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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 Feb 1870 or earlier]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 13
Summary:

Discusses buying a horse [for CD].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[3 Feb 1870 or earlier]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 14
Summary:

Conveys some information on a quiet horse which CD may be able to purchase from a riding school.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[4 Feb 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 15–16
Summary:

Believes he has found a quiet cob suitable for CD. Encloses a letter for CD to sign and send to the owner if he approves the idea.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[20 Apr 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 12
Summary:

Is leaving tonight for Genoa;

sends a French paper [not identified].

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[3–9 Mar 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 88: 37–40
Summary:

Comments on points made in Hensleigh Wedgwood’s letter [7470] on moral sense in Descent.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1–4 Apr 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 22
Summary:

Mentions some photos relating to expression.

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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[14 May 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 18
Summary:

Has arranged a trip to the U. S. with Cambridge friends; believes it would be much jollier if Frank could go too.

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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[13 June 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 20
Summary:

Reports the passing of [Universities Tests] Bill and the consequent end to a bother.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 13 June 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 19
Summary:

Discusses his position at Cambridge, which is apparently under threat.

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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 17 July 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 11
Summary:

Gives CD some information on wills.

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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[17 July 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 21
Summary:

Discusses legal matters; CD’s will and setting up trusts for Henrietta Darwin’s forthcoming marriage.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 162: 64
Summary:

Varying depth of top-soil in a ridge-and-furrow field with a depression.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 89: 131–2, 187
Summary:

Sends sentences from Hermann von Helmholtz about difference between minor and major chords.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
3 May [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 7
Summary:

Thanks GHD for extracts, but says the subject of music is beyond him.

Suggests that GHD deliberate over one or two sentences of his paper on dress ["Developments in dress", Macmillan’s Mag. 22 (1872): 410–16].

Refers to prospective marriage of Amy [Ruck and CD’s son Francis].

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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[13 Aug 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 23
Summary:

Discusses the price of some heliotype prints [for Expression?].

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
22 Jan 1873
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 8
Summary:

Concerned about GHD’s health. Sends a prescription for a cough mixture.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
5 Mar [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 9
Summary:

Distressed by the poor health of GHD and Horace. Asks them to come home.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Hugh Frederic Hislop Elliot
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[before 11 Mar 1873?]
Source of text:
DAR 163: 17
Summary:

Instinctive responses in animals.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[3 Apr 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 10
Summary:

Anxious to have GHD come home because of his poor health. Recommends Huxley’s physician (Andrew Clark) – an advocate of milk diet.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
[7 Apr 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 12 (EH 88205950)
Summary:

CD particularly wishes to see JT "On business not connected with himself" [the fund for Huxley’s holiday]. Asks whether CD may call that afternoon. GHD adds postscript saying CD very fatigued. He hopes JT can come to see CD instead, but he should not mention that GHD suggested it.

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