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SOMERVILLE575

From:
Joseph Pentland
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
1857
Source of text:
MSP 3 / 255, Dep. c. 371, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE403

From:
Sir Coutts Lindsey
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
31 Jan 1857
Source of text:
MSL 4 / 112, Dep. c. 371, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

DCP-LETT-2182F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward William Vernon Harcourt
Date:
13 Dec [1857]
Source of text:
Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Harcourt dep. adds. 346, fols. 258–62)
Summary:

Thanks for offer of pigeons, if breeding is successful; hopes to go to poultry show to see them.

Several questions about the Boz or Booz pigeon of Tunis.

If any of EWVH’s birds die and he does not want the skin, perhaps he would send it to CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2184F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward William Vernon Harcourt
Date:
15 Dec [1857]
Source of text:
Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Harcourt dep. adds. 346, fols. 263–4)
Summary:

Will not accept invitation to Hastings, or offer to send pigeons to Down.

Is looking forward to seeing pigeons at Crystal Palace poultry show.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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