From:
George King
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Oct 1880
Source of text:
DAR 169: 22
Summary:
Very pleased to receive CD’s dinner invitation.
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From:
Joshua Frederick (Frederick) Parsons
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Oct 1880
Source of text:
DAR 174: 26
Summary:
Reports case of a girl’s sudden death when a large abscess, formed by a cherry-stone in the vermiform appendix, burst into the peritoneum. Perhaps relevant to Descent [2d ed., pp. 20–1].
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From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Oct 1880
Source of text:
DAR 169: 109
Summary:
Has sent 2d ed. of his book, Werden und Vergehen [1880]. Notes that book was attacked in Prussian House of Deputies by ultramontane critics of Hermann Müller who had recommended it to his pupils.
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From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Oct 1880
Source of text:
DAR 162: 32
Summary:
Asks CD to join in a testimonial supporting James Murie’s candidacy for Librarian of Linnean Society.
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Oct 1880
Source of text:
DAR 164: 100
Summary:
Replies to CD’s questions [in 12732] regarding the Abinger Hall excavations.
Torbitt.
Family news.
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From:
Horace Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Oct 1880
Source of text:
DAR 65: 99, 100; DAR 162: 72, 73
Summary:
Worm-castings. Encloses notes about worm activities at Gravetye Manor.
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From:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Oct 1880
Source of text:
DAR 176: 111
Summary:
Edmond Barbier is dead and his widow needs support.
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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Oct 1880
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 86
Summary:
Is having a trough made to try experiments [on ripple-marks].
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Oct 1880
Source of text:
DAR 164: 101
Summary:
Sends the marked plans of the Abinger Hall excavation site.
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From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Oct 1880
Source of text:
DAR 164: 102
Summary:
Replies to CD’s questions about worms at Abinger ruins.
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From:
James Caird
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Oct 1880
Source of text:
DAR 161: 5
Summary:
Comments on the progress of Torbitt’s experiments.
Contributor:
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Oct 1880
Source of text:
DAR 106: B144
Summary:
Indicates portions of Island life that will interest CD. Explanation of the geological climate is the foundation stone of the book.
Hooker’s approval of the theory of Australian and New Zealand floras.
Contributor:
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Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 October 1880
Source of text:
- Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B144
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 291
- Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 306-307]
Summary:
No summary available.
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From:
Edward Bibbens Aveling
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Oct 1880
Source of text:
DAR 159: 133
Summary:
Mentions CD’s approval of earlier articles on CD’s works, and requests approval and permission to dedicate to CD a second work on CD’s thought for the International Library of Science and Free-thought.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Oct 1880
Source of text:
DAR 176: 112
Summary:
Édouard Heckel will translate Movement in plants.
Contributor:
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From:
Katherine Elizabeth Sophy (Sophy) Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Oct [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 69
Summary:
On worms and worm-castings.
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From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Oct 1880
Source of text:
DAR 63: 42
Summary:
Notes and replies to queries on worm-castings and worm activity on a rubble-covered road.
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From:
Adolf Ernst
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Oct 1880
Source of text:
DAR 163: 23
Summary:
Observations on earthworms in Venezuela.
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From:
Giovanni Ettore Mengozzi
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Oct 1880
Source of text:
DAR 171: 153
Summary:
Asks CD to clarify his religious position.
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From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Oct 1880
Source of text:
DAR 171: 509
Summary:
Cost of electrotypes from the woodcuts [in Movement in plants] for French and German editions. Suggests CD charge more than actual cost in order to repay his expenses.
Contributor:
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