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To P. G. King    21 February 1854

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PGK’s letter stirred memories of their old days in the Beagle.

Gives news of his work on cirripedes. Would like to examine Scalpellum papillosum of King from Patagonia if PGK’s father has a duplicate in his collection.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Philip Gidley King
Date:  21 Feb 1854
Classmark:  Mitchell Library, Sydney (MLMSS 3447/2 Item 1)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1554A

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  • … p.  539 n.  22). It is described in Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 154. Britain and France declared …
  • … at home and abroad. N.s. 1863–1946. London: Longman & Co. [and others]. Emma Darwin ( …
  • … 1915): Emma Darwin: a century of family letters, 1792–1896. Edited by Henrietta …
  • … and Nicholas 1989 , p.  133). CD and Emma Darwin had five sons and two daughters. The …

To P. G. King   16 November [1862]

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J. C. Wickham, B. J. Sulivan, and Arthur Mellersh visited a fortnight ago.

Oldest son [William] now a banker.

Sends photograph.

Health too bad to see anyone at present. Rarely sees FitzRoy.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Philip Gidley King
Date:  16 Nov [1862]
Classmark:  Mitchell Library, Sydney (MLMSS 3447/2 Item 3)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3809

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  • … during its surveying voyage of 1831–6. Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) records that they …
  • … House on 31 October, following which Emma Darwin recorded in her diary (DAR 242): ‘Ch.   …
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