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To Horace Darwin   [15 October 1873]

Summary

Sends notes on waxy secretion on leaves for F. M. Balfour; cannot procure any more Dionaea.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Horace Darwin
Date:  [15 Oct 1873]
Classmark:  DAR 258: 548a
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9096F

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From G. H. Darwin   [1 October 1873]

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Discusses his health following a visit to Dr C[lark?]. Has made an appointment for CD.

Author:  George Howard Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [1 Oct 1873]
Classmark:  DAR 210.2: 29
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8702

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  • Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)); the preceding Wednesday was 1 October. Clark was treating George; in a letter to Horace Darwin, [10 June 1873] (DAR 258: 579), Emma Darwin wrote: ‘D r Clarke says he must go on just the same— He has added raw eggs to his diet & that is very nourishing. D r C.   …

To Nature   [before 13 February 1873]

Summary

Sends a letter from William Huggins about a case of inherited fright in three generations of mastiffs. Discusses the different origins of instincts and their inheritance.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Nature
Date:  [before 13 Feb 1873]
Classmark:  Nature, 13 February 1873, pp. 281–2
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8765

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  • Horace Cox. Natural selection : Charles Darwin’s Natural selection: being the second part of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Edited by R. C. …

From Emma Darwin to G. S. Ffinden   [22? November 1873]

Summary

Darwins and Lubbocks wish to continue using the school room as a Reading Room for workers in the winter months and asks Ffinden to support them.

Author:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Addressee:  George Sketchley Ffinden
Date:  [22? Nov 1873]
Classmark:  Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (P/123/25/3/1/1)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9121F

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  • Darwin to Horace Darwin , postmarked ‘29 November 1873’ (DAR 258: 585). Emma was in London from 8 to 18 November 1873 (see ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). In 1873, 22 November was a Saturday. Ellen Frances Lubbock . For more on this request and the resulting dispute, see the letter from E.  F.  Lubbock to Emma Darwin , [ c . 29 November 1873] and n.  2, the letter to Down School Board, [after 29 November 1873] , and J.  R.   …