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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[12 October 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 30
Summary:
No summary available.
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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[3 November 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 32
Summary:
No summary available.
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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[December 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 34
Summary:
No summary available.
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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[11? March 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 18
Summary:
No summary available.
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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[7 May 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 19
Summary:
No summary available.
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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[20 May 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 20
Summary:
No summary available.
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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[8? June 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 21
Summary:
No summary available.
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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
15 December [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 22
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
27 Jan [1858]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 676)
Summary:
Asks GB to vote for "a distant connexion of mine" at Athenaeum, and to mention this to Hooker.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Jan [1858-9]
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 242
Summary:
Sends record of pigeon flight from London to Antwerp. [Lord W. Lennox, Merrie England (1857), p. 185.]
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
7 Mar [1858]
Source of text:
Christie’s, London (dealers) (15 July 2015, lot 176)
Summary:
Wrote some weeks ago about Burmese fowl-skins; is willing to send them, carriage paid.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 23 Mar 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 45: 16–17
Summary:
Extracts from MS of vol. 4 of HCW’s Cybele Britannica [1847–59] showing the diversity of views on species among botanists.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Benjamin Carpenter
Date:
26 Jan [1858]
Source of text:
Harris Manchester College Library, Oxford (Letter book D and Letter book D Add.)
Summary:
Asks WBC to plant some kidney beans [on Holy Island near Arran] and to see whether they are ever visited by bees. If no bees visit the island, it would be "curious" to observe what plants grow there.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Skeffington Poole
Date:
13 Oct [1858]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Asks about Indian horses. Encloses questions.
Contributor:
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From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[May–June 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 48: B18
Summary:
Calculations relating to bees’ cells.
Contributor:
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From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Jan 1858
Source of text:
DAR 98: A19–20
Summary:
Discusses the ranges and distribution of varieties relative to the type species.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Librarian
Date:
[c. June 1858 or later]
Source of text:
Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection: Edward G. and Hortense R. Levy Autograph Collection, Part 2 (OSB MSS 137) Box 25, folder 1188)
Summary:
Will return Benjamin Jowett’s Epistles of St Paul (Jowett 1855) and requests several books, of which the latest is Hugh Miller’s Cruise of the Betsey (Miller 1858).
Contributor:
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From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[8 Jan 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 98: A144–5
Summary:
Zebra-striped asses.
Markings of a Bengal jungle cock.
Refers to some of his own articles on birds in India.
Reports the arrival of the "glorious garrison of Lucknow". The "wonderful superiority of the European to the Asiatic" made the success of the insurrection inconceivable.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
12 Jan [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 220
Summary:
On papilionaceous flowers and CD’s theory that there are no eternal hermaphrodites. Connects this theory to absence of small-flowered legumes in New Zealand and the absence of small bees as pollinators.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward William Vernon Harcourt
Date:
13 Jan [1858]
Source of text:
Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Harcourt dep. adds. 346, fols. 265–8)
Summary:
Went to the show and saw EWVH’s birds.
Thinks he will give up his pigeons at the end of the summer.
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