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To D. F. Nevill   [1874–82]

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[Valediction and signature only.]

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Date:  [1874–82]
Classmark:  DAR 185: 123
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9791

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  • … from the signature, the text is in Francis Darwin’s hand; he became CD’s secretary in …

To Dorothy Fanny Nevill   12 November [1861]

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Writes at Lindley’s suggestion to ask whether DN can send several orchid specimens. Describes his work in preparation for Orchids.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Date:  12 Nov [1861]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.270)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3316

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  • Francis. Orchids : On the various contrivances by which British and foreign orchids are fertilised by insects, and on the good effects of intercrossing. By Charles Darwin. …

To D. F. Nevill   19 November [1861]

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Declines invitation to visit DN’s orchid collection. Thanks for orchids and list [of available plants]. Requests a few more spikes of Bolbophyllum, particularly of species with irritable labellum.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Date:  19 Nov [1861]
Classmark:  Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3324

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  • Francis. Orchids : On the various contrivances by which British and foreign orchids are fertilised by insects, and on the good effects of intercrossing. By Charles Darwin. …
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