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From Robert Monsey Rolfe, Lord Cranworth   28 November 1862

Summary

Sends cheque to CD for Down parish charities.

Author:  Robert Monsey Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth of Cranworth
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  28 Nov 1862
Classmark:  DAR 161: 229
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3833

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  • … 13 November 1862] (DAR 219.1: 66), Emma Darwin wrote: ‘They had a visit from Lady Cran[ …
  • … was in London from 8 to 12 November. Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) records that she had …

To P. G. King   16 November [1862]

Summary

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.   …

To Asa Gray   23 November [1862]

Summary

Recommends H. W. Bates’s paper on butterflies of Amazonia ["Insect fauna of the Amazon valley", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1862): 495–566].

Lyell’s book [Antiquity of man (1863)] is eagerly awaited.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Asa Gray
Date:  23 Nov [1862]
Classmark:  Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (49)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3820

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  • … on the reference in the letter from Emma Darwin to William Erasmus Darwin of [13 November …
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