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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[9 October 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 275
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Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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Thanks CD for Earthworms and comments on it.
On the effects of a mother’s imagination on a new-born child. Reports that a hen, startled by an alarm clock, laid eggs with clock faces on them.
Thanks for Earthworms.
Thanks for Earthworms.
Condolences on death of Erasmus.
Sends a paper by Arnold von Lasaulx ["Ueber sogenannten kosmischen Staub", Mineralogische und petrographische Mitteilungen 3 (1880–1): 517–32. HNM does not believe in meteoric dust, which CD takes for granted in Earthworms.