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DCP-LETT-4344

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Patrick Matthew
Date:
21 Nov [1863]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (Acc.10963)
Summary:

CD is too ill to write.

As for natural selection, he is more faithful to PM’s "own original child" than PM is himself. To illustrate, CD relates the metaphor of an architect selecting well-shaped stones and rejecting ill-shaped ones. [See Variation 2: 431.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-63-11-21

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
21 November 1863
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 124
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel4877

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 November 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.264 (C: RGO 6.255.232)
Summary:

Regarding the Proceedings of the Southern Telescope Committee.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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WCP380

From:
Richard Spruce
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
21 November 1863
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/55
Summary:

Journey from Guayaquil, heart-attack, paralysis, general ill-health and poverty, inability to collect insects for ARW; botany, illness preventing his work on collection of mosses; bitterness at treatment by Sir William Hooker; newspaper reports on Darwin's Origin of Species, geographical distribution of species; ARW's Malayan collections; collectors in the Andes; tameness of native birds; marriage; possibility of returning to England.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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