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From E. A. Darwin   19 [December 1870]

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Summary

Has received a letter, and two packets of securities.

Comments on George’s escape.

Author:  Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  19 [Dec 1870]
Classmark:  DAR 105: B69–70
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7066

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  • … I have 2 packets of Certificates both £12-10-0 shares and an awful heap they are. Please …

To Fritz Müller   12 May 1870

Summary

Crossing experiments and self-sterility [in Eschscholzia].

Pangenesis.

Hermann Müller on insect adaptations for fertilisation of flowers.

CD working on book on man and sexual selection.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:  12 May 1870
Classmark:  The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 32)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7184

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  • … British Library (Loan MS 10 no 32) Charles Robert Darwin Down 12 May 1870 Johann Friedrich …

From Benjamin Clarke   1 November [1870]

Summary

Sends CD some Indian corn seeds to demonstrate the extreme effect sometimes producible on progeny by the mutilation of a parent.

Writes of a recent book.

Author:  Benjamin Clarke
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  1 Nov [1870]
Classmark:  DAR 261.11: 26 (EH 88206077)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5662

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  • 12 March 1867 ( Correspondence vol.  15). The year is established by the reference to the Post Office order (see n.  3, below). The letters have not been found. CD recorded a payment in his Account books–cash account (Down House MS) of 10

From W. E. Darwin   [c. 17 February 1870]

Summary

Ask whether CD would like to subscribe again to National Education League. Describes the League’s goals.

Author:  William Erasmus Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [c. 17 Feb 1870]
Classmark:  Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 36)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7039F

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  • 10). CD’s name was mentioned as a subscriber in an article in The Times , 9 November 1869, p. 7; he had donated £20 ( National Education League Monthly Paper , January 1870, p. 12). …

To Armand de Quatrefages   20 July [1870]

Summary

Sends list of his publications.

Is grateful for interest QdeB has taken in his election [to Académie Française].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau
Date:  20 July [1870]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.377); University Archives (dealers) (14 April 2021, lot 74)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7285

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  • 12. ] ‘Illegitimate offspring of dimorphic and trimorphic plants’: On the character and hybrid-like nature of the offspring from the illegitimate unions of dimorphic and trimorphic plants. By Charles Darwin. [Read 20 February 1868. ] Journal of the Linnean Society of London ( Botany ) 10 ( …

From Henry Bence Jones   2 August 1870

Summary

CD has complained of pins and needles keeping him from working on his book [Descent]. If he could spend ten days with HBJ, he would be well and fit.

Author:  Henry Bence Jones
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  2 Aug 1870
Classmark:  DAR 168: 79
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7293

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  • 12, letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 13 April [1864] and n.  6, and Colp 1977 ). Jones may refer to Horace Darwin , whom CD regarded as an invalid (see letter to W.  D.  Fox, 18 February [1870] , and letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 25 May [1870] ). According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), Horace was home from school from 22 July to 10  …