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From W. E. Gladstone   23 October 1877

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Accepts CD’s offer to send numbers of Kosmos.

WEG thinks the evidence from Homer’s text is conclusive that his "discrimination of colour was as defective as his sense of form and of motion was exact and lively".

Author:  William Ewart Gladstone
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  23 Oct 1877
Classmark:  DAR 165: 50
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11202

From W. E. Gladstone   24 July 1879

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Sends CD his collection of Homeric epithets on motion, which "indicate ideas of motion more precise and scientifically adjusted than … any other author".

Author:  William Ewart Gladstone
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  24 July 1879
Classmark:  DAR 165: 51
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12170

From W. E. Gladstone   6 January 1881

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He will recommend a pension of £200 a year for Wallace.

Author:  William Ewart Gladstone
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  6 Jan 1881
Classmark:  DAR 165: 52
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12981

From W. E. Gladstone   30 April 1881

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CD is invited to allow his name to be suggested for the vacancy in the Trust of the British Museum caused by the death of Lord Beaconsfield. [See 13142.]

Author:  William Ewart Gladstone
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  30 Apr 1881
Classmark:  The British Library (Add MS 44544: 165)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13141A
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