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From W. E. Darwin   1 December [1880]

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Will soon manage to go to Beaulieu. Is glad the book is going off well. Is thinking of going to the Roman Villa at Brading on the Isle of Wight.

Author:  William Erasmus Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  1 Dec [1880]
Classmark:  Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 84)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12880F

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From B. J. Sulivan   9 June 1879

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Reports on his family’s illnesses and other domestic matters.

Author:  Bartholomew James Sulivan
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  9 June 1879
Classmark:  DAR 177: 309
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12097

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  • Elizabeth Wedgwood , Emma Darwin ’s sister, had been ill from around February until April 1879 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II); letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, [ …

To Ernst Krause   4 January [1881]

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CD is pleased with EK’s account in Kosmos [8 (1880–1): 321–2] of the Buffon and Coleridge passage [cited by Samuel Butler, see 12939, 12969]. Would like a translation published in England, but Butler seeks notoriety and would make unscrupulous use of it. Will ask advice. Thinks EK’s letter to Popular Science Monthly, just received, an excellent reply to Butler.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:  4 Jan [1881]
Classmark:  The Huntington Library (HM 36211)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12976

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  • 1879 (see Butler 1880 , pp. 62–3; see also letter from Ernst Krause, 2 January 1881 and n. 4). Elizabeth Darwin had translated Krause’s review in Kosmos , and Emma Darwin had translated his letter (see letter to H. E. Litchfield, …
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