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To Ernst Haeckel   [4 September 1879]

Summary

Confirms details of EH’s visit to Down.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:  [4 Sept 1879]
Classmark:  Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 1–52/49b [A 47730])
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12218F

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  • … at Down House from 5 to 6 September 1879 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). See letter from …

To George Sleigh   [before 26 September 1879]

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Summary

Asks correspondent to consider taking a position as his gardener.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George Sleigh
Date:  [before 26 Sept 1879]
Classmark:  DAR 202: 93
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12282

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  • … is mentioned in several letters from Emma Darwin to Henrietta Emma Litchfield in September …
  • … the new head gardener ( letter from Emma Darwin to Elizabeth Darwin, [26 September 1879] ( …

To Ernst Haeckel   2 September 1879

Summary

Invites EH to spend night at Down.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:  2 Sept 1879
Classmark:  Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 1–52/49 [A 9903])
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12212

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  • … Haeckel stayed at Down House from 5 to 6 September 1879 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …

To G. J. Romanes   14 September [1879]

Summary

Thanks GJR for gift of game.

Contributes to [Naples] Zoological Station.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George John Romanes
Date:  14 Sept [1879]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.567)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12229

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  • … Bibliography Healey, Edna. 2001. Emma Darwin: the inspirational wife of a genius. London: …