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DCP-LETT-3764

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
15 Oct [1862]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Asks for news of HWB and his book.

There has been sickness in CD’s family; one of the boys [and Emma] had scarlet fever.

Has had a letter from Edwin Brown of Burton who is working on classification of Carabi.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3771

From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Oct 1862
Source of text:
DAR 160.1: 71
Summary:

Still working on book and has completed 620 out of 700 pages.

Rewrote memoir [on mimicry in Amazon Lepidoptera] for Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. [23 (1862): 495–566].

Edwin Brown, HWB’s earliest naturalist friend, will have a hard time classifying Carabi as he is unable to travel.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3773

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
18 Oct [1862]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Thanks for last note. Assures HWB that all writers have problems similar to his.

Plans to inquire at Linnean Society for HWB’s paper.

His family, including Mrs Darwin and Leonard, are now well.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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