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To Georgina Tollet 1 October [1846?–71]
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Describes results of experiments on cobwebs, "neither spider or anything else had caused a line to disappear". Apologises for having to draw this conclusion as she had cheered him so in his work on species.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Georgina Tollet |
| Date: | 1 Oct [1846-71] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 140 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2499 |
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- … have given CD encouragement earlier. Emma Darwin commented to William Erasmus Darwin in an …
- … Emma, who has so good a heart, says that as when I looked really closely I could see webs everywhere, she thinks you, who are so sharp-sighted, could not have overlooked them before, so that they must have disappeared. I, alas, have not nearly so good a heart. — Anyhow in the 13 webs marked neither spiders or anything else had caused a line to disappear. — I am very ungrateful not at least to wish to see (,or rather not see) what you saw; as you cheered me so in my work on Species. — Pray believe me, yours affectionately | Ch. Darwin …
From Georgina Tollet 17 May [1862]
Summary
Thanks for Orchids.
| Author: | Georgina Tollet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 May [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 128 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3556 |
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| letter | (2) |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Tollet, Georgina | (1) |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Tollet, Georgina | (1) |
