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To J. D. Hooker   6 November [1877]

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Requests seeds for study of movement in cotyledons. Would love to study Welwitschia cotyledons.

Son William is to be married 28 November.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  6 Nov [1877]
Classmark:  DAR 95: 459–60
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11226

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  • … in Switzerland in September 1877 ( letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, [ …
  • Darwin (1915) 2: 227). According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), he and his wife, Henrietta Emma Litchfield , arrived at Down on Thursday 8 November. William married Sara Sedgwick on 29 (not 28) November ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)); he had originally given the date as 28 November ( letter from W. E. …
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