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DCP-LETT-4961

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[1866]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 1
Summary:

Asks GHD what the chances are against squinting and non-squinting children coming alternately in a family of ten.

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DCP-LETT-4966

From:
Charles John Robinson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1866?]
Source of text:
DAR 176: 188
Summary:

Has a small living at Norton Canon.

Will visit Charles Whitley next week.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-4963

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1866?]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 27
Summary:

Requests that correspondent take some action regarding the state of horses on his farm. Robert Ainslie of Tromer Lodge, Down, was fined in 1852 following CD’s complaints.

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FL-1334

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Francis
Date:
[January 1866?]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 623
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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FL-0677

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[1866 or 1865?]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 38
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-1153

From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[1866]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 271
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-1154

From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[1866]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 272
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-1155

From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[1866]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 273
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-1157

From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[1866]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 275
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-1473

From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Johnathan
Date:
[late 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1716
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0605

From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[1866]
Source of text:
DAR 219.8: 4
Summary:

No summary available.

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DCP-LETT-4968A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Bence Jones
Date:
3 Jan [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 249: 86
Summary:

A report on his somewhat improved health.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-4973

From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Jan 1866
Source of text:
DAR 166: 41
Summary:

Comments on CD’s health.

Discusses origin of life and differentiation of principal classes of plants and animals.

Discusses Generelle Morphologie and its chapter on embryological development.

His lectures on CD’s theory.

Asks CD for larger portrait of himself and for several copies of the small photograph. Will send photographs of German scientists in exchange.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-4974

From:
Jeffries Wyman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Jan 1866
Source of text:
DAR 181: 191
Summary:

Has made observations on bees’ cells. Their dimensions are not constant, nor do single bees make single cells; each one is a result of co-operation.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-4976

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 [Jan 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 280
Summary:

In despair: has lost his copy of Verlot’s memoir on variations of flowers [Sur la production et la fixation des variétés (1866)]. Has JDH borrowed it?

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DCP-LETT-4978

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Jan 1866
Source of text:
DAR 102: 53–4
Summary:

Is in a mess with his correspondence and will get no assistance before 1 April.

Has agreed to give an address on the Darwinian theory at Nottingham [meeting of BAAS].

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DCP-LETT-4981

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
21 [Jan 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 281
Summary:

Has found Verlot.

His sister [Emily Catherine Langton] is dying [d. 2 Feb 1866].

His stomach still very bad. Writes one or two hours and reads a little.

JDH is a wretch to remind CD of his coal-plant prophecy.

Glad JDH will give Nottingham lecture.

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DCP-LETT-4983

From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Jan [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 71
Summary:

Discusses pigeon and poultry woodcuts [for Variation].

WBT’s poultry book is at last in the hands of a solvent publisher [The poultry book (1867)].

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DCP-LETT-4984

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Jan 1866
Source of text:
DAR 102: 55–6
Summary:

Sorrow about Mrs Langton. Has been haunted by death these six or eight years. Now cannot bear to look at children asleep in bed – a sight he once thought the loveliest thing in creation.

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DCP-LETT-4979

From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 24 Jan 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 70
Summary:

Thanks for the remittance.

Both WBT and Mr Zurhorst will repeat Zurhorst’s experiment to eliminate any chance of error.

Edward Blyth is writing on Indian cattle for the Field [27 (1866): 55–6, 77].

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