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DCP-LETT-4940

From:
Edward Cresy, Jr
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
20 Nov 1865
Source of text:
DAR 161: 247
Summary:

Asks Emma to write to Erasmus [E. A. Darwin] in support of Miss Elizabeth Garrett as Professor of Physiology at Bedford College for girls.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4938

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[20 Nov 1865?]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B39
Summary:

John Brent [book?] has come, and he will send it.

Hopes CD will visit again.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel9544

From:
Isaac Fletcher
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 November 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.273
Summary:

Is engaged drawing up a memoir of the late Admiral W. H. Smyth for the R.A.S. Would be glad of any of JH's observations on his work as an astronomer and as a member of the Board of Visitors of Greenwich.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4939

From:
James Shaw
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Nov 1865
Source of text:
DAR 177: 149
Summary:

Praises CD’s theory.

Comments on criticism of CD’s work by Duke of Argyll.

Beauty in nature as caused by sexual selection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC971

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
John Gilbert Baker
Date:
20 November 1865
Source of text:
BAK/1 f.41, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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WCP4015

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
20 November 1865
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: Add. 9839/1W/79
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4940F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
21 Nov 1865
Source of text:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (10 April 2019, lot 138)
Summary:

Acknowledges receipt of £257 12s. 2d.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday4570

From:
Sarah Faraday
To:
Henry Bence Jones
Date:
21 November 1865
Source of text:
RI MS F1 L/3/6
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-4939F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hermann Adolph Christian August (Hermann) Kindt
Date:
22 Nov 1865
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Nachl. 480 (Slg. Runge), 4: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 1–2)
Summary:

Comments on the facsimile of his handwriting made by HK, and points out two errors in the letter press.

Encloses three letters written by Erasmus Darwin, and asks HK to return them to Eliza Meteyard.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-65-11-23

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Alexander Braun
Date:
23 November 1865
Source of text:
Dokumentensammlung Darmstaedter (Australien), Handschriftenabteilung, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel8792

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Stanley Jevons
Date:
[23 November 1865]
Source of text:
John Rylands University Library of Manchester (C: RS:HS 10.321 & 24.129)
Summary:

Is grateful for his valuable work on the Coal question. Such a work has been long wanted. Used to have a theory himself that the tides might be utilized, but working it out found it was not economic.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11940

From:
William Mathews, Jr.
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 November 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.302
Summary:

Is greatly obliged for his two letters and postscript containing his criticism of the atmospheric law suggested by Count de S. Robert. Hopes soon to make a careful examination of the subject.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5745

From:
Edward William Brayley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 November 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.233
Summary:

Sending comparison to Almanac of 1866. Concerning meteorites. Now principal librarian and professor at the Institution.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4941

From:
Hermann Adolph Christian August (Hermann) Kindt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Nov 1865
Source of text:
DAR 169: 18
Summary:

Thanks for the three Erasmus Darwin letters. Two have been returned to Eliza Meteyard. HK has kept the one about the French gentleman for publication [Autographic Mirror 4 (1866) no. 70].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4942

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
25 [Nov 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B119–20
Summary:

Does not like the photos; thinks they should try again.

Last account of Susan Darwin reports she is having a good deal of faintness.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-65-11-25b

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Johan Areschoug
Date:
25 November 1865
Source of text:
J. E. Areschoug brefsamling, Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien, Stockholm
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-65-11-25a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
25 November 1865
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 181
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel5871

From:
Joseph Bullar
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 November 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.340
Summary:

Thanks for referring him to one of his essays.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-65-11-26b

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
August Petermann
Date:
26 November 1865
Source of text:
Briefsammlung, Archiv, Justus Perthes' Verlag, Gotha
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-65-11-26a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
26 November 1865
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, ff. 182-4
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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