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DCP-LETT-10822

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frances Harriet Henslow; Frances Harriet Hooker
Date:
31 Jan [1868]
Source of text:
Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (13 September 1984)
Summary:

Thanks for congratulations on George’s attaining Second Wrangler.

George will try for a fellowship at Trinity.

CD believes real education begins after school days.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13645

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred James Woodhouse
Date:
25 Jan [1867?]
Source of text:
DAR 261.11: 14 (EH 88206066)
Summary:

Two queries on teeth: 1. Is there evidence of inherited peculiarities in milk teeth?

2. Are male incisors longer than female?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13770G

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
19 Mar [1860–1]
Source of text:
King’s College London Archives (TH/PP MISC)
Summary:

Recommends papers on Styrian Cave insects and American cave animals.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13770J

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
8 Dec [1861-8]
Source of text:
Dr Jeremy J. C. Mallinson (private collection): sold at Sotheby’s (dealers), 11 December 2017, lot 50
Summary:

Thanks for information on inheritance of mental peculiarities in cats.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13773

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
26 Jan [1862]
Source of text:
University of Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
Summary:

Discusses deduction from bill for medicine.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13781

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
Date:
16 May [1869-81]
Source of text:
George Houle Autographs (dealer) (Catalogue 61, March 1992)
Summary:

"I shall not be in London on Monday, but I have written to my Brother to ask him to aid you"

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13786

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Crawfurd
Date:
25 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 299
Summary:

Asks for information about JC’s essay, "On the relation of the domesticated animals to civilisation" [read at BAAS meeting 1859].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13788

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
8 Jan [1862 or 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 321
Summary:

Obliged for the Theophrastus. Will return it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13793

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[after 12 Oct 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 2
Summary:

Instructions on paying a bill.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13799

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
22 Feb [1863 or later]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 131
Summary:

Seeks investment advice.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13802

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Peter Martin Duncan
Date:
13 Apr [1868?]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.272)
Summary:

Promises to send coral specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13804

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
12 [May 1861 - Apr 1863]
Source of text:
Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections, University of Birmingham (EYT/1/45)
Summary:

Thanks TCE for telling him of his crossed pigs. When they are grown, he would like to know whether they resemble each other.

Doubts the half-bred Gallus sonnerati will be productive, though he was assured many years ago that such a fertile half-breed once occurred.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13816

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[4 Mar 1868]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Arrangements to dine at JDH’s club.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13817

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
[1860–70?]
Source of text:
Janet Huxley (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks THH for the delightful evening he gave Frank [Darwin].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13823

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lovegrove
Date:
9 July [1861?]
Source of text:
Barton L. Smith MD (private collection)
Summary:

Regrets he does not have pedigree of CL’s "pretty pony", but assures him information was very useful, "more especially as it confirms what I heard from Norway & did not know whether fully to believe".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13825

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Camilla Frederike Antonie (Camilla) Ludwig; Camilla Frederike Antonie (Camilla) Pattrick
Date:
21 Feb [1863 or later]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.620)
Summary:

Asks her to translate passage of letter about treatment.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13825G

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[22 Nov 1866 – 14 Dec 1871]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (L DC AL 1/2)
Summary:

CD asks if he can call tomorrow (Friday) at 9: 30, and offers to come on Saturday if that would suit CL better.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13837

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Adolf Reuter
Date:
24 July [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 297
Summary:

Thanks for facts on inheritance. May be used if CD corrects 3d ed. [2d ed.] of Variation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13839A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
22 May [1860-81]
Source of text:
John Wilson (dealer) (1987)
Summary:

CD has signed the enclosed with great pleasure.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13863

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock
Date:
[1 Oct 1866]
Source of text:
Henry Bristow (dealer) (Catalogue 265)
Summary:

"… Mr Herbert Spencer. I will call tomorrow about half past 12".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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