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To H. E. Darwin   [March] 1870

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Responds to her suggested corrections [of Descent].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:  [Mar] 1870
Classmark:  DAR 185: 58
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7123

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  • … Charles Robert Darwin unstated [Mar] 1870 Henrietta Emma Darwin/Henrietta Emma Litchfield …
  • … the letter to H.  E.  Darwin, [8 February 1870] , and the letter from Emma Darwin to H.   …
  • … E.  Darwin, [25 March 1870] (DAR 219.9: 82), in which Emma asks Henrietta to write when …

From H. E. Darwin   [30 March 1870]

Summary

Describes crying in an infant.

Author:  Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [30 Mar 1870]
Classmark:  DAR 162: 69
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7153

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  • … DAR 162: 69 Henrietta Emma Darwin/ …
  • … Henrietta Emma Litchfield unstated [30 Mar 1870] Charles Robert Darwin

To A. R. Wallace   7 March [1870?]

Summary

Would like to call at 10 o’clock on Wednesday morning.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:  7 Mar [1870?]
Classmark:  David Schulson (dealer) (Catalogue 46, June 1988)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7127A

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  • … in London from 5 to 12 March 1870 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). In 1870, 7 March was a …

From J. D. Hooker   [7 March 1870]

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Does not give much for botanical results of Round Island, but the zoology is wonderful.

Lyell’s new book [The student’s elements of geology (1870)]. Urges Lyell to make it Elementary principles.

Grove is disgusted with CD for being disquieted by William Thomson: "Take another dose of Huxley’s penultimate address to Geol. Soc." [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 25 (1869): 28–53].

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [7 Mar 1870]
Classmark:  DAR 103: 42–5
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6646

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  • … to letter from J.  D.  Hooker to Emma Darwin, 29 March 1870 , and this volume, letter to …
  • … Darwins returned to Kent on 12 March ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Hooker and CD did …

To Asa Gray   15 March [1870]

Summary

The "man-essay" [Descent] is "very interesting but very difficult".

Cat-like behaviour in dogs.

Thanks for information from Louis Agassiz;

wishes he could feel he deserves what Alexander Agassiz says of him.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Asa Gray
Date:  15 Mar [1870]
Classmark:  Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (91)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7132

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  • … in London from 5 to 12 March 1870 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). CD had been working on …

From Francis Galton   15 March 1870

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Interim report on the experiments with rabbits [to test Pangenesis].

Author:  Francis Galton
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  15 Mar 1870
Classmark:  DAR 105: 5–6
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7133

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  • … been in London from 5 to 12 March ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Galton was attempting …