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DCP-LETT-12207

From:
Victor Alexander Ernest Garth (Victor) Marshall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 4 Nov 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 45
Summary:

Hopes CD will be able to plant a tree in VAEGM’s garden as a memorial of his visit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12390

From:
Victor Alexander Ernest Garth (Victor) Marshall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 4 Nov 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 44
Summary:

Sends some doggerel verse about a literary dandy who is critical of Darwin and Spencer and approves of Ruskin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP2161

From:
Henry Harcourt Hyde (“Hyde Clarke”) Clarke
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
5 November 1879
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46436 ff. 59-60
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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FVM-79-11-05

From:
Frederick Bailey
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
5 November 1879
Source of text:
RB MSS M5, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-79-11-06

From:
Frederick Bailey
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
6 November 1879
Source of text:
In and out letter and packet book, letter register, Colonial Botanist, book one, 1879-1894, Queensland Herbarium, Brisbane
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-12296

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 165: 200
Summary:

Will try to get Ipomoea and Megarrhiza seeds for CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12295

From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 92: B46–7
Summary:

Shocked by Karl Alberts’ behaviour in dealing with Murray. Will write to ask him what it means. Thanks for arranging matters with Reinwald.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12299

From:
William Mackmurdo Hacon
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 166: 24
Summary:

Reports bargaining with William Farrer on Horace’s marriage-settlement.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12298

From:
Anthony Rich
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 176: 138
Summary:

Thanks for CD’s amusing letter from Coniston.

Commiserates on CD’s proof-reading chore.

George Darwin has visited him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12297

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
7 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 148: 108
Summary:

Wrote to T. H. Farrer about JT’s potato experiments. Would be calamity if JT were prevented from trying successful fungus-proof variety for a few more years.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12300

From:
Georg Wilhelm Julius (Wilhelm) Behrens
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Nov [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 124
Summary:

Sends copy of his article ["Die Nectarien der Blüthen", Flora 62 (1879): 2–11, 17–27, 49–54, 81–90, 113–23, 145–53, 233–40, 241–7, 305–14, 369–75, 433–8, 449–57].

GWJB’s experiments inspired by reading CD’s botanical works.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12301

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Mackmurdo Hacon
Date:
8 Nov [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 60
Summary:

Discusses the marriage-settlement for Horace and Ida.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12301F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[9 Nov 1879]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 74), Gardner 1880, pp. 31–9
Summary:

Sends CD petition from Olmstead and asks him to forward it around to get good signatures.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12302

From:
Wendell Phillips Garrison
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 165: 9
Summary:

Thanks CD for his good opinion of his book, What Mr Darwin saw,

and his expressions [concerning W. L. Garrison] "which will be treasured by his children".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12305

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Georg Wilhelm Julius (Wilhelm) Behrens
Date:
10 Nov 1879
Source of text:
Niedersächsisches Landesarchiv – Standort Wolfenbüttel (VI Hs 11 nr. 12)
Summary:

Thanks GWJB for work on nectaries ["Anatomisch-physiologische Untersuchungen der Blüthen-Nectarien", Flora (1878): 454–60].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12307

From:
William Mackmurdo Hacon
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 166: 25
Summary:

Negotiations on Horace’s marriage-settlement.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12304

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
10 Nov 1879
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36196)
Summary:

Only a few copies of the photographs [for German edition of Erasmus Darwin] had been printed, so loss will not be great. CD was rather angry when he wrote [12291] "but it is all over now".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12306

From:
Reuben Aleshire Vance
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 180: 2
Summary:

Sends his article ["Diseases of the rectum", Cincinnati Lancet & Obs. 21 (1878): 224–41] through his friend, Dr Letcher.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP4460

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
[10] [November] [1879]
Source of text:
Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 112
Summary:

Will go to Buckhurst Hill with Meldola to meet the Rector. Discusses travel arrangements.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12303

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leopold Friedrich August (August) Weismann
Date:
10 Nov 1879
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:

Thanks for AW’s work ["Zur Naturgeschichte der Daphniden", Z. Wiss. Zool. 27: 51–112; 28: 93–254; 30 (suppl.): 123–65; 33: 55–270]. CD always interested in adaptations which appear to owe their structure to other causes.

Has not heard from Raphael Meldola for a long time about translation of AW’s Studien.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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