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From:
Darwin, G. H.
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
29 October 1872
Source of text:
DAR 258: 800
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
No summary available.
Sends sentences from Hermann von Helmholtz about difference between minor and major chords.
Thanks GHD for extracts, but says the subject of music is beyond him.
Suggests that GHD deliberate over one or two sentences of his paper on dress ["Developments in dress", Macmillan’s Mag. 22 (1872): 410–16].
Refers to prospective marriage of Amy [Ruck and CD’s son Francis].
Discusses the price of some heliotype prints [for Expression?].