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DCP-LETT-2336

From:
Henry Coe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Oct 1858
Source of text:
DAR 161: 195
Summary:

Sends more bean seeds.

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DCP-LETT-2334

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
6 Oct [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 92: A19–21
Summary:

Sends £20. Family news.

Answers WED’s questions about CD’s Journal of researches: Galapagos "productions" all came from America, but "they have since been modified by my principle of Natural Selection".

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DCP-LETT-2335

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6 Oct [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 248
Summary:

Abstract growing to inordinate length.

Writing in support of S. Passell as assistant at Linnean Society.

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DCP-LETT-2340

From:
Henry Coe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Oct 1858
Source of text:
DAR 161: 196
Summary:

Answers CD’s queries about seed lot he has just sent.

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DCP-LETT-2339

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
12 [Oct 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 249
Summary:

Abstract will run into a small volume.

Urges JDH not to reject natural selection until he has read abstract.

[Enclosed are CD’s comments on a ?JDH manuscript that perhaps belong elsewhere.]

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DCP-LETT-2341

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
15 [Oct 1858]
Source of text:
Provenance unknown
Summary:

Writes to WED about his living arrangements at Christ’s College; reminisces about his own Cambridge days.

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DCP-LETT-4636

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugh Falconer
Date:
15 Oct [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 34
Summary:

Cannot come to London until Tuesday. Arriving about 11: 15.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-2343

From:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Oct 1858
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 230
Summary:

Has examined feet of many partridges, but has not been able to obtain any quantity of mud from them.

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DCP-LETT-2346

From:
Henry Coe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Oct 1858
Source of text:
DAR 161: 197
Summary:

Further answers on his seed lot.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-2345

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
20 [Oct 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 250
Summary:

Fertilisation of papilionaceous flowers [Collected papers 2: 19–25].

JDH’s reactions to CD’s theory.

Discussed human fossil evidence with Hugh Falconer.

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DCP-LETT-2350

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[30 Oct 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 92: A29–30
Summary:

Glad WED has begun under George Henslow in the way that he has. CD wishes he had had such practice under J. S. Henslow.

Has had luck in his search for striped horses.

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