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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arabella Burton Buckley
Date:
18 Dec [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 177
Summary:

Thanks her for marked proof-sheets.

Discusses climate in earlier geological periods.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arabella Burton Buckley
Date:
23 Feb 1875
Source of text:
DAR 143: 178
Summary:

Expresses his feelings following the death of Charles Lyell.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arabella Burton Buckley
Date:
11 Feb [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 179
Summary:

Comments on her new book [A short history of natural science (1876)].

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From:
Arabella Burton Buckley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb 1876
Source of text:
DAR 160: 365
Summary:

Thanks CD for letter complimenting her book. Responds to his comments on botany and geology in book.

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From:
Arabella Burton Buckley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Dec 1879
Source of text:
DAR 160: 366
Summary:

On Wallace’s need for a regular income. He has been rejected as Superintendent of Epping Forest. Thinks men such as Lubbock, Hooker, and CD might help.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arabella Burton Buckley
Date:
17 Dec 1879
Source of text:
DAR 143: 180
Summary:

Discusses possibility of Government pension for Wallace.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arabella Burton Buckley
Date:
19 Dec 1879
Source of text:
DAR 143: 181
Summary:

Has discussed with Hooker possibility of Government pension for Wallace. Hooker is pessimistic.

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From:
Arabella Burton Buckley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Dec 1879
Source of text:
DAR 160: 367
Summary:

Thanks CD for acting on her suggestion about getting Wallace an income; acknowledges the difficulty. Is not sure Wallace would accept government money for doing nothing in return.

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From:
Arabella Burton Buckley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Dec 1879
Source of text:
DAR 160: 368
Summary:

Thanks CD for trouble over Wallace, even though success not assured.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arabella Burton Buckley
Date:
16 Aug [1880]
Source of text:
University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center (Joseph Halle Schaffner collection, box 1, folder 2)
Summary:

Believes A. S. Packard is in error on some points. Refers to his own observations on slave-making ants in Origin.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arabella Burton Buckley
Date:
31 Oct [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 182
Summary:

Has talked to Lubbock and Huxley about pension for Wallace. Asks for help in getting information about Wallace’s circumstances.

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From:
Arabella Burton Buckley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 160: 370
Summary:

Has spoken to Wallace to see if reluctant to accept a Government pension. He would accept if CD and Huxley believe it justified. Encloses details of Wallace’s efforts to obtain a position as naturalist and his claims for a pension.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arabella Burton Buckley
Date:
9 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 143: 183
Summary:

Thanks for information about Wallace. Is preparing memorial to be submitted to Government [seeking pension for Wallace].

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arabella Burton Buckley
Date:
14 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 143: 184
Summary:

Comments on her new book [Life and her children (1880)]. "… you have treated evolution with much dexterity and truthfulness".

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arabella Burton Buckley
Date:
4 Jan 1881
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434); DAR 143: 185
Summary:

Memorial for Wallace pension dispatched to W. E. Gladstone.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arabella Burton Buckley
Date:
7 Jan [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 186
Summary:

Good news from Gladstone [concerning pension for Wallace]. Duke of Argyll’s private note greatly influenced Gladstone.

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From:
Arabella Burton Buckley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 160: 369
Summary:

Thanks for news about Wallace memorial; excellent names on it give hope of success.

Mentions Alfred Haddon, an acquaintance of hers who might call on CD.

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From:
Arabella Burton Buckley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 160: 371
Summary:

Congratulates CD on success of memorial; agrees he should be the one to tell Wallace.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arabella Burton Buckley
Date:
6 July [1881]
Source of text:
John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection, MS.84.2)
Summary:

Will be glad to read over her article.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arabella Burton Buckley
Date:
11 July 1881
Source of text:
DAR 143: 187
Summary:

Comments on her life of Lyell.

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