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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2d Duke of Sutherland
Date:
[before 19 Apr 1872]
Source of text:
Correspondence between the Foreign Office and Her Majesty’s representatives abroad, and foreign representatives in England, on the subject of copyright: 1872–75. House of Commons Parliamentary Papers session 1875 (1285) LXXVIII.233–4
Summary:

Writes on behalf of British authors requesting improved copyright rights with respect to United States.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
Date:
19 Apr [1872]
Source of text:
Sir John Paget Bowman (private collection)
Summary:

Returns borrowed book. Is surprised that any of us have eyes "seeing what a frightful number of horrid diseases the eye is liable to".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Crawley
Date:
19 Apr [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 301
Summary:

Thanks CC’s father for relic. Remembers almost every boy above him but few below him in the school.

CC’s translation seems capital.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Apr 1872
Source of text:
DAR 105: A53–6
Summary:

Has attended one more séance, which he describes; tells of the freedom investigators have to check, although they cannot prearrange, experiments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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