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To the Traffic Manager, South Eastern Railway   [c. September 1868]

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Summary

Wishes correspondent to investigate immediately the loss of two boxes in transit.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  South Eastern Railway
Date:  [c. Sept 1868]
Classmark:  DAR 96: 49
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6341

To J. D. Hooker   1 September [1868]

Summary

Athenæum [Owen’s?] attack on JDH [BAAS address] and CD. False statement that CD’s sole groundwork is from pigeons.

Agrees with JDH on foolishness of Red Lion Club.

Huxley’s want of judgment.

JDH’s argument about astronomy and astronomers.

Pall Mall Gazette [8 (1868): 593, 595–6] and Morning Advertiser on JDH’s address.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  1 Sept [1868]
Classmark:  DAR 94: 89–90
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6342

To J. J. Weir   1 September 1868

Summary

Invites JJW to visit Down. Will try to get A. R. Wallace and H. W. Bates also.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Jenner Weir
Date:  1 Sept 1868
Classmark:  DAR 148: 319
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6343

From E. A. Darwin   [September 1868 – August 1870]

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Sends a bill he thinks is Caroline’s.

Tells CD of officers’ praise of Leonard.

Author:  Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [Sept 1868 – Aug 1870]
Classmark:  DAR 105: B73
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7047