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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
3 Sept [1874]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.448)
Summary:

Discusses belief in immortality and a personal God.

Describes his holiday in Southampton.

Comments on papers of John Wesley Judd.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Date:
7 Sept 1874
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.449)
Summary:

Thanks her for specimen of Drosera. Asks for an epiphytic Utricularia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Chauncey Wright
Date:
21 Sept 1874 and 29 Jan 1875
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Head movements and their expressive significance. [P.S. explains letter was returned to CD because of a mistake in the address.]

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Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
23 Sept 1874
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.450)
Summary:

Discusses paper on volcanoes by J. W. Judd.

Comments on volcanoes of the S. American Cordillera.

Mentions paper by T. F. Jamieson ["Glacial period in N. Britain", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 30 (1874): 317–18].

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Darwin Correspondence Project