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From Hensleigh Wedgwood   [13–19 March 1859]

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HW has confirmed the report in the Times of a shower of fish (minnows and sticklebacks) that fell on the Wedgwood colliery.

Author:  Hensleigh Wedgwood
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [13–19 Mar 1859]
Classmark:  DAR 205.2: 262
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13854

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To W. E. Darwin   7 July [1859]

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Discusses affairs at Down and WED’s coming trip to the Lakes.

Is getting on very slowly with his "confounded proof-sheets" [of Origin].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  7 July [1859]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 46
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2476

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  • … Mary Mackintosh’s children. Ernest Hensleigh Wedgwood was the elder brother of Katherine, …
  • … Darwin , Susan Elizabeth Darwin and Hensleigh Wedgwood arrived on 16 July 1859. Charlotte …
  • … Allen (Tim), children of Hensleigh and Frances Mackintosh Wedgwood. Eva and Angus are …

From J. D. Hooker   [12 December 1859]

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JDH half through Origin. High praise for facts and reasoning.

Lyell told JDH his criticisms: small matters JDH did not appreciate.

Reactions of G. Bentham, J. S. Henslow, and C. C. Babington.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [12 Dec 1859]
Classmark:  DAR 100: 137–8
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2579

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  • … of her aunt and uncle, Frances Mackintosh and Hensleigh Wedgwood ( Emma Darwin’s diary). …