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To Leonard Horner   20 March [1861]

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Comments on LH’s "Anniversary Address of the President", [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 17 (1861): xxxi–lxxii]. Notes LH’s comments on metamorphism, antiquity of man, and the Bible. Thanks him for his remarks on Origin.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Leonard Horner
Date:  20 Mar [1861]
Classmark:  Sotheby’s (dealers) (9–10 July 2018, lot 374)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3094

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  • … r Horner | Yours sincerely obliged | Charles Darwin Emma sends her very kind remembrances. …

To J. D. Hooker   11 March [1861]

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Invitation to Down for weekend with Huxley and W. B. Carpenter.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  11 Mar [1861]
Classmark:  DAR 115.2: 89
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3085

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  • … Huxley ed.   1900, 1: 225). According to Emma Darwin’s diary, Thomas Henry Huxley visited …
  • … to Down on Sunday, 17 March 1861 ( Emma Darwin’s diary). For the deferral of Carpenter’s …

To J. D. Hooker   18 March [1861]

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Argument, based on geographical distribution and competition, for a mundane glacial period rather than cooling of one longitudinal belt at a time.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  18 Mar [1861]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 90
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3091

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  • … topic during Hooker’s recent visit to Down. Emma Darwin recorded in her diary that Hooker …