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From W. S. Dallas   5 February 1880

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Since CD has decided not to answer S. Butler’s charge, WSD will not reply either.

Will look over Francis Darwin’s lecture ["Climbing plants"] with a view to publishing it in Popular Science Review [19 (1880): 213–29].

Author:  William Sweetland Dallas
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  5 Feb 1880
Classmark:  DAR 99: 133–134
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12462

From W. S. Dallas   8 July 1880

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The article [Francis Darwin, "Climbing plants"] has appeared in Popular Science Review [n.s. 4 (1880): 213–29].

Asks CD to allow John [Richard de Capel] Wise to dedicate a poem to him.

Author:  William Sweetland Dallas
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  8 July 1880
Classmark:  DAR 162: 30
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12649

From W. S. Dallas   28 July 1880

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John Wise is much pleased by CD’s permitting the dedication of Wise’s poem to him; it will be an ouvrage de luxe, with drawings by Walter Crane [The first of May, a fairy masque; presented in a series of 52 designs by Walter Crane (1881)].

Author:  William Sweetland Dallas
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  28 July 1880
Classmark:  DAR 162: 31
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12670

From W. S. Dallas   6 October 1880

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Asks CD to join in a testimonial supporting James Murie’s candidacy for Librarian of Linnean Society.

Author:  William Sweetland Dallas
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  6 Oct 1880
Classmark:  DAR 162: 32
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12738
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