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From George Robert Gray   9 July 1869

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Asks for a testimonial.

Author:  George Robert Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  9 July 1869
Classmark:  DAR 96: 69v
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6824

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  • 1869 Dear M r Darwin I should feel greatly obliged if you would kindly favour me with a testimonial of my abilities &c.   …

To A. R. Wallace   21 October 1869

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Anticipates that all their differences are fated to find expression in projected book on man.

Offers his early MS with useful references related to the distribution of animals. Hopes ARW’s book will not be "little".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:  21 Oct 1869
Classmark:  The British Library (Add MS 46434: 189–90); Linnean Society of London (Quentin Keynes Collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6951

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  • Darwin’s Natural selection: being the second part of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Edited by R. C. Stauffer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1975. Randau, R. 1869. …

From James Crichton-Browne   1 June 1869

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Discusses the bristling of hair in melancholics and the action of the platysma myoides muscle and the grief muscles in the insane.

Author:  James Crichton-Browne
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  1 June 1869
Classmark:  DAR 161: 309
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6769

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  • Darwin Esq | &c &c 1.1 Dear … say— 2.4] crossed blue crayon 3.1 1 st . ] ‘D r J.  Crichton Browne,— W. Riding Asylum Wakefield. — June 1 st 1869. —’ …

From John Murray   17 November 1869

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JM reports sales of Facts and arguments for Darwin, Variation, and Origin [5th ed.].

Sends best wishes for success in putting down "Parisian blasphemers".

Author:  John Murray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  17 Nov 1869
Classmark:  DAR 171: 374
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6992

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  • r 17— 1869. — My Dear Sir I have attended to the requests of your note of Monday At my annual sale last week I disposed of copies of your work Fritz Muller 8 out of 545 Variations 18 — 300 Origin 311 — 1530 — wch. I hope you will consider not a bad days work— You have my best wishes for the putting down of your Parisian Blaspheemers My Dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | John Murray Chas Darwin Esq re . | &c & …

To A. R. Wallace   5 December [1869]

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Further comments on arrangements for German translation of their joint paper.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:  5 Dec [1869]
Classmark:  The British Library (Add MS 46434: 194–5)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7020

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  • R.  Wallace, 4 December [1869] and n.  3. See letter to A.  B.  Meyer, 27  November [1869] and n.  2. CD refers to C.  Darwin

From A. B. Meyer   24 November 1869

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Wants to arrange a joint photograph of CD and Wallace for a publication on their lives and works.

Author:  Adolf Bernhard Meyer
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  24 Nov 1869
Classmark:  DAR 171: 167
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7008

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  • … November 1869) . Meyer refers to C.  Darwin and Wallace 1858. Rupicola aurantia (now R.   …