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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[4 November 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 214
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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Hopes CD will be able to plant a tree in VAEGM’s garden as a memorial of his visit.
Success of his experiments; report on recent work.
Response to Descent. Suggests some human races may have been produced by natural rather than sexual selection.
WMH will negotiate with William Farrer on Horace’s marriage-settlement. Will attempt to make the settlement £5000, the same as Francis received.
Sends some doggerel verse about a literary dandy who is critical of Darwin and Spencer and approves of Ruskin.