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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:
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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.

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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."

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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.

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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.

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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.".

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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.

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From:
Darwin, Elizabeth
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[23–8 May 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1406
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, G. H.; Darwin, W. E.; Darwin, Francis
Date:
[27 October 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 84
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[25 February 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 2347
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, G. H.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[1860–62]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 2223
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, G. H.
To:
Darwin, Francis
Date:
[29 April 1860?]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 2224
Summary:

No summary available.

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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, G. H.
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[27 July 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 2225
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, G. H.
To:
Darwin, William
Date:
[9 December 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 2226
Summary:

No summary available.

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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, G. H.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[6 October 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 74
Summary:

No summary available.

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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, G. H.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[3 November 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 85
Summary:

No summary available.

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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, G. H.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[30 January 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 2227
Summary:

No summary available.

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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, G. H.
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[13 or 20 February 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 2228
Summary:

No summary available.

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From:
Darwin, G. H.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[before 24 February 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 2229
Summary:

No summary available.

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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, G. H.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[30 March 1862?]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 2230
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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