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DCP-LETT-11064

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow
Date:
20 July [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 52
Summary:

Writes as a trustee of the Down Friendly Society. Hopes the Society will soon be permitted to distribute its surplus funds, as there is agitation to dissolve the club and divide its assets.

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FL-0239

From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[6? July 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.5: 15
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0240

From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[23? July 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 210.5: 16
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0464

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[5 July 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 95
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0465

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[8 July 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 96
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0579

From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
18 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 219.4: 1
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0792

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[21 July 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 152
Summary:

No summary available.

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DCP-LETT-10743

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[12 or 19] July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 210.5: 14
Summary:

Discusses an experiment.

His dogs appear to have rabies.

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DCP-LETT-11027

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Victor (Alfred) Espinas
Date:
[before 1 July 1877]
Source of text:
Darwin Library–CUL: tipped into Espinas 1877
Summary:

As AE hardly admits evolution, they view all subjects differently.

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DCP-LETT-11028

From:
Thomas Meehan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 112
Summary:

Credits himself with stimulating most of the American work on plant cross-fertilisation. Sends his review of Cross and self-fertilisation [in Penn Monthly (June 1877)]. Suggests CD, A. Gray, and TM now agree on the extent of self-fertilisation in nature.

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DCP-LETT-11029

From:
Jean Pierre Oscar (Oscar) Comettant
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 161: 216
Summary:

Circular letter advertising Ernest Lavigne’s scheme to educate wealthy foreign children in Paris.

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DCP-LETT-11030

From:
Alfred Victor (Alfred) Espinas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 163: 34
Summary:

On painful state of CD’s reception in France.

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DCP-LETT-11031

From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 489
Summary:

"Young Mr Appleton", when in London, told Murray’s to send a set of stereotype plates [of Forms of flowers]. A printing of 1000 copies has been ordered for the English edition.

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DCP-LETT-11032

From:
Arnold Dodel-Port
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 162: 196
Summary:

Sends CD lithograph plates as examples of a book he hopes to publish.

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DCP-LETT-11034

From:
Max Schlesinger
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 177: 54
Summary:

Thanks CD for allowing him to translate his paper ["Biographical sketch of an infant"] for the Cologne Gazette. Sends copies.

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DCP-LETT-11035

From:
Karl Heinrich Hermann (Hermann) Hoffmann
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 166: 231
Summary:

Reports monstrous Papaver hybridum not mentioned in M. T. Masters’ Teratology [1869].

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DCP-LETT-11036

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Meehan
Date:
5 July [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 355
Summary:

Thanks for review. Fears "we must agree to differ".

Health weak. Not worth TM’s time to visit.

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DCP-LETT-11037

From:
John Brigg
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 160: 309
Summary:

Thanks CD for account of F. A. Pouchet’s experiments. Cannot yet dispute his conclusions.

Continues experiments on the colour of goldfish as affected by light and presence of plants.

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DCP-LETT-11038

From:
William Thierry (William) Preyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 174: 70
Summary:

Asks for CD’s "Sketch of an infant" [Collected papers 2: 191–200]. He has made observations on new-born children and mammals to determine what behaviour is inherited and what acquired.

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DCP-LETT-11040

From:
Charles Louis Bernays
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 160: 176
Summary:

Has enjoyed CD’s last publications, especially on self-fertilisation of plants.

Believes a visit by CD to the U. S. would do much to promote his theories.

Reports on American campaign against locusts [by C. V. Riley].

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