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To F. P. Cobbe 20 August [1870]
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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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- … J. D. Hooker, 8 July [1869] and n. 3). No letter from CD to the home secretary, Henry Austin Bruce , has been found. Only one letter on the Holder case is noted in the Register of papers received by the Home Office ; this was received on 19 August 1870 but is no longer extant. CD was active as a magistrate in Bromley between 1859 …
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Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
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Cobbe, F. P. | (1) |
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Cobbe, F. P. | |
Darwin, C. R. | (1) |