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DCP-LETT-10596

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Darwin
Date:
11 Sept [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 92
Summary:

Informs LD of the death of Francis Darwin’s wife, Amy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10919

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Darwin
Date:
31 Mar 1877
Source of text:
DAR 153: 92
Summary:

Is "awfully glad" at LD’s appointment [as an instructor at Chatham].

Thinks LD should start reading chemistry "though reading does not do much".

Reports scientific work of George and Frank Darwin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11256

From:
Leonard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Nov 1877
Source of text:
DAR 186: 32
Summary:

LD is supplying coloured-glass light filters for CD’s experiments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11316

From:
Leonard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 209.8: 153
Summary:

LD’s chemical analysis of lamp-black.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11317

From:
Leonard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 186: 33
Summary:

Has been testing lamp-black for ammonia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11484

From:
Leonard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Apr 1878
Source of text:
DAR 186: 34
Summary:

Encloses two photos [missing].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12035

From:
Leonard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 186: 35
Summary:

Has been trying unsuccessfully to weigh something for CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12153

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Darwin
Date:
12 July [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 153: 93
Summary:

Will shorten or leave out many parts [of Erasmus Darwin] but cannot agree that it is not worth while to say something about the family.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12160

From:
Leonard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 12 July] 1879
Source of text:
DAR 92: B7–10
Summary:

Suggests revisions in proofs of Erasmus Darwin.

[Letter wrongly dated Nov by LD.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12191

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Darwin
Date:
12 Aug 1879
Source of text:
DAR 153: 94
Summary:

Coniston is most beautiful, but CD finds "there are too many human beings for my taste".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13004

From:
Leonard Darwin
To:
Leslie Stephen
Date:
[10 Jan 1881]
Source of text:
The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature (MSS Stephen)
Summary:

Suggests an errata slip for preface to Erasmus Darwin would correct the inaccurate statement regarding publication of Butler’s Evolution old and new.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13379

From:
William Mackmurdo Hacon
To:
Leonard Darwin
Date:
8 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 166: 31
Summary:

On proposed sale of property to CD by Sydney Sales. [The site of the Down House hard tennis court.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13393

From:
William Mackmurdo Hacon
To:
Leonard Darwin
Date:
11 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 166: 32
Summary:

More on proposed sale of property to CD by Sydney Sales.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13395

From:
Leonard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Oct [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 186: 36
Summary:

Will be home on Saturday.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13400

From:
William Mackmurdo Hacon
To:
Leonard Darwin
Date:
14 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 166: 33
Summary:

Further details on sale of property to CD by Sydney Sales.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7405

From:
Leonard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 4 Mar 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 186: 30
Summary:

Recommends a photographer to CD for Expression.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8260

From:
Leonard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[29 Mar 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 75
Summary:

Data relating to experiments; shrinkage of earth on drying.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8404

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Darwin
Date:
11 July [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 153: 90
Summary:

CD wants no more alterations than are necessary [to proofs of Expression]. Warns LD that "any alteration seems at first an improvement".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8435

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Darwin
Date:
26 July [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 153: 90
Summary:

CD cannot improve style [of Expression] without great changes. "I am sick of the subject, and myself, and the world".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8709

From:
Leonard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 14 Feb 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 90: 8
Summary:

Statistics showing rate of decline of population in Sandwich Islands, 1832–72.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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