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DCP-LETT-11202

From:
William Ewart Gladstone
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct 1877
Source of text:
DAR 165: 50
Summary:

Accepts CD’s offer to send numbers of Kosmos.

WEG thinks the evidence from Homer’s text is conclusive that his "discrimination of colour was as defective as his sense of form and of motion was exact and lively".

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DCP-LETT-12170

From:
William Ewart Gladstone
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 July 1879
Source of text:
DAR 165: 51
Summary:

Sends CD his collection of Homeric epithets on motion, which "indicate ideas of motion more precise and scientifically adjusted than … any other author".

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12981

From:
William Ewart Gladstone
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 165: 52
Summary:

He will recommend a pension of £200 a year for Wallace.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13141A

From:
William Ewart Gladstone
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Apr 1881
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 44544: 165)
Summary:

CD is invited to allow his name to be suggested for the vacancy in the Trust of the British Museum caused by the death of Lord Beaconsfield. [See 13142.]

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