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DCP-LETT-11992

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Fanny Kellogg
Date:
13 Apr 1879
Source of text:
Charles Hamilton (dealer) (28 May 1981); Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (28 April 2021, lot 49)
Summary:

Sends thanks for "communicating the curious case of a habitual gesture, like that which I have treated as inherited. I may add that since I write, the action has been transmitted to another generation. Your case shall be sent to Mr Galton, who gave me the information".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12089

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
5 June 1879
Source of text:
Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (5 December 2013)
Summary:

Unable to accept invitation.

Looked at leaves and saw no sign that animal matter was absorbed. Believes insects were caught only accidentally.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12176

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Wilks, 1st baronet
Date:
27 July 1879
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (12 December 1967: 489)
Summary:

Thanks SW for text of his oration

and an [unspecified] article on parrots.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12214F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
Date:
2 Sept [1879]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (catalogue LN7755, 11 December 1997)
Summary:

Until C-FR sees the whole of Erasmus Darwin, he cannot decide if it is worth translating into French.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12353

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
11 [Dec 1879]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (28 March 1983)
Summary:

Sends M. Guthrie’s book [On Mr Spencer’s formula of evolution (1879)], although HEL may not care to read it having seen Moulton’s letter [12350].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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