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DCP-LETT-12972

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin; Francis Darwin; George Howard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Leonard Darwin; William Erasmus Darwin; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
3 Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 169
Summary:

About the distribution of [surplus income] funds among the children.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13019

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
20 Jan [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 102
Summary:

[Ernst Krause’s] letter to Nature ["Unconscious memory – Mr Samuel Butler", 23 (1881): 288] has been dispatched.

Gladstone has dated Wallace’s pension from last July, "which is splendid".

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13068

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
27–8 Feb [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 103
Summary:

Describes lecture at Royal Institution by J. S. Burdon Sanderson on movement of plants and animals; JSBS’s preliminary part was so long that he never got to the plants.

Comments on the triumph of the ladies in the voting at Cambridge.

Mentions F. Galton’s visit to Down, a call on the Huxleys, and a visit with the Duke of Argyll.

Tells a story about the absent-mindedness of Burdon Sanderson.

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DCP-LETT-13197

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
8 June [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 104
Summary:

Discusses a letter [not found] from R. S. Ball that has quite delighted him.

Describes events at Patterdale.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13252

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
23 July 1881
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 105
Summary:

GHD’s abstract from Nature [24 (1881): 231] has been published in Kosmos.

John Collier has finished his portrait of CD.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13295

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
24 Aug [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 106
Summary:

The General Post Office sent one penny in response to GHD’s complaint, and demanded a receipt, which CD has sent. CD will keep the penny.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13300

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[28 Aug 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 107
Summary:

Suggests that GHD employ W. M. Hacon as solicitor for selling E. A. Darwin’s house, rather than Mr Salt’s agents; he remembers that firm as full of odious people.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13305

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
30 Aug [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 108
Summary:

CD is sorry he bothered GHD about the solicitor, but he boils with indignation to this day when he remembers how rudely he was treated by Mr Salt’s firm in London [40 years earlier].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13322

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
8 Sept [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1.: 109
Summary:

Has been visiting Anthony Rich, who persists in his intention to leave his property to CD despite the large fortune left by Erasmus. It is now all the more necessary for CD to arrange his own will.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13340

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin; Francis Darwin; George Howard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Leonard Darwin; William Erasmus Darwin; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
16 Sept 1881
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 183
Summary:

A circular letter on the distribution of his money at death and the division ofErasmus’ estate.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13319

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
6 [Oct 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 110
Summary:

Is obliged to GHD for arranging everything.

Sorry about the proof-sheets.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12961

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[before 25 Oct 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 115
Summary:

Will GHD ask Lord R[ayleigh] whether "gas-men in testing light, exclude the diffused light".

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13489

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
19 Nov [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1.: 111
Summary:

Tremendously interested by GHD’s news [about the Plumian Professorship at Cambridge]. Suggests he get William Thomson to write to the electors.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13511

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
25 Nov [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 112
Summary:

Last issue of Nature has made him "awfully proud". [See R. S. Ball, "A glimpse through the corridors of time", Nature 25 (1881): 79–82.]

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13570

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin; Francis Darwin; George Howard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Leonard Darwin; William Erasmus Darwin; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
20 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR (CD library— Index Kewensis tom. 1)
Summary:

Has promised to pay Hooker about £250 annually "for the formation of a perfect MS catalogue of all known plants [Index Kewensis]".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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