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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[14 December 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 186
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Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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Asks CD if he would screw himself up to inviting A. Newton to Down.
Thanks for JDH’s description of CD’s work in Nature.
Anthony Rich to bequeath his property (over £1100 a year) to CD.
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.
Congratulates JT on success in breeding potato varieties.