From Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf Günther to S. P. Woodward 14 June 1861
Summary
Discusses transport of fish to Lake Constance by flooding.
| Author: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
| Addressee: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
| Date: | 14 June 1861 |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.2: 235 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3605 |
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- … Bibliography Gesner, Konrad. 1558. De piscium & aquatilium animantium natura. Vol. 4 of …
- … with an introduction, supplement and bibliography of a new English dictionary. Edited by …
To John Lubbock 6 June [1861]
Summary
Arrangements for a meeting.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 6 June [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.7: 3 (EH 88205928) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3177 |
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- … Bibliography Banking almanac : The banking almanac, directory, yearbook and diary. London: …
To John Lubbock [8 June 1861]
Summary
Asks to meet JL for a final talk about the banking partnership for William Darwin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | [8 June 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.7: 2 (EH 88205927) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3179 |
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- … Bibliography Banking almanac : The banking almanac, directory, yearbook and diary. London: …
To Henry Bence Jones 23 June [1861]
Summary
Noting that he is not an M.D., he would be much gratified should the University of Breslau think fit to honour him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Bence Jones |
| Date: | 23 June [1861] |
| Classmark: | Walter R. Benjamin Autographs (dealer) (1992) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3194A |
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- … Bibliography Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick …
To W. E. Darwin 6 [June 1861]
Summary
Writes regarding the possibility of banking partnership for WED; second note arranges a meeting between the involved parties in London.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 6 [June 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 69–70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3178 |
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- … Bibliography Banking almanac : The banking almanac, directory, yearbook and diary. London: …
To J. D. Hooker 22 June [1861]
Summary
Many mutual acquaintances are ill.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 22 June [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 84 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3192 |
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- … Bibliography Allan, Mea. 1967. The Hookers of Kew, 1785–1911. London: Michael Joseph. …
From Hugh Falconer 23 June 1861
Summary
Offers CD a live Proteus anguinus from Adelsberg cave. In his hands it will have a fair chance of developing into "some type of Columbidae (say a pouter or tumbler)".
The Origin is universally praised in Italy and Germany, even by those who disagree with it.
| Author: | Hugh Falconer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 June 1861 |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 3–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3194 |
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- … Bibliography Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick …
To John Lubbock 24 June [1861]
Summary
There have been delays, but William Darwin’s banking position is nearly settled.
Is going to Torquay, where he will write up his work on orchids.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 24 June [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 40d (EH 88206453) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3195 |
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- … Bibliography Bonney, T. G. 1919. Annals of the Philosophical Club of the Royal Society …
To A. G. More 4 June [1861]
Summary
Sends queries concerning insect fertilisation of Epipactis palustris.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alexander Goodman More |
| Date: | 4 June [1861] |
| Classmark: | Royal Irish Academy (A. G. More papers RIA MS 4 B 46) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3175 |
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- … Bibliography Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick …
To A. G. More 17 June [1861]
Summary
Would be grateful for observations on orchids.
Believes Spiranthes visited by moths. Asks AGM to repeat experiment on Spiranthes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alexander Goodman More |
| Date: | 17 June [1861] |
| Classmark: | Royal Irish Academy (A. G. More papers RIA MS 4 B 46) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3187 |
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- … Bibliography Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick …
To Journal of Horticulture [before 18 June 1861]
Summary
CD, commenting on a case of peloric flowering in Auricula, urges readers to send in their observations on whether flowers nearest the axis tend to differ from others on the plant. Such a law of variation would be worth discovering.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Journal of Horticulture |
| Date: | [before 18 June 1861] |
| Classmark: | Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, and Country Gentleman n.s. 1 (1861): 211 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3188 |
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- … Bibliography Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick …
From Thomas Francis Jamieson 13 June 1861
Summary
Will look for botanical specimens CD requested.
