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To F. P. Cobbe 20 August [1870]
Summary
CD writes for Emma, who is ill.
Delighted with FPC’s "most just" article [in Echo?]. Sends £1 subscription.
Thanks for telling CD about the Fraser’s Magazine article [F. W. Farrar, "Hereditary genius (by F. Galton)", n.s. 2 (1870): 251–65].
CD wrote as Justice of Peace for Kent to the Home Secretary about Holder’s case.
Tropaeolum transmits every shade of colour if self-fertilised for six or seven generations.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frances Power Cobbe |
| Date: | 20 Aug [1870] |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (CB 385) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7306 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … in the vegetable kingdom. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1876. Emma Darwin ( …
- … 1915): Emma Darwin: a century of family letters, 1792–1896. Edited by Henrietta …
- … There is no reference to illness in Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242). Cobbe had published a …
- … £1. – | I am, Sir, yours &c. | Charles Darwin | Down, Beckenham, Kent. Emma Darwin wrote …
- … to Henrietta Emma Darwin that CD thought the publication of the letter ‘unjustifiable’ and …
- … in this form without his consent ( Emma Darwin (1915) , 2: 302). The original article did …
To F. P. Cobbe [14 January 1875]
Summary
Explains why he cannot sign Miss Cobbe’s anti-vivisection petition.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frances Power Cobbe |
| Date: | [14 Jan 1875] |
| Classmark: | Hull University Archives, Hull History Centre (British Union for Anti-Vivisection archives: U DBV/25/1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9814F |
