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From:
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To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[28 May 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1995
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
John Abberley; Robert Waring Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Oct 1841
Source of text:
DAR 162: 78
Summary:

The family gardener reports on seeds he has gathered. RWD transmits the letter.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Ellingwood Abbot
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 May 1871
Source of text:
DAR 159: 1
Summary:

Wishes to inform CD that, contrary to CD’s impression, natural selection is widely accepted in U. S. by educated men; encloses copies of his lectures, papers, and the Index.

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From:
Francis Ellingwood Abbot
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Aug 1871
Source of text:
DAR 159: 2
Summary:

Thanks CD for interest in FEA’s work and for money for Index. Sends 1870 volume of Index.

Praises CD’s services to free-thought.

Asks for CD’s view of the influence of his theory on religion, to use in lecture.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Francis Ellingwood Abbot
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 159: 3
Summary:

For CD’s approval, cites passage from CD note he wants to quote in a lecture;

pleads for CD’s moral support for FEA’s work in free-thought movement.

Sends $50 [dollars or pounds!?] because he wants CD to become regular contributor to Index.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Francis Ellingwood Abbot
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 July 1872
Source of text:
DAR 159: 4
Summary:

Thanks CD for five dollars and two-year subscription to Index, and for permission to quote CD’s compliments on Truths for the times.

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From:
Francis Ellingwood Abbot
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1874
Source of text:
DAR 159: 5
Summary:

Asks CD to read and comment, for publication, on his forthcoming essay in Index on the evolution of conscience and morals through action and reaction between man and the moral environment.

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Text Online
From:
Abbot, F. E.
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
19 January 1876
Source of text:
DAR 210.7: 5
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Francis Ellingwood Abbot
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
19 Jan 1876
Source of text:
DAR 210.7: 5
Summary:

Thanks WED for his letter of 20 December 1875. Is surprised and delighted by the support from WED and CD for the Index.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Ellingwood Abbot
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 May 1880
Source of text:
DAR 159: 6
Summary:

Thanks for money for further subscription to Index; FEA soon to step down as editor.

On CD’s solid reputation in America among rising men of science.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Julian Willis Abernethy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 18 Feb 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 140.4: 26
Summary:

A poem, "Burns to Darwin".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William de Wiveleslie Abney
To:
Leonard Darwin
Date:
[before 27 June 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 148
Summary:

Answers questions about chemistry (see 9202).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Lawford Acland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Aug 1870
Source of text:
DAR 159: A7
Summary:

Is studying Variation, especially Pangenesis. Reports earlier notion of Dr Robert Lee, that resemblance between husband and wife may be partly owing to her having man’s blood circulating in her during pregnancies; thus spouses most resemble each other in large families.

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From:
Andrew Leith Adams
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 159: 8
Summary:

Thanks for letter on ALA’s qualifications for vacant chair of natural history.

Reports observations on deer which have larger left antlers than right, possibly for protection of heart.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
John Addison
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 July 1868
Source of text:
DAR 205.7: 279 (Letters)
Summary:

Sends newspaper clipping about a nest of young birds, apparently hybrid offspring of a cock goldfinch and a hen green linnet.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alexander Agassiz
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 1 June 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 69: A43–6 DAR 89: 29–31
Summary:

Instances of sexual differences in viviparous fishes, suggested by reading chapters on sexual selection [in Descent] and by Mivart’s Genesis of species.

Notes on echinoderms.

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From:
Jean Louis Rodolphe (Louis) Agassiz
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Sept 1863
Source of text:
DAR 159: 9
Summary:

Introduces J. P. Lesley, "the most accomplished geologist of the United States".

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From:
Jean Louis Rodolphe (Louis) Agassiz
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 July 1868
Source of text:
DAR 82: B78–9
Summary:

LA clarifies his opposition to CD’s views, which does not blind him to the great value of CD’s original researches.

Answers CD’s questions regarding sexual coloration of Amazonian fishes and the protuberances on the head of male Geophagus and Cichla during the spawning season [see Descent, pp. 520, 529].

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From:
Jean Louis Rodolphe (Louis) Agassiz
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 July 1869
Source of text:
DAR 159: 10
Summary:

Introduces his son Alexander; believes CD will find him "more tractable" on certain questions than LA himself is.

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From:
Oliver Alexander Ainslie
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 159: 11a (fragile)
Summary:

Has learned of death of Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood, former proprietor of Tromer Lodge, and writes about his deceased father’s earlier attempts to purchase this property. Requests information on any future transfer of it.

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