Tells of a kestrel with a broken leg which apparently was forced to change its diet to worms and snails because of the injury.
| Author: | Thomas Francis Jamieson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 June 1861 |
| Classmark: | DAR 47: 171–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3180 |
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- … Bibliography Macgillivray, William. 1837–52. History of British birds, indigenous and …
To A. G. More 2 June [1861]
Summary
Asks for specimens of Aceras.
Mentions orchid species he has seen. Asks AGM to make observations.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alexander Goodman More |
| Date: | 2 June [1861] |
| Classmark: | Royal Irish Academy (A. G. More papers RIA MS 4 B 46) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3174 |
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- … Bibliography Babington, Charles Cardale. 1851. Manual of British botany, containing the …
To George Bentham 17 June [1861]
Summary
Asks for specimen of Orchis pyramidalis for his work on insect fertilisation of orchids.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Bentham |
| Date: | 17 June [1861] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 697) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3186 |
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- … Bibliography Bentham, George. 1858. Handbook of the British flora; a description of the …
To Hugh Falconer 24 [June 1861]
Summary
Thanks HF for offer of valuable specimen, but CD has no aquarium. Suggests the Zoological Society would be the best place for it.
Will keep HF’s note among a very few precious letters.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
| Date: | 24 [June 1861] |
| Classmark: | Bellmans (dealers) (5 December 2019, lot 632) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3196 |
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- … Bibliography LL : The life and letters of Charles Darwin, including an autobiographical …
To Frederick Smith 19 June [1861]
Summary
Discusses pollen-masses found on various insects.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frederick Smith |
| Date: | 19 June [1861] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.255) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3189 |
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- … Bibliography Orchids : On the various contrivances by which British and foreign orchids …
To George Gordon 22 June [1861]
Summary
Thanks GG for his efforts. Corallorhiza would be most valuable.
Leaves for Torquay on 1 July.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Gordon |
| Date: | 22 June [1861] |
| Classmark: | Elgin Museum (Gordon Archive 61.8) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3191 |
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- … Bibliography Orchids : On the various contrivances by which British and foreign orchids …
From B. P. Brent 15 June 1861
Summary
On his father’s crossing experiments with cacti, in which hybrids were found quite fertile.
On his breeding of guinea-pigs.
Sends Miss E. Watts’s message about crested fowls and Brahmas.
| Author: | Bernard Peirce Brent |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 June 1861 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160.2: 300 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3184 |
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- … Bibliography Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick …
From H. C. Watson to George Gordon 27 June 1861
Summary
Regrets he cannot assist the fulfilment of CD’s request for a specimen of the orchid Corallorhiza.
| Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
| Addressee: | George Gordon |
| Date: | 27 June 1861 |
| Classmark: | Elgin Museum (Gordon Archive 61.9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3197F |
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- … Bibliography Watson, Hewett Cottrell. 1845. On the theory of "progressive development," …
To George Bentham 22 June [1861]
Summary
Thanks GB for specimen [of Orchis pyramidalis].
