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DCP-LETT-8626

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 105: A50–A51, A69–A70
Summary:

Agrees the rabbit experiment has gone on long enough, but would like one more litter.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8685

From:
Jules Michelet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 174
Summary:

Darwin and his followers have connected France and England like the projected tunnel and have demonstrated that the French and English are more free than Germany from scholasticism.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8627

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 106: B115–16
Summary:

Appreciation [of Expression]. ARW will review it in Quarterly Journal of Science [n.s. 3 (1873): 113–18].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8628

From:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Nov 1872
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Thanks CD for Expression, comments on it.

Describes celebration of F. C. Donders’ 25th year as professor at Utrecht.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8630

From:
Henry MacKay
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 4
Summary:

Has just read Origin and Descent and wants to know: 1. Has man a soul? 2. Is man morally responsible "to his creative cause or force"? 3. Is there any form of after-life?

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8629

From:
Adèle-Athénaïs Mialaret (Athénaïs) Michelet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 172
Summary:

The Michelets are ill and dispirited.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8631

From:
Herbert Spencer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 177: 231
Summary:

Thanks CD for Expression. Disagrees with his views on the genesis of melody; HS gives some reasons for believing it to originate in the natural cadences of emotional speech.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8632

From:
William Duppa Crotch
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 88: 116a–b
Summary:

Horns of female reindeer disappear after their calves are dropped [see Descent, 2d ed., p. 503].

Lemmings in Norway.

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DCP-LETT-8633

From:
Charles Immanuel Forsyth Major
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 29
Summary:

Agrees to translate Expression into Italian.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8633F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
18 Nov 1872
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/6/15)
Summary:

Acknowledges the sum of £216 18s. 6d.

Obliged for kind enquiries about his health.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8634

From:
David Thomas Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 177: 189
Summary:

Has sent printed reports on his lectures relating to the descent of man [missing].

Discusses his theories on heredity and on the "soul" as the governor of mental and physical development.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8635

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
David Thomas Smith
Date:
[after 19 Nov 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 189r
Summary:

Thanks for Louisville Courier Journal.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8637

From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 431
Summary:

Quandary caused by Heliotype Company’s failure to deliver enough plates for Expression because of a strike. Murray’s now has 7000 books and only 3000 sets of plates.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8638

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
20 Nov [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 288
Summary:

Discusses production of plates [for Expression].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8636

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Nov [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B82–3, DAR 160: 126
Summary:

Encloses a letter from Lady Bell, which should be burnt when read.

Discusses finances.

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DCP-LETT-8639

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Maurice Herbert
Date:
21 Nov 1872
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.425)
Summary:

Sends Expression.

Remarks on student days and old friends.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8640

From:
Alfred William Bennett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 160: 138
Summary:

Proposes establishing a quarterly journal for longer, illustrated articles of some popular appeal. Seeks CD’s support.

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DCP-LETT-8641

From:
Briton Riviere
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 182
Summary:

Thanks for Expression.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8645

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
23 Nov 1872
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:

Thanks AG for Popular Science Review containing his article [on Ceratodus, 11 (1872): 257–66]. CD had already read it with great interest.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8644

From:
John Maurice Herbert
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 166: 186
Summary:

Thanks for copy of Expression.

Contributor:
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