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DCP-LETT-13140

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Eliot Norton
Date:
30 Apr 1881
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Charles Eliot Norton Papers, MS Am 1088.14: 1598)
Summary:

Sends some anecdotal material about Benjamin Franklin, whom his father knew while studying medicine in Paris.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13160

From:
Charles Eliot Norton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 May 1881
Source of text:
DAR 172: 77; Sparks ed. 1836–40, 6: 410–11
Summary:

Thanks CD for R. W. Darwin’s memoranda respecting Franklin. Would be grateful for copies of any Franklin letters that exist among Dr Darwin’s papers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13187

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Eliot Norton
Date:
1 June 1881
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Charles Eliot Norton Papers, MS Am 1088.14: 1599)
Summary:

No Benjamin Franklin letters to Erasmus Darwin preserved.

Was inaccurate about Franklin’s nephews [in Erasmus Darwin].

Recounts story about Franklin at court of France.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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