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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Boott
Date:
[3 Feb 1842]
Source of text:
Christie’s (dealers) (13 December 2006, lot 34)
Summary:

"My Dear Sir, I have called on you, to solicit your vote & interest at the Athenaeum Club […] in favour of my brother, Erasmus Darwin".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Boott
Date:
20 Aug 1848
Source of text:
James Cummins, Bookseller (dealer) (website viewed 7 February 2012)
Summary:

CD will write to A. A. Gould for aid. Thanks for sympathy and assistance about chloroform.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Boott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Feb 1860
Source of text:
DAR 98 (ser. 2): 27–8
Summary:

Returns paper by Asa Gray [? "Review of Darwin’s theory", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 29 (1860): 153–84].

Greatly admires Origin.

Can follow effects of natural selection in Carex, but when CD brings millions of years into play, he is like Church which demands faith. FB cannot believe in divinity of Christ, resurrection, or miracles.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Francis Boott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Jan 1862
Source of text:
DAR 160.2: 252
Summary:

Has sent CD the published part of his work on Carex [Illustrations of the genus Carex (1858–67)]. Hopes to add 200 more figures. Comments on great variability among the 600–odd species, and on their geographical distribution.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Francis Boott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Dec [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 251
Summary:

Has had news from Asa Gray about Civil War.

Belatedly thanks CD for Orchids, which shows CD to be the successor to Gilbert White.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Francis Boott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Dec 1862
Source of text:
DAR 160: 253
Summary:

On his particular spiritual faith; worships great naturalists and authors.

Does not wish to see American newspapers that Asa Gray offers to send, or hear about Civil War.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Francis Boott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Jan 1863
Source of text:
DAR 160: 254
Summary:

His son wants CD’s opinion about a cub supposed by Frank Buckland to be progeny of a lioness and mastiff.

Lyell working at last proofs [of Antiquity of man]; he is scornful of Owen.

Contributor:
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