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DCP-LETT-8173

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
23 Jan [1872]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/3/2/2/12 Letter 1)
Summary:

His rabbits have lost their patches and are grey.

Has FG seen William Crookes [spiritualist]?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8258

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
29 Mar [1872]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Comments on FG’s description of a séance at the house of William Crookes.

Will use FG’s words about [H. M. Butler’s] hereditary habit [in Expression, p. 33 n. 8].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8296

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
21 Apr [1872]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Encourages FG to carry out investigation [of spiritualism]. However, his own health is too uncertain to accept Daniel Dunglas Home’s offer. Discusses possibility of reproducing Crookes’s apparatus for sale.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8354

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
27 May [1872]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/10)
Summary:

Agrees to care for FG’s rabbits and will breed from them.

Plans to go to Southampton for ten days.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8442

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
1 Aug [1872]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/11)
Summary:

George Snow, the carrier, now leaves Nag’s Head on Thursday mornings.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8461

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
9 Aug [1872]
Source of text:
Union College, Schaffer Library, Special Collections and Archives (Mullen Collection, SCA-1181)
Summary:

Alteration in the arrangements for the carrier to collect the rabbit from FG and bring it to Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8464F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
12 Aug [1872]
Source of text:
The Whiting family (private collection)
Summary:

The carrier will call at University College on Thursday 15 August.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8608

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
8 Nov [1872]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/12)
Summary:

Rabbits’ coats true in character. If the next ones are true, it is superfluous to keep trying.

Does not know why crying children rub eyes with knuckles.

Mentions FG’s article on prayer ["Statistical inquiries into the efficacy of prayer", Fortn. Rev. n.s. 12 (1872): 125–35].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8697

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
30 Dec [1872]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/13)
Summary:

F. M. Balfour wants to experiment on Pangenesis. Asks FG to recommend coloured rabbits that breed true.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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