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DCP-LETT-9711

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[20? Aug 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 38
Summary:

Likes GHD’s article ["Professor Whitney on the origin of language", Contemp. Rev. (1874): 894]. "You have defended me nobly."

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FL-1281

From:
Wedgwood, Hensleigh
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
1 September [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 2359
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-1221

From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[October 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1534
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-9687

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
19 Oct [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 33
Summary:

Advice to GHD on whether to accept invitation to lecture at the Royal Institution.

Murray has sent the Quarterly Review issue. CD has told Murray that he is convinced Mivart is the author and what he thinks of him.

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DCP-LETT-9693

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
22 Oct [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 34
Summary:

Sends index [of Descent, 2d ed.] with instructions for proof-reading.

Asks GHD questions about heat transmission; he wants to use it as an analogy to illustrate transmission of motor impulses through leaves of Dionaea.

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DCP-LETT-9696

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[24 Oct 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 35
Summary:

Writes about instructions to compositor and return of proofs [of Descent]. Requests return of 2d volume of Descent, to which he may want to refer.

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DCP-LETT-9697

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
25 [Oct 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 36
Summary:

Thanks GHD for clear lecture on heat.

Will keep paper on proportion of sexes, in case GHD wants it again.

Wants him to translate some pages of Swedish or Norwegian sent by A. W. Malm, "a good man".

Glad to see the statistical paper ["Theory of exchange value", Fortn. Rev. n.s. 17 (1875): 243–53].

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DCP-LETT-9712

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
5 Nov [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 37
Summary:

Mainly family news.

Eager to read GHD’s political economy MS "though Heaven knows whether I shall understand it".

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DCP-LETT-9724

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
18 Nov [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 39
Summary:

Sends Murray’s report of November sales of CD’s books. "I am well content."

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9735

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
27 Nov [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 40
Summary:

CD thinks better of "cousin paper" than GHD does.

With respect to GHD’s "viscous work", remembers endless discussions of movement of viscous matter 20 years back, apropos of movement of glaciers.

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FL-1183

From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[29 November 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 302
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-9741

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
2 Dec [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 41
Summary:

Appleton will bring out the new edition of Descent in the U. S., so GHD’s work will now be in three editions.

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DCP-LETT-9746

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[6 Dec 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 42
Summary:

Returns historical sketch [of GHD’s "cousin paper"?] with comments. "For Heavens sake put a sentence in some conspicuous place that your results seem to indicate that consanguineous marriage, as far as insanity is concerned, cannot be injurious in any very high degree."

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DCP-LETT-9221

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
12 [Dec 1874 - Jan 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 43
Summary:

Regrets the trouble GHD has had.

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FL-1541

From:
Fox, W. D.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[1875–80]
Source of text:
DAR 210.14: 36
Summary:

Sends date of his mother’s death – 7 Apr 1859.

Was completely mystified by conjuring performance of [John Nevil] Maskelyne.

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FL-1384

From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[1875]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 840
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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FL-1387

From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[February–April 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 843
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-9851

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
10 [Feb 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 44
Summary:

J. T. Knowles [editor of Contemp. Rev.] hopes W. D. Whitney’s article will be a long one.

CD is sorry about GHD’s account of his low spirits. "I know well the feeling of life being objectless & all being vanity of vanities."

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FL-1386

From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
26 February 1875
Source of text:
DAR 258: 842
Summary:

No summary available.

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Darwin Family Letters
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FL-1225

From:
Harrison, Frederic
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
1 March 1875
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1893
Summary:

No summary available.

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