Discusses a great difficulty with orchids: "Insects visit several species which never secrete an atom of honey." [See Orchids, p. 44ff.] Does GB know whether nectar is ever secreted and reabsorbed promptly?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Bentham |
| Date: | 22 June [1861] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 692) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3193 |
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- … Bibliography Bentham, George. 1858. Handbook of the British flora; a description of the …
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| Colgate, Robert | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Falconer, Hugh | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Lubbock, John | (4) |
| More, A. G. | (3) |
| Bentham, George | (2) |
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| Bence Jones, Henry | (1) |
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| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Falconer, Hugh | (2) |
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| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Günther, Albert | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Jamieson, T. F. | (1) |
| Journal of Horticulture | (1) |
| Lubbock, John | (4) |
| Malden, B. S. | (1) |
| More, A. G. | (3) |
| Sclater, P. L. | (1) |
| Smith, Frederick (a) | (1) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (1) |
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| Woodward, S. P. | (2) |
Bibliography of Darwin’s geological publications
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This list includes papers read by Darwin to the Geological Society of London, his books on the geology of the Beagle voyage, and other publications on geological topics. Author-date citations refer to entries in the Darwin Correspondence Project’s…
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- … entries in the Darwin Correspondence Project’s cumulative bibliography. Where appropriate, …
- … 2009). ‘F’ numbers refer to R. B. Freeman’s standard bibliography of Darwin’s works. …
- … Cornell University Press. (See also Herbert’s exhaustive bibliography.) Rhodes, Frank H. T. …
Full notes on editorial policy
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The first and chief objective of this edition is to provide complete and authoritative texts of Darwin’s correspondence. For every letter to or from Darwin, the text that is available to the editors is always given in full. The editors have occasionally…
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- … of manuscripts: the record of variants ’, Studies in Bibliography 29 (1976): 212–64. This …
- … ‘ The editing of historical documents ’, Studies in Bibliography 31 (1978): 1–56. The editors …
- … all books and papers referred to are given in the online Bibliography . References to archival …
The Lyell–Lubbock dispute
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In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book Prehistoric times, accused Lyell of plagiarism. The dispute caused great dismay among many of their mutual scientific friends, some of whom took immediate action…
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- … D. Hooker, [31 May 1865] and n. 8. last Bibliography Bartholomew, Michael …
4.24 'Daily Graphic', Nast satire
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< Back to Introduction In 1874 the Harvard philosopher John Fiske published his magnum opus, Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy, in which he set out to explain the far-reaching significance of Darwin’s and Herbert Spencer’s evolutionary theories. He…
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- … engraving from a drawing by Nast references and bibliography The Daily Graphic 5: …
4.16 Joseph Simms, physiognomy
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< Back to Introduction In September 1874, the American doctor Joseph Simms, then on a three-year lecture tour of Britain, sent Darwin a copy of his book, Nature’s Revelations of Character; Or, Physiognomy Illustrated. He was seeking a public…
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- … and material wood engraving references and bibliography James Paget, ‘Physiognomy of …
4.21 Gegeef, 'Our National Church', 1
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< Back to Introduction A print with the ironic title Our National Church: The Aegis of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity was issued by the London publisher Edmund Appleyard in c.1872-3, and sold at a penny. The artist who drew it signed himself …
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- … typographic text references and bibliography Warren R. Dawson, The Huxley …
4.37 'Mosquito' satire
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< Back to Introduction The Buenos Aires satirical journal Mosquito published this cartoon in May 1882, shortly after Darwin’s death, with the title ‘El Homenage a Darwin en el Teatro Nacional’ (The tribute to Darwin in the National Theatre). A…
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- … medium and material lithograph references and bibliography Mosquito , year XIX, no. …
4.49 Alfred Bryan, caricature
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< Back to Introduction Among the portrayals of Darwin reproduced in Bridgeman Images is a caricature titled Natural History Repeating Itself, from an unnamed private collection. It is initialled by ‘A.B.’, i.e. Alfred Bryan, who worked as an…
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- … from a pen and ink drawing references and bibliography Interview with Bryan in ‘How …
4.36 Sem, Chistmas card
