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To Thomas Guthrie?   30 March [1871]

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Sends correspondent a £25 subscription for George Cupples.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Guthrie
Date:  30 Mar [1871]
Classmark:  National Library of Medicine, Bethesda (History of Medicine Division, Modern Manuscripts Collection MS C 1)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7151

From Anne Barnard   30 March 1871

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On reading Descent was reminded of having seen, on a visit to an idiot asylum with her father [J. S. Henslow], a woman with long pointed ears.

Author:  Anne Henslow; Anne Barnard
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  30 Mar 1871
Classmark:  DAR 160: 42
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7644

From John Morley   30 March 1871

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Questions CD’s attribution of a sense of beauty to animals and his use of natural selection to explain phenomena JM feels it more appropriate to describe as social selection.

Author:  John Morley, Viscount Morley of Blackburn
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  30 Mar 1871
Classmark:  DAR 87: 170, DAR 88: 165–6
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7645
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Visiting the Darwins

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'As for Mr Darwin, he is entirely fascinating…'  In October 1868 Jane Gray and her husband spent several days as guests of the Darwins, and Jane wrote a charming account of the visit in a sixteen-page letter to her sister.  She described Charles…

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