
Summary:

Advises his children as to how some money will be distributed among them.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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