From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
8 Nov [1872-4]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.410)
Summary:
Orders enema.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Anne Jane Douglas; Anne Jane Cupples
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
8 Nov [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 281
Summary:
Accounts of dogs that howl to music; their expression whilst so doing.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
8 Nov [1872]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/12)
Summary:
Rabbits’ coats true in character. If the next ones are true, it is superfluous to keep trying.
Does not know why crying children rub eyes with knuckles.
Mentions FG’s article on prayer ["Statistical inquiries into the efficacy of prayer", Fortn. Rev. n.s. 12 (1872): 125–35].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sarah Harriet Mostyn Owen; Sarah Harriet Williams; Sarah Harriet Haliburton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Nov [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 86
Summary:
Thanks for CD’s photograph, which recalls the Charles Darwin of olden days.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 103: 130–2
Summary:
Has been asked to take shares in the Artizans’ Dwellings Co., in which CD is a shareholder. If it is really a project for public good, he would be glad to be associated.
Owen has answered his letter in Nature [7 (1872): 5–7].
A letter from Tyndall [from America] was read at the X Club.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 103: 133–4
Summary:
Writes, as a P.S. to his previous letter, stating his friends have advised him not to answer Owen’s attack.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
