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DCP-LETT-11580

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maurice Hawley Truelove
Date:
1 July 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.539)
Summary:

Regrets he cannot sign a memorial for correspondent’s father [Edward Truelove], which states an opinion on a life that is totally unknown to him. Feels that Edward Truelove’s sentence was very harsh [ET was imprisoned and fined for selling "obscene" publications advocating artificial control of conception] even though CD is strongly opposed to all the views expressed.

Comments on R. D. Owen’s Moral physiology [1831].

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11599F

From:
Reuben Almond Blair
To:
Smithsonian Institution
Date:
10 July 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (B/D25.20)
Summary:

Requests that a box of specimen goose wings for CD be forwarded by the Institution to [W. H.] Flower at the Royal College of Surgeons. The wings bear on the transmission of the effects of injury.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11610

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Griffin Stokes
Date:
16 July [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.541)
Summary:

Discusses "highly expressive" speech of young children.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11614

From:
Reuben Almond Blair
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 July 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.542)
Summary:

Explains difficulties in supplying wings of geese. Describes injury of old gander that sired the abnormal geese.

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