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DCP-LETT-4961

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[1866]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 1
Summary:

Asks GHD what the chances are against squinting and non-squinting children coming alternately in a family of ten.

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DCP-LETT-4963

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1866?]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 27
Summary:

Requests that correspondent take some action regarding the state of horses on his farm. Robert Ainslie of Tromer Lodge, Down, was fined in 1852 following CD’s complaints.

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DCP-LETT-4968A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Bence Jones
Date:
3 Jan [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 249: 86
Summary:

A report on his somewhat improved health.

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DCP-LETT-4976

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 [Jan 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 280
Summary:

In despair: has lost his copy of Verlot’s memoir on variations of flowers [Sur la production et la fixation des variétés (1866)]. Has JDH borrowed it?

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DCP-LETT-4981

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
21 [Jan 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 281
Summary:

Has found Verlot.

His sister [Emily Catherine Langton] is dying [d. 2 Feb 1866].

His stomach still very bad. Writes one or two hours and reads a little.

JDH is a wretch to remind CD of his coal-plant prophecy.

Glad JDH will give Nottingham lecture.

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