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DCP-LETT-2667

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Griffin
Date:
29 Jan [1860]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 28509: 408)
Summary:

Returns MS [of biography for Dictionary of contemporary biography (1861)]. Part was inaccurate, and there was an important omission so CD has had a new copy made.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2733F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Octavian Blewitt
Date:
27 Mar [1860]
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan 96: RLF 4/15 1860 file 3)
Summary:

Declines the honour of acting as Steward at the Annual Dinner of the Royal Literary Fund.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2779

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st baronet
Date:
1 May [1860]
Source of text:
The British Library (Surrogate RP 7400)
Summary:

Much obliged for note from Alexander von Keyserling. Geologist going one inch with CD more important than naturalist going two or three.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2807

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
18 May 1860
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 21–23v)
Summary:

Pleasure in ARW’s approbation of the Origin. Other supporters among scientists. ARW’s generosity.

Attacks by Owen, Sedgwick, and others.

Anticipation of natural selection by Matthew in 1830.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday3954

From:
Richard Bentley
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
23 February 1861
Source of text:
BL add MS 46642, pp.389-90
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-3088

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Cuthbert Collingwood
Date:
14 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add. MS. 37725, ff. 6–9b)
Summary:

CD is not surprised at CC’s entire rejection of his views. Agrees that there is no direct proof of unlimited variation. Says natural selection should be viewed as comparable to wave theory of light: it is probable because it groups and explains a host of facts in several fields of science.

Agrees Louis Agassiz’s review [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 30 (1860): 142–55] is not unfair, but Agassiz misunderstands CD. His "categories of thought" are to CD merely empty words.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday4003

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Angela Georgina Burdett Coutts
Date:
17 May 1861
Source of text:
BL add MS 85284, f.66
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4008

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Angela Georgina Burdett Coutts
Date:
23 May 1861
Source of text:
BL add MS 85284, f.67
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-3043

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Pickworth Woodward
Date:
5 June [1861]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 42579: 230–32b)
Summary:

Gives directions to Down. Would be happy to see SPW but regrets they "have no attractions".

Agrees about colonisation of Arctic region.

CD thought that his St Helena land shells had quite recently become embedded; his specimens are at the Geological Society.

Can SPW ask A. Günther for any references to Silurus escaping from the Danube?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday4120

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Angela Georgina Burdett Coutts
Date:
15 January 1862
Source of text:
BL add MS 85284, f.69-70
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4121

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Angela Georgina Burdett Coutts
Date:
17 January 1862
Source of text:
BL add MS 85284, f.71-2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4122

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Angela Georgina Burdett Coutts
Date:
18 January 1862
Source of text:
BL add MS 85284, f.73-4
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4124

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Angela Georgina Burdett Coutts
Date:
22 January 1862
Source of text:
BL add MS 85284, f.75-6
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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FVM-62-03-24d

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Royal Literary Fund
Date:
24 March 1862
Source of text:
British Library, Western Manuscripts, Loan 96 RLF 1/628/28
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-3491F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Octavian Blewitt
Date:
2 Apr [1862]
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan 96: RLF 4/16 1862 file 3)
Summary:

Declines the honour of acting as Steward at the Annual Dinner of the Royal Literary Fund.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3570

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
24 [May 1862]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 25)
Summary:

Quarterly Review piece written by Bishop Wilberforce with aid of Owen.

Other reviews mentioned.

Health.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3689

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
20 Aug [1862]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 28)
Summary:

Family illnesses.

On disposition of wild honeycomb gift.

Discounts the difficulty presented by ostrich wings.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday4261

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Angela Georgina Burdett Coutts
Date:
29 November 1862
Source of text:
BL add MS 85284, f.77-8
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4300

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Angela Georgina Burdett Coutts
Date:
6 February 1863
Source of text:
BL add MS 85284, f.79-80
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4304

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Angela Georgina Burdett Coutts
Date:
13 February 1863
Source of text:
BL add MS 85284, f.81-2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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