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From:
James Torbitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 178: 153
Summary:

Describes one of his varieties of potato in its third and fourth years. [CD notes his observations on this variety grown at Down, July 1879.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Annie Wallace (née Mitten)
Date:
[May] [1879]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/4/1
Summary:

Mild weather; son William's cough; visit from George Silk, playing chess, visiting Stevens to play billiards; Primula japonicus; reaction of kitten to new surroundings; asks for a letter from Violet.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Annie Wallace (née Mitten)
Date:
[May] [1879]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/4/2
Summary:

Annie and son William's health; Sir David Wedderburn coming to visit to talk with ARW about Java; new black kitten for Annie; outing with Violet to Selsdon, Hamsey Green and Riddlesdown, primroses in flower; Miss Buckley's anticipated visit.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Grant Blairfindie (Grant) Allen
Date:
2 [May] 1879
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Has just read GA’s article in Fortnightly Review ["A problem of human evolution", 31 (1879): 778–86]. GA’s views very probable. Something wonderful to hear anyone defending sexual selection.

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From:
Edward Stillingfleet Cayley
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
2 May 1879
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46440 ff. 11-12
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Reginald Darwin
Date:
2 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 153: 100
Summary:

Leaves home on 6th for a rest.

Will commence writing Erasmus Darwin.

Apologises for keeping RD’s various books for so long a time.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
2 May 1879
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36181)
Summary:

CD is leaving home for three weeks’ rest. If EK finishes his life of Dr Darwin while CD is away, asks him to send the MS to W. S. Dallas for translation. CD will begin his preface, but needs rest and will not do much until he returns.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Arabella Burton Fisher (née Buckley)
Date:
2 May 1879
Source of text:
Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences . Vol. 2. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 153]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 3 May 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 74
Summary:

Encloses some references [missing] to information on Dr Erasmus Darwin.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
3 May [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 78
Summary:

Asks GHD to look in Cambridge University Library for Monthly Magazine articles containing a malicious calumny concerning Dr [Erasmus] D[arwin] [see Erasmus Darwin, pp. 65–70].

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
3 May 1879
Source of text:
National Botanic Gardens of Ireland Library, Glasnevin (DSS/DM/1/1/16)
Summary:

Encourages JT’s experiments. His case of flowering of black potatoes is curious. CD surprised that they are odoriferous and visited by bees. This letter was thought to be to David Moore, because it was in the private collection of a descendant, but is extremely close to a draft to JT on the letter from JT, 30 April 1879 (DCP-LETT-12020). It is not known how it passed from JT to David Moore.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood
Date:
[3 May 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 153: 4
Summary:

Was it Lady Charlemont or Charleville who remarked how agreeable their grandfather was?

Asks her to confirm story about Robert Darwin (father of Dr Erasmus).

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Elizabeth Anne Galton; Elizabeth Anne Wheler
Date:
3 May 1879
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/26)
Summary:

Returns documents pertaining to Dr Erasmus Darwin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 164: 92
Summary:

Is struck by the amazing variations of the hardy Primula varieties.

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From:
Edward Derwent Atkinson
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
5 May 1879
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46436 ff. 20-21
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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From:
Edward Stillingfleet? Cayley?
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
5 May 1879
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46440 ff. 13-14
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
5 May [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 79
Summary:

Asks GHD to look for a life of Sir Henry Rayburn [Raeburn] "who is spoken of as famous and who painted Charles Darwin [1758–1778] when dead". Asks why he painted the corpse.

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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 75
Summary:

Sends CD an article on Dr Erasmus Darwin [from Monthly Magazine, see 12028].

Tells of a "discovery" he has made about taking observations of the sun. Does not know yet whether it is new.

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From:
George Joachim Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen; Edward Enfield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 6 May 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 64.1: 48v
Summary:

Invitation to the University College Hospital festival and dinner

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
5 [May] 1879
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36180)
Summary:

Thinks it better to send proofs of his preface [to Erasmus Darwin] rather than MS – he always corrects proofs heavily. Doubts that it is worth translating into German – it is written for the English public. Supposes EK will not object to a French translation and an American edition of the little book. Has written a dozen pages during a break

in his experimental work [on movement of plants].

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