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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

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  • … 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 …

From V. O. Kovalevsky   15 August [1870]

Summary

Wishes to visit Down.

Author:  Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  15 Aug [1870]
Classmark:  DAR 169: 65
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7302

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  • … Bickley Station is just outside Bromley, Kent, about six miles from Down. Emma Darwin , …
  • … Henrietta Emma Darwin , and Elizabeth Darwin . …

To H. B. Jones   3 August [1870]

Summary

Despite HBJ’s good aid, CD’s stomach will not permit a visit.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Henry Bence Jones
Date:  3 Aug [1870]
Classmark:  The British Library (Surrogate RP 3120)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7293A

Matches: 2 hits

  • … H.  B.  Jones, 2 August 1870 . CD, with Emma Darwin and Leonard Darwin , visited William …
  • … in Southampton from 13 to 26 August 1870 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), CD’s ‘Journal’ ( …

From Henry Bence Jones   2 August 1870

Summary

CD has complained of pins and needles keeping him from working on his book [Descent]. If he could spend ten days with HBJ, he would be well and fit.

Author:  Henry Bence Jones
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  2 Aug 1870
Classmark:  DAR 168: 79
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7293

Matches: 2 hits

  • … vol.  15, letter from H.  B.  Jones to Emma Darwin, 1 October 1867 , and n.  5). CD sent …
  • … Hooker, 25 May [1870] ). According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), Horace was home from …

From V. O. Kovalevsky   7 August [1870]

Summary

Plans to visit Down in a week.

Author:  Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  7 Aug [1870]
Classmark:  DAR 169: 64
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7297

Matches: 1 hit

  • … at the time of Kovalevsky’s visit (see Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), and CD’s ‘Journal’ ( …