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From:
Balfour, F. M.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[1874]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1892
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Balfour, F. M.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
23 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1897
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Balfour, F. M.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
8 November 1876
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1901
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Cayley, Arthur
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
7 December 1878
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1907
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Cayley, Arthur
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
14 December 1880
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1913
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Christie, W. H. M.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
13 March 1877
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1902
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Christie, W. H. M.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
16 March 1877
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1903
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Christie, W. H. M.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
21 March [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1904
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Cookson, B. A.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
12 February [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1919
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin; George Howard Darwin
Date:
13 [Nov 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 10
Summary:
Describes the funeral of Aunt Sarah [Elizabeth Wedgwood].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
24 [Feb 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 37
Summary:
Writes about their new billiard table.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[after 5 Apr 1864?]
Source of text:
DAR 157.2: 99
Summary:
Enquires about the relationship of English grains to French milligrammes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[1866]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 1
Summary:
Asks GHD what the chances are against squinting and non-squinting children coming alternately in a family of ten.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
27 May [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 2
Summary:
CD has come to think a name better than "Pangenesis" is needed. Asks GHD to get a suggestion from a classics scholar. "Cell-genesis wd be perfect if it cd be put into Greek."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
24 Jan [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 3
Summary:
Congratulations on GHD’s brilliant tripos success.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[24 Mar 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 5
Summary:
CD relays the advice of Sir W. R. Grove on the dismal prospects of a law career.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[9 Dec 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 6
Summary:
Asks GHD to look in William Thomson’s book [W. Thomson and P. G. Tait, Treatise on natural philosophy, vol. 1 (1867)] to see how many million years ago Thomson says earth’s crust solidified. CD is troubled by "brevity of the world", because pre-Silurian creatures must have lived during endless ages "else my views wd be wrong, which is impossible – Q.E.D.".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
6 Feb [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 4
Summary:
John Lubbock regrets GHD did not take the Eton post. JL thinks scientific masters will soon occupy places as high and as profitable as classical masters.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
3 May [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 7
Summary:
Thanks GHD for extracts, but says the subject of music is beyond him.
Suggests that GHD deliberate over one or two sentences of his paper on dress ["Developments in dress", Macmillan’s Mag. 22 (1872): 410–16].
Refers to prospective marriage of Amy [Ruck and CD’s son Francis].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
22 Jan 1873
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 8
Summary:
Concerned about GHD’s health. Sends a prescription for a cough mixture.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
