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DCP-LETT-11789

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Date:
12 Dec 1878
Source of text:
DAR 153: 10
Summary:

Informs EAD of Anthony Rich’s proposal to bequeath his property to CD.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11786

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
12 Dec [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 151
Summary:

Writes of Anthony Rich’s bequest.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11788

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Anthony Rich
Date:
12 Dec 1878
Source of text:
DAR 210.12: 5
Summary:

Thanks AR for the details of his bequest and invites him to Down.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11787

From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Dec 1878
Source of text:
DAR 178: 150
Summary:

Has examined this year’s crop, which looks good; will prepare a report.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11791

From:
James Davis Cooper
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Dec 1878
Source of text:
DAR 202: 20
Summary:

Sends CD a proof of an illustration reduced on to the block by photography. The method is expensive but scientifically accurate.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11790

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Dec [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B104
Summary:

Very glad to hear Anthony Rich is leaving CD money "encouraging science in such a very practical manner".

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11790F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 [Dec 1878]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 69)
Summary:

Surprised and delighted by Mr Rich’s bequest as it will greatly increase his income. Intends to leave money to the Royal Society to contribute to science. Houses in London are a good investment even in times that are nervous for bankers.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11792

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Davis Cooper
Date:
[after 13 Dec 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 20v
Summary:

Approves of the proof. However, his book [Movement in plants] will have a large number of diagrams so he feels only the complicated diagrams and drawings should be copied by photography.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11796

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Dec 1878
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 72
Summary:

Asks CD if he would screw himself up to inviting A. Newton to Down.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11794

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
14 Dec [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 477–8
Summary:

Thanks for JDH’s description of CD’s work in Nature.

Anthony Rich to bequeath his property (over £1100 a year) to CD.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11795

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Dec 1878
Source of text:
DAR 104: 121–4
Summary:

Congratulates CD on the Anthony Rich bequest.

Sad but relieved to retire as President of the Royal Society.

Describes battle with Treasury over use of an empty house at Kew.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11793

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
14 Dec [1878]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Summary:

Is glad book progresses; answers translation query.

Francis Darwin does not have time to lecture.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11772

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
[1]4 Dec 1878
Source of text:
DAR 148: 106
Summary:

Congratulates JT on success in breeding potato varieties.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11797

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
16 Dec [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 203
Summary:

Thanks WO for advice and assistance for his son, Horace.

Has read Kerner’s book [see 11666]; finds the translation "as clear as daylight" but fears it is too good for the English public who like "very washy food".

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11798

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 Dec [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 479–80
Summary:

Waiting for frost to go so experiments can start again.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11800

From:
William Mackmurdo Hacon
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Dec 1878
Source of text:
DAR 166: 18
Summary:

Revision of CD’s will to reflect Anthony Rich’s gift and to increase daughters’ inheritance.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11801

From:
Gabriel Cornelius (Gabriel) Max
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Dec 1878
Source of text:
DAR 171: 107
Summary:

Relates dream suggesting CD’s belief in spiritualism. Asks if Wallace is clairvoyant.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11803

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta
Date:
22 Dec 1878
Source of text:
Archives Gaston de Saporta (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks for GdeS’s Le monde des plantes [1879].

CD has just read "Végétation polaire" [C. R. Congr. Int. Sci. Geogr. 1 (1878): 197–242] with interest. Hooker gave it conspicuous place in his Royal Society Address (1878).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11802

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
22 Dec [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 28 (EH 88205966)
Summary:

Returns the siren; the plants "ill luck to them, are not sensitive to aerial vibrations". Is ashamed of his blunder.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11804

From:
William Mackmurdo Hacon
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Dec 1878
Source of text:
DAR 210.12: 6
Summary:

Writes regarding CD’s will in the light of Anthony Rich’s proposed bequest.

Contributor:
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