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From L. M. Forster to H. E. Litchfield   20 February 1873

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Recommends a language teacher.

Remarks on expression.

Author:  Laura Mary Forster
Addressee:  Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:  20 Feb 1873
Classmark:  DAR 164: 159
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8778

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  • … Laura Mary Forster Magdalan 20 Feb 1873 Henrietta Emma Darwin/Henrietta Emma Litchfield …
  • … Darwin had been unwell in January ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Forster refers to …

To J. D. Hooker   21 February [1873]

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Will see whether formic acid delays germination of fresh seeds.

Thinks primer not at all a folly. Refers JDH to Asa Gray’s "child’s book" [see 8363].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  21 Feb [1873]
Classmark:  DAR 94: 259–60
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8779

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  • … 20 February 1873  and n.  3). CD and Emma Darwin stayed at 16 Montague Street, London, …

To J. E. Gray   4 February [1873]

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Is glad JEG has made out what the guemul is ["On the Guémul", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. 10 (1872): 445–6; 11 (1873): 214–20, 308–10].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Edward Gray
Date:  4 Feb [1873]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.411)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8758

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  • Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia 1: 595). The first part of Gray’s paper ‘On the guémul’ appeared in the December 1872 issue of Annals and Magazine of Natural History ( J.  E.  Gray 1872–3 ; two further parts appeared in March and April 1873). In 1869, Gray had suffered a paralytic stroke, from which he never fully recovered. He carried on as keeper of the zoological department of the British Museum until 1874 ( ODNB ). Maria Emma