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DCP-LETT-12385

From:
Maria
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1871–82]
Source of text:
DAR 201: 24
Summary:

On the Christian God; questioning of CD’s religious beliefs.

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DCP-LETT-12386

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maria
Date:
[1871–82]
Source of text:
DAR 201: 24v
Summary:

Regrets he has not time to develop points touched on in her letter and that he does not understand what information she wants.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12387

From:
Maria
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1871–82]
Source of text:
DAR 201: 25
Summary:

Writes at length on importance of God and Catholicism, and the need to seek salvation.

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DCP-LETT-6523

From:
Carel Hendrik Thiebout
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1871]
Source of text:
DAR 201: 39
Summary:

As a follower of CD, Spencer, and Kant, wishes to announce his work on the origin of "foolish illnesses" and prostitution [? Kort begrip der proefunderlijke zielkunde (1869)].

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DCP-LETT-7057

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[1871 or later]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 89
Summary:

All the inhabitants of Down hope JL will endeavour to induce the Post Office to improve the telegraph service.

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DCP-LETT-7414

From:
William Turner
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1871?]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 196
Summary:

Extract from Robert Knox on hermaphroditism [Lond. Med. Gaz. 12 Jan 1844].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7418

From:
Oscar Gustaf Rejlander
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1871]
Source of text:
DAR 189: 139
Summary:

Observations on expression.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7428

From:
Francis (Frank) Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Jan 1871
Source of text:
DAR 181: 50
Summary:

Depth of furrows in old field.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7429

From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Jan [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 89: 170–1
Summary:

On sexual selection and the sense of beauty among the W. African Negroes.

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DCP-LETT-7430

From:
Federico Delpino
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Jan 1871
Source of text:
DAR 111: A77–8
Summary:

Sends his new work, Ulteriori osservazioni sulla dicogomia pt 2, fasc. 1.

Has found no nectar in Orchis morio or O. maculata in Italy and has seen no insects visiting the plants.

Gives his observations on cross- and self-fertilisation in cereals.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7431

From:
Alexander F. Boardman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Jan 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 230
Summary:

More speculations [see 5811] on the evolutionary development of man, relating progress to the consumption of better food and the availability of moist air.

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DCP-LETT-7432

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Jan 1871
Source of text:
DAR 105: A23–4
Summary:

Definite results have been delayed, but he is optimistic.

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DCP-LETT-7433

From:
Francis (Frank) Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Jan 1871
Source of text:
DAR 181: 51
Summary:

Appearance and depth of furrows in old field.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7435

From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Jan 1871
Source of text:
DAR 87: 140
Summary:

Sends quotation about Lycurgus and Spartan exposure of infants who were deemed defective.

Bibliographic references on sense of beauty and morals.

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DCP-LETT-7442

From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Jan [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 169: 79
Summary:

Has received (from CD) the sheets of the second volume [of Descent].

He fears he has offended CD or someone in England and he begs to know his offence.

His brother is working at the Red Sea and wishes CD to know that he has evidence for the affinity of ascidians and vertebrates in their nervous systems.

Plans to go to Paris upon its imminent capitulation to help his sister-in-law.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7443

From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Jan 1871
Source of text:
DAR 176: 43
Summary:

Meeting with CD postponed.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7447

From:
St George Jackson Mivart
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Jan 1871
Source of text:
DAR 171: 189
Summary:

Has sent CD his book [Genesis of species (1871)]. Has not said a word in opposition to CD except where his view of the truth necessitated it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7448

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
21 Jan [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 186–7
Summary:

Finished the last proofs of Descent a few days ago. "I shall be well abused."

St George Mivart’s Genesis [of species]: very good, unfortunately theological. Will tell heavily against natural selection but not against evolution, and this is "infinitely more important".

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7449

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Jan 1871
Source of text:
DAR 167: 28
Summary:

JBI regrets his part in appointments of his successors.

His friendship with CD and its effect on his fellow clerics.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7451

From:
St George Jackson Mivart
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Jan 1871
Source of text:
DAR 171: 190
Summary:

Thanks CD for vol. 1 of Descent. Feels nothing but sympathy and esteem for a writer labouring for the promotion of what he conscientiously believes to be the truth.

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