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From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Jan 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 262.11: 6 (EH 88206193)
Summary:

A list of investments presumably belonging to CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1869–75]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 54)
Summary:

Sends a letter from Capt Forrest, recommending a Mr Knight.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Jan–Mar 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 169: 54
Summary:

Has written to Moscow about translations of Origin. Wishes to translate additions to the fifth English edition and print them as a supplement.

Pleased by CD’s high opinion of Alexander Kovalevsky.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Paget, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1869]
Source of text:
Paget ed. 1901 , p. 408
Summary:

"I enclose a note from Lord Fitzwilliam about his horse with zebra-marks. The case seems as striking as I believed."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Emma Darwin (née Wedgwood)
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
1869?
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 196
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Elizabeth
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[1869–71]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 563
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[1869]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1256
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Edward William Brayley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.238
Summary:

Encloses copies of papers referred to in his previous letter.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
1 January 1869
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 364
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
1 January 1869
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70. f. 363
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Martha Somerville
To:
John Murray III
Date:
[1869]
Source of text:
25, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Murray III
Date:
?? Jan 1869
Source of text:
189, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
Text Online
From:
Octavius Pickard-Cambridge
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
1869
Source of text:
Wallace, A. R. (1889). In: Darwinism: An Exposition of the Theory of Natural Selection With Some of its Applications . London & New York: Macmillan & Co. [pp. 296-297]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Henry Taylor
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 January 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.327
Summary:

Distributed a pamphlet on his theory of criminal punishment. Believes present system not effective. Draws favorable response.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Alexander Hamilton-Gordon
Date:
[1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.155 (C: RS:HS 24.272)
Summary:

Discusses the 'strange proceedings on the part of the Bombay Authorities.' Mentions actions in this regard by Carry [JH's daughter Caroline].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Christian August Friedrich Peters
Date:
1869-1
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.368 (C: RS:HS 24.245)
Summary:

Thanks CP for sending volumes of Astronomische Nachrichten. JH notes missing copies in his collection, and asks how he might best obtain these volumes.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[Secretary to R.A.S.]
Date:
[2 January 1869]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0739, 0740, 0741; Reel 1089
Summary:

JH sends and comments on drawings and a letter [see JH's son's 1868-11-23] from JH's son John regarding the nebula around Eta Argus. JH seems disinclined to accept the claim that Eta Argus has changed.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
George Frederick Samuel Robinson
To:
Charles? Lyell?
Date:
3 January 1869
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 93-94
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 161: 287
Summary:

Receiving notes on inbreeding from T. T. Wright, who has long experience with the subject.

Reports six-toed pup.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Murray III
Date:
4 Jan 1869
Source of text:
187, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse