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To Francis Darwin   [c. 20 March 1877]

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Asks FD to mollify Daniel Oliver and assure him that CD asks "only for what I wd. give my life’s blood for".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  [c. 20 Mar 1877]
Classmark:  DAR 211: 19
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10752

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  • … it was not worth Francis’s giving up two days ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 20 March [1877] ). …
  • … this letter and the letter to J. D. Hooker, 20 March [1877] . The year is confirmed by an …

To Francis Darwin   [10 June 1877]

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Asks FD to forward some eczema mixture to Southampton for him

and to hunt out notes on earthworm activity at Beaulieu Abbey.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  [10 June 1877]
Classmark:  DAR 211: 20
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10995

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  • J. D. Hooker, 26 [March 1863] ). CD stayed at William Erasmus Darwin’s house in Bassett, Southampton, from 13 June to 4 July 1877 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). William had examined earth at the base of stones at the ruined abbey in Beaulieu, Hampshire, on 5 January 1872 (see Correspondence vol. 20, letter
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