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DCP-LETT-12965

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Agassiz
Date:
1 [June] 1881
Source of text:
DAR 143: 10
Summary:

Thanks AA for letter on coral reefs. "I used to think … that areas of elevation and of subsidence must – as a general rule be separated by a single great line of fissure, or rather of several".

Suggests that AA urge again his views on reappearance of old characters.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13187

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Eliot Norton
Date:
1 June 1881
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Charles Eliot Norton Papers, MS Am 1088.14: 1599)
Summary:

No Benjamin Franklin letters to Erasmus Darwin preserved.

Was inaccurate about Franklin’s nephews [in Erasmus Darwin].

Recounts story about Franklin at court of France.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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