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From George Varenne Reed   12 January 1863

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Sorry CD considers Horace Darwin unfit for school.

Author:  George Varenne Reed
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  12 Jan 1863
Classmark:  DAR 176: 78
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3912

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  • Leonard Darwin’s ‘Notes on Horace Darwin ’, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company Archives, box 3. In January 1863, Horace was 11  …

From W. E. Darwin   23 July [1863]

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Could not find Anchusa but will go out and find some.

Author:  William Erasmus Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  23 July [1863]
Classmark:  Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 18)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4251F

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  • Leonard, Francis, and George Howard Darwin were pupils at Clapham Grammar School in South London; they were due to go back to school on 12 August (see Correspondence vol. 11, …

From B. J. Sulivan   10 February [1863]

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Sends some tickets so that CD’s son might see [an unspecified] model.

Author:  Bartholomew James Sulivan
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  10 Feb [1863]
Classmark:  DAR 177: 281
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3976

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  • Darwin , then aged 11, who had accompanied his parents to London ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). The model referred to has not been identified, but Horace had developed an interest in engineering (Notes on the early life of Horace Darwin by Leonard

To J. D. Hooker   27 [November 1863]

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On Wedgwood vases for JDH.

Willy Hooker’s scarlet fever.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  27 [Nov 1863]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 212; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Asa Gray correspondence: 333)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4348

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  • Leonard Darwin had been ill with scarlet fever during the summer of 1862, suffering two relapses (see Correspondence vol.  10, letters from J.  D. Hooker, [24 July 1862] and n.  11, …

To John Scott   2 July [1863]

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CD’s great interest in JS’s work on fertility of Primula crosses.

Thanks for Passiflora trials.

"By no means modify even in slightest degree any result."

CD wishes he had counted rather than weighed Primula seeds.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Scott
Date:  2 July [1863]
Classmark:  DAR 93: B79; Linnean Society of London (Quentin Keynes collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4229

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  • 11. Emma Darwin recorded in her diary (DAR 242) on 2 July 1863: ‘boys with sore throat’. The reference may be to George Howard, Francis, or Horace Darwin ; Leonard

From Joanna Baillie Horner   24 September 1863

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News of C. J. F. Bunbury and the Lyells.

Author:  Joanna Baillie Horner
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  24 Sept 1863
Classmark:  DAR 166.2: 269
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4305

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  • Darwin , and their family had gone to Malvern Wells, Worcestershire, at the beginning of September so that CD could undergo a course of treatment at James Smith Ayerst’s hydropathic establishment (see ‘Journal’ ( Correspondence vol.  11, Appendix II)). Joanna refers to her father, Leonard, …

To Asa Gray   2 January [1863]

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Thanks AG for Cypripedium and Mitchella.

Plans to investigate pollination of Cypripedium.

Has finished Linum paper [Collected papers 2: 93–105].

Would welcome facts on "bud-variations".

Hears that Cinchona is dimorphic.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Asa Gray
Date:  2 Jan [1863]
Classmark:  Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (56)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3897

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  • 11, Appendix IV). Letter from J.  D.  Dana, 4 December 1862 ( Correspondence vol.  10). In 1859, James Dwight Dana had suffered a nervous breakdown from which he never fully recovered (see Correspondence vol.  7, letter to Charles Lyell, 29 [December 1859] , and letter to J.  D.  Dana, 30 December [1859] ). CD refers to his twelve-year-old son, Leonard Darwin . …
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