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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Medows Rodwell
Date:
15 Oct [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 149
Summary:

Comments on Rodwell’s discussion of the “struggle for life” with reference to languages and G. H. Lewes’s article in the Cornhill Magazine (Lewes 1860, pp. 445–7). Comments on Rodwell’s account of horses affected by mildewed pasturage, and asks for more information about his white cat.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Medows Rodwell
Date:
5 Nov [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 328; Bradford Museums and Galleries: Cliffe Castle Museum, Keighley (NH.6.40 p. 641)
Summary:

Comments on relationship between eye-colour and deafness in cats [discussed in Origin]. Asks for more information.

Mentions criticism of Origin.

Thanks for information about horses.

Hopes JMR writes his book on language. Mentions Hensleigh Wedgwood’s work [A dictionary of English etymology, 3 vols. (1859–65)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Medows Rodwell
Date:
3 June 1877
Source of text:
Phillips (dealers) (June 1995)
Summary:

Thanks for an extract from a sermon, in which CD is abused by an archimandrite: he considers it a great honour.

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Darwin Correspondence Project