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To W. E. Darwin   15 [October 1858]

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Writes to WED about his living arrangements at Christ’s College; reminisces about his own Cambridge days.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  15 [Oct 1858]
Classmark:  Provenance unknown
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2341

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  • … Dated by CD’s reference to Henrietta Emma Darwin (see n.  8, below) and by Emily Catherine …
  • … Wedgwood III , on 20 October 1858 ( Emma Darwin’s diary). CD went to Moor Park hydropathic …
  • … from 18 October to 2 November 1858 ( Emma Darwin’s diary). Probably the family of George …
  • … letter written shortly before this one, Emma Darwin told William: ‘Yesterday Miss Norman & …

To W. E. Darwin   6 October [1858]

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Sends £20. Family news.

Answers WED’s questions about CD’s Journal of researches: Galapagos "productions" all came from America, but "they have since been modified by my principle of Natural Selection".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  6 Oct [1858]
Classmark:  DAR 92: A19–21
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2334

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  • … began on 11 October 1858. An entry in Emma Darwin’s diary on 6 October 1858 reads: ‘came …
  • … are occasionally mentioned in letters from Emma Darwin to William. In February 1859, she …

To W. E. Darwin   [30 October 1858]

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Glad WED has begun under George Henslow in the way that he has. CD wishes he had had such practice under J. S. Henslow.

Has had luck in his search for striped horses.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  [30 Oct 1858]
Classmark:  DAR 92: A29–30
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2350

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  • … to William written early in November 1858, Emma Darwin mentioned that CD had returned from …

To J. D. Hooker   6 October [1858]

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Abstract growing to inordinate length.

Writing in support of S. Passell as assistant at Linnean Society.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  6 Oct [1858]
Classmark:  DAR 114: 248
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2335

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  • … Down from 28 to 31 August 1858 ( Emma Darwin’s diary). Elizabeth and Leonard Darwin had …
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