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From W. E. Gladstone 23 October 1877
Summary
Accepts CD’s offer to send numbers of Kosmos.
WEG thinks the evidence from Homer’s text is conclusive that his "discrimination of colour was as defective as his sense of form and of motion was exact and lively".
Author: | William Ewart Gladstone |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Oct 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11202 |
From W. E. Gladstone 24 July 1879
Summary
Sends CD his collection of Homeric epithets on motion, which "indicate ideas of motion more precise and scientifically adjusted than … any other author".
Author: | William Ewart Gladstone |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 July 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 51 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12170 |
From W. E. Gladstone 6 January 1881
Author: | William Ewart Gladstone |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 52 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12981 |
From W. E. Gladstone 30 April 1881
Summary
CD is invited to allow his name to be suggested for the vacancy in the Trust of the British Museum caused by the death of Lord Beaconsfield. [See 13142.]
Author: | William Ewart Gladstone |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Apr 1881 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 44544: 165) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13141A |