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< Back to Introduction An unattributed watercolour drawing of Darwin shows him dapperly dressed in a tail coat, but walking on all fours like an animal, his lean figure bent over in an arch and filling the space. It is inscribed ‘With Compliments of…
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- … drawing in mount references and bibliography …
- … , accessed March 2020. See also the bibliography for Sem’s caricature of Darwin in Queen Alexandra …
4.39 'Moonshine' magazine cartoon
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< Back to Introduction Moonshine, the self-styled ‘Best Topical Comic Paper’ published in London, featured Darwin in its series of ‘Days with Celebrities’ in 1881. The idea of the series was to picture the private lives of famous contemporaries.…
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- … and material wood engraving references and bibliography ‘Days with Celebrities (19) Mr …
4.32 Anis liqueur label
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< Back to Introduction Many late-nineteenth-century cartoons played on the popular association of Darwin with theories about humans’ simian ancestry: theories that challenged traditional religious beliefs. However, it is surprising to find an…
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- … and material chromolithography references and bibliography Juan Antonio Delgado and …
- … Science and Education 20 (2011), pp. 141-157, with a full bibliography of earlier relevant …
4.2 Augustus Earle, caricature drawing
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< Back to Introduction The paucity of evidence for Darwin’s appearance and general demeanour during the years of the Beagle voyage gives this humorous drawing of shipboard life a special interest. It is convincingly attributed to Augustus Earle, an…
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- … watercolour and ink on paper references and bibliography Henrietta Litchfield’s …
Darwin’s student booklist
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In October 1825 Charles Darwin and his older brother, Erasmus, went to study medicine in Edinburgh, where their father, Robert Waring Darwin, had trained as a doctor in the 1780’s. Erasmus had already graduated from Cambridge and was continuing his studies…
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- … 20 Smith 1826. 21 Clarke 1810–23. Bibliography Abernethy, John. 1819a. …
- … Johnson. Desmond, Adrian, and Sarah Parker. 2006. The bibliography of Robert Edmond Grant …
3.18 Elliott and Fry photos, c.1869-1871
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< Back to Introduction The leading photographic firm of Elliott and Fry seems to have portrayed Darwin at Down House on several occasions. In November 1869 Darwin told A. B. Meyer, who wanted photographs of both him and Wallace for a German…
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- … prints and Woodburytypes etc. references and bibliography letters from Darwin to A.B. …
4.47 'Puck' cartoon 4
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< Back to Introduction Following on from Reason Against Unreason and The Sun of the Nineteenth Century, another cartoon in the American humorous magazine Puck depicted Darwin as the epitome of philosophical enlightenment. The Universal Church of the…
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- … and material chromolithography references and bibliography Puck 12:305 (10 Jan. …
4.59 'Simplicissimus' cartoon
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< Back to Introduction In 1909 the German satirical magazine Simplicissimus celebrated the centenary of Darwin’s birth with a whimsical cartoon by its resident artist Thomas Theodor Heine, titled ‘Zu Darwins hundertstem Geburtstag’ (‘On Darwin’s…
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- … material colour lithography references and bibliography Simplicissimus 46 (15 Feb. …
4.48 'Puck', cartoon 5
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< Back to Introduction Following on from Reason Against Unreason and The Sun of the Nineteenth Century, another cartoon in the American humorous magazine Puck depicted Darwin as the epitome of philosophical enlightenment. The Universal Church of the…
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- … and material chromolithography references and bibliography Puck 12:305 (10 Jan. …
4.31 'La Lune Rousse', Gill cartoon
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< Back to Introduction A drawing of Darwin by André Gill borrows a satirical trope found in The Hornet, Fun and Punch, showing him with a large caricatured head joined to the body of an ape. However, La Lune Rousse is distinctively French in…
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- … right, ‘Yves & Barret sc.’ references and bibliography La Lune Rousse , 2:89 (18 …
4.42 'Punch' Sambourne cartoon 3
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< Back to Introduction Linley Sambourne’s last caricature of Darwin, ‘Man is But a Worm’, was published in Punch’s Almanac for 1882 on 6 December 1881, only four months before Darwin’s death. Like Sambourne’s ‘Punch’s Fancy Portraits. No. 54. Charles…
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- … from Sambourne’s drawing references and bibliography Punch’s Almanac for 1882 , …
3.16 Oscar Rejlander, photos
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< Back to Introduction Darwin’s plans for the illustration of his book The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872) led him to the Swedish-born painter and photographer, Oscar Gustaf Rejlander. Rejlander gave Darwin the notes that he had…
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- … albumen photographic prints references and bibliography O.G. Rejlander, An Apology for …
