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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
4 May 1875
Source of text:
Zoological Society of London: GB 0814 BADW
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
4 May [1875]
Source of text:
eBay (https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Charles-Darwin-Autographed-Letter-and-Carte-de-Visite-/222539494617, accessed 5 June 2018)
Summary:
Sends photograph.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
5 May 1875
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42153 f. 50)
Summary:
Agrees not to receive his share of sales on Insectivorous plants until 750 or 800 copies are sold. 1250 to be printed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 May [1875]
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-34)
Summary:
Informs CD that Lyon Playfair would introduce the bill in the House of Commons, and that Lord Cardwell and Lord Shaftesbury had agreed to support it, the former introducing the bill in the House of Lords.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
6 May [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 239.1: 2.11
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online
From:
Morley, John
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
6 May 1875
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1894
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Alfred Newton
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
6 May 1875
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 305-306
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 May 1875
Source of text:
DAR 167: 32
Summary:
Writes about a white rabbit which is turning fawn-coloured,
and about Scottish education.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[8 May 1875]
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-37)
Summary:
Further discussion of the introduction of a bill by Lyon Playfair on animal experimentation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
8 May 1875
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: Add. 9839/1W/111
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Dwight Whitney
Date:
8 May 1875
Source of text:
Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (William Dwight Whitney Family Papers (MS 555): Box 22, folder 600 1875 May 6-10)
Summary:
Hopes WDW will come to Down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
William Dwight Whitney
Date:
9 May [1875]
Source of text:
Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (William Dwight Whitney Family Papers (MS 555): Box 22, folder 600 1875 May 6-10)
Summary:
CD asks her to tell him how sorry he is not to be there to see Whitney today. He hopes that Whitney will give him another chance when next in England.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
10 May [1875]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
On colour changes in rabbits. Suspects JBI’s is of impure origin.
Is correcting proof of Insectivorous plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
James William Helenus Trail
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
10 May 1875
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46441 f. 39
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Newton
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
11 May 1875
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 307-308
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Crowther Brown
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 May 1875
Source of text:
DAR 160: 324
Summary:
Notes absence of material on fossil coral reefs in CD’s 2d edition [Coral reefs (1874)]. Has been collecting specimens from a fossil reef near his home for four years; gave many to Oxford.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Paget, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 May 1875
Source of text:
DAR 174: 8
Summary:
A letter introducing T. F. Burgers, President of the Transvaal Republic.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas François Burgers
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 May 1875
Source of text:
DAR 97: C11v
Summary:
Would like to call on CD if convenient.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas François Burgers
Date:
[after 13 May 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 97: C11r
Summary:
Proposes that TFB visit in about a week; at present CD is unwell.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Elizabeth
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[14 May 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1408
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters