From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[Nov 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 136
Summary:
Explains some proof-correcting symbols to be used by WED [on Origin, 6th ed. proofs?].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
November 1871
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, ff. 15-16
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Phillips
Date:
[Nov–Dec 1871?]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.623)
Summary:
Thanks for note concerning JP’s new book [Geology of Oxford (1871)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Ellingwood Abbot
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 159: 3
Summary:
For CD’s approval, cites passage from CD note he wants to quote in a lecture;
pleads for CD’s moral support for FEA’s work in free-thought movement.
Sends $50 [dollars or pounds!?] because he wants CD to become regular contributor to Index.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 171: 404
Summary:
Suggests CD have Origin [6th ed.] stereotyped.
Will sell out remaining copies of Descent at forthcoming trade sale, print off 500 or 1000 more, and then have the type distributed.
14 copies of C. Wright’s pamphlet have been sold.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Georges-Louis Leblois
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
1 November 1871
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 226-227
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Osbert Salvin
Date:
1 Nov [1871]
Source of text:
Sybil Rampen (private collection)
Summary:
He appreciates the two specimens [skins of Mergenetta and Aix sponsa], especially the Mergenetta, which as far as sifting is concerned, is a capital link between the shoveller and the common duck. Arrangements for their return.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
1 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 185: 111
Summary:
JS should not consider repaying CD; the money was a gift, not a loan.
JS’s information on expression is the best he has received.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project