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From C. G. Semper   22 July 1878

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Thanks CD for his kind letter and accepts his offer of a writing machine.

Author:  Carl Gottfried Semper
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  22 July 1878
Classmark:  DAR 177: 137
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11624

From C. G. Semper   5 October 1878

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Thanks CD for writing machine.

Recalls visit by CD’s son [Francis].

Author:  Carl Gottfried Semper
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  5 Oct 1878
Classmark:  DAR 177: 140
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11716

From C. G. Semper   6 December 1878

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Asks whether he may use CD’s letters in his work [Die natürlichen Existenzbedingungen der Thiere (1880)] in order to show that Moritz Wagner has misrepresented CD’s views.

Discusses the influence of isolation and external conditions on animals, and the relative importance of the direct effect of external conditions and of selection in bringing about change.

Author:  Carl Gottfried Semper
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  6 Dec 1878
Classmark:  DAR 202: 120
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11776
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