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From:
Hooker, J. D.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
22 November 1878
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1909
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[23 Nov 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 43
Summary:
Many thnks for the pelargonium letter.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Nottidge Moseley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Nov 1878
Source of text:
DAR 171: 256
Summary:
Sends revises [of his Notes by a naturalist on the "Challenger", 1872–6 (1879)] and asks permission to dedicate it to CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[25–7 Nov 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 41
Summary:
He has had no success with horse or Spanish chestnuts.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Nov 1878
Source of text:
DAR 171: 132
Summary:
Thanks for preface. When RM’s translation is complete, would like CD to expand it slightly to refer to overlap between Weismann’s observations and CD’s theories.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Nov 1878
Source of text:
DAR 171: 501
Summary:
Sends report on annual trade sale [missing]. New printings of Journal of researches and Descent are needed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Nicholas Ridley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 28 Nov 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 119
Summary:
Wishes to defend CD from the attacks E. B. Pusey made in his sermon [see 11763]. Raises specific questions on CD’s theological views in order to refute Pusey’s accusations.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Laureano Figuerola Ballester
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Nov 1878
Source of text:
DAR 230: 69
Summary:
As an honorary professor of the Free Institution of Enseñanza [see 11321a] CD is sent the discourse pronounced by the Rector at their opening session with a number of the Ilustracion Española y Americana with portraits of the members of the executive committee of the Institucion.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Nicholas Ridley
Date:
28 Nov 1878
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Letters to H. N. Ridley CLE–GUR, 1878–1951, HNR/2/1/2: f. 42)
Summary:
Does not think sermon by E. B. Pusey [see 11763] is worth a reply. HNR may quote CD as saying that Pusey is "mistaken in imagining that I wrote the Origin with any relation whatever to Theology". Pusey’s attack will be powerless to retard belief in evolution.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, S. P.
Date:
29 November [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 128
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
29 November [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 210.5: 31
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters