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From:
Wedgwood, L. C.
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[18 November 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1979
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online
From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
19 November 1872
Source of text:
RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Text Online
From:
Joseph Hooker
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
20 November 1872
Source of text:
RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Monteagle, Lord
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
20 November 1872
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1739
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Lyell
Date:
21 November [1872]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society: The Darwin-Lyell Collection
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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.

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

Thanks for Expression.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 98
Summary:

J. J. Moulinié’s translations of Descent and Origin required much reworking, which accounts for delays.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 432
Summary:

Murray’s must publish [Expression] tomorrow with only 4000 copies, because plates for 3000 additional copies have not yet been delivered. The trade and public will be dissatisfied. It may be advisable to get police to defend the house.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Henry Gilbert
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
25 November 1872
Source of text:
MM/19/77, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Joseph Trimble Rothrock
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 220
Summary:

Thanks for Expression, which he received through Asa Gray.

Relates some personal experiences of unconscious sympathy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frances Power Cobbe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26 Nov 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 188
Summary:

Acknowledges presentation copy [of Expression], which is not to be found in the market.

Interested in CD’s opinion of her article ["The consciousness of dogs", Q. Rev. 133 (1872): 419–51].

Hopes she may see CD at Queen Anne St [home of E. A. Darwin].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project