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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Eliot Norton
Date:
7 Oct 1875
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Charles Eliot Norton Papers, MS Am 1088.14: 1595)
Summary:

Comments on the sudden death of Chauncey Wright.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Eliot Norton
Date:
16 Mar 1877
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Charles Eliot Norton Papers, MS Am 1088.14: 1596)
Summary:

Thanks for Chauncey Wright’s work [Philosophical discussions (1877)].

Gladstone visited recently, and they discussed the future role of the United States as a world power.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Eliot Norton
Date:
25 Oct 1877
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Charles Eliot Norton Papers, MS Am 1088.14: 1597)
Summary:

CD and Emma are delighted with forthcoming marriage of W. E. Darwin to Sara [Sedgwick].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Eliot Norton
Date:
30 Apr 1881
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Charles Eliot Norton Papers, MS Am 1088.14: 1598)
Summary:

Sends some anecdotal material about Benjamin Franklin, whom his father knew while studying medicine in Paris.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Eliot Norton
Date:
1 June 1881
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Charles Eliot Norton Papers, MS Am 1088.14: 1599)
Summary:

No Benjamin Franklin letters to Erasmus Darwin preserved.

Was inaccurate about Franklin’s nephews [in Erasmus Darwin].

Recounts story about Franklin at court of France.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project