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DCP-LETT-1362

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
10 Oct [1850]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 78)
Summary:

Is concerned about the education of his boys and is undecided between Rugby and Bruce Castle schools; is inclined toward the latter, but afraid to experiment on so important a subject.

Reports on his pear-trees.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1369F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Adam Sedgwick
Date:
11 Oct [1850]
Source of text:
Rensselaer Libraries, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Gerald and Sue Friedman manuscript collection MC 72 Box 1)
Summary:

Thanks AS for a copy of his book, Discourse [on the studies of the University, 5th ed.].

Thinking of not sending his eldest son [William] to a classical school.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1363

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edwin Lankester; Ray Society
Date:
[18–22 Oct 1850]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD will write again when he returns to Down and has looked over his MS.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1364

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edwin Lankester; Ray Society
Date:
27 Oct [1850]
Source of text:
Empire Autograph Auctions (dealers) (29 March 2000)
Summary:

MS [of Living Cirripedia, vol. 1] can be ready in two weeks, but CD would like a decision from the Council of the Ray Society on number of plates. Thinks specimen should be sent to G. B. Sowerby Jr for an estimate on price of engraving. Regrets he is not familiar with routine of the Society. Systematic section will be in two parts; the third part will be on anatomy, habits, etc.

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