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From Hensleigh Wedgwood   [22 August 1875]

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Errata in first edition of Insectivorous plants.

Author:  Hensleigh Wedgwood
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [22 Aug 1875]
Classmark:  DAR 86: B32
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10132

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To Thomas Carlyle   4 December 1875

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A letter of congratulation to Thomas Carlyle on his 80th birthday signed by CD and 118 others; to accompany the gift of a commemorative medal.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Carlyle
Date:  4 Dec 1875
Classmark:  National Trust (Carlyle’s House)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10288G

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To G. H. Darwin   2 [April 1875]

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CD recounts events of the April-fool’s day séance at Hensleigh [Wedgwood]’s. Asks GHD to find out whether Sidgwick’s account of it agrees with what he has heard. "What rubbish the whole does seem to be!"

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George Howard Darwin
Date:  2 [Apr 1875]
Classmark:  DAR 210.1: 45
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9911

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  • … Pimlico. Wedgwood, Barbara and Wedgwood, Hensleigh. 1980. The Wedgwood circle, 1730–1897: …
  • … of the April-fool’s day séance at Hensleigh [Wedgwood]’s. Asks GHD to find out whether …
  • … had attended a seance hosted by Hensleigh Wedgwood in 1874 (see letter from T. H. Huxley, …