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DCP-LETT-13770

From:
Unidentified
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 24 Feb 1871?]
Source of text:
DAR 201: 1
Summary:

Urges CD to repent and seek salvation through Christ.

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DCP-LETT-13771

From:
Julian Willis Abernethy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 18 Feb 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 140.4: 26
Summary:

A poem, "Burns to Darwin".

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13789

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Date:
7 Sept [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 210.10: 27
Summary:

Wants to sell some shares held in trust by EAD and Josiah Wedgwood [III].

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DCP-LETT-13840

From:
Caroline Jemima (Caroline) Shuttleworth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Nov [1871-80]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 158
Summary:

Reports peculiar behaviour in a fantail pigeon, which persistently courted a ginger-beer bottle.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13849

From:
D. Thomas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 11 Mar 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 108
Summary:

CD is "bent upon linking the monkey race to us"; DT finds it striking that CD should so resemble an ape.

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DCP-LETT-4639F

From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20-9 Oct 187120-9 Oct 1873
Source of text:
DAR 164: 222
Summary:

Fox hopes to see CD in London in November.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5926

From:
St George Jackson Mivart
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 182
Summary:

Would be pleased if CD called.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6508

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arabella Burton Buckley
Date:
18 Dec [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 177
Summary:

Thanks her for marked proof-sheets.

Discusses climate in earlier geological periods.

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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-6765

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 17 July 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 11
Summary:

Gives CD some information on wills.

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DCP-LETT-7048

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Apr 1871?]
Source of text:
DAR 88: 76–7
Summary:

J. S. Mill’s account of the moral sense in Utilitarianism [1863] appears muddled. [See Descent 1: 71 n.]

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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-7155

From:
Frederic Bateman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 58
Summary:

Sends his work discussing the anatomical seat of the faculty of language [On aphasia (1870)]. Concludes that it may be impossible to find any cerebral centre for speech and that this fact opposes the idea of the descent of man from some lower form.

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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.

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DCP-LETT-7406

From:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[21 Mar 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 195.1: 54
Summary:

Copy of and note on a picture of Noah’s daughter averting her eyes in shame.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7407

From:
James Anderson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 24 Feb 1871?]
Source of text:
DAR 159: 72
Summary:

Sends two books detailing a new medical method that will produce "a state of health & vigour on every occasion & in every instance" and is applicable to "the entire circle of animated nature" [William Hibbert, Important discovery. Hibbert’s new theory and practice of medicine (1870) and The new theory and practice of medicine (1870)]. The volumes apply to animals and man. Subsequent books will detail the method for insects and plants.

[Letter erroneously addressed to E. A. Darwin, and forwarded by EAD to CD.]

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DCP-LETT-7408

From:
Charles Leland Balch
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 15 Apr 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 20
Summary:

CD’s photographs have been sent to [J. W. A.] McDonald, the sculptor, who will make a marble bust for the Liberal Club of New York and a bronze or plaster one for sale; CD will receive a copy. CD has been elected an Honorary Member of the Club, and

CB asks whether he could give them a few words of advice on a practical method of biological study for beginners.

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DCP-LETT-7412

From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[16 Dec 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 252
Summary:

Sends CD a ptarmigan.

Contributor:
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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-7415

From:
Alexander Agassiz
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 1 June 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 69: A43–6 DAR 89: 29–31
Summary:

Instances of sexual differences in viviparous fishes, suggested by reading chapters on sexual selection [in Descent] and by Mivart’s Genesis of species.

Notes on echinoderms.

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