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DCP-LETT-8735

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
13 Jan [1873]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Response to ARW’s criticisms in his review [of Expression, Q. J. Sci. n.s. 3 (1873): 113–18].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8835

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Butler
Date:
1 Apr [1873]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 34486 D: 60–1)
Summary:

Comments on SB’s book [The fair haven (1873)]. CD is struck by SB’s dramatic power – thinks he could write "a really good novel". Surprised at strength of case SB makes that Jesus did not die on the cross. SB’s identity will soon be universally known: Leslie Stephen knows he is the author.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9067

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
25 Sept 1873
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 35)
Summary:

Seedling vigour resulting from crossing of parents.

CD to publish work on insectivorous plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9154

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
19 Nov [1873]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Further discussion of ARW’s help on new [2d] edition of Descent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9177

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Strachey
Date:
10 Dec [1873]
Source of text:
The British Library (IOL Mss Eur F127)
Summary:

The case of the bees interests CD. He does not doubt that because of the size of their jaws humble-bees will be found all over the world to be the biters and hive-bees to profit from their work.

Thinks he has heard of land shells descending in the manner described by RS.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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