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DCP-LETT-12323

From:
Reginald Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 164–5
Summary:

Sends a book on shorthand

and a paper, probably by Erasmus Darwin, entitled "Moral and physical hermeneutics", on the subject of temperance.

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DCP-LETT-12325

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
17 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 144: 99
Summary:

Received enclosed report from Torbitt on potato experiments.

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DCP-LETT-12324

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
17 Nov 1879
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36197)
Summary:

Answers EK’s questions. Sorry to report Erasmus Darwin sold only 600 copies at advance sale.

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DCP-LETT-12326F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Harrison Tindal
Date:
17 Nov 1879
Source of text:
Shaw’s Antiquarian Books (dealer) (25 May 2010)
Summary:

Thanks for the offer of lending a manuscript relating to his grandfather. It will be of use if a second edition of the Life of Dr. Darwin should appear. Will take the greatest care of them and return them as soon as he has read them.

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DCP-LETT-12326

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
17 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 148: 109
Summary:

Describes problems of raising money [for potato experiments]. "A Government official in another office remarked to me that it was very difficult for Ministers to decide what to do in such cases as they must be prepared for mere cavillers in the H[ouse] of Commons."

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