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DCP-LETT-12268

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
23 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 144: 97
Summary:

Forwards newspaper reports by growers of Torbitt’s potatoes. Torbitt is in much distress and CD fears all his work will be thrown away unless he is aided.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12268F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
23 Oct 1879
Source of text:
Ronald T. Raines (private collection)
Summary:

Is obliged for the note about Wallis Nash’s death, but he has since heard that the report was false.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12269

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
24 Oct 1879
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (125)
Summary:

Requests seeds of Ipomoea and Megarrhiza for observations on seedling growth.

Is rereading MS of Movement in plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12273

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Georg Michael Asher
Date:
28 Oct 1879
Source of text:
The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.
Summary:

Cannot answer questions on origin of instinct, sociology, etc. Suggests references in Origin and Descent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12274

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Eduard Schulte
Date:
28 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 147: 428
Summary:

Discusses case of colour display in butterfly.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12276

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
Date:
29 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 202: 80
Summary:

Discusses arrangements for a French translation of Erasmus Darwin (1879).

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12275

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
29 Oct 1879
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 187–8)
Summary:

Wants cryptogam identified; has been observing its movements.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12280

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
31 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 185: 19
Summary:

Discusses financial and other arrangements for marriage of Horace Darwin and Ida Farrer. Mentions anticipated inheritance of children.

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