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From Anthony Rich   13 June 1881

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The Huxleys have visited; CD may come soon.

Author:  Anthony Rich
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  13 June 1881
Classmark:  DAR 176: 149
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13202

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  • H. Darwin, 23 March 1881 (DAR 210.3: 6); Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). George had visited Rich in 1879 (see Correspondence vol. 27, letter to W. E. Darwin, 10 January [ 1879] ). Robert Stawell Ball had written to George, praising his work on tidal evolution (see letter

To C. E. Norton   1 June 1881

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No Benjamin Franklin letters to Erasmus Darwin preserved.

Was inaccurate about Franklin’s nephews [in Erasmus Darwin].

Recounts story about Franklin at court of France.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Eliot Norton
Date:  1 June 1881
Classmark:  Houghton Library, Harvard University (Charles Eliot Norton Papers, MS Am 1088.14: 1599)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13187

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  • Darwins visited Patterdale in the Lake District from 2 June to 5 July 1881 ( Emma Darwin 's diary (DAR 242)). William Erasmus Darwin arrived on 18 June 1881, but Sara Darwin did not come ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242); letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. …