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From W. M. Hacon   28 December 1878

Summary

Sending second codicil for CD to sign.

Author:  William Mackmurdo Hacon
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  28 Dec 1878
Classmark:  DAR 166: 19
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11807

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  • … his daughters Henrietta Emma Litchfield and Elizabeth Darwin (see letter from W. M. Hacon, …

From Federico Delpino   23 April 1878

Summary

Has reviewed Forms of flowers in Revista Botanica [(1877): 84–106].

CD’s treatment by the French Academy.

Hypothesises that the mollusc-like mantle of Balanus originates from a form of grafting.

Author:  Federico Delpino
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  23 Apr 1878
Classmark:  DAR 162: 156
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11482

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  • … Cambridge on 17 November 1877 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). He had been unsuccessfully …

From W. M. Hacon   20 December 1878

Summary

Revision of CD’s will to reflect Anthony Rich’s gift and to increase daughters’ inheritance.

Author:  William Mackmurdo Hacon
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  20 Dec 1878
Classmark:  DAR 166: 18
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11800

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  • … for his daughters, Henrietta Emma Litchfield and Elizabeth Darwin . CD’s sons were William …

From Francis Darwin   [before 22 November 1878]

Summary

Horse chestnut roots have not acted at all well.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [before 22 Nov 1878]
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 42
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11754F

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  • … Pelargonium . Ubbadubba: Bernard Darwin , Francis’s son. Idy: Emma Cecilia (Ida) Farrer. …
  • Darwin Pamphlet Collection CUL. The other pamphlet has not been identified. There was a newsagent at 10 New Quebec Street, London ( Post Office London directory 1878); it was near the home of Richard Buckley and Henrietta Emma

From G. H. Darwin   [before 11 July 1878]

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Summary

Refers to Charles Lagrange, who is working on the same subject as GHD, but in a fundamentally different way.

Author:  George Howard Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [before 11 July 1878]
Classmark:  DAR 210.2: 68
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11600

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  • … green peas ( letter from G. H. Darwin, [30 June 1878] ). Frances Emma Elizabeth Wedgwood . …

From Raphael Meldola   25 November 1878

Summary

Thanks for preface. When RM’s translation is complete, would like CD to expand it slightly to refer to overlap between Weismann’s observations and CD’s theories.

Author:  Raphael Meldola
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  25 Nov 1878
Classmark:  DAR 171: 132
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11758

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  • … 3 May 1878 . Elizabeth Darwin and her parents were visiting Henrietta Emma Litchfield in …

From Anthony Rich   29 December 1878

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He would be happy to receive a visit from one of CD’s sons at any time.

Author:  Anthony Rich
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  29 Dec 1878
Classmark:  DAR 210.12: 9
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11810

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  • Emma hoped to accept Rich’s invitation to visit in the spring (see letter from Anthony Rich, 25 December 1878 , and letter to T. H. Huxley, 29 December 1878 ). George Howard Darwin
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