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SOMERVILLE414

From:
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
22 Jan 1870?
Source of text:
MSL 5 / 126, Dep. c. 371, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

DCP-LETT-6650

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Woolner
Date:
10 Mar [1870]
Source of text:
Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Eng. lett. d. 292, fol. 77)
Summary:

Thanks for drawing. ‘The "Woolnerian tip" is worth anything to me.’

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

SOMERVILLE606

From:
Annarella Smyth
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
9 Jun 1870
Source of text:
MSS 6 / 68, Dep. c. 372, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE345

From:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
28 May 1871
Source of text:
MSH 3 / 314, Dep. c. 370, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE346

From:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
29 May 1871
Source of text:
MSH 3 / 314B, Dep. c. 370, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE626

From:
William Spottiswoode
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
20 Aug 1871
Source of text:
MSS 9 / 130, Dep. c. 372, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE629

From:
Stratford de Redcliffe
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
15 Jun 1872
Source of text:
MSS 9 / 134, Dep. c. 372, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE446

From:
Susan Horner
To:
Martha and Mary Somerville
Date:
19 Apr 1873
Source of text:
MSL 6 / 153, Dep. c. 371, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE444

From:
Charles Lyell
To:
Miss Somerville
Date:
6 Dec 1873
Source of text:
MSL 6 / 149, Dep. c. 371, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE349

From:
John Herschel jnr
To:
Martha Somerville
Date:
6 Dec 1873
Source of text:
MSH 3 / 317, Dep. c. 370, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE348

From:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
To:
Martha Somerville
Date:
22 Dec 1873
Source of text:
MSH 3 / 316, Dep. c. 370, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE352

From:
Thomas Archer Hirst
To:
John Murray
Date:
27 Jul 1874
Source of text:
MSH 5 / 331, Dep. c. 370, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE161

From:
Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield)
To:
Martha Charters Somerville
Date:
18 May 1877
Source of text:
MSD 3 / 127, Dep. c. 370, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

DCP-LETT-10989F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
7 June 1877
Source of text:
Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Eng. d. 3823, fols. 154–5)
Summary:

CD is going away and has asked FD to thank GJR for his amusing letter [of 6 June], which CD thinks should be published in Nature. CD thinks the guinea pig theory very probable.

CD thinks there may be something in the ‘veneration’ theory.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11077

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Archibald Henry Sayce
Date:
28 July 1877
Source of text:
Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Eng. lett. d. 63, fols. 51–2)
Summary:

Thinks "mum" comes from shutting the mouth repeatedly as a sign of wanting to eat.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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