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DCP-LETT-8053F

From:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[5 Nov 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 2, 9, 252
Summary:

Describes the wedding party given for herself and Richard Buckley Litchfield at the Working Men’s College in London.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-71-11-05

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
5 November 1871
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 25
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

FL-1134

From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[5 November 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 252
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-8040

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
[after 5] Nov 1871
Source of text:
Emma Darwin (1904) 2: 251–2; DAR 153: 79
Summary:

CD is "more than pleased" by what R. B. Litchfield said of him. Congratulates HEL on having "so noble a husband".

All were "profoundly" interested by HEL’s account [of their welcome at the Working Men’s College].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8041

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[after 5 Nov 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 135
Summary:

Writes about proof-correcting by WED [of Origin, 6th ed.].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8054

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[6 Nov 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 271.3: 5
Summary:

Asks who Fiske is. The articles [Harvard lectures?] are "so fair and in some respects so complimentary" that CD thinks he should write to him. [See 8058.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8040F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Nov 1871
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 46)
Summary:

Will send back proofs of Origin 6th ed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-71-11-07

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
7 November 1871
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 26
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-8055

From:
Sara Sophia Hennell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 166: 143
Summary:

Marriage is basis of all religious forms of thought, and this is the subjective equivalent of CD’s law that sex is the most important agency of universal development.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8055A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hodder Michael Westropp
Date:
7 Nov [1871]
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:

"Please accept my thanks for your kind present of your two Papers."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8056

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen
Date:
8 Nov 1871
Source of text:
Boston Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard University (B MS Misc.)
Summary:

CD glad to hear of success of translation of Descent.

Will not go to press with Expression for six or nine months; hopes HHHvZ will think it worth translating.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8057

From:
Albert Regnard
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 176: 85
Summary:

A French refugee and populariser of CD’s work asks for an audience.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel7767

From:
Robert Main and Charles Pritchard to R.A.S.
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 November 1871]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 14/4.2.3; Reel 11
Summary:

Report on late JH's manuscript on General History of Double Stars, bequeathed to R.A.S.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-8058

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Fiske
Date:
9 Nov 1871
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 8260)
Summary:

Thanks JF for his lectures, the arguments of which he finds very forcible; is glad to see JF has detected the falseness of much of Mivart’s reasoning.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-0966

From:
Allen, Fanny
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
10 November [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 219.11: 13
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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FVM-71-11-10a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Charles Birch
Date:
10 November 1871
Source of text:
Item IC 846928 74/1714, Queensland State Archives
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

JHC243

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff
Date:
10 November 1871
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.75, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH suggests [Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone] Grant Duff become a Fellow of the Linnean Society. Asks after Grant Duff's continental tour with his wife. Complains that the Ayrton controversy is deteriorating further, JDH has brought it to the attention of Prime minister Gladstone & predicts it will end with the dismissal of himself or [Acton Smee] Ayrton.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-8061

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 88: 121–2
Summary:

Forwards a letter from R. O. Jones on the effects of castration on horns of male lambs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8062

From:
Oscar Gustaf Rejlander
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 176: 116
Summary:

Can photograph the scene CD requested only in the spring.

Heliotype is cheap but Woodburytype allows alterations.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8063

From:
John Medows Rodwell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 176: 189
Summary:

Has read Variation and reports on markings on donkeys similar to those in vol. 1, p. 63.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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