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From E. M. Bonham-Carter to Emma Darwin?   [2–5 June 1871]

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Further observations on expression of her dog.

Author:  Elinor Mary Bonham-Carter; Elinor Mary Dicey
Addressee:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:  [2–5 June 1871]
Classmark:  DAR 160: 243
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7786

To Thomas Bradfield   2 June [1871]

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Thanks for the fact about the dog.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Bradfield
Date:  2 June [1871]
Classmark:  Doyle, New York (dealers) (8 May 2007)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7792F

To V. O. Kovalevsky   2 June [1871]

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Thanks VOK for sending F. Körte’s book [Die Streich-, Zug- oder Wander-Heuschrecke (1828)]. The passage CD wrote about [see 7735] must occur in the second edition. If VOK ever comes upon the 1829 edition, it would be of use to him.

Agrees that the Versailles army has been savagely brutal [in siege of Paris], but thinks the "Communists [Communards] have made themselves everlastingly infamous".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
Date:  2 June [1871]
Classmark:  Institut Mittag-Leffler
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7796

From A. G. Butler   2 June 1871

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Facts contradicting Wallace’s views on coloration of Lepidoptera.

Author:  Arthur Gardiner Butler
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  2 June 1871
Classmark:  DAR 89: 108–111
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7797
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'An Appeal' against animal cruelty

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The four-page pamphlet transcribed below and entitled 'An Appeal', was composed jointly by Emma and Charles Darwin (see letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, [29 September 1863]). The pamphlet, which protested against the cruelty of steel vermin…

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  • … following the publication of Origin (Turner 1980, pp. 60–2, 124–128, Worster 1985, pp. 179–80, …
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