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From:
Victor Alexander Ernest Garth (Victor) Marshall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Sept 1879
Source of text:
DAR 171: 46
Summary:

VAEGM pleased CD enjoyed his stay at Coniston.

Reports some rude remarks about CD made by John Ruskin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Victor Alexander Ernest Garth (Victor) Marshall
Date:
14 Sept 1879
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD responds to VM’s desire to plant a tree in his honour by offering three choices.

Again expresses his pleasure in Coniston.

Acknowledges that Ruskin was right about his feeling "a deep and tender interest about the brightly coloured hinder half of certain monkeys".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project