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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hyacinth Symonds; Hyacinth Jardine; Hyacinth Hooker
Date:
8 Jan 1880
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/2/2/1 f. 311)
Summary:

Thanks for gift of bananas.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Antonio Mendola
Date:
8 Jan [1880]
Source of text:
Christie’s (dealers) (7 June 2010)
Summary:

Thanks for the offer of specimens, but cannot use them due to other work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Clement Mansfield Ingleby
Date:
8 January 1880
Source of text:
Folger Shakespeare Library: C.a.26 (32)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
Date:
8 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 148: 369
Summary:

Glad ASW has solved puzzle of outer seeds.

Quite agrees about great improbability of sudden transformations.

Asks for copy of report from Gardeners’ Chronicle [see 12404].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[9 January 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 88
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Edward Ramsay
Date:
9 January 1880
Source of text:
ML MSS.562, Letters to E. P. Ramsay 1862-91, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Thomas Pretious Heslop
To:
Richard Hill Norris
Date:
9 January 1880
Source of text:
Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections, University of Birmingham: US41/7/22/40
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
9 January 1880
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 57, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 106: B142–3
Summary:

Gratified by CD’s praise.

Describes plan of his new book [Island life (1880)].

Efforts to secure a post.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 January 1880
Source of text:
  • Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B142-143
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 289-290
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 305-306]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
9 January 1880
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: Add. 9839/1W/124
Summary:

Asks Newton if he knows any of the trustees of the Josiah Mason College of Science in Birmingham which is due to be opened October 1880; ARW would like to apply for a position there.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin; Francis Darwin; George Howard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Leonard Darwin; William Erasmus Darwin; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
10 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 155
Summary:

Circular letter regarding the distribution of CD’s excess income, with a note addressed to W. E. Darwin concerning his handling of Elizabeth Darwin’s share.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Elizabeth Anne Galton; Elizabeth Anne Wheler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 99: 197–8
Summary:

Thanks CD for Erasmus Darwin. Comments on it.

News of Violetta Darwin’s death.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Horace Darwin
Date:
11 Jan [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 7
Summary:

Sends enclosure [missing], which HD is to forward to W. E. Darwin, as everyone else has seen it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Thomas William Bland
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
12 January 1880
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46436 ff. 88-89
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46436 ff. 90
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Eugene Ferguson
Date:
12 Jan 1880
Source of text:
Indiana University, The Lilly Library (Ferguson MSS)
Summary:

Suggests CEF read Ernst Haeckel’s Evolution of man [1879] and Descent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 165: 201
Summary:

Sends some cotton seeds for CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Krakauer
Date:
12 Jan 1880
Source of text:
The British Library (Surrogate RP 4481/3)
Summary:

"I am much obliged for your note. I have heard of the other analogous cases, but there remains a doubt whether they may not be accidental coincidences, for such cases certainly occur in non-Jewish families.––"

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 178: 41
Summary:

Plans a "Darwin Festival" to celebrate CD’s birthday.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Edward Derwent Atkinson
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
13 January 1880
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46436 ff. 91-92
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project