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DCP-LETT-12138

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 July 1879
Source of text:
DAR 105: B106–7
Summary:

F. P. Cobbe called on EAD to present a letter from the Secretary of the Anti-Vivisection Society; she hoped CD might support limiting repetitions of experiments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12137

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
8 [July 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 86
Summary:

Inquires concerning a possibility of searching old deeds about the Darwin family history.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12139

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Reginald Darwin
Date:
8 July 1879
Source of text:
DAR 153: 102
Summary:

CD has corrected the first proofs [of Erasmus Darwin] and so returns RD’s books. CD is disappointed with his work and fears RD will be also.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12142

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 July 1879
Source of text:
DAR 162: 61
Summary:

Pressure paralyses the streaming of protoplasm in the hairs of Tradescantia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-79-07-09b

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
9 July 1879
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 239
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-12140

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edwin Ray Lankester
Date:
9 July 1879
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.565)
Summary:

Asks that authoress be thanked for poem. Enjoyed poetry in old days; now cannot read a line.

Delighted that ERL will find time for original investigations.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12141

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
9 July [1879]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 178–9)
Summary:

Structure of some "very curious" tendrils.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12144

From:
Charles Carter Blake
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 July 1879
Source of text:
DAR 160: 200
Summary:

Points to CD’s favourable notice of his anthropological work;

details current financial difficulties and work efforts. Asks to borrow £5.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-0492

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[10 July 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 124
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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FL-1347

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Farrer, Ida
Date:
[10 July 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 648
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-12145

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 July 1879
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 79
Summary:

Has written to Col. J. L. Chester [genealogist] to ask whether he would like to see the deeds [for Darwin genealogy, see Emma Darwin 2: 237].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12143

From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 July 1879
Source of text:
DAR 92: B31–2
Summary:

Has received printed sheets from CD. Hopes CD does not intend to delete anything. EK comments on value of his own sketch for Erasmus Darwin.

Hopes CD can excuse article he wrote in response to a review of Grant Allen’s book [The colour-sense (1879)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP1608

From:
Bonamy Price
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
10 July 1879
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP7/55/2
Summary:

Free trade and Reciprocity.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12147

From:
Joseph Lemuel Chester
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 July 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 97–8
Summary:

Does not believe that deeds will throw light on the first William Darwin and his ancestors, but they will have much of interest for CD’s researches [for Erasmus Darwin].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12146

From:
Reginald Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 July 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 158–9
Summary:

Is gratified if he has helped [with Erasmus Darwin].

Thanks for another consignment of family records.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12160

From:
Leonard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 12 July] 1879
Source of text:
DAR 92: B7–10
Summary:

Suggests revisions in proofs of Erasmus Darwin.

[Letter wrongly dated Nov by LD.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12151

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Lemuel Chester
Date:
12 July 1879
Source of text:
Knox College Seymour Library, Special Collections and Archives
Summary:

Thanks for assistance. Nothing more should be done at present about the deeds. JLC’s letter sent to CD’s son [George].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12152

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
12 July [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 62
Summary:

Notes observations on sensitivity and movement of radicles.

Has finished chapter [of Movement in plants] on sleeping plants and is now looking over heliotropism notes.

Is perplexed by Erasmus Darwin; Erasmus [A. Darwin] likes it, but Henrietta thinks it much too long.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12149

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
12 July 1879
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 87; unknown
Summary:

CD thinks nothing had better be done about the deeds at present.

Henrietta thinks Erasmus Darwin almost too dull to publish.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12153

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Darwin
Date:
12 July [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 153: 93
Summary:

Will shorten or leave out many parts [of Erasmus Darwin] but cannot agree that it is not worth while to say something about the family.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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