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From J. W. Clark   31 August 1871

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Thanks CD for Beagle specimens donated to the Museum.

Asks for a live Helix pomatia for dissection.

Author:  John Willis Clark
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  31 Aug 1871
Classmark:  DAR 161: 153
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7919

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  • … specimens delivered by Francis Darwin in 1870 ( Friday 2009 ). Helix pomatia , the edible …

From F. E. Abbot   20 August 1871

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Thanks CD for interest in FEA’s work and for money for Index. Sends 1870 volume of Index.

Praises CD’s services to free-thought.

Asks for CD’s view of the influence of his theory on religion, to use in lecture.

Author:  Francis Ellingwood Abbot
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  20 Aug 1871
Classmark:  DAR 159: 2
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7912

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  • 1870. ] Truths for the times. Mount Pleasant, Ramsgate: Thomas Scott. Abbot, Francis Ellingwood. 1871. The intuitional and scientific schools of free religion. [Read 5 February 1871. ] Index 2: 113–15. Origin : On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. …