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WCP3284

From:
ARW's pilot in the Aru Islands
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
3? May 1872
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46442 f. 93
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46442 f. 92
Summary:

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Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8308

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
3 May [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 7
Summary:

Thanks GHD for extracts, but says the subject of music is beyond him.

Suggests that GHD deliberate over one or two sentences of his paper on dress ["Developments in dress", Macmillan’s Mag. 22 (1872): 410–16].

Refers to prospective marriage of Amy [Ruck and CD’s son Francis].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8310

From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 59
Summary:

Glad Mrs Darwin likes his preface, but fears she will not like his tone on religion.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8309

From:
Jacob Heinrich Schmick
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 177: 56
Summary:

Having sent CD his two essays outlining his theory on "A secular transposition of oceans" [see 7368], JHS now forwards to CD a book he believes establishes his theory as an "eternal law of nature" [Die neue Theorie periodische säkularer Schwankungen des Seespiegels [periodischer!?] (1872)].

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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