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DCP-LETT-3142

From:
William Hardy
To:
Luke Hindmarsh
Date:
[8 May 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 46.1: 92
Summary:

Sends data on numbers of "wild" cattle in the herd on the estate of Lord Tankerville that have been killed by fighting, accidents, etc. He does not perceive that the cattle have diminished in size.

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DCP-LETT-3145

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
9 May [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 63
Summary:

Discusses family and domestic matters.

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DCP-LETT-3146

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Luke Hindmarsh
Date:
12 May [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 145: 128
Summary:

Thanks for information about natural increase of Chillingham cattle. Compares with case in Paraguay.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3149

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
14 May [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 99
Summary:

Henslow’s long suffering.

Donald Beaton’s articles in Cottage Gardener clever but not to be trusted.

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DCP-LETT-3152

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
18 [May 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 100
Summary:

Henslow’s death.

What a contrast C. C. Babington will be as Professor of Botany at Cambridge.

Beaton not to be trusted.

CD may switch from Athenæum to London Review & Wkly J. Polit.

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FL-0414

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[21 May 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 44
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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Faraday4007

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
James Clerk Maxwell
Date:
23 May 1861
Source of text:
ULC Add MS 7655/II/20
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-3155

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
24–5 May [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 101
Summary:

CD’s doubts on biography of Henslow. Writing recollections of Cambridge days at JDH’s request.

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DCP-LETT-3157

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[25 May 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 64
Summary:

Has heard, through Lubbock, of a gentleman who is offering a partnership in a bank.

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DCP-LETT-3158

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[25 May 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 41 (EH 88206485)
Summary:

Discusses the possibility of a banking job for William [Darwin]; wishes to meet JL to discuss the prospects.

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FL-0415

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[26 May 1861?]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 45
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-3160

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[26 May 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 65
Summary:

Discusses the opportunity for WED to become a partner in a bank.

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DCP-LETT-3161

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
27 May [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 8 (EH 88205992)
Summary:

Requests that exotic species of Vinca, which never set seed at Kew, be fertilised by pressing a fine bristle between anthers as a moth would its proboscis.

Asks that Primula farinosa be sent.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3165

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
28 May [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 320
Summary:

Thanks for railway map.

Surprised about Richard Owen: "I thought his courage was as indomitable as his malignity."

Sends extract [Sir John Herschel, "Physical geography", from the Encyclopaedia Britannica (1861)].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3166

From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[28 May 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 144
Summary:

[Queries in CD’s hand answered on same pages by WBT.] Sexual selection of fowls; role of beauty in cocks.

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DCP-LETT-3167

From:
Bernard Peirce Brent
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 May 1861
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 1–9
Summary:

Sexual behaviour of fowls.

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DCP-LETT-3168

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
30 May [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 102
Summary:

Has written recollections of Henslow [Collected papers 2: 72–4].

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DCP-LETT-3169

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[June 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 35
Summary:

Describes her compassion for all his sufferings and writes of her wish that his gratitude could be offered to heaven as well as to herself. To her, the only relief is to try to believe that suffering and illness are from God’s hand "to help us to exalt our minds & to look forward with hope to a future state".

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DCP-LETT-3171

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
1 [June 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 66
Summary:

Writes about dealings through John Lubbock regarding [a banking partnership for] WED.

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DCP-LETT-3172

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
1 June [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 42 (EH 88206486)
Summary:

William Darwin can go to Southampton any time should the banking proposition come to anything. CD is sure he would work hard